Deep Water: The World in the Ocean by James Bradley
$36.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
Through history, science, nature writing, and environmentalism, Deep Water invites you to explore the deepest recesses of our natural world. 'Teeming with mysteries, wonders and heartbreaking facts, this beautiful, lucid hymn to the sea is a reminder of what we still have, what we stand to lose, and why ...Show more
2024 Guide to the Night Sky Southern Hemisphere: A Month-by-Month Guide to Exploring the Skies Above Australia, New Zealand and South Africa by Storm Dunlop, Wil Tirion, Collins Astronomy
$19.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
The ideal gift for all amateur and seasoned astronomers. A comprehensive handbook to the planets, stars and constellations visible from the southern hemisphere. 6 pages for each month covering January–December 2024. Diagrams drawn for the latitude of southern Australia, but including events visible from ...Show more
Gemstones: A Concise Reference Guide by Robin Hansen
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
Gemstones have been a source of delight and fascination for many thousands of years, from the icy brilliance of diamond and the soft iridescence of pearl, to tough jade gems once used in weapons and pink topaz that was popular in Victorian jewellery. This book looks at each of the world’s known types of ...Show more
Next to Nature: A Lifetime in the English Countryside by Ronald Blythe
$26.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
'All the charm, wonder, eccentricity and vigour of country life is here in these pages, and told with such engaging directness, detail and colour. To immerse yourself in this East Anglian year is be reminded of why we love and value the rhythms and realities of rural life. Bliss' STEPHEN FRY'A capacious ...Show more
Astronomy 2023 Australia: Your Guide to the Night Sky by Glenn Dawes, Peter Northfield, Ken Wallace
$32.95 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
This annual gem (produced each year since 1991) continues to take the Australian stargazer on a wondrous journey of the night sky. This critically acclaimed work, produced by three well known experts in the field, takes a unique approach to explaining and identifying the Sun, Moon, planets and constella ...Show more
The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness by Mark Solms
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
A revolutionary new explanation for sentience from the neuroscientist who discovered how the brain dreams. 'Nobody bewitched by these mysteries can afford to ignore the solution proposed by Mark Solms' - Oliver Burkeman, Guardian 'A remarkable book. It changes everything' - Brian Eno How does the mind c ...Show more
The Night Sky of the Southern Hemisphere by James Kavanagh
$14.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
This innovative - Glow-in-the-Dark - pocket reference highlights prominent constellations and stars that are visible with the naked eye south of the equator. Simply shine a light on the guide to illuminate the constellations and their names on the summer or winter star charts. Also includes descriptions ...Show more
Astronomy 2022 Australia: Your Guide to the Night Sky by Peter Northfield Glenn Dawes
$29.95 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
This annual gem (produced each year since 1991) continues to take the Australian stargazer on a wondrous journey of the night sky. This critically acclaimed work, produced by three well known experts in the field, takes a unique approach to explaining and identifying the Sun, Moon, planets and constella ...Show more
Soil: The Incredible Story of What Keeps the Earth, and Us, Healthy by Matthew Evans
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History | Reading Level: very good
'A love letter to Mother Earth and entertaining must-read that goes to the heart of our survival' Charles Massy, author of Call of the Reed Warbler. What we do to the soil, we do to ourselves. Soil is the unlikely story of our most maligned resource as swashbuckling hero. A saga of bombs, ice ages and c ...Show more
The Secret Network of Nature: The Delicate Balance of All Living Things by Peter Wohlleben
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
From the bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees Did you know that trees can influence the rotation of the earth? Or that wolves can alter the course of a river? Or that earthworms control wild boar populations? The natural world is a web of intricate connections, many of which go unnoticed by hu ...Show more
How to Unf*ck the Planet a Little Bit Each Day by Jo Stewart
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
Global warming, plastic pollution, deforestation, species loss and rising inequality got you down? Then take your very valid concerns and channel them into action with this proactive guide to saving the planet, one day at a time.Small changes in the way we eat, shop, recycle and commute really can chang ...Show more
Dead in the Water: A very angry book about our greatest environmental catastrophe. . . the death of the Murray-Darling Basin by Richard Beasley
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
Full-throated and provocative, this is a very personal battle cry to save our most precious natural resource. 'I LOVE IT.' Peter FitzSimons'With a deft mixture of outrage, humour and in-depth knowledge, only Beasley could make water policy a page turner.' Craig Reucassel'It's great to shed some more l ...Show more