Live Green: 52 Steps for a More Sustainable Life by Jen Chillingsworth
14.25 AUD
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Category: Environment & Sustainability
Many of us are already doing what we can to adopt a greener lifestyle. We recycle, try to reduce our waste and plastics, choose organic food when shopping, eat less meat and opt for environmentally friendly cleaning products. Yet we often wish we were doing more and it can be overwhelming to know where ...Show more
Longitude by Dava Sobel
21.99 AUD
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Category: Popular 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
Marine Plants of Australia by John M. Huismann
45.00 AUD
Category: Popular Science
To most people, the mention of marine plants conjures up images of rotting seaweeds piled high on the beach, or slithering threateningly around bare ankles during a paddle in the shallows. Certainly, the seaweeds do not inspire the imagination or the romanticism that is usually associated with the sea. ...Show more
NeuroScience Fiction - From 2001: a Space Odyssey to Inception, How Neuroscience Is Transforming Sci-Fi into Reality--While Challenging Our Beliefs about the Mind, Machines, and What Makes Us Human by Rodrigo Quian Quiroga
31.50 AUD
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Category: Popular Science
What if science fiction stopped being fiction? Developments in neuroscience are turning sci-fi scenarios into reality, and causing us to revisit some of the philosophical questions we have been asking ourselves for centuries. Science fiction often takes its inspiration from the latest science . . . and ...Show more
Nomad Century: How to Survive the Climate Upheaval by Gaia Vince
42.99 AUD
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Category: Environment & Sustainability
An urgent investigation of the most underreported, seismic consequence of climate change- how it will force us to change where - and how - we live. We are facing a species emergency. With every degree of temperature rise, a billion people will be displaced from the zone in which humans have lived for t ...Show more
Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet by Hannah Ritchie
36.99 AUD
Category: Environment & Sustainability
Feeling anxious, powerless or confused about the future of our planet? This book will transform how you see our biggest environmental problems - and how we can solve them We are bombarded by doomsday headlines that tell us the soil won't be able to support crops, fish will vanish from our oceans, that w ...Show more
On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking's final theory by Thomas Hertog
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Category: Popular Science
A new theory of the universe, twenty years in the making, by Stephen Hawking and his close collaborator Thomas Hertog. Perhaps the biggest question Stephen Hawking tried to answer in his extraordinary life was how the universe could have created conditions so perfectly hospitable to life. Pondering this ...Show more
Overconnected: Where to Draw the Line at Being Online by William H. Davidow
32.99 AUD
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Category: Popular Science
In Feb 2006, a Danish newspaper printed twelve highly provocative caricatures of the prophet Muhammad. The drawings landed on the internet and quickly circled the globe. As a direct result, riots ensued and at least 139 people died. This is just one example of overconnection. The consequences of an over ...Show more
Psychedelics: The revolutionary drugs that could change your life by Professor David Nutt
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Category: Popular Science
We are on the cusp of a major revolution in psychiatric medicine and neuroscience. After fifty years of prohibition, criminalisation and fear, science is finally showing us that psychedelics are not dangerous or harmful. Instead, when used according to tested, safe and ethical guidelines, they are our m ...Show more
Quantum Theory (A Concise Edtition) by NEILS BOHR
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Category: Popular Science | Series: Foundations Ser.
Bohr and Planck helped shaped the cultural landscape of the world today. Now their work is available here in a digestible, pocket format for the modern reader. Quantum Theory contains foundational works of quantum research from the early years of the 20th Century, representing breakthroughs in science t ...Show more
Quitting Plastic by Clara Williams Roldan; Louise Williams (As told to)
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Category: Environment & Sustainability | Reading Level: 4 non fiction
How to reduce plastic in your everyday life, starting with changes that are small and easy to make, and working up to bigger changes to your daily routine.