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  • Allergic

    How Our Immune System Reacts to a Changing World

    by Theresa MacPhail ...
    An eye-opening investigation - combining reporting, history and cutting-edge science - into allergies and their rise in recent decadesHay fever. Peanut allergies. Eczema. Billions of people worldwide have some form of allergy; millions have one severe enough to seriously endanger their health. And over the past decade, the number of people diagnosed with allergy has been steadily increasing, an ... Read more

    $19.99 AUD

  • The Secret of Our Success

    How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter

    by Joseph Henrich ...
    How our collective intelligence has helped us to evolve and prosperHumans are a puzzling species. On the one hand, we struggle to survive on our own in the wild, often failing to overcome even basic challenges, like obtaining food, building shelters, or avoiding predators. On the other hand, human groups have produced ingenious technologies, sophisticated languages, and complex institutions that ... Read more

    $25.99 AUD

  • An Immense World

    How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us (THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER)

    by Ed Yong ...
    **SUNDAY TIMES and NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER****NEW YORK TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, OBSERVER, ECONOMIST, PROSPECT, GUARDIAN, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT and SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022****Winner of 2023 Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction**Enter a new dimension - the world as it is truly perceived by other animals.The Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vib... ... Read more

    $18.99 AUD

  • Breathless

    The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus

    by David Quammen ...
    ****A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022**From the author of the prescient Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic**Breathless is the story of the scientific quest to decipher, control and fight Covid-19.Breathless traces SARS-CoV-2's fierce journey through the human population as seen by the scientists who study its origin, ever-changing nature and capacity to kill. It shows ... Read more

    $18.99 AUD

  • FREEDOM: The End Of The Human Condition

    by Jeremy Griffith ...
    FREEDOM has its own very informative website: visit www.humancondition.comThe fastest growing realization everywhere is that humanity can't go on the way it is going. Indeed, the great fear is we're entering endgame where we appear to have lost the race between self-destruction and self-discovery―the race to find the psychologically relieving understanding of our 'good and evil'-afflicted human ... Read more

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  • Smarter Not Harder: The Biohacker’s Guide to Getting the Body and Mind You Want

    by Dave Asprey ...
    World-renowned biohacker and bestselling author Dave Asprey reveals how to maximize your well-being with the minimum effort, by taking control of your body’s operating system.If you want to lose weight, boost your energy, or sharpen your mind, there are shelves of books offering myriad styles of advice. If you want to build up your strength and cardio fitness, there are plenty of gyms and trainers ... Read more

    $17.99 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

  • Pathogenesis

    How germs made history

    by Jonathan Kennedy ...
    **A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK'Powerfully argued... Fascinating and pacy'** Sunday Times, Book of the Week'Superbly written... sure to please readers of Yuval Noah Harari or Rutger Bregman' The Times'Full of amazing facts' *Observer'*The book shines when it brings cutting-edge science to bear' *Financial Times'*A dizzying range of material' *The Economist'*<str... ... Read more

    $16.99 AUD

  • Gut

    the new and revised Sunday Times bestseller

    by Giulia Enders ...
    Translated by David Shaw ...
    WINNER OF THE 2016 AUSTRALIAN BOOK INDUSTRY AWARDS, INTERNATIONAL BOOK OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 BRITISH BOOK INDUSTRY AWARDS, NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEARLONGLISTED FOR THE 2015 GOODREADS CHOICE AWARDS 'BEST SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY BOOK'A Sunday Times bestsellerThe key to living a happier, healthier life is inside us.Our gut is almost as important to us as o... ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD

  • Guns, Germs And Steel

    The MILLION-COPY bestselling history of everybody

    by Jared Diamond ...
    This book answers the most obvious, the most important, yet the most difficult question about human history: why history unfolded so differently on different continents. Geography and biogeography, not race, moulded the contrasting fates of Europeans, Asians, Native Americans, sub-Saharan Africans, and aboriginal Australians.An ambitious synthesis of history, biology, ecology and linguistics, Guns ... Read more

    $16.99 AUD

  • The Obesity Code

    the bestselling guide to unlocking the secrets of weight loss

    by Dr Jason Fung ...
    Book 1 - The Obesity Code
    We are in the midst of an obesity epidemic, but despite being inundated with diet advice we are only getting fatter. We count calories and exercise regularly, yet still the pounds won’t budge. Why?In this highly readable and provocative book, Dr Jason Fung sets out a groundbreaking new theory: that obesity is caused by our hormones, rather than a lack of self-control.He reveals that overproduction ... Read more

    $25.99 AUD

  • The Emperor of All Maladies

    by Siddhartha Mukherjee ...
    Winner of the Guardian First Book Award 2011Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Non-fiction 2011Shortlisted for the Wellcome Trust Book PrizeShortlisted for the Duff Cooper PrizeNow, as cancer becomes an ever more universal experience, the need to understand it, and its treatment, has never been more compelling. In this groundbreaking and award-winning account Siddhartha Mukherjee tells the ... Read more

    $15.99 AUD

  • Behave

    The bestselling exploration of why humans behave as they do

    by Robert M Sapolsky ...
    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**Why do human beings behave as they do?'Awe-inspiring... You will learn more about human nature than in any other book I can think of' Henry Marsh, bestselling author of And Finally.We are capable of savage acts of violence but also spectacular feats of kindness: is one side of our nature destined to win out over the other?Every act of human behaviour has multipl... ... Read more

    $16.99 AUD

  • I Contain Multitudes

    The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life

    by Ed Yong ...
    THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE WINNER OF THE 2021 PULITZER PRIZEYour body is teeming with tens of trillions of microbes. It's an entire world, a colony full of life.In other words, you contain multitudes.They sculpt our organs, protect us from diseases, guide our behaviour, and bombard us with their genes. They also hold the key to understanding all life on earth.In I Contain Multitudes<.. ... Read more

    $16.99 AUD

  • Exercised

    The Science of Physical Activity, Rest and Health

    by Daniel Lieberman ...
    'Endlessly fascinating and full of surprises. Easily one of my books of the year' BILL BRYSONThe myth-busting science behind our modern attitudes to exercise: what our bodies really need, why it matters, and its effects on health and wellbeing.In industrialized nations, our sedentary lifestyles have contributed to skyrocketing rates of obesity and diseases like diabetes. A key remedy, we are told, ... Read more

    $16.99 AUD

  • Genius Foods

    Become Smarