Ocean of Life : How Our Seas are Changing by Callum Roberts
$60.00 AUD
Category: RARE AND COLLECTIBLE
In this revelatory book, Callum Roberts uses his lifetime's experience working with the oceans to show why they are the most mysterious places on earth, their depths still largely unexplored. In The Ocean of Life we get a panoramic tour beneath the seas: Why do currents circulate the way do? Where exact ...Show more
Proust and the Squid : The Story and Science of the Reading Brain by Maryanne Wolf
$75.00 AUD
Category: RARE AND COLLECTIBLE
'We were never born to read', says Maryanne Wolf. 'No specific genes ever dictated reading's development. Human beings invented reading only a few thousand years ago. And with this invention, we changed the very organisation of our brain, which in turn expanded the ways we were able to think, which alte ...Show more
The Revenge of Gaia - Why the Earth Is Fighting Back - And How We Can Still Save Mankind by James Lovelock
$12.00 AUD
$29.95 (59% off)
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: very good
Lovelock's unique authority and original perspective sets this book apart from other books on environmental change. He speaks as a planetary physician with more than forty years experience of thinking about how to respond to the earth s needs as a living organism. Illustrated with examples drawn from hi ...Show more
Starseekers by Colin Wilson
$30.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
Starseekers charts the voyage of man's discovery of the universe, from Stonehenge and the pyramids to the Theory of Relativity and the discovery of black holes, quasars and pulsars. Drawing from many branches of knowledge for an original vision of this intellectual quest, Colin Wilson's direct and chall ...Show more
The Illustrated Longitude by Dava Sobel
$20.00 AUD
$56.00 (64% off)
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
The History of the Royal Society of Medicine by Penelope Hunting
$35.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
The Royal Society of Medicine was descended from the Medical and Chirurgical Society, founded in 1805. Penelope Hunting provides a well-researched account of the history of the RSM from its beginnings in the early 19th century to the present day.
The Matter of Everything: Twelve Experiments that Changed Our World by Suzie Sheehy
$29.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE
The astonishing story of twentieth-century physics, told through the twelve experiments that changed our world.How did a piece a gold foil completely change our understanding of atoms? What part did a hot air balloon play in the discovery of cosmic rays?How did the experiments in the run-up to the Large ...Show more
The Australian Climatic Environment by Edward Linacre; John Hobbs
$25.00 AUD
Category: RARE AND COLLECTIBLE
The primary focus of this book is on Australian climates but the rest of the hemisphere is not ignored. The basic physics, chemistry and biology of the atmosphere are universal, and they are so treated in the book, even if weather maps differ so much between the hemispheres because of the reversal of th ...Show more
The Air Around Us by Tony John Chandler
$15.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Modern Knowledge Ser.