H is for Hope: Climate Change from A to Z by Elizabeth Kolbert
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science
Climate change resists narrative and yet we must see clearly what's happening in our world. Millions of lives are at stake, and upwards of a million species. We must act. In H Is for Hope, Elizabeth Kolbert investigates the history, and future, of climate change from A, for Svante Arrhenius, who created ...Show more
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science | Reading Level: good-very good
THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER Sapiens shows us where we came from. Homo Deus shows us where we're going. Yuval Noah Harari envisions a near future in which we face a new set of challenges. Homo Deus explores the projects, dreams and nightmares that will shape the twenty-first century and beyond - from ove ...Show more
How Humans Took Over the World - Unstoppable Us, Volume 1 (PB) by Yuval Noah Harari
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
From the author of the multi-million bestselling Sapiens comes an incredible new story of the human race, for younger readers. We humans aren't strong like lions, we don't swim as well as dolphins, and we definitely don't have wings! So how did we end up ruling the world? The answer to that is one of th ...Show more
How Infrastructure Works: The Systems That Run Our World - and How We Fix Them by Deb Chachra
$36.99 AUD
Category: Science
'Pulsing with wisdom and humanity, How Infrastructure Works is a masterpiece' Ed Yong. 'You won't see the world the same after reading this book!' Austin Kleon. Every day, we are granted the power to travel at high speeds, fly, see in the dark, summon water from distant mountains and electricity from t ...Show more
Life in a Hollow by David Gullan
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
Age range 5 to 9 Who is home in the hollow?Tree hollows are very special places that provide animals, both big and small, with a space to nest and feel safe.Explore life in a tree hollow in the Australian bush and meet the native creatures who come to call a hollow a home. You’ll be surprised just how m ...Show more
Life on our Planet by Dr Tom Fletcher
$59.99 AUD
Category: Science
Accompanying an 8-part Netflix series from Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment and George Lucas's Industrial Light and Magic, a new 'Walking with Dinosaurs' that offers a stunning re-examination of prehistoric life on Planet Earth. Today there are 20 million species on our planet. Yet what we see is ...Show more
Moons: The Mysteries and Marvels of our Solar System by Kate Howells
$39.99 AUD
Category: Science
ALMOST EVERY PLANET IN OUR SOLAR SYSTEM HAS ONE, SO WHY DO WE KNOW SO LITTLE ABOUT MOONS? Join astronomer Kate Howells on an interplanetary voyage to explore the mind-boggling moons of our solar system, from the volcanic hellscape of Io to the ice mountains and methane seas of Titan. Beautifully illustr ...Show more
Moral AI by Jana Schaich Borg; Walter Sinnott-Armstrong; Vincent Conitzer
$45.00 AUD
Category: Science
A balanced and thought-provoking guide to all the big questions about AI and ethics Can computers understand morality? Can they respect privacy? And what can we do to make AI safe and fair? The artificial intelligence revolution has begun. Today, there are self-driving cars on our streets, autonomous ...Show more
Mountains Of The Mind: A History Of A Fascination by Robert Macfarlane
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
'The most exhilarating history of mountaineering ... a riveting read' Jeremy Paxman WINNER OF THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD Once we thought monsters lived there. In the Enlightenment we scaled them to commune with the sublime. Soon, we were racing to conquer their summits in the name of national pride. ...Show more
Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet by Hannah Ritchie
$36.99 AUD
Category: Science
Feeling anxious, powerless or confused about the future of our planet? This book will transform how you see our biggest environmental problems - and how we can solve them We are bombarded by doomsday headlines that tell us the soil won't be able to support crops, fish will vanish from our oceans, that w ...Show more
On Hope by Daisy Jeffrey
$16.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: On ... Series | Reading Level: near fine
As extreme weather becomes the norm, scientists agree that our climate is changing. But it seems too many of our leaders aren't listening to the science and are failing to act. In On Hope, one of the lead organisers of the Australian Climate strike, 17-year-old Daisy Jeffrey shows how ordinary people ar ...Show more
Our Fragile Moment - How lessons from Earth's past can help us survive the climate crisis by Michael Mann
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science | Reading Level: ear fine
In this sweeping work of science and history, the renowned climate scientist and author of The New Climate War shows us the conditions on Earth that allowed humans not only to exist but thrive, and how they are imperilled if we veer off course. For the vast majority of its 4.54 billion years, Earth has ...Show more