Readings Recommends: Science & Nature
The Genome Generation
$32.95 – Paperback book / Melb Univ Press
The year 2001 saw the completion of the human genome project, the culmination of a 14-year, $3 billion, international race to read every letter of the code that makes up a human being. Reading this code was the most prof... Buy or find out more →
Packing For Mars: The Curious Science Of Life In The Void
$23.00 – Paperback book / Oneworld Pubn
beer. How much can a person give up? What happens when you can¿t walk? Is sex any fun? What¿s it like being with a few people for months at a time? From the space shuttle training toilet to a 17,000 mile-per-hour crash t... Buy or find out more →
Maintain Your Brain
$27.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
Within twenty years, dementia is set to overtake heart disease as the number one cause of death in Australia. Recent studies show that almost half our adult population already have a family member or friend with the illn... Buy or find out more →
A More Perfect Heaven
$35.00$29.95 – Hard back / Bloomsbury
During the 1530s, rumours of a potentially revolutionary theory of how the heavens worked emanating from a small city in Poland began to spread throughout Europe. The architect of this theory was a Polish cleric named Ni... Buy or find out more →
2012 Australasian Sky Guide
$16.95 – Paperback book / Powerhouse Books
Compact, easy to use and reliable, this popular guide contains everything you need to know about the southern night sky with monthly star maps, diagrams and details of all the year's exciting celestial events. Wherever y... Buy or find out more →
Astronomy 2012 Australia
$27.95 – Paperback book /
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 constellations. It is simply the best publication of its... Buy or find out more →
The Magic Of Reality
$39.95 – Hardcover book / Random House
What are things made of?
What is the sun?
Why do bad things happen?
Throughout history people all over the world have invented stories to answer profound questions such as these. Have you heard the tale of how the sun ha... Buy or find out more →
The Best Australian Science Writing 2011
$29.95 – Paperback book / New South Books
From the elemental forces that drive our expanding universe to the delicate hairs on the back of your neck, science offers talented writers the kind of scope that other subjects simply can’t match. This dynamic genre of ... Buy or find out more →
Brain Food
$32.99 – Hard back / Pan Macmillan
In his brand new book, Brain Food, Dr Karl places the food industry under the microscope, gives an insight into your insides, reveals how hamburgers can kill, and puts his palate on the line – all in the name of flavours... Buy or find out more →
Deceptive Beauties: The World Of Wild Orchids
$59.95 – Hardcover book / University Of Chicago Press
Confucius called them the “king of fragrant plants,” and John Ruskin condemned them as “prurient apparitions.” Across the centuries, orchids have captivated us with their elaborate exoticism, their powerful perfumes, and... Buy or find out more →
Swainston's Fishes Of Australia
$125.00 – Hardcover book / Viking
Roger Swainston's breathtaking artwork provides a fascinating overview of the extraordinary diversity of Australia's marine and freshwater fishes.
Here, more than 1500 remarkable illustrations portray every family of fis... Buy or find out more →
The Bedside Book Of Algebra
$24.95$0.00 – Hardcover book /
The Bedside Book of Algebra is a collection of problems, some with a very practical application, others designed as purely theoretical puzzles, that will offer something of interest to everyone. Each section is written i... Buy or find out more →
The Bedside Book Of Physics
$24.99 – Hardcover book / Pier 9
The Bedside Book of Physics is an entertaining and informative introduction to the world of physics, written with the curious beginner in mind. Covering history of physics from the early Greek thinkers to the modern inte... Buy or find out more →
Bedside Book Of Chemistry
$14.95 – Hardcover book / Pier 9
THE BEDSIDE BOOK OF CHEMISTRY is a fascinating, interactive guide to the history and uses of chemistry, with particular reference to the famous periodic table of elements. It contains clear and concise explanations of di... Buy or find out more →
The Bedside Book Of Geometry
$24.95$14.95 – Hardcover book / Pier 9
The Bedside Book of Geometry is a fascinating, interactive guide to the history and uses of geometry. It contains clear and concise explanations of different geometric concepts, as well as profiles of key thinkers and th... Buy or find out more →
Trees Of The World
$69.95 – Hardcover book /
Trees of the World presents almost 250 photographs of the world's most gorgeous trees from Europe, Africa, the Amerikas and Australia, including the baobab, yucca and dracaena amongst others. Buy or find out more →
Pedder Dreaming: Olegas Truchanas And A Lost Tasmanian Wilderness
$59.95 – Hardcover book / Univ Queensland Pr
In 1972 Lake Pedder in Tasmania's untamed south-west was flooded to build a dam. Wilderness photographer Olegas Truchanas, who had spent years campaigning passionately to save the magnificent fresh water lake, had finall... Buy or find out more →
Desert Fishing Lessons: Adventures In Australia's Rivers
$34.95 – Paperback book / University Of Western Australi
'I’m a water person, a river person, a fish person. I spend an inordinate amount of time grubbing around muddy waterholes and rivers, thinking about the why and how of fish that live in specific areas…Fish and deserts ar... Buy or find out more →
Greeniology 2020
$36.99 – Paperback book / Melb Univ Press
Do you want to live well, be green and make a difference?
There's never been a better time to reduce your personal impact on the environment and prepare for change as our society moves towards sustainability. Covering ev... Buy or find out more →
Relics: Travels In Natures Time Machine
$64.00 – Hardcover book / Univ. Of Chicago Pr.
On any night in early June, if you stand on the right beaches of America’s East Coast, you can travel back in time all the way to the Jurassic. For as you watch, thousands of horseshoe crabs will emerge from the foam and... Buy or find out more →
A Brief History Of Time
$19.95 – Paperback book / Bantam Press
"A Brief History of Time, published in 1988, was a landmark volume in science writing and in world-wide acclaim and popularity, with more than 9 million copies in print globally. The original edition was on the cutting e... Buy or find out more →
The Better Angels Of Our Nature: The Decline Of Violence In History And Its Causes
$32.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Group Uk
Steven Pinker's riveting, myth-destroying new book reveals how, contrary to popular belief, humankind has become progressively less violent, over millenia and decades.
Given the images of conflict we see daily on our scr... Buy or find out more →
Extreme Cosmos
$29.95 – Paperback book / New South Books
The universe is all about extremes. Space has a temperature 270°C below freezing. Stars die in catastrophic supernova explosions a billion times brighter than the Sun. A black hole can generate 10 million trillion volts ... Buy or find out more →
The Exceptional Brain And How It Changed The World
$32.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
From da Vinci to van Gogh, Hitler to Howard Hughes, this is a fascinating investigation into how brain diseases and conditions like epilepsy, syphilis, schizophrenia and tumours have made their sufferers both famous and ... Buy or find out more →
The Allergy Epidemic: A Modern Mystery Life
$29.95 – Paperback book / Univ West Aust Pr
Dr Susan Prescott, an internationally renowned specialist in childhood allergy and immunology, takes us on a journey into the world and science behind the allergy epidemic.
Why is allergic disease increasing so rapidly, ... Buy or find out more →
Hostile Beauty: Life On Macquarie Island
$69.99$19.95 – Hardcover book / Miegunyah Press
There are few places today that are truly wild.
Macquarie Island is still one such place a small, wind-blasted rocky outcrop between Tasmania and Antarctica. In exquisite pictures and words, A Hostile Beauty tells the st... Buy or find out more →
Now You See It: How The Brain Science Of Attention Will Transform The Way We Live Work And Learn
$38.95 – Hardcover book / Viking
Davidson (The Future of Thinking) offers a stunning new vision for the future, showing how the latest advances in brain research could revolutionize education and workplace management. Davidson, formerly a vice provost a... Buy or find out more →
Brain Bugs: How The Brains Flaws Shape Our Lives
$32.95 – Hardcover book / W W Norton
A lively, surprising tour of our mental glitches and how they arise.
With its trillions of connections, the human brain is more beautiful and complex than anything we could ever build, but it's far from perfect. Our memo... Buy or find out more →
Quantum Man: Richard Feynman's Life In Science
$32.95 – Hardcover book / W W Norton
Richard Feynman changed the way we think about quantum mechanics. In this gripping new scientific biography of the revered Nobel Prize-winning physicist (and curious character), Lawrence M. Krauss, himself a theoretical ... Buy or find out more →
Moby Duck
$35.00 – Paperback book / Scribe Publications
The true story of 28,800 bath toys lost at sea and of the beachcombers, oceanographers, environmentalists, and fools, including the author, who went in search of them.
A revelatory tale of science, adventure, and modern ... Buy or find out more →
Moby Duck
$38.95 – Hardcover book / Viking
The true story of 28,800 bath toys lost at sea and of the beachcombers, oceanographers, environmentalists, and fools, including the author, who went in search of them.
A revelatory tale of science, adventure, and modern ... Buy or find out more →
Gone Viral: The Germs That Share Our Lives
$32.95 – Paperback book / New South Books
Frank Bowden, a specialist in the field of infectious disease and sexual health, looks at one bug at a time, weaving around them the stories of his patients and their families, the doctors and the difficulties they face ... Buy or find out more →
The Beekeeper's Lament: How One Man And Half A Billion Bees Help Feed The World
$27.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
The honey bee is a miracle. It is the cupid of the natural world. It pollinates crops; making plants bear fruit and helping farmers make money. But in this age of vast industrial agribusiness, never before has so much be... Buy or find out more →
The Wisdom Of Birds: An Illustrated History Of Ornithology
$39.99 – Paperback book / Bloomsbury
For thousands of years people have been fascinated by birds, and today that fascination is still growing. In 2007 bird-watching is one of the most popular pastimes, not just in Britain, but throughout the world, and the ... Buy or find out more →
Science 1001
$29.95 – Paperback book / Quercus
Science 1001 provides clear and concise explanations of the most fundamental and fascinating scientific concepts. Distilled into 1001 bite-sized mini-essays arranged thematically, this unique reference book moves steadil... Buy or find out more →
At The Water's Edge: A Personal Quest for Wildness
$25.95 – Paperback book / Canongate
For the last thirty years John Lister-Kaye, one of Britain’s best-known nature writers, has taken the same circular walk from his home deep in a Scottish glen up to a small hill loch.
