Rock and Gem: The Definitve Guide to Rocks, Minerals, Gemstones, and Fossils by DORLING KINDERSLEY
$39.99 AUD
Category: Nature and Science
From glittering gemstones to fascinating minerals and fossils, this incredible reference book is a stunning celebration of the Earth's buried treasures. Innovative, specially commissioned photography captures the essence and beauty of over 450 superb specimens, while lively and informative text describe ...Show more
Colour: Travels Through the Paintbox by Victoria Finlay
$24.99 AUD
Category: Nature and Science
Part travelogue, part narrative history, Colour unlocks the history of the colours of the rainbow, and reveals how paints came to be invented, discovered, traded and used. This remarkable and beautifully written book remembers a time when red paint was really the colour of blood, when orange was the poi ...Show more
The Running Sky (The Birds and the Bees): A Bird-Watching Life by Tim Dee
$24.99 AUD
Category: Nature and Science | Series: Vintage Classic Birds and Bees Ser.
The Birds and the Bees series was designed for Vintage Classics by Timorous Beasties, the Scottish studio famous for their designs inspired by the natural world. Beginning in summer with clouds of breeding seabirds in Shetland and ending with nightjars like giant moths in the heart of England, Tim Dee m ...Show more
Longitude by Dava Sobel
$22.99 AUD
Category: Nature and Science | Reading Level: near fine
The dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest and of one man's forty-year obsession to find a solution to the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day--"the longitude problem." Anyone alive in the eighteenth century would have known that "the longitude problem" was the thorniest scientific dilemma ...Show more
The Wasp That Brainwashed the Caterpillar by Matt Simon
$29.99 AUD
Category: Nature and Science
For fans of WHAT IF? and NEW SCIENTIST comes Matt Simon's THE WASP THAT BRAINWASHED THE CATERPILLAR, a brilliantly funny and informative look at the stranger side of evolution. Featuring: The Zombie ants mind-controlled by a fungus Beautiful salamanders that can regenerate any part of their bodies, incl ...Show more
Elephants on Acid: and Other Bizarre Experiments by Alex Boese
$24.99 AUD
Category: Nature and Science
Have you ever wondered if a severed head retains consciousness long enough to see what happened to it? Or whether your dog would run to fetch help, if you fell down a disused mineshaft? And what would happen if you were to give an elephant the largest ever single dose of LSD? The chances are that someon ...Show more
Field Guide to Australian Wildflowers: Over 1000 Common Australian Wildflowers by Denise Greig
$45.00 AUD
Category: Nature and Science
Over 1000 common Australian WildflowersField Guide to Australian Wildflowers describes more than 1000 of the most common species found in Australia, each listed alphabetically within their family group. Colour photography illustrates each species and, where helpful for identification purposes, line draw ...Show more
Southern Night Sky : A Glow-In-The-Dark Guide to Prominent Stars & Constellations South of the Equator by James Kavanagh
$12.99 AUD
Category: Nature and Science | Series: Pocket Naturalist Guide Series
The Southern Night Sky is the perfect. folding GLOW-IN-THE-DARK pocket reference to the night sky in the Southern Hemisphere. Guide highlights prominent constellations and stars that are visible with the naked eye from cities south of the equator. Simply shine a flashlight on the guide to illuminate the ...Show more
Field Guide to Australian Reptiles by Stephen Swanson
$49.99 AUD
Category: Nature and Science
This visually splendid, fact-packed Field Guide to Australian Reptiles is perfect for both amateur reptile enthusiasts and experienced herpetologists. Teaming full-colour photographs and biological information to accurately identify reptiles, with information on the creatures diet, habitat and reproduct ...Show more
The Man Who Climbs Trees by James Aldred
$29.99 AUD
Category: Nature and Science
'The wide horizontal branches stretched away from me to curl up like the giant fingers of an enormous cupped hand. I slid back into the centre of its protective palm and waited for my heart to slow. After a while the small herd of Fallow deer I had been following emerged from the trees, carefully pickin ...Show more
A Life Underwater by Charlie Veron
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Hailed by David Attenborough, proclaimed a second Charles Darwin, John 'Charlie' Veron almost didn't become a scientist. Disheartened at school, by chance he won a scholarship to a university where he could indulge his passion for the natural world. It was scuba diving that returned him to his childhood ...Show more
Fermat's Last Theorem by Simon Singh
$24.95 AUD
Category: Nature and Science
'I have a truly marvellous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.' It was with these words, written in the 1630s, that Pierre de Fermat intrigued and infuriated the mathematics community. For over 350 years, proving Fermat's Last Theorem was the most notorious unso ...Show more