Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari
$39.99 AUD
Category: Science & Philosophy
From renowned historian and #1 Sunday Times bestselling author Yuval Noah Harari comes the story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world. For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discoveries, inventions and conquests, we now find ...Show more
Why Am I Like This?: The Science Behind Your Weirdest Thoughts & Habits by Jen Martin
$27.99 AUD
Category: Science & Philosophy
Why can’t I stop taking photos? Why do I always feel like I’m missing out? Why can’t I remember why I walked into this room? In Why Am I Like This?, Dr. Jen Martin delves into the science behind our strangest thoughts and habits, from why smells make us homesick to why we stick our tongues out when we’r ...Show more
Voyagers: Our Journey into the Anthropocene by Lauren Fuge
$36.99 AUD
Category: Science & Philosophy
From the beginning, humans have been wanderers. Our feet carried us out of Africa and propelled us to far-flung corners of the world, often through incredible feats of innovation and imagination. These explorations yielded great rewards: land and resources, food and knowledge. But in every landscape we ...Show more
Good Nature: The New Science of How Nature Improves Our Health by Kathy Willis
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science & Philosophy
A revolutionary, science-based look at the ways nature can improve our lives that will do for the natural world what Tim Spector's Food for Life did for food.Fifteen years ago, University of Oxford Professor Kathy Willis read a study that radically changed her view of our relationship to the natural wor ...Show more
Rocks and Minerals: An Illustrated Field Guide by Mill press Cider
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science & Philosophy | Series: Illustrated Field Guides
The essential illustrated rocks and minerals guide. Learn how to identify rocks and minerals and appreciate the beauty of the natural world with Rocks & Minerals: An Illustrated Field Guide. Expert geologist Dr. Evelyn Mervine takes you through 50 profiles of these natural materials, including th ...Show more
Peripathetic: Notes on (un)belonging by Cher Tan
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science & Philosophy
There was something so captivating about always being on the edge, on that shaky precipice of promise — something new and something cool was just lurking around the corner and we’d arrive at it if we kick around long enough. Peripathetic is about shit jobs. About being who you are and who you aren’t o ...Show more
In Hot Water: Inside the battle to save the Great Barrier Reef by Paul Hardisty E
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science & Philosophy
A searing, candid and personal account from inside the battle to save the Great Barrier Reef from the recent CEO of Australia's leading coral research institute (who also happens to be a widely published thriller writer). In the ongoing climate wars, the Great Barrier Reef has become a symbol of everyt ...Show more
Atlas Of The Southern Skies 6th Edition by Steve Massey, Steve Quirk
$40.00 AUD
Category: Science & Philosophy
If you ever needed a book to help you explore the wonderful night skies from down under, be it Australia, South America, South Africa or New Zealand, this is it!. With hundreds of full colour star charts and maps of the Moon and planets of our Solar System, this book will ensure you get the most out of ...Show more
The Brain's Way of Healing by Norman Doidge
$29.99 AUD
$35.00 (14% off)
Category: Health | Series: The\Neuroplasticity Chronicles Ser.
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2015 GOODREADS CHOICE AWARDS 'BEST SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY BOOK' This book is about the discovery that the human brain has its own unique way of healing. For centuries we believed that the price we paid for our brain's complexity was that, compared to other organs, it was fixed and ...Show more
The Darkness Manifesto: How Light Pollution Threatens the Ancient Rhythms of Life by Johan Eklöf; Elizabeth DeNoma (Translator)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science & Philosophy
The Darkness Manifesto urges us to cherish darkness for the sake of the environment, our own wellbeing, and all life on earth. Entire ecosystems rely on natural darkness to flourish, from bats and keen-eyed owls capering across the starry sky to the bioluminescent creatures of the deep. But constant ill ...Show more
Counting: Humans, History and the Infinite Lives of Numbers by Benjamin Wardhaugh
$36.99 AUD
Category: Science & Philosophy
What has counting meant to different cultures and different individuals?In this book, historian and mathematician Benjamin Wardhaugh explores stories from all over the world and from every period of human history, from the African Stone Age to cyberspace; from Assyrian kings to Chinese peasants.Weaving ...Show more
Human? A Lie That's Been Killing Us Since 1788 by Ziggy Ramo
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science & Philosophy
So-called Australia is built upon a lie- that 97% of the population are human, and the others simply 'Indigenous', devoid of the same basic rights. Human? is the story of Ziggy Ramo's experience growing up under the weight of this lie. We've had 235 years of continued destruction in the name of 'civilis ...Show more