Drawing on this lifetime of close ... Buy or find out more →
Periodic Tales: The Curious Lives Of The Elements
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Viking
Everything is made of them, from the furthest reaches of the universe to this book that you hold in your hands, including you. Like you, the elements have lives: personalities and attitudes, talents and shortcomings, sto... Buy or find out more →
Discoverers Of The Universe William And Caroline Herschel
$45.95 – Hardcover book / Princeton Univ Press
"Discoverers of the Universe" tells the gripping story of William Herschel, the brilliant, fiercely ambitious, emotionally complex musician and composer who became court astronomer to Britain's King George III, and of Wi... Buy or find out more →
Playful Brain The Surprising Science Of How Puzzles Improve Your Mind
$16.00 – Hardcover book / Riverhead Books
This is your brain on puzzles...A leading neuroscientist and a noted puzzle designer team up to reveal how solving puzzles improves your brain function. It's no secret that puzzles are fun to solve. But when Dr. Richard ... Buy or find out more →
Sleights Of Mind What The Neuroscience Of Magic Reveals About Our Brains
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Profile
This is a unique and fascinating look at the relationship between magic, the brain, and everyday life. What can magic tell us about ourselves and how we communicate in our daily lives? If you subtly change the subject du... Buy or find out more →
Why Everyone Else Is A Hypocrite Evolution And The Modular Mind
$37.95 – Hardcover book / Princeton Univ Press
We're all hypocrites. Why? Hypocrisy is the natural state of the human mind. Robert Kurzban shows us that the key to understanding our behavioral inconsistencies lies in understanding the mind's design. The human mind co... Buy or find out more →
What Darwin Got Wrong
$24.99 – Paperback book / Profile
What Darwin Got Wrong is a groundbreaking attack on the most influential scientific orthodoxy of the last 150 years. Jerry Fodor and Massimo Piatelli-Palmarini, a distinguished philosopher and scientist working in tandem... Buy or find out more →
Numberpedia Everything You Ever Wanted To Know And A Few Things You Didnt About Numbers
$19.95 – Paperback book / Skyhorse
What does the number 67 mean to you? Do you associate it with a year? After all, 1967 was the year The Beatles released both Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and Magical Mystery Tour. It was also the year the first ... Buy or find out more →
One Hundred And One Quantum Questions What You Need To Know About The World You Cant See
$34.95 – Hardcover book / Harvard Univ Pr
Ken Fordrs"s mission is to help us understand the "great ideas" of quantum physics-ideas such as wave-particle duality, the uncertainty principle, superposition, and conservation. These fundamental concepts provide the s... Buy or find out more →
Signature In The Cell
$27.95 – Trade paperback / Harper Collins
Intelligent design -- the idea that an intelligent cause, rather than an undirected process, best explains key features of life and the universe-continues to ignite controversy around the world. In SIGNATURE IN THE CELL,... Buy or find out more →
Scientific Life A Moral History Of A Late Modern Vocation
$32.95 – Paperback book / Univ Chicago Pr
Looks at the history of the scientific career and argues that personal virtues are central to modern scientific practice. Buy or find out more →
The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood
$41.95 – Hardcover book / Alfred A Knopf
James Gleick, the author of the best sellers "Chaos" and "Genius, " now brings us a work just as astonishing and masterly: a revelatory chronicle and meditation that shows how information has become the modern era's defi... Buy or find out more →
Evolution The Story Of Life On Earth
$28.00 – Hardcover book / Farrar Straus & Giro
An accessible graphic introduction to evolution for the most science-phobic reader
Illustrated by the brilliant duo Kevin Cannon and Zander Cannon, this volume is written by the noted comic author and professor of biolog... Buy or find out more →
Science Of Kissing
$29.99 – Hardcover book / Little Brown
When did humans begin to kiss Why is kissing integral to some cultures and alien to others Do good kissers make the best lovers And is that expensive lip-plumping gloss worth it. Buy or find out more →
The Great Disruption: How The Climate Crisis Will Bring On The Sustainable Revolution
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Bloomsbury
Human civilisation and the economy have now grown so large that we have passed the limits of the planet to support any further growth in the current model. The science is clear. We have entered a period of great crisis a... Buy or find out more →
Tell-Tale Brain
$35.00 – Trade paperback / Heinemann
This new book will explore why the human brain is so unique and how it became so enchantingly complex. Taking us to the frontiers of neurology, he reveals what baffling and extreme case studies can teach us about the bra... Buy or find out more →
Whale Warrior
$35.00 – Trade paperback / Orion
Controversial, attention-seeking, forthright and driven ... all these words have been used to describe Pete Bethune. What can't be denied, though, is that he is a man who is prepared to fight - quite literally - for his ... Buy or find out more →
Humans Who Went Extinct Why Neanderthals Died Out And We Survived
$19.95 – Paperback book / Oxford University Pr
Neanderthals - no less than another kind of human - almost made it, finally dying out just 28,000 years ago. What caused us to survive while they went extinct? Ecology holds the clues, argues Clive Finlayson. It comes do... Buy or find out more →
Clockwork Universe Isaac Newton The Royal Society And The Birth Of The Modern World
$38.95 – Hardcover book / Harper Collins
A 350th anniversary tribute to the Royal Society documents the work of late seventeenth-century scientific geniuses who, in spite of period ignorance, forged lasting understandings about the organization of the universe.... Buy or find out more →
Swallow: Foreign Bodies, Their Ingestion, Inspiration And The Curious Doctor Who Extracted Them
$39.95 – Hardcover book / New Press
Coins, a crucifix, a padlock, safety-pins, a toy goat… Cappello studies the life of Dr Chevalier Jackson, as well as musing on the baffling psychology that compels people to swallow unusual things. Dr Jackson became a sp... Buy or find out more →
Quirk Brain Science Makes Sense Of Your Peculiar Personality
$24.95 – Paperback book / Heinemann
A funny, insightful and clever book about our personality quirks and how the cause of most of them lies between our ears.
Are you neurotic, eager to please, and honest? Or cheerful, gregarious, and disorganized? Whatever... Buy or find out more →
On Rare Birds
$44.95 – Hardcover book / New South Books
In this gorgeously illustrated book, Anita Albus recounts the sad histories of several extinct bird species, including the passenger pigeon, the Carolina parakeet, and the great auk. She gives a detailed account of six r... Buy or find out more →
Hidden Reality Parallel Universes And The Deep Laws Of The Cosmos
$41.95 – Hardcover book / Alfred A Knopf
From the best-selling author of The Elegant Universe and The Fabric of the Cosmos comes his most expansive and accessible book to date—a book that takes on the grandest question: Is ours the only universe?
There was a ... Buy or find out more →
Immortalization Commission Science And The Strange Quest To Cheat Death
$19.95 – Hardcover book / Allen Lane
An obsession with the nature of death lies at the heart of the human experience. For most of our history religion provided a clear explanation for life and the afterlife. This book raises a host of fascinating questions ... Buy or find out more →
Tribal Science: Brains, Beliefs And Bad Ideas
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Univ Queensland Pr
How do you define science? And whose theories are the right ones?
Take a humorous and intriguing journey through the unchartered territory of scientific squabbles with scientist Mike McRae, Australia’s next-gen Dr Karl, ... Buy or find out more →
The Amazing Story Of Quantum Mechanics: A Math Free Exploration Of The Science That Made Our World
$34.99 – Paperback book / Duckworth
In the pulp magazines and comics of the 1950s, it was predicted that the future would be one of gleaming utopias, with flying cars, jetpacks, and robotic personal assistants. Obviously, things didn't turn out that way. B... Buy or find out more →
Stripping Down Science: The Naked Scientist Exposes The Facts
$24.95 – Paperback book / Heinemann
56 massive science myths laid bare
Why does a lap dancer earn bigger tips when she's at her most fertile? Can just the whiff of a woman send a man's hormones surging? And were dinosaurs hot-blooded too? Is it true that d... Buy or find out more →
Chasing The Sun: The Epic Story of the Star That Gives us Life
$16.95 – Hardcover book / Simon & Schuster
The Sun is so powerful, so much bigger than us, that it is a terrifying subject. Yet though we depend on it, we take it for granted. Amazingly the first book of its kind, CHASING THE SUN is a cultural and scientific hist... Buy or find out more →
2011 Australian Sky Guide
$16.95 – Paperback book / Powerhouse Books
The celestial equivalent of a street directory! Compact, easy to use and reliable, this popular guide contains everything you need to know about the southern night sky with monthly star maps, diagrams and details of all ... Buy or find out more →
Astronomy 2011 Australia: Your Guide To The Night Sky
$25.00 – Paperback book / Quasar Publishing
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 constellations; it is simply the best publication of its... Buy or find out more →
Alex's Adventures In Numberland
$29.99 – Paperback book / Bloomsbury
A hugely enjoyable, brilliantly researched explanation of the basic principles of maths.
In this richly entertaining and accessible book, Alex Bellos explodes the myth that maths is best left to the geeks. Covering subje... Buy or find out more →
Merchants Of Doubt: How A Handful Of Scientists Obscured The Truth On Issues From Tobacco Smoke To Global Warming
$37.95$16.95 – Hardcover book / Bloomsbury
The U.S. scientific community has long led the world in research on such areas as public health, environmental science, and issues affecting quality of life. Our scientists have produced landmark studies on the dangers o... Buy or find out more →
The Mind's Eye
$35.00 – Trade paperback / Picador
The bestselling author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat describes how we experience the visual world
In Musicophilia, Oliver Sacks explored music and the brain; now, in The Mind's Eye, he writes about the myriad... Buy or find out more →
Nonsense On Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk
$29.95 – Paperback book / Univ. Of Chicago Pr.
