The Weather Obsession by Lawrie Zion
$29.99 AUD
Category: New Science
We have come a long way since the days when weather information could only be found in the back pages of newspapers. The Weather Obsession takes the temperature of modern weather media and investigates how it has fuelled our fascination with all things climatic. Weather information now pervades everythi ...Show more
Pluses and Minuses: How Maths Solves Our Problems by Stefan Buijsman
$32.99 AUD
Category: New Science | Reading Level: very good
You look up from your phone for a moment to order an espresso. It's made with one of those large stainless-steel coffee makers that heats the water until it's precisely the right temperature. It keeps track of how fast the water warms up and uses that to calculate whether it needs to apply more or less ...Show more
The Complete Guide to Drones Extended 2nd Edition by Adam Juniper
$29.99 AUD
Category: New Science
If you think you need a boarding pass to fly, you're really missing out... Today, drones are everywhere. From film studios to farms, they're in the hands of photographers, commercial surveyors and racers alike. This fully illustrated book explains how drones developed, where they're going and which on ...Show more
Tracks, Scats and Other Traces by Barbara Triggs
$59.95 AUD
Category: New Science
This book contains hundreds of illustrations and is organized in an accessible format for easy identification of the visible traces left by Australian mammals in their passage. Triggs provides all the information needed to identify mammals anywhere in Australia, using only the tracks or other signs thes ...Show more
Know Your Clouds by Tim Harris
$14.99 AUD
Category: New Science
Do you know which types of clouds signal severe weather? Or have you ever wondered how clouds form in the first place? Discover tons of fascinating information about different cloud families, unique cloud characteristics, optical phenomena - from rainbows to light crystals. Filled with beautiful photogr ...Show more
The Geology of Australia by David Johnson; Bob Henderson
$95.95 AUD
Category: New Science
This book documents the rich and spectacular heritage of the Australian continent over the last 4400 million years. Now in its third edition, The Geology of Australia provides a comprehensive overview of Australia's geology, landscapes and Earth resources. Beginning with the Precambrian rocks that hold ...Show more
Insects of Australia A Naturalist's Guide 2/e - Australian Geographic by Peter Rowland, Rachel Whitlock
$29.99 AUD
Category: New Science
A Naturalist's Guide to the Insects of Australia is an easy-to-use photographic identification guide to 292 species of insect commonly seen in Australia, and is perfect for residents and visitors alike. The 2nd edition includes updated taxonomy and an extensive collection of new images of the species co ...Show more
The Disappearing Spoon (Young Readers Edition) by Sam Kean
$14.99 AUD
Category: New Science
Why did Gandhi hate iodine (I, 53)? Why did the Japanese kill Godzilla with missiles made of cadmium (Cd, 48)? How did radium (Ra, 88) nearly ruin Marie Curie's reputation? And why did tellurium (Te, 52) lead to the most bizarre gold rush in history? The periodic table is a crowning scientific achievem ...Show more
The Language of Butterflies by Wendy Williams
$29.99 AUD
Category: New Science
An enthralling look at one of the world's most beautiful and resilient animals, and the role they play in our ecosystem Butterflies are beloved across the globe, adorning gardens, parks and zoos. Their feats are staggering - monarchs migrate thousands of kilometres each year. They are smarter than we th ...Show more
If Science Is to Save Us by Martin Rees
$41.95 AUD
Category: New Science
There has never been a time when 'following the science' has been more important for humanity. At no other point in history have we had such advanced knowledge and technology at our fingertips, nor had such astonishing capacity to determine the future of our planet. But the decisions we must make on how ...Show more
Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilisation by Neil DeGrasse Tyson
$29.99 AUD
Category: New Science
Bringing his cosmic perspective to civilization on Earth, Neil deGrasse Tyson, bestselling author of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, shines new light on the crucial fault lines of our time–war, politics, religion, truth, beauty, gender, race, and tribalism–in a way that stimulates a deeper sense of ...Show more
Australian Geographic Science: Exerting Forces by Australian Geographic
$24.95 AUD
Category: New Science
Forces are acting on the world we live in and the things we do at all times. In this book, students will learn to identify contact and non-contact forces and discover how they impact the behaviour of objects. They will investigate the effect of the size of a force on speed, friction and attraction and r ...Show more