2024 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, Wil Tirion, Collins Astronomy
$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 2024. Diagrams drawn for the latitude of southern Australia, but including events visible from ...Show more
Astronomy 2024 Australia: Your Guide to the Night Sky by Glenn Dawes, Peter Northfield, Ken Wallace
$32.95 AUD
Category: Science and Nature
This annual gem (produced each year since 1991) continues to take the Australian stargazer on a wondrous journey of the night sky. This critically acclaimed work, produced by three well known experts in the field, takes a unique approach to explaining and identifying the Sun, Moon, planets and constella ...Show more
Sapiens - A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
$27.99 AUD
Category: Science and Nature
From a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity's creation and evolution--a #1 international bestseller--that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be "human." One hundred thousand years ago, at least six ...Show more
Deep Water: The World in the Ocean by James Bradley
$36.99 AUD
Category: Science and Nature
Through history, science, nature writing, and environmentalism, Deep Water invites you to explore the deepest recesses of our natural world. 'Teeming with mysteries, wonders and heartbreaking facts, this beautiful, lucid hymn to the sea is a reminder of what we still have, what we stand to lose, and why ...Show more
Humpback Highway: Diving Into the Mysterious World of Whales by Vanessa Pirotta
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science and Nature
I entered the water quietly and saw two humpback whales sleeping diagonally in the distance. Two school buses just hanging in space ... Acclaimed wildlife scientist Vanessa Pirotta has been mugged by whales, touched by a baby whale and covered in whale snot. In Humpback Highway, Pirotta’s enthusiasm an ...Show more
The Memory of Trees: The future of eucalypts and our home among them by Viki Cramer
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science and Nature
Most Australians see their world through eucalypts. From towering forests to straggly woodlands, in city parks, by the coast and in the bush, these are the trees that inhabit our familiar landscapes and national psyche. Yet the resilience of our eucalypt ecosystems is being tested by logging and land c ...Show more
A Really Good Day - How Microdosing Made a Mega Difference in My Mood, My Marriage, and My Life by Ayelet Waldman
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science and Nature
'Ayelet Waldman is fearless' Rebecca Solnit 'Relentlessly honest and surprisingly funny' Washington Post'Genuinely brave and human' New York Times'Wildly brilliant' ElleThe true story of how a renowned writer's struggle with mood storms led her to try a remedy as drastic as it is forbidden: microdoses ...Show more
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us (2023 Royal Science Society Book Prize) by Ed Yong
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science and Nature
**SUNDAY TIMES and NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**A NEW YORK TIMES, GUARDIAN, ECONOMIST, SPECTATOR, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT and NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEARThe Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal is enclosed withi ...Show more
Big Meg: The Story of the Largest and Most Mysterious Predator that Ever Lived by Tim Flannery, Emma Flannery
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science and Nature
Big Meg charts the evolution of megalodon, its super-predator status for about fifteen million years and its decline and extinction. It delves into the fossil record to answer questions about its behaviour and role in shaping marine ecosystems as well as its impact on the human psyche. It contains stori ...Show more
Gemstones: Understanding, Identifying, Buying by KEITH WALLIS
$49.99 AUD
Category: Science and Nature | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
-A new, updated edition of this bestselling guide to understanding, identifying and buying gemstones -Includes many new images, updated text and a new section on jewelry -A clear, uncomplicated approach to the subject, illustrated in color throughout, making the identification of gems simple Whether buy ...Show more
How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics by Michael Pollan
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science and Nature
Could psychedelic drugs change our worldview? One of America's most revered writers takes us on a mind-altering journey to the frontiers of human consciousness. 'It's as if we made entering gothic cathedrals illegal, or museums, or sunsets!' When LSD was first discovered in the 1940s, it seemed to resea ...Show more
Psychedelic Wisdom - The Astonishing Rewards of Mind-Altering Substances by Richard Louis Miller; Rick Doblin (Foreword by)
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science and Nature
* Reveals how these scientists, doctors, therapists, and teachers have applied their entheogenic experiences in their professions, leading to therapeutic advancements, scientific discoveries, and healing for thousands * Includes contributions from scientific psychonaut Amanda Feilding, psychedelic swam ...Show more