Recent polls suggest that fewer than 40 percent of Americans believe in Darwin’s theory of evolution, despite it being one of science’s best-established findings. More and more parents are refusing to vaccinate their chi... Buy or find out more →
A Short History Of Nearly Everything: Illustrated Edition
$85.00$65.95 – Hardcover book / Delta Dell
In the bestselling, prize-winning A SHORT HISTORY OF NEARLY EVERYTHING Bill Bryson achieved the seemingly impossible by making the world of science both understandable and entertaining to millions of people around the gl... Buy or find out more →
The Leafcutter Ants: Civilization By Instinct
$27.95 – Paperback book / W W Norton
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning authors of The Ants comes this dynamic and visually spectacular portrait of Earth's ultimate superorganism. The Leafcutter Ants is the most detailed and authoritative description of any an... Buy or find out more →
The Instant Physicist: An Illustrated Guide
$0.00 – Hardcover book / W W Norton
Wine is radioactive? Organic foods have more poison in them than those grown with pesticides? Best-selling author Richard A. Muller enlightens us. Richard A. Muller demonstrated in his recent bestseller, Physics for Futu... Buy or find out more →
From So Simple A Beginning: Darwin's Four Great Books
$52.95$49.95 – Boxed set / W W Norton
Here are the four great works of Charles Darwin collected under onecover: Voyage of the H.M.S. Beagle (1845), The Origin of Species(1859), The Decent of Man (1871), and The Expression of Emotionsin Man and Animals (1872)... Buy or find out more →
Cycles Of Time
$55.00 – Hardcover book / Jonathan Cape
Roger Penrose's groundbreaking and bestselling The Road to Reality provided a comprehensive yet readable guide to our present understanding of the laws that are currently believed to govern our universe. In Cycles of Tim... Buy or find out more →
The Butterflies Of Australia
$49.99 – Paperback book / Jacana
The world over people love butterflies but few understand much more about them than their physical beauty. Butterflies of Australia offers a unique guide to help identify the nearly 400 species to which our continent pla... Buy or find out more →
Atlas Of Science: Visualizing What We Know
$0.00 – Hardcover book / Mit Press
Cartographic maps have guided our explorations for centuries, allowing us to navigate the world. Science maps have the potential to guide our search for knowledge in the same way, allowing us to visualize scientific resu... Buy or find out more →
A Field Guide To The Mammals Of Australia (3rd Edition)
$39.95 – Paperback book / Oxford University Pr
This fully revised and updated edition of A Field Guide to the Mammals of Australia is the only comprehensive guide to identifying all 382 species of mammals known in Australia. This book provides concise and accurate de... Buy or find out more →
Wisdom: From Philosophy To Neuroscience
$34.95 – Trade paperback / Univ Queensland Pr
A compelling investigation into one of our most coveted and cherished ideals, and the efforts of modern science to penetrate the mysterious nature of this timeless virtue.
We all recognize wisdom, but defining it is more... Buy or find out more →
The Age of Autism: Mercury Medicine and a Manmade Epidemic
$35.00 – Trade paperback / Scribe Publications
The debate on autism today is approaching fever pitch. From ‘refrigerator parents’ to vaccines, the causes of what has been dubbed ‘the autism epidemic’ have been hotly contested.
When Dan Olmsted and Mark Blaxil... Buy or find out more →
Ah-Choo: The Uncommon History Of The Common Cold
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Scribe Publications
From one of America’s most acclaimed science writers comes an entertaining look at the common cold — including the best advice on prevention and reducing symptoms.
Some colds are like mice, timid and annoying; others... Buy or find out more →
Gene Cartels: Biotech Patents In The Age Of Free Trade
$49.95 – Paperback book / Scribe Publications
Starting with the 13th century, this book explores how patents have been used as an economic protectionist tool, developing and evolving to the point where thousands of patents have been ultimately granted not over inven... Buy or find out more →
How To Cool The Planet: Geoengineering And The Audacious Quest To Fix The Earth's Climate
$35.00 – Trade paperback / Scribe Publications
When Jeff Goodell first encountered the term ‘geoengineering’, he had a vague sense that it involved outlandish schemes to counteract global warming. As a journalist, he was deeply sceptical. But he was also intrigued. T... Buy or find out more →
Charles Darwin: An Australian Selection
$29.95 – Paperback book / National Museum
Charles Darwin found much in Australia to challenge and inform his thinking. This book explores the impact that Darwin’s short visit to Australia in 1836 had on the man himself and on the emerging nation. Now, more than ... Buy or find out more →
The Third Man Factor: The Secret To Survival In Extreme Conditions
$34.95 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing
From Sir Ernest Shackleton on South Georgia Island, to currency trader Ron DiFrancesco in the South Tower of the World Trade Center, to diver Stephanie Schwabe in the Mermaid's Lair of Grand Bahama. Hundreds of people in... Buy or find out more →
The Greatest Show On Earth: The Evidence For Evolution
$35.00$15.95 – Trade paperback / Bantam Press
The fiery science/religion debate continues as Dawkins takes on the Creationists.
150 years ago the momentous findings in Charles Darwin’s controversial masterpiece, On the Origin of Species, shook the scientific and rel... Buy or find out more →
100 Most Important Science Ideas
$39.95 – Hardcover book / Murdoch Books
Compelling, informative, and thought-provoking, 100 Most Important Science Ideas unravels the fundamental concepts at the heart of three of the most ground-breaking disciplines of science: genetics, physics, and mathemat... Buy or find out more →
Dark Side Of The Moon: Wernher Von Braun And The Space Race
$39.95 – Hardcover book / W W Norton
A stunning investigation of the roots of the first moon landing forty years ago.
This illuminating story of the dawn of the space age reaches back to the reactionary modernism of the Third Reich, using the life of "rocke... Buy or find out more →
Bad Science
$19.99 – Paperback book / Harper Perennial
When Dr Ben Goldacre saw someone on daytime TV dipping her feet in an ′Aqua Detox′ footbath, releasing her toxins into the water and turning it brown, he thought he′d try the same at home. ′Like some kind of Johnny Ball ... Buy or find out more →
Cheating Death
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Scribe Publications
From the New York Times bestselling author of Chasing Life comes a fascinating exploration of the thin and ever-blurring line between life and death.
