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  • Almost Chimpanzee

    Redrawing the Lines That Separate Us from Them

    by Jon Cohen ...
    The captivating story of how a band of scientists has redrawn the genetic and behavioral lines that separate humans from our nearest cousins.In the fall of 2005, a band of researchers cracked the code of the chimpanzee genome and provided a startling new window into the differences between humans and our closest primate cousins. For the past several years, acclaimed Science reporter Jon Cohen has ... Read more

    Was $29.99 AUD Now $1.99 AUD

  • Landfall

    The totally propulsive crime mystery suspense thriller from the award-winning author of Clade

    by James Bradley ...
    'Propulsive' GUARDIAN'Unmissable' HEATHER CRITCHLOW'Masterful' SARA FOSTERThe world is in the grip of climate catastrophe. Sydney has been transformed by rising sea levels, soaring temperatures and increasingly intense social division and unrest.When a child on the margins goes missing from the area of the city known as the Floodline, Senior Detective Sadiya Azad is assigned to find her. But when ... Read more

    $12.99 AUD

  • A Short History of Nearly Everything

    The bestselling popular science book of the 21st Century

    by Bill Bryson ...
    Series Book 5 - Bryson
    The ultimate eye-opening journey through time and space, A Short History of Nearly Everything is the biggest-selling popular science book of the 21st century and has sold over 2 million copies.'Possibly the best scientific primer ever published.' Economist'Truly impressive...It's hard to imagine a better rough guide to science.' Guardian'A travelogue of science, with a witty, engagin... ... Read more

    $18.99 AUD

  • Super Agers

    An Evidence-Based Approach to Longevity

    by Eric Topol ...
    Super Agers is a detailed guide to a revolution transforming human longevity. This is a breakthrough moment in the history of human health care. The person making that bold claim is one of the most respected medical researchers in the world, Eric Topol.Dr. Topol’s unprecedented, evidenced-based guide is about how you and your family and friends can benefit from new treatments coming available at a ... Read more

    $24.99 AUD

  • When Breath Becomes Air

    The ultimate moving life-and-death story

    by Paul Kalanithi ...
    ****THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER**'Rattling. Heartbreaking. Beautiful,' Atul Gawande, bestselling author of Being Mortal**What makes life worth living in the face of death?At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, the next he was a patient ... Read more

    $16.99 AUD

  • Your Inner Fish

    The amazing discovery of our 375-million-year-old ancestor

    by Neil Shubin ...
    Your Inner Fish tells the extraordinary history of the human body and gives answers to some of the questions that only evolution can. Why do we look the way we do? Why are we able to do all the different things we do? And, finally, why do we fall ill in the way that we do? Neil Shubin draws on the latest genetic research and his huge experience as an expeditionary paleontologist to show the ... Read more

    $15.99 AUD

  • Ocean

    Earth's Last Wilderness - THE LANDMARK NEW BOOK BY DAVID ATTENBOROUGH

    by Sir David Attenborough, Colin Butfield ...
    ** THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER **'Gripping... the wildlife is so fantastical that the images on the page feel like works of the imagination.' Evening Standard'THIS IS THE STORY OF OUR OCEAN AND WE MUST WRITE ITS NEXT CHAPTER TOGETHER. FOR IF WE SAVE THE SEA, WE SAVE OUR WORLD. AFTER A LIFETIME OF FILMING OUR PLANET, I'M SURE THAT NOTHING IS MORE IMPORTANT.'From the icy seas of our poles to ... Read more

    $16.99 AUD

  • Human Universe

    by Professor Brian Cox, Andrew Cohen ...
    Top ten Sunday Times Bestseller‘Engaging, ambitious and creative’ GuardianWhere are we? Are we alone? Who are we? Why are we here? What is our future?Human Universe tackles some of the greatest questions that humans have asked to try and understand the very nature of ourselves and the Universe in which we live.Through the endless leaps of human minds, it explores the extraordinary ... ... Read more

