Elemental: How the Periodic Table Can Now Explain (Nearly) Everything by Tim James
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Category: Science and Nature
If you want to understand how our world works, the periodic table holds the answers. When the seventh row of the periodic table of elements was completed in June 2016 with the addition of four final elements--nihonium, moscovium, tennessine, and oganesson--we at last could identify all the ingredients n ...Show more
Origins: How the Earth Made Us by Lewis Dartnell
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Category: Science and Nature
Why do so many of us eat cereal for breakfast?Is it because we like the taste? Or because 20 millions years ago, a certain species of plant colonised the same hospitable land that humanity did?Why is the world the way it is?If we follow chains of explanation as far back as they go - and keep asking, lik ...Show more
Instant Psychology: Key Thinkers, Theories, Discoveries and Concepts by Nicky Hayes, Sarah Tomley
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science and Nature | Series: Instant Ser.
Instant Psychology pulls together all the pivotal psychological knowledge and thought into one concise volume. Each page contains a discrete "cheat sheet", which tells you the most important facts in bite-sized chunks, meaning you can become an expert in an instant. From Freud and Jung to the Rorschach ...Show more
2023 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
$19.99 AUD
Category: Science and Nature
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 2023. Diagrams drawn for the latitude of southern Australia, but including events visible from ...Show more
1,001 Voices on Climate Change - Everyday Stories of Flood, Fire, Drought, and Displacement from Around the World by Devi Lockwood
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Category: Science and Nature
Join journalist Devi Lockwood on this "monumental achievement" (Richard Moor, bestselling author of On Trails) as she bikes around the world collecting personal stories about how flood, fire, drought, and rising seas are changing communities.It's official: apocalyptic climate predictions finally came tr ...Show more
The Dinosaur Hunters by Lowell Dingus; American Museum of National History
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Category: Science and Nature
Dinosaur bones had been found centuries before scientists understood what they were and what creatures they came from; ancient Chinese writings spoke of "dragon" bones, and large fossils discovered in the UK were thought to belong to human giants. It was only with the exploration and meticulous research ...Show more
The Heartbeat of Trees: Embracing Our Ancient Bond with Forests and Nature by Peter Wohlleben
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Category: Science and Nature
In an era of mobile phone addiction and ever-expanding cities, many of us fear we've lost our connection to nature - but Peter Wohlleben is convinced that age-old ties linking humans to the natural world remain alive and intact. Whether we observe it or not, our blood pressure stabilises near trees, the ...Show more
Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter
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Category: Science and Nature
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize A metaphorical fugue on minds and machines in the spirit of Lewis Carroll Douglas Hofstadter's book is concerned directly with the nature of "maps" or links between formal systems. However, according to Hofstadter, the formal system that underlies all mental activity transc ...Show more
The Secret Language of Flowers by DK
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Category: Science and Nature
A beautifully illustrated gift book that explores the uses and symbolic meanings of flowers throughout historyDiscover the uses and symbolic meanings of flowers over the centuries and across the globe. Flowers have been depicted as objects of beauty and wonder in countless paintings and poems, exchanged ...Show more
Australasian Nature Photography: AGNPOTY 19/E the Year’s Best Wildlife and Landscape Photos 2022 by Australian Geographic
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Category: Science and Nature
Australasian Nature Photography: The year's best wildlife and landscape photos is a collection of award-winning and shortlisted images from the 2022 competition. Each image is accompanied by technical information as well as anecdotes from the photographers on how each photograph was taken. There are als ...Show more
Inheritance: The Evolutionary Origins of the Modern World by Harvey Whitehouse
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Category: Science and Nature
Every human being is endowed with an inheritance. A set of ancient biases - forged by natural selection and fine-tuned by millennia of culture - that shape every facet of our behaviour.For countless generations, this inheritance has been taking us to ever greater heights- driving the rise of more sophis ...Show more
The Woman Who Changed Her Brain (New Edition) by Barbara Arrowsmith-Young
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Category: Science and Nature
A bestseller in Canada and Australia, this is the incredible story of a woman who struggled with severe learning disabilities, built herself a better brain, and started a program that has helped thousands of others do the same.Barbara Arrowsmith-Young was born with severe learning disabilities. ...Show more