A 12-week old unborn baby with a fatal heart defect; a ski... Buy or find out more →
Seeing Through Illusions
$54.95 – Hardcover book / Oxford University Pr
Visual illusions have the capacity to both puzzle and delight: whether the swirling colours and vibrations that appear from simple concentric patterns, or surreal tricks of perspective, or the ephemeral shapes that appea... Buy or find out more →
Terra: Tales Of The Earth
$49.99 – Hardcover book / Picador
Richard Hamblyn tells us four true stories- of the Lisbon earthquake of 1755; the weather-panics of the summer of 1783; the eruption of Krakatau in 1883; and the Hilo tsunami of 1946. Each of the book's four examples in ... Buy or find out more →
Slow Death By Rubber Duck: How The Toxic Chemistry Of Everyday Life Affects Our Health
$34.95 – Paperback book / Univ Queensland Pr
Funny, thought-provoking, and incredibly disturbing, Slow Death by Rubber Duck reveals that just the living of daily life creates a chemical soup inside each of us.
Pollution is no longer just about belching smokestacks ... Buy or find out more →
Mindsight: Change Your Brain And Your Life
$24.95 – Trade paperback / Scribe Publications
'In his new, graceful, wise, creative, utterly approachable book, Mindsight, Dr. Daniel J. Siegel integrates two of the most important discoveries of our time: the cutting-edge research into the brain functions relevant ... Buy or find out more →
As Easy As Pi: Stuff About Numbers That Isn't (Just) Maths
$24.95 – Hardcover book / Michael Omara Books
It's hard to imagine a world without numbers in this day and age, when our whole life is centred around commerce and money, and it is the only language that is the same the world over.
However, did you know that for a lo... Buy or find out more →
No Small Matter: Science On The Nanoscale
$59.95 – Hardcover book / Harvard Univ Pr
A small revolution is remaking the world. The only problem is, we can’t see it. This book uses dazzling images and evocative descriptions to reveal the virtually invisible realities and possibilities of nanoscience. An i... Buy or find out more →
The Oxford Book Of Modern Science Writing
$19.95 – Paperback book / Oxford University Pr
Boasting almost one hundred pieces, The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing is a breathtaking celebration of the finest writing by scientists--the best such collection in print--packed with scintillating essays on ever... Buy or find out more →
Mythbusters Hollywood Or Bust
$29.95 – Paperback book / Wilkinson Publishing
Comedy meets scientific curiosity in the world of the Mythbusters, and it's a point of view central to the world of lead researcher and writer Nicholas Searle. Having worked on the show, Nicholas found that it was imposs... Buy or find out more →
Not A Chimp The Hunt To Find The Genes That Make Us Human
$49.95 – Hardcover book / Oxford University Pr
It is one of the best-known pieces of scientific trivia--that human DNA and chimpanzee DNA differ by a mere 1.6%. But are we then just chimps with a few genetic tweaks? Are our language and our technology just an extensi... Buy or find out more →
Darwin's Armada: How Four Voyagers to Australasia Won the Battle for Evolution and Changed the World
$49.95 – Hardcover book / Viking
Charles Darwin, HMS Beagle, 1831-36 Sent to Cambridge to join the clergy, the young Darwin emerged with a passion for naturalism and an invitation to sail on a naval survey vessel to South America, New Zealand and Austra... Buy or find out more →
The Well-Dressed Ape: A Natural History Of Myself
$35.00 – Trade paperback / Scribe Publications
'A pellucid spin through the contours of the human brain and the folds of the human body … Careful science meets good writing — a pleasure for fans of Lewis Thomas, Natalie Angier and other interpreters of scientific fac... Buy or find out more →
Alex And Me: How a scientist and a parrot discovered a hidden world of animal intelligence — and formed a deep bond in the process
$27.95 – Paperback book / Scribe Publications
On September 6, 2007, an African Grey parrot named Alex died prematurely at age thirty-one. His last words to his owner, Irene Pepperberg, were 'You be good. I love you'.
What would normally be a quiet, very privat... Buy or find out more →
The Decisive Moment: How The Brain Makes Up Its Mind
$34.95 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing
Since Plato, philosophers have described the decision-making process as either rational or emotional: we carefully deliberate or we 'blink' and go with our gut. But as scientists break open the mind's black box with the ... Buy or find out more →
The Bone Readers: Atoms Genes And The Politics Of Australia's Deep Past
$35.00 – Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin
Who owns the past? How do you read ancient bones? And artefacts,
pollen and genes from the ice ages?
Using ever more refined techniques, scientists can now describe
ancient landscapes and the early humans who lived in t... Buy or find out more →
The Young Charles Darwin
$59.95 – Hardcover book / Yale Univ Pr
This biography is the first to inquire into the range of influences and ideas, the mentors and rivals, and the formal and informal education that shaped Charles Darwin and prepared him for his remarkable career of scient... Buy or find out more →
Science: A Four Thousand Year History
$59.95 – Hardcover book / Oxford University Pr
Science: A Four Thousand Year History rewrites science's past. Instead of focusing on difficult experiments and abstract theories, Patricia Fara shows how science has always belonged to the practical world of war, politi... Buy or find out more →
The Day We Found The Universe
$58.95 – Hardcover book / Pantheon
Science writer Bartusiak (Through a Universe Darkly) vividly tells the story behind the discovery that changed our cozy view of the universe. One hundred years ago, the Milky Way was all the cosmos we knew, “a lone, star... Buy or find out more →
Woman: An Intimate Geography
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Scribe Publications
With the clarity, insight, and sheer exuberance of language that make her one of The New York Times premier stylists, Pulitzer Prize-winner Natalie Angier lifts the veil of secrecy from that most enigmatic of evolu... Buy or find out more →
How We Live And Why We Die: A Short History Of The Cell
$19.95 – Hardcover book / Faber
How do we move, think and remember? Why do we get ill, age and die? Distinguished biologist Lewis Wolpert explains how cells provide the answers to the fundamental questions about our lives.
