The Age of Seeds: How Plants Hacked Time and Why Our Future Depends on It by Fiona McMillan-Webster
34.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE & NATURE
Plants evolved seeds to hack time. Thanks to seeds they can cast their genes forward into the future, enabling species to endure across seasons, years, and occasionally millennia. When a 2000-year-old extinct date palm seed was discovered, no one expected it to still be alive. But it sprouted a healthy ...Show more
The Hidden Universe: Adventures in Biodiversity by Antonelli Alexandre
35.00 AUD
Category: SCIENCE & NATURE
Everything you need to know about biodiversity - what it is, how it works, and why it's the single most important tool to battle climate change - from the Director Science at the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew. We don't know what we've got until it's gone...This brief, lucid book by the Director of Sci ...Show more
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber, David Wengrow
26.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE & NATURE
'Pacey and potentially revolutionary' Sunday Times 'Iconoclastic and irreverent ... an exhilarating read' The Guardian 'This is not a book. This is an intellectual feast' Nassim Nicholas Taleb For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike - either free and equal, or thu ...Show more
Machines Behaving Badly : The Morality of AI by Toby Walsh
34.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE & NATURE
Can we build moral machines? Toby Walsh, AI expert, examines the ethical issues we face in a future dominated by artificial intelligence.Artificial intelligence is an essential part of our lives - for better or worse. It can be used to influence what we buy, who gets shortlisted for a job and even how w ...Show more
The Tree Book: The Stories, Science, and History of Trees by DK
59.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE & NATURE
Discover trees as you've never seen them before in this illustrated blend of science, culture, and historyThe secret world of trees is revealed in this beautiful and absorbing guide to the giants of the plant worldTrees have been a part of human history from the very beginning. Used for shelter, tools, ...Show more
The Best Australian Science Writing 2021 by Dyani Lewis (Editor); Cathy Foley (Foreword by)
32.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE & NATURE | Series: The\Best Australian Science Ser.
This much-loved anthology showcases the nation’s best science writing. New voices join prominent science writers and journalists, taking us to the depths of the ocean, the fuels of the future, and to the Ryugu asteroid and back. The anthology also takes us straight the heart of complex ethical dilemmas ...Show more
Vaxxers: The Inside Story of the Oxford AstraZeneca Vaccine and the Race Against the Virus by Sarah Gilbert, Catherine Green
34.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE & NATURE
Our future hangs on the success of the Oxford vaccine.This is the story of its creation, its makers and how science will ultimately beat the virus.On 1 January 2020, Sarah Gilbert, Professor of Vaccinology at Oxford University, read an article about four people in China with a strange pneumonia. Within ...Show more
Green New Deal - Why the Fossil Fuel Civilization Will Collapse by 2028, and the Bold Economic Plan to Save Life on Earth by Jeremy Rifkin
32.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE & NATURE
An urgent plan to confront climate change, transform the American economy, and create a green post-fossil fuel culture. A new vision for America's future is quickly gaining momentum. Facing a global emergency, a younger generation is spearheading a national conversation around a Green New Deal and sett ...Show more
Blue: A Scientist's Search for Nature's Rarest Colour by Kai Kupferschmidt
35.00 AUD
Category: SCIENCE & NATURE
A globe-trotting quest to find blue in the natural world--and to understand our collective obsession with this captivating colorSearch human history and you'll quickly conclude that we've been enamored of blue at least since the pharaohs. So, it's startling to turn to the realms of nature and discover t ...Show more
The Heartbeat of Trees: Embracing Our Ancient Bond with Forests and Nature by Peter Wohlleben
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Category: SCIENCE & NATURE
In an era of mobile phone addiction and ever-expanding cities, many of us fear we've lost our connection to nature - but Peter Wohlleben is convinced that age-old ties linking humans to the natural world remain alive and intact. Whether we observe it or not, our blood pressure stabilises near trees, the ...Show more
What If We Stopped Pretending? by Jonathan Franzen
12.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE & NATURE
The climate crisis is here. Our chance to stop it has come and gone, but this doesn't have to mean the world is ending. 'Today, the scientific evidence verges on irrefutable. If you're younger than sixty, you have a good chance of witnessing the radical destabilization of life on earth--massive crop fa ...Show more
A Banquet of Consequences, Reloaded: How we got into the mess we're in, and why we need to act now by Satyajit Das
34.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE & NATURE
Essential reading for anyone concerned about the dire future of the global economy, the deepening environmental crisis the alarming deterioration of our social fabric, A Banquet of Consequences incisively explains the problems confronting us, how we're making those problems worse, and what the real solu ...Show more