Names for the Sea: Strangers in Iceland by Sarah Moss
$22.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
Sarah Moss had a childhood dream of moving to Iceland, sustained by a wild summer there when she was nineteen. In 2009, she saw an advertisement for a job at the University of Iceland and applied on a whim, despite having two young children and a comfortable life in Kent. The resulting adventure was sha ...Show more
How to Fall Slower Than Gravity: And Other Everyday (and Not So Everyday) Uses of Mathematics and Physical Reasoning by Paul J. Nahin
$32.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
An engaging collection of intriguing problems that shows you how to think like a mathematical physicist Paul Nahin is a master at explaining odd phenomena through straightforward mathematics. In this collection of twenty-six intriguing problems, he explores how mathematical physicists think. Always ...Show more
The Magic of Reality - How We Know What's Really True by Richard Dawkins; Dave McKean (Illustrator)
$85.00 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Richard Dawkins, the world's most famous evolutionary biologist, presents a gorgeously lucid, science book examining some of the nature's most fundamental questions both from a mythical and scientific perspective. Science is our most precise and powerful tool for making sense of the world. Before we dev ...Show more
In Search of the South Pole by Kari Herbert; Huw Lewis-Jones
$19.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
In 1911 the world was watching, waiting, hoping, attention focused on a desolate spot at the very end of the earth, as two men raced to conquer the South Pole. A hundred years after Roald Amundsen's triumph and Robert Scott's tragic demise, our fascination with the Antarctic remains as acute as ever. On ...Show more
The Fossil Hunter : Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World by Shelley Emling
$24.95 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: MacSci Ser.
Mary Anning was only twelve years old when, in 1811, she discovered the first dinosaur skeleton--of an ichthyosaur--while fossil hunting on the cliffs of Lyme Regis, England. Until Mary's incredible discovery, it was widely believed that animals did not become extinct. The child of a poor family, Mary b ...Show more
Here On Earth: An Argument for Hope by Tim Flannery
$24.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
Tim Flannery's first major book since The Weather Makers charts the history of life on our planet. Here on Earth, which draws its points of departure from Darwin and Wallace, Lovelock and Dawkins, is an extraordinary exploration of evolution and sustainability. Our success as a species has had disastrou ...Show more
When Women Ruled the World - Six Queens of Egypt by Kara Cooney
$49.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
Female rulers are a rare phenomenon--but thousands of years ago in ancient Egypt, women reigned supreme. Regularly, repeatedly, and with impunity, queens like Hatshepsut, Nefertiti, and Cleopatra controlled the totalitarian state as power-brokers and rulers. But throughout human history, women in positi ...Show more
Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again by Donald J. Trump
$39.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
Look at the state of the world right now. It's a terrible mess, and that's putting it mildly. There has never been a more dangerous time. The politicians and special interests in Washington, DC, are directly responsible for the mess we are in. So why should we continue listening to them? It's time t ...Show more
Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature by Anita Heiss, Peter Minter
$35.00 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
An authoritative collection of Australian Aboriginal writing over two centuries, across a wide range of fiction and non-fiction genres. Including some of the most distinctive writing produced in Australia, it offers rich insights into Aboriginal culture and experience.
Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces 2004-2021 by Margaret Atwood
$29.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
An exhilarating collection of non-fiction from the bestselling, double Booker Prize-winning phenomenon that is Margaret Atwood From cultural icon Margaret Atwood comes a brilliant collection of essays -- funny, erudite, endlessly curious, uncannily prescient -- which seek answers to Burning Questions su ...Show more
Planta Sapiens: Unmasking Plant Intelligence by Paco Calvo, Natalie Lawrence
$34.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
What is it like to be a plant?It's not a question we might think to contemplate, even though many of us live surrounded by plants. Science has long explored the wonderful ways in which plants communicate, behave and shape their environments: from chemical warfare to turning their predators to cannibalis ...Show more