Reptiles of Australia (Australian Geographic A Naturalist's Guide to the) by Peter Rowland; Chris Farrell
$24.99 AUD
Category: Nature and Science | Series: Naturalists' Guides
This easy-to-use identification guide to the 280 reptile species most commonly seen in Australia is perfect for resident and visitor alike. High quality photographs from Australia's top nature photographers are accompanied by detailed species descriptions, which include nomenclature, size, distri ...Show more
The Birds At My Table: Why we feed wild birds and why it matters by Darryl Jones
$27.99 AUD
Category: Nature and Science
Darryl Jones is fascinated by bird feeders. Not the containers supplying food to our winged friends, but the people who fill the containers, scatter the crumbs or seeds, or leave the picnic scraps behind for the birds. Here, Jones takes us on a wild flight through the history of bird feeding as he ponde ...Show more
The Greatest Story Ever Told...So Far - Why are we here? by Lawrence Krauss
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Category: Nature and Science | Reading Level: very good
''Probably the most readable, exciting and authoritative writer on science we have. A new Lawrence Krauss book always goes to the top of the curious mind''s wish list.'' Stephen Fry "I loved the fight scenes and the sex scenes were excellent." (Eric Idle) ''In the span of a century, physics progressed f ...Show more
The Astral Traveller's Handbook And Other Tales: Bedtime Buddha Series by David Michie
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Category: Nature and Science
oWhatever dreams he was having, Jason knew they had nothing to do with his physical body. His eyes were firmly shut and his consciousness withdrawn from his senses when all this was going on. Yet in his dreams he experienced sights, sounds and even visceral sensations much more intensely than when he wa ...Show more
Weather Detective by Peter Wohlleben
$32.99 AUD
Category: Nature and Science
Bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees,Peter Wohlleben, invites you to reconnect with nature As soon as we step out of the door, nature surrounds. Thousands of small and large processes are taking place, details that are long often fascinating and beautiful. But we've long forgotten how to rec ...Show more
Brief Answers to the Big Questions by Stephen Hawking
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Category: Nature and Science | Reading Level: very good
'A beautiful little book by a brilliant mind' Steven Poole, DAILY TELEGRAPH The world-famous cosmologist and #1 bestselling author of A Brief History of Time leaves us with his final thoughts on the universe's biggest questions in this brilliant posthumous work. Is there a God? How did it all begin? C ...Show more
How Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon by Joshua Mezrich
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Category: Nature and Science | Reading Level: 3 Biography
Gripping and evocative, How Death Becomes Life takes us inside the operating room and presents the stark dilemmas that transplant surgeons must face daily: How much risk should a healthy person be allowed to take to save someone she loves? Should a patient suffering from alcoholism receive a healthy liv ...Show more
The Eastern Curlew by Harry Saddler
$30.00 AUD
Category: Nature and Science
Every year around August, large flocks of Eastern Curlews leave their breeding grounds in the Arctic and embark on a perilous 10,000km journey to the coast of Australia. The birds cannot swim; if they become exhausted and fall into the ocean, they die. But it’s a journey they have taken for tens of thou ...Show more
Letters from an Astrophysicist by Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Category: Nature and Science | Series: Astronomy | Reading Level: very good
Join the galactic conversation on the biggest issues in the universe 'Don't fear change. Don't fear failure. The only thing to fear is loss of ambition. But if you've got plenty of that, then you have nothing to fear at all' - Neil deGrasse Tyson Neil deGrasse Tyson is arguably the most influential, acc ...Show more
Curious: Life hacks through maths by Lily Serna
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Category: Nature and Science
Find love. Win at games and sport. Look smart. Save time.Lily Serna, a curious mathematician, believes passionately that 'mathematics is our golden key to unlocking the secrets of the universe'. She is on a quest to share her own sense of wonder about maths, and to leave all of us - even the maths phobi ...Show more
The Secret Lives of Colour by Kassia St Clair
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Category: Nature and Science
'A mind-expanding tour of the world without leaving your paintbox. Every colour has a story, and here are some of the most alluring, alarming, and thought-provoking. Very hard painting the hallway magnolia after this inspiring primer.' Simon Garfield The Secret Lives of Colour tells the unusual stories ...Show more
The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard
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Category: Nature and Science | Reading Level: good-very good
A beloved multidisciplinary treatise comes to Penguin Classics Rare is the work of philosophy that invites both the casual reader and the academic. Rare, too, is the text so universal that luminaries across an array of fields lay claim to it. Yet, that is precisely the case with Gaston Bachelard’s The P ...Show more