Cells are the basis of all li... Buy or find out more →
Plutonium: A History Of The Worlds Most Dangerous Element
$34.95 – Paperback book / New South Books
Scientists began looking for plutonium in a pure spirit of discovery. But with the advent of fission, it became clear that this curiosity could become a powerful nuclear weapon. When it was first manufactured, in 1941, i... Buy or find out more →
Why I Am Not A Scientist: Anthropology and Modern Knowledge
$54.95 – Paperback book / Univ California Pr
This book casts an anthropological eye on the field of science in a discussion that integrates philosophy, history, sociology, and auto- ethnography. Marks examines biological anthropology, the history of the life scienc... Buy or find out more →
We Need To Talk About Kelvin
$30.00 – Paperback book / Faber
A hugely accessible exploration of the science of the everyday world around us.
Look around you. The reflection of your face in a window tells you that the universe is orchestrated by chance. The iron in a spot of blood ... Buy or find out more →
The Decisive Moment: How The Brain Makes Up Its Mind
$24.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
If you believe rational thought is the foundation of wisdom and that the best decisions are based on logic not emotion, think again.
Our decisions are products of an intricate mix of reason, intuition and emotion. If we ... Buy or find out more →
The Master And His Emissary: The Divided Brain And The Making Of The Western World
$59.95 – Hardcover book / Yale Univ Pr
Why is the brain divided? The difference between right and left hemispheres has been puzzled over for centuries. In a book of unprecedented scope, Iain McGilchrist draws on a vast body of recent brain research, illustrat... Buy or find out more →
The Master And His Emissary
$34.95 – Paperback book / Yale Univ Pr
Incorporating medicine, literature, cultural studies, philosophy, and critical theory, McGilchrist, a London psychiatrist with an interest in brain research, presents an interdisciplinary perspective on the brain and the... Buy or find out more →
The Wavewatcher's Companion
$30.00$17.95 – Hardcover book / Bloomsbury
A humorous, original guide to the waves that surround us and through which we experience the world, by the bestselling author of The Cloudspotter's Guide.
Gavin Pretor-Pinney started wondering about waves when he found h... Buy or find out more →
Energy The Subtle Concept
$57.95 – Hardcover book / Oxford University Pr
Energy is at the heart of physics and of huge importance to society and yet no book exists specifically to explain this elusive concept, and in simple, largely non-mathematical, terms. In tracking the history of energy a... Buy or find out more →
The Vitamin D Solution: A Three Step-Strategy To Cure Our Most Common Health Problem
$35.00 – Trade paperback / Scribe Publications
Vitamin D deficiency is the most common medical condition in the world. Recent research indicates that 23 per cent of Australians have some degree of vitamin D deficiency, including up to 43 per cent of young women. As a... Buy or find out more →
The Artist and the Scientists: Bringing Prehistory To Life
$59.95 – Paperback book / Cambridge Univ Pres
This book chronicles the extraordinary work of pre-eminent palaeontologists Patricia Vickers-Rich and Thomas Rich, and Peter Trusler. Over more than thirty years Pat, Tom and Peter have travelled together, across Eastern... Buy or find out more →
Pygmonia: My Quest For The Secret Land Of The Pygmies
$34.95 – Trade paperback / Univ Queensland Pr
ONE MAN'S QUEST TO UNCOVER THE HIDDEN LAND OF THE PYGMIES
Archaeologist Peter McAllister had never given much thought to Pygmies. When he chanced upon an early 20th-century photograph of Pygmy-sized people in far north Q... Buy or find out more →
Delusions Of Gender: The Real Science Behind Sex Differences
$30.00$29.99 – Paperback book / Icon Books
A passionately argued and much-needed corrective to the belief that men's and women's brains are intrinsically different.
Sex discrimination is supposedly a distant memory. Yet popular books, magazines and even scientifi... Buy or find out more →
The Grand Design
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Bantam Press
A controversial new theory on the origins of the universe from the world's most famous living scientist.
In the last thirty years of his life Albert Einstein searched for a unified theory - a theory which could describe ... Buy or find out more →
Here On Earth: An Argument For Hope
$34.95 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing
We stand at a crossroads, where comprehension of our place in nature—of our true abilities and of our history—is supremely important. We have formed a global civilisation of unprecedented might, driven forward by the pow... Buy or find out more →
Anticancer: A New Way Of Life (Revised Edition)
$35.00 – Trade paperback / Scribe Publications
All of us have cancer cells in our bodies. But not all of us will develop cancer. This international bestseller examines what we can do every day to lower our chances of ever developing the illness, and also explains how... Buy or find out more →
Am I A Monkey? Six Big Questions About Evolution
$19.95 – Hardcover book / Johns Hopkins
Despite the ongoing cultural controversy in America, evolution remains a cornerstone of science. In this book, Francisco J. Ayala -- an evolutionary biologist, member of the National Academy of Sciences, and winner of th... Buy or find out more →
The Legacy: An Elder's Vision For Our Sustainable Future
$26.99 – Hardcover book / Allen & Unwin
This book provides a unique insight into the knowledge and wisdom David Suzuki has acquired over the years, and points to his legacy for generations to come.
