The Universe Within by Neil Turok
27.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE & NATURE
Every technology we rely on today was created by the human mind, seeking to understand the universe around us. Scientific knowledge is our most precious possession, and our future will be shaped by the breakthroughs to come. In this personal, visionary, and fascinating work, Neil Turok, one of the world ...Show more
Africa: Eye to Eye with the Unknown by Michael Bright
39.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE & NATURE
David Attenborough CBE and the award-winning BBC Natural History Unit embark on a landmark new series, painting a breathtaking portrait of Africa as never before caught on film. This lavish and unmissable companion to the BBC One series reveals the undiscovered side of Africa's five unique regions. Insp ...Show more
The Heretics: Adventures with the Enemies of Science by WILL STORR
29.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE & NATURE
For lovers of Jon Ronson, Adam Buxton and Louis Theroux, a new book that explores why today's heretics just don't believe the facts. Will Storr was in the tropical north of Australia, excavating fossils with a celebrity creationist, when he asked himself a simple question. Why don't facts work? Why, tha ...Show more
Complete Encyclopedia of Chickens by Esther J.J. Verhoef-Verhallen
28.95 AUD
Category: SCIENCE & NATURE | Series: Complete Encyclopedia Ser.
THE COMPLETE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CHICKENS by Esther J. J. Verhoef-Verhallen, hardback. The Encyclopedia of Chickens is a chicken breed encyclopedia and index with pictures and photographs of the chickens, including some pictures of chicks, adolescent and adult chickens. If at one time the keeping of chicken ...Show more
Moby-Duck : The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools, Including the Author, Who Went in Search of Them by Donovan Hohn
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Category: SCIENCE & NATURE
A revelatory tale of science, adventure, and modern myth When the writer Donovan Hohn heard of the mysterious loss of thousands of bath toys at sea, he figured he would interview a few oceanographers, talk to a few beachcombers, and read up on Arctic science and geography. But questions can be like ocea ...Show more
Here On Earth: An Argument for Hope by Tim Flannery
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Category: SCIENCE & NATURE
Tim Flannery's first major book since The Weather Makers charts the history of life on our planet. Here on Earth, which draws its points of departure from Darwin and Wallace, Lovelock and Dawkins, is an extraordinary exploration of evolution and sustainability. Our success as a species has had disastrou ...Show more
World Ocean Census: A Global Survey of Marine Life by Darlene Trew Crist
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Category: SCIENCE & NATURE
What once lived in the global ocean? What is living there now? What will live there in the future? The answers to these questions are at the heart of World Ocean Census, which also explores the great adventures experienced during the books research. An insiders description of the comprehensive Census of ...Show more
Alex & Me: How a Scientist and a Parrot Discovered a Hidden World of Animal Intelligence - and Formed a Deep Bond in the Process by Irene Pepperberg
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Category: SCIENCE & NATURE | Reading Level: near fine
'A moving tribute that beautifully evokes the struggles, the initial triumphs, the setbacks, the unexpected and often stunning achievemnets . . . while uncovering cognitive abilities in Alex that no one believed were possible.' Publishers WeeklyOn September 6, 2007, an African Grey parrot named Alex die ...Show more
We are the Weather Makers by Tim Flannery
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Category: SCIENCE & NATURE | Reading Level: very good
Tim Flannery dedicated the first edition of The Weather Makers to children: 'to all of their generation who will have to live with the consequences of our decisions.' Seventy percent of the people who are alive now will be alive in 2050. This is the date, many scientists agree, by which we have to cut o ...Show more