Not for Greens: He Who Sups with the Devil Should Have a Long Spoon by Ian Plimer
$32.95 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Ian Plimer
The processes required to make a humble stainless steel teaspoon are remarkably complicated and every stage involves risk, coal, energy, capital, international trade and finance. Stainless steel cutlery has taken thousands of years of experimentation and knowledge to evolve and the end result is that we ...Show more
The Great Reset - How the Post-Crash Economy Will Change the Way We Live and Work by Richard Florida
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
From Richard Florida, author of the bestselling books The Rise of the Creative Class and Who's Your City?, comes a book that frames the economic meltdown of 2008-09 not as a crisis but as an opportunity to "reset." In doing so, he paints a fascinating picture of what our economy, society, and geography ...Show more
Farm (and Other F Words) by Sarah K. Mock
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
We love The American Farmer. We trust them to grow our food, to be part of children's nursery rhymes, to provide the economic backbone of rural communities, and to embody a version of the American dream. At the same time, we know that "corporate farms" are disrupting the agrarian way of life that we ...Show more
The Many Lives of Carbon: A Biography by Dag Olav Hessen
$44.99 AUD
Category: Science
In its pure form, carbon appears as the soft graphite of a pencil or as the sparkling diamond in a woman's engagement ring. Underneath the surface, carbon is also the basic building block of the cells in our bodies and of all known life on earth. And at a molecular level, carbon bonds with oxygen to cre ...Show more
Ancient Sea Reptiles - Plesiosaurs, Ichthyosaurs, Mosasaurs, and More by Darren Naish
$55.95 AUD
Category: Science
Dive into prehistoric waters and discover extraordinary sea monsters who reigned the ocean for 150 million years Ancient Sea Reptiles: Plesiosaurs, Ichthyosaurs, Mosasaurs, and More examines the anatomy, behavior, diversity, lifestyle, and evolutionary rise of creatures who conquered the seas for 15 ...Show more
Environmental Science for Dummies by Alecia M. Spooner
$41.95 AUD
Category: Science
Ace your environmental science class and get smart about the environment Environmental Science For Dummies is a straightforward guide to the interrelationships of the natural world and the role that humans play in the environment. This book tracks to a typical introductory environmental science curricul ...Show more
Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All by Michael Shellenberger
$59.99 AUD
Category: Science
Climate change is real but it's not the end of the world. It is not even our most serious environmental problem. Michael Shellenberger has been fighting for a greener planet for decades. He helped save the world's last unprotected redwoods. He co-created the predecessor to today's Green New Deal. And h ...Show more
The Internet Trap - How the Digital Economy Builds Monopolies and Undermines Democracy by Matthew Hindman
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science
A book that challenges everything you thought you knew about the online economyThe internet was supposed to fragment audiences and make media monopolies impossible. Instead, behemoths like Google and Facebook now dominate the time we spend online--and grab all the profits from the attention economy. The ...Show more
Million Dollar Maths: The Secret Maths of Becoming Rich (or Poor) by Hugh Barker
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science
How can you turn $1000 into $1 million? What is the best way to beat the lottery odds? When is the best time to take out a loan? How did one group of gamblers bet on hole-in-ones to win 500,000? How can maths help you set up a successful tech start-up? What about proving the Goldbach Conjecture for $1 m ...Show more
The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World by Jeff Goodell
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science
A New York Times Critics' Top Book of 2017One of Washington Post's 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2017One of Booklist's Top 10 Science Books of 2017 "An immersive, mildly gonzo and depressingly well-timed book about the drenching effects of global warming, and a powerful reminder that we can bury our ...Show more
Caesar's Last Breath by Sam Kean
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
It's invisible. It's ever-present. Without it, you would die in minutes. And it has an epic story to tell. In Caesar's Last Breath, New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean takes us on a journey through the periodic table, around the globe, and across time to tell the story of the air we breathe, whic ...Show more
We: Robot: The Robots That Already Rule Our World by David Hambling
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science
"For someone interested in practical present day robotics it's a treasure trove. A book-sized Top Trumps rove across the technical domain, with each section containing a photo of the precise robot, an overview of its main components and some context for its aims and purposes." - Electronics Weekly Robot ...Show more