One of the planet's preeminent elders, in his lifetime Suzuki ... Buy or find out more →
Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind For 500,00 Years
$26.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
The fascinating inside story of malaria - the fever and the mosquito - and their relationship with humans through the ages, revealing why it is on the rise across the world.
Malaria is on the move. It already infects 300... Buy or find out more →
Original Skin: Exploring The Marvels Of The Human Hide
$35.00 – Trade paperback / Scribe Publications
Original Skin is the grand and sweeping story of our largest organ — the exquisitely sensitive, constantly reactive, and staunchly protective human skin. Our skin is where we end and the rest of the cosmos begins, and is... Buy or find out more →
Natural Experiments Of History
$49.95 – Hardcover book / Harvard Univ Pr
Some central questions in the natural and social sciences can't be answered by controlled laboratory experiments, often considered to be the hallmark of the scientific method. This impossibility holds for any science con... Buy or find out more →
The Warmth Of The Heart Prevents Your Body From Rusting
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Scribe Publications
‘It’s up to us, the baby boomers, to invent a new art of growing old — which is a paradox, since it means accepting the inevitability of ageing without becoming “old”.’ Respected psychologist and psychotherapist Marie de... Buy or find out more →
The Eerie Silence: Are We Alone in the Universe?
$49.95$15.95 – Hardcover book / Allen Lane
In this exhilarating new book Paul Davies, bestselling author of The Mind of God and The Goldilocks Enigma, reveals the very latest findings in our search for alien life in the universe.
On April 8, 1960, a young America... Buy or find out more →
Supernormal Stimuli: How Primal Urges Overran Their Evolutionary Purpose
$37.95 – Hardcover book / W W Norton
Our instincts—for food, sex, or territorial protection— evolved for life on the savannahs 10,000 years ago, not in today’s world of densely populated cities, technological innovations, and pollution. We now have access t... Buy or find out more →
The Immortal Life Of Henrietta Lacks
$34.99 – Trade paperback / Picador
Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor black tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells - taken without her knowledge - become one of the most imp... Buy or find out more →
Imperfect Creation: Cosmos, Life And Nature's Hidden Code
$32.95 – Paperback book / Black Inc
A groundbreaking work of popular science for readers of Carl Sagan, Stephen Hawking and Richard Dawkins.
For millennia, humankind has searched for an intellectual Holy Grail – a unifying scientific theory to explain the ... Buy or find out more →
Secrets Of The Grown-Up Brain: The Surprising Talents Of The Middle Aged Mind
$27.95 – Paperback book / Black Inc
A leading science writer examines how the brain reaches its peak in middle age, and how to keep it there. For many years, scientists thought that the human brain simply decayed over time, leading to memory slips, fuzzy l... Buy or find out more →
Eaarth: Making A Life On A Tough New Planet
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Black Inc
Twenty years ago, in The End of Nature, Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about global warming. Those warnings went mostly unheeded; now, he argues, we need to acknowledge that we’ve waited too long, and... Buy or find out more →
How It Ends: From You To The Universe
$34.95 – Hardcover book / W W Norton
The fascinating science behind the eventual end to everything—from the individual to all existence.
Although we may try to keep it tucked at the back of our minds, most of us are aware of our own mortality. But few amo... Buy or find out more →
In Praise Of Science: Curiosity, Understanding and Progress
$37.95 – Hardcover book / Mit Press
In this engaging, lyrical book, physicist Sander Bais shows how science can liberate us from our cultural straitjacket of prejudice and intolerance. We're living in a time in which technology is taken for granted, yet be... Buy or find out more →
Possessing The Dead: The Artful Science Of Anatomy
$39.99$10.00 – Paperback book / Melb Univ Press
'MacDonald is that rare and precious commodity: a crack
historian with a taste for the bizarre'
Mary Roach, New York Times Book Review
London, 1868: visiting Australian Aboriginal cricketer Charles Rose has died in Guy's... Buy or find out more →
Reading In The Brain: The Science And Evolution Of A Human Invention
$23.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
A renowned cognitive neuroscientist's fascinating and highly informative account of how the brain acquires reading.
How can a few black marks on a white page evoke an entire universe of sounds and meanings? In this rivet... Buy or find out more →
Play: How It Shapes The Brain, Opens The Imagination And Invigorates The Soul
$27.95 – Trade paperback / Scribe Publications
A groundbreaking book on the science of play, and its essential role in fuelling our intelligence and happiness throughout our lives.
We’ve all seen the happiness in the face of a child who’s playing in the school yard. ... Buy or find out more →
A Matter Of Life And Death: Inside The Hidden World Of The Pathologist
$29.99 – Paperback book / Canongate
These sixteen conversations with some of the world’s most eminent and pioneering pathologists shine a light on a hidden world that we will all inevitably encounter at some time in our lives.
This book is part Oliver Sa... Buy or find out more →