Planta Sapiens: Unmasking Plant Intelligence by Paco Calvo, Natalie Lawrence
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science
What is it like to be a plant?It's not a question we might think to contemplate, even though many of us live surrounded by plants. Science has long explored the wonderful ways in which plants communicate, behave and shape their environments: from chemical warfare to turning their predators to cannibalis ...Show more
If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal: What Animal Intelligence Reveals About Human Stupidity by Justin Gregg
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science
What if human intelligence is actually more of a liability than a gift? After all, the animal kingdom, in all its diversity, gets by just fine without it. At first glance, human history is full of remarkable feats of intelligence, yet human exceptionalism can be a double-edged sword. With our unique cog ...Show more
Visual Thinking by Temple Grandin
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
'Grandin has helped us understand autism not just as a phenomenon, but as a different but coherent mode of existence that otherwise confounds us' The New York TimesDo you think in pictures, patterns or words?In a world engineered for the verbal thinker, those of us who with a visual brain can often be o ...Show more
Choose Compassion: Why It Matters and How It Works by James Kirby
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science
Australia's leading compassion researcher explores the challenges of becoming a more compassionate person and developing a more compassionate societyWhen you think of compassion, what comes to mind? Kindness, understanding, tenderness, empathy, maybe warmth? Compassion can be all those things - but it i ...Show more
Being You: A New Science of Consciousness by Anil Seth
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science
Anil Seth's radical new theory of consciousness challenges our understanding of perception and reality, doing for brain science what Dawkins did for evolutionary biology. Being You is not as simple as it sounds. Somehow, within each of our brains, billions of neurons work to create our conscious experie ...Show more
Our Biggest Experiment: A History of the Climate Crisis by Alice Bell
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science
Did you know the link between carbon dioxide and global warming was first suggested in the 1850s? Climate change books are usually about the future, but Our Biggest Experiment turns instead asks how did we get into this mess, and how and when did we work out it was happening? Join Alice Bell on a rip-ro ...Show more
We Belong to Gaia by James Lovelock
$9.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Penguin Non Fiction Classics
James Lovelock draws on decades of wisdom to lay out the history of our remarkable planet, to show that it is not ours to be exploited - and warns us that it is fighting back. Over the past 75 years, a new canon has emerged. As life on Earth has become irrevocably altered by humans, visionary thinkers a ...Show more
Accidental: The Greatest (Unintentional) Science Breakthroughs and How They Changed The World by Tim James
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science
We may imagine that science is a process of breakthroughs and light bulb moments. But in reality, science goes wrong 99% of the time.Almost every idea a scientist comes up with is quickly disproved by a failed experiment or rival research. Science moves at a rate of inches per decade and we like it that ...Show more
The Power of Strangers: The Benefits of Connecting in a Suspicious World by Joe Keohane
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science
An interrogation of why we don't talk to strangers, what happens when we do, and why it affects everything from the rise and fall of nations to personal health and wellbeing, in the tradition of Susan Cain's Quiet and Rutger Bregman's HumankindIn our cities, we barely acknowledge one another on public t ...Show more
The Invisible Universe: Why There's More to Reality than Meets the Eye by Matthew Bothwell
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science
A guide to the 99% of the Universe our eyes can't see from a dazzling new voice in popular science From the discovery of entirely new kinds of galaxies to a window into cosmic 'prehistory', Bothwell shows us the Universe as we've never seen it before - literally. Since the dawn of our species, p ...Show more
The Seven Ages of Death by Dr Richard Shepherd
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
Forensic pathologist and bestselling author of Unnatural Causes, Dr Richard Shepherd, brings his unparalleled honesty and insight to a new book about life and death.Through 24 intriguing, never-before-told cases, Britain's top forensic pathologist Dr Richard Shepherd takes us on a journey through life i ...Show more
Yuval Noah Harari Box Set by Yuval Noah Harari
$72.97 AUD
Category: Science
Officially available for the first time, Yuval Noah Harari's ground-breaking collection in a 3-book box set. A beautiful box set with Yuval Harari's three phenomenal global bestselling titles-Includes-SAPIENSHOMO DEUS21 LESSONS FOR THE 21ST CENTURY These books are must haves for anyone interested in the ...Show more