Eve: How The Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution by Cat Bohannon
$36.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
An ambitious, eye-opening, myth-busting and groundbreaking history of the evolution of the female body, by a brilliant new scientist and writer. How did wet nurses drive civilization? Are women always the weaker sex? Is sexism useful for evolution? And are our bodies at war with our babies? In Eve, Ca ...Show more
Ultra-Processed People: Why Do We All Eat Stuff That Isn't Food ... and Why Can't We Stop? by Chris van Tulleken
$24.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERChosen by the SUNDAY TIMES, GUARDIAN, FT and DAILY MAIL as one of their BEST SUMMER BOOKS OF 2023'If you only read one diet or nutrition book in your life, make it this one' Bee Wilson'A devastating, witty and scholarly destruction of the shit food we eat and why' A ...Show more
Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor
$24.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
There is nothing more essential to our health and wellbeing than breathing- take air in, let it out, repeat 25,000 times a day. Yet, as a species, humans have lost the ability to breathe correctly, with grave consequences. Journalist James Nestor travels the world to figure out what went wrong and how t ...Show more
Coma and Near-Death Experience: The Beautiful, Disturbing, and Dangerous World of the Unconscious by Alan Pearce, Beverley Pearce
$36.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
Explores the extraordinary states of expanded consciousness that arise during comas, both positive and negative - Examines the experiences of those who have survived comas - Demonstrates how a key element of the brain is switched off by coma-inducing sedatives, allowing the mind to break free fr ...Show more
Australia's Looming Energy Crisis: Can We Keep the Lights On? by Alan G. Lawrenson
$40.00 AUD
Category: Popular Science
The book is about Australias looming energy crisis. It looks at energy sources including coal, gas, hydro and pumped hydro, solar and onshore and offshore wind as well as long term energy storage. It reviews the critical minerals that Australia needs. The book is a detailed analysis of Australias loomin ...Show more
Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture by Kyle Chayka
$36.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
From one of the New Yorker's most exciting young writers: a brilliant breakdown of how algorithms have shaped our physical and artistic worlds. The early promise of a free Internet is long gone. Now, rather than allowing us a meaningful relationship with a range of content of our choosing, algorithms ha ...Show more
A Brief History of Black Holes: And Why Nearly Everything You Know About Them Is Wrong by Dr Becky Smethurst
$34.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
The Moon goes around the Earth, the Earth goes around the Sun, the Sun goes around the centre of the Milky Way: a supermassive black hole. As you read this you are currently orbiting a black hole. Money might make the world go round, but black holes make the universe go round. Black holes are not just a ...Show more
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us (2023 Royal Science Society Book Prize) by Ed Yong
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Category: Popular Science
**SUNDAY TIMES and NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**A NEW YORK TIMES, GUARDIAN, ECONOMIST, SPECTATOR, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT and NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEARThe Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal is enclosed withi ...Show more
Astronomy: Sky Country (First Knowledges) by Karlie Noon, Krystal De Napoli
$24.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science | Series: First Knowledges
What do you need to know to prosper for 65,000 years or more? The First Knowledges series provides a deeper understanding of the expertise and ingenuity of Indigenous Australians. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are the oldest scientists in human history.Many First Peoples regard the land a ...Show more
Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement by James Vincent
$32.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
A revelatory and vibrant story of measurement which will make you look at the world around you anew. We measure rainfall and radiation, the depths of space and the emptiness of atoms, calories and steps, happiness and fear. If we could not measure then we could not observe the world around us; we could ...Show more
Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines and the Health of Nations by Simon Schama
$39.99 AUD
$59.99 (33% off)
Category: Popular Science
Cities and countries engulfed by panic and death, desperate for vaccines but fearful of what inoculation may bring. This is what the world has just gone through with Covid-19. But as Simon Schama shows in his epic history of vulnerable humanity caught between the terror of contagion and the ingenuity o ...Show more
Geopedia: A Brief Compendium of Geologic Curiosities by Marcia Bjornerud
$29.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science | Series: Pedia Bks.
A garden of geologic delights for all Earthlings Geopedia is a trove of geologic wonders and the evocative terms that humans have devised to describe them. Featuring dozens of entries — from Acasta gneiss to Zircon — this illustrated compendium is brimming with lapidary and lexical insights that will de ...Show more