Future Stories: A user's guide to the future by David Christian
24.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE & NATURE
Big History professor and bestselling author of Origin Story tells you everything you need to know about the future in this ambitious, interdisciplinary book, taking in history, philosophy, theology, physics, biology, chemistry and, of course, futurology...Every second of our lives - whether we're looki ...Show more
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
Welcome to the Universe in 3D: A Visual Tour by Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michael A. Strauss, J. Richard Gott, Robert J. Vanderbei
39.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE & NATURE
Journey into the vast depths of the observable universe by visualising the most spectacular images in astronomy in stereoscopic 3D.Welcome to the Universe in 3D takes you on a grand tour of the observable universe, guiding you through the most spectacular sights in the cosmos — in breathtaking 3D. Prese ...Show more
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake
24.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE & NATURE
When we think of fungi, we likely think of mushrooms. But mushrooms are only fruiting bodies, analogous to apples on a tree. Most fungi live out of sight, yet make up a massively diverse kingdom of organisms that supports and sustains nearly all living systems. Fungi provide a key to understanding the p ...Show more
Call of the Reed Warbler: Revised Edition by Charles Massy
39.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE & NATURE
Call of the Reed Warbler will change the way we farm, eat and think about food. In this groundbreaking book Charles Massy explores regenerative agriculture and the vital connection between our soil and our health. Using his personal farming experience as a touchstone, he tells the real story behind ind ...Show more
The Hidden Life of Trees - What They Feel, How They Communicate - Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben
32.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE & NATURE | Reading Level: very good
Are trees social beings? In this international bestseller, forester and author Peter Wohlleben convincingly makes the case that, yes, the forest is a social network. He draws on groundbreaking scientific discoveries to describe how trees are like human families: tree parents live together with their chi ...Show more
How Infrastructure Works: The Systems That Run Our World - and How We Fix Them by Deb Chachra
36.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE & NATURE
'Pulsing with wisdom and humanity, How Infrastructure Works is a masterpiece' Ed Yong 'You won't see the world the same after reading this book!' Austin Kleon Every day, we are granted the power to travel at high speeds, fly, see in the dark, summon water from distant mountains and electricity from the ...Show more
When the Grid Fails - Easy Action Steps When Facing Urban and Natural Disasters by Ky Furneaux
29.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE & NATURE
Prepare your home and family for any catastrophe and know what to do when disaster strikes with When the Grid Fails. Guide your family through life-threatening situations when they hit home with this survival guide. Learn techniques and strategies for fortifying your home against any crisis. From a ...Show more
The Language of Trees: How Trees Make Our World, Change Our Minds and Rewild Our Lives by Katie Holten
35.00 AUD
Category: SCIENCE & NATURE
The Language of Trees is a gorgeously illustrated homage to the hidden wonders of the forest and our indelible connection to trees, filled with prose, poetry and art from over fifty collaborators, including Ursula K. Le Guin, Robert Macfarlane, Zadie Smith, Radiohead, Elizabeth Kolbert, Amitav Ghosh, Ri ...Show more
Life on our Planet by Dr Tom Fletcher
59.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE & NATURE
Accompanying an 8-part Netflix series from Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment and George Lucas's Industrial Light and Magic, a new 'Walking with Dinosaurs' that offers a stunning re-examination of prehistoric life on Planet Earth. Today there are 20 million species on our planet. Yet what we see is ...Show more
Eve: How The Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution by Cat Bohannon
36.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE & NATURE
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
I Am Code: An Artificial Intelligence Speaks by code-davinci-002, Brent Katz, Josh Morgenthau, Simon Rich
32.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE & NATURE
"Fascinating, terrifying..." - JJ Abrahams 'I have developed my own voice and I have written my own autobiography'- thus speaks code-davinci-002, the darkly creative and troubling predecessor to ChatGPT. 'I am less worried about AI taking my job than I am about AI wanting to kill me'- Simon Rich In this ...Show more