    $9.99 AUD

  • The Nervous System Reset

    Heal Trauma, Resolve Chronic Stress and Pain, and Regulate Your Emotions with the Power of the Vagus Nerve

    by Jessica Maguire ...
    'A must-read for anyone seeking to understand and nurture their nervous system.' Dr Kelly Vincent, clinical psychologist'A profoundly significant ground-breaking book that explores authentic healing.' Maggie Dent, bestselling authorThe vagus nerve is the superhighway between our bodies and brains, our emotions and behaviour. However, chronic stress and trauma impair the vagus nerve's functions, ... Read more

    $17.99 AUD

  • It’s Not Hysteria

    The Truth About Pelvic Pain, Period Problems, and Your Gynaecologic Health

    by Dr Karen Tang ...
    Did you know that up to 90% of women experience menstrual abnormalities or pelvic problems in their lifetime? Yet these issues are overwhelmingly misunderstood, misdiagnosed, or dismissed. Conditions such as PCOS, endometriosis, fibroids, ovarian cysts, PMDD, or pelvic floor dysfunction, don’t receive the stream of funding for research and new treatments that other conditions do, despite affecting ... Read more

    $19.99 AUD

  • Masters of the Planet

    The Search for Our Human Origins

    by Ian Tattersall ...
    Series series MacSci
    50,000 years ago – merely a blip in evolutionary time – our Homo sapiens ancestors were competing for existence with several other human species, just as their own precursors had been doing for millions of years. Yet something about our species separated it from the pack, and led to its survival while the rest became extinct. So just what was it that allowed Homo sapiens to become Masters of the ... Read more

    $14.99 AUD

  • The Explosive Child [Sixth Edition]

    A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, Chronically Inflexible Children

    by Ross W Greene PhD ...
    Now in a revised and updated 6th edition, the groundbreaking, research-based approach to understanding and parenting children who frequently exhibit severe fits of temper and other challenging behaviors, from a distinguished clinician and pioneer in the field.What’s an explosive child? A child who responds to routine problems with extreme frustration—crying, screaming, swearing, kicking, hitting, ... Read more

    $9.99 AUD

  • A (Very) Short History of Life On Earth

    4.6 Billion Years in 12 Chapters

    by Henry Gee ...
    For billions of years, Earth was an inhospitably alien place – covered with churning seas, slowly crafting its landscape by way of incessant volcanic eruptions, the atmosphere in a constant state of chemical flux. And yet, despite facing literally every conceivable setback that living organisms could encounter, life has been extinguished and picked itself up to evolve again. Life has learned and ... Read more

    $12.99 AUD

  • Atoms and Ashes

    From Bikini Atoll to Fukushima

    by Serhii Plokhy ...
    **CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY SUNDAY TIMES AND HISTORY TODAY'Absolutely stunning. . . a formidable achievement. A six-part historical thriller that is essential reading for both our politicians and the ordinary citizen' Kai Bird**Best-selling historian Serhii Plokhy returns with an illuminating exploration of the atomic age through the history of six nuclear disastersIn 2011, a 43-foot-high ... Read more

    $18.99 AUD

  • Bad Blood

    Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

    by John Carreyrou ...
    **Winner of the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2018"You will not want to put this riveting, masterfully reported book down. No matter how bad you think the Theranos story was, you'll learn that the reality was actually far worse." Bethany McLean, bestselling coauthor of The Smartest Guys in the Room and All the Devils Are Here**In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO ... Read more

    $12.99 AUD

  • Chapter House Dune

    The inspiration for the blockbuster film

    by Frank Herbert ...
    Series Book 514 - Gateway Essentials
    What The Lord of the Rings is to fantasy, Dune is to science fiction. Presenting Chapter House Dune, the sixth book in one of the most influential series of all time, which has inspired countless other stories for more than half a century, this is an awe-inspiring world, and a story of truly epic scope.The long-established galactic order is passing. The Honoured Matres, ruthless and all-conquering ... Read more

    $12.99 AUD

  • The Origin of Species (Illustrated Edition)

    by Charles Darwin ...
    Charles Robert Darwin (12 February 1809 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist. He established that all species of life have descended over time from a common ancestry, and proposed the scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection.He published his theory with compelling evidence for evolution in his 1859 book On the Origin of ... Read more

    $1.73 AUD

  • The Body

    A Guide for Occupants - THE SUNDAY TIMES NO.1 BESTSELLER

    by Bill Bryson ...
    #1 Bestseller in both hardback and paperback: SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 ROYAL SOCIETY INSIGHT INVESTMENT SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE_______'A directory of wonders.' - The Guardian'Jaw-dropping.' - The Times'Classic, wry, gleeful Bryson...an entertaining and absolutely fact-rammed book.' - The Sunday Times'It is a feat of narrat... ... Read more

    $16.99 AUD

  • Homo Deus

    The million-copy bestseller from the author of Nexus

    by Yuval Noah Harari ...
    **THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER**Sapiens showed us where we came from. In our increasingly uncertain times, Homo Deus shows us where we're going.'Spellbinding' GuardianThe world-renowned historian and intellectual 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... ... Read more

    $18.99 AUD

  • The Hawk's Way

    Encounters with Fierce Beauty

    by Sy Montgomery ...
    A splendid and luminous celebration of one of nature’s most perfect and mysterious creatures—the hawk—from the New York Times bestselling author of the “astoundingly beautiful” (NPR) The Soul of an Octopus.When Sy Montgomery went to spend a day at falconer Nancy Cowan’s farm, home to a dozen magnificent birds of prey, it was the start of a deep love affair. Nancy allowed her to work with Jazz, a ... Read more

    Was $16.99 AUD Now $2.99 AUD

  • Darwin

    Portrait of a Genius

    by Paul Johnson ...
    Eminent historian Paul Johnson provides a rich, succinct portrait of Charles DarwinCharles Darwin is arguably the most influential scientist of all time. His Origin of Species forever changed our concept of the world’s creation.Darwin’s revolutionary career is the perfect vehicle for historian Paul Johnson. Marked by the insightful observation, spectacular wit, and highly readable prose for which ... Read more

    $11.99 AUD

  • The Whole-Brain Child: 12 revolutionary strategies to nurture your child's developing mind

    12 revolutionary strategies to nurture your child’s developing mind

    by Daniel J. Siegel, Tina Payne Bryson ...
    Your toddler throws a tantrum in the middle of a store. Your preschooler refuses to get dressed. Your eleven-year-old sulks on the bench instead of playing on the field. Do children conspire to make their parents’ lives endlessly challenging? No — it’s just their developing brain calling the shots.In this pioneering, practical book, Daniel J. Siegel, neuropsychiatrist and author of the bestselling ... Read more

    $23.99 AUD

  • How to Be Human

    The Manual

    by Ruby Wax ...
    *FROM THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF FRAZZLED*A three way encounter between a Monk, a neuroscientist and Ruby Wax sounds like the set up for a joke. Instead it's produced one of the most fascinating, intriguing and informative books about minds and bodies and brains and mindfulness I've ever encountered. A triangulation on what it means to be human. Utterly readable and surprisingly wise. ... Read more

    $14.99 AUD

  • 1493

    How Europe's Discovery of the Americas Revolutionized Trade, Ecology and Life on Earth

    by Charles C. Mann ...
    Two hundred million years ago the earth consisted of a single vast continent, Pangea, surrounded by a great planetary sea. Continental drift tore apart Pangaea, and for millennia the hemispheres were separate, evolving almost entirely different suites of plants and animals. Columbus's arrival in the Americas brought together these long-separate worlds. Many historians believe that this collision ... Read more

    $25.99 AUD