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Fight for Planet A by Craig Reucassel
$34.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE & NATURE
What we can do when there's no planet B. Based on the hit ABC series - don't leave earth without it Most Australians accept that climate change is real, but many don't know what to do about it and feel powerless to make a difference. In Fight for Planet A, Craig Reucassel shows that it isn't as scary as ...Show more
Who Cares Wins: Reasons for Optimism in our Changing World by Lily Cole
$35.00 AUD
Category: SCIENCE & NATURE | Reading Level: near fine
Optimism demands action. Optimism is an active choice. Optimism is not naïve and it is not impossible. We are living in an age of turmoil, destruction and uncertainty. Global warming has reached terrifying heights of severity, human expansion has caused the extinction of countless species, and Neolibera ...Show more
Fathoms: The World in the Whale by Rebecca Giggs
$35.00 AUD
Category: SCIENCE & NATURE
A work of bright and careful genius. Equal parts Rebecca Solnit and Annie Dillard, Giggs masterfully combines lush prose with conscientious history and boots-on-the-beach reporting. With Giggs leading us gently by the hand we dive down, and down, and down, into the dark core of the whale, which, she con ...Show more
The Secret Life of Stars: Astrophysics for Everyone by Lisa Harvey-Smith
$34.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE & NATURE
The Secret Life of Stars takes us on a cosmic journey to meet some of the weirdest, most extreme and enigmatic stars in the universe.‘Astrophysics made fun!’Pam Melroy, former astronaut and space shuttle commander‘The most enjoyable stroll through the cosmos’Gerry Griffin, former flight director, Apollo ...Show more
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need by Bill Gates
$39.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE & NATURE
Bill Gates shares what he's learned in more than a decade of studying climate change and investing in innovations to address the problems, and sets out a vision for how the world can build the tools it needs to get to zero greenhouse gas emissions. Bill Gates explains why he cares so deeply about cli ...Show more
ECOrenaissance - A Lifestyle Guide for Co-Creating a Stylish, Sexy, and Sustainable World by Marci Zaroff; Horst Rechelbacher (Foreword by)
$24.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE & NATURE
ECOrenaissance provides inspiring tips and tricks for how to live and shop in harmony with nature without sacrificing style or luxury, and how best to benefit from the current renaissance--a global rebirth of sustainable economics, progressive ethics, and green culture--through the wisdom of eco-entrepr ...Show more
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
$24.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE & NATURE | Series: Bryson
Bill Bryson describes himself as a reluctant traveller, but even when he stays safely at home he can't contain his curiosity about the world around him.A Short History of Nearly Everything is his quest to understand everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization - how we got ...Show more
Astronomy Photographer of the Year: Collection 9 by Royal Observatory Greenwich; Collins Collins Astronomy (Prepared for Publication by)
$54.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE & NATURE
From the number one Astronomy publisher, a beautiful astrophotography book, showcasing the most spectacular space photography, taken from locations across the globe. Marvel at the wonders of the universe captured by the most talented astrophotographers. A perfect gift for all interested in exploring the ...Show more
Outgrowing God: A Beginner's Guide to Atheism by Richard Dawkins
$32.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE & NATURE | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
Should we believe in God? In this new book, written for a new generation, the brilliant science writer and author of The God Delusion, explains why we shouldn't. Should we believe in God? Do we need God in order to explain the existence of the universe? Do we need God in order to be good? In twelve chap ...Show more
Metazoa : the Evolution of Animals, Minds, Consciousness and Sleep by Peter Godfrey-Smith
$32.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE & NATURE
From the human being to the octopus, the shark to the humble sea squirt, all animals are physical beings made up entirely of cells. And yet they can think, to varying degrees. How did this come to be? How did a mind first grow from the matter that is the body? And at what stage did that clump of cells b ...Show more
2040: A Household Handbook for the Regeneration by Damon Gameau
$34.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE & NATURE
'You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.' Buckminster Fuller Like most of us, Damon Gameau has spent most of his adult years overwhelmed into inaction by the problem of climate change and its devastating ef ...Show more
Brief Answers to the Big Questions by Stephen Hawking
$32.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE & NATURE | Reading Level: very good
'A beautiful little book by a brilliant mind' Steven Poole, DAILY TELEGRAPH The world-famous cosmologist and #1 bestselling author of A Brief History of Time leaves us with his final thoughts on the universe's biggest questions in this brilliant posthumous work. Is there a God? How did it all begin? C ...Show more
