King Solomon's Ring by Konrad Lorenz
$36.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
Solomon, the legend goes, had a magic ring which enabled him to speak to the animals in their own language. Konrad Lorenz was gifted with a similar power of understanding the animal world. He was that rare beast, a brilliant scientist who could write (and indeed draw) beautifully. He did more than any o ...Show more
LSD -- the Wonder Child - The Golden Age of Psychedelic Research in The 1950s by Thomas Hatsis; Martin Lee (Foreword by)
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science
* Explores the different groups--from research labs to the military--who were seeking how best to utilize LSD and other promising psychedelics like mescaline* Reintroduces forgotten scientists like Robert Hyde and Rosalind Heywood* Looks at the CIA's notorious top-secret mind-control program MKULTRA* Re ...Show more
Laboratory Life - The Construction of Scientific Facts by Bruno Latour; Steve Woolgar; Jonas Salk (Editor)
$80.00 AUD
Category: Science
This highly original work presents laboratory science in a deliberately skeptical way: as an anthropological approach to the culture of the scientist. Drawing on recent work in literary criticism, the authors study how the social world of the laboratory produces papers and other texts, ' and how the sci ...Show more
Landscapes of Our Hearts by Matthew Colloff
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science
On this ancient continent, waves of people have made their mark on the landscape; in turn, it too has shaped them. If we look afresh at our history through the land we live on, might Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians find a path to a shared future? An epic exploration of our relationship with th ...Show more
Lapidarium: The Secret Lives of Stones by Hettie Judah
$45.00 AUD
Category: Science
'A delightful storybook . . . a portrait of our whole world created from the contents of the ground' Literary Review 'A real cabinet of curiosities' Sunday Times From the hematite used in cave paintings to the moldavite that became a TikTok sensation; from the stolen sandstone of Scone to the unexpecte ...Show more
Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction and the Beginning of Our World (HB) by RILEY BLACK
$49.99 AUD
Category: Science
A fascinating exploration of the world's worst mass extinction and how it shaped all subsequent life on our planet. Picture yourself in the Cretaceous period. It's a sunny afternoon in the Hell Creek ecosystem of North America 66 million years ago. A Triceratops horridus ambles along the edge of the for ...Show more
Latitude: The Astonishing Journey To Discover the Shape of the Earth by Nick Crane
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science
Told for the very first time, this is the true story of the adventure that shaped the world . . .'A thrilling story of courage, survival and science. It's an extraordinary, visceral and vivid read' Geographical Magazine________Three hundred years ago no one knew the true shape of the world.It wasn't a s ...Show more
Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World by Jason Hickel
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science
______________________'A powerfully disruptive book for disrupted times ... If you're looking for transformative ideas, this book is for you.' KATE RAWORTH, economist and author of Doughnut Economics Featured in FT Best Books of the Year 2020______________________The world has finally awoken to the ...Show more
Letters from an Astrophysicist by Neil deGrasse Tyson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Astronomy
Join the galactic conversation on the biggest issues in the universe 'Don't fear change. Don't fear failure. The only thing to fear is loss of ambition. But if you've got plenty of that, then you have nothing to fear at all' - Neil deGrasse Tyson Neil deGrasse Tyson is arguably the most influential, acc ...Show more
Letters from an Astrophysicist by Neil deGrasse Tyson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Science
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has attracted one of the world's largest online followings with his fascinating, widely accessible insights into science and our universe. Now, Tyson invites us to go behind the scenes of his public fame by unveiling his candid correspondence with people across the glo ...Show more
Life As Told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal by Juan José Millás, Juan Luis Arsuaga
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
Prehistory is all around us. We just need to know where to look. Juan Jose Millas has always felt like he doesn't quite fit into human society. Sometimes he wonders if he is even a Homo sapiens at all, or something simpler. Perhaps he is a Neanderthal who somehow survived? So he turns to Juan Luis Arsua ...Show more
Life Changing by Helen Pilcher
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science
In this post-natural history guide, Helen Pilcher invites us to meet key species that have been sculpted by humanity.We are now living through the post-natural phase, where the fate of all living things is irrevocably intertwined with our own. We domesticated animals to suit our needs, and altered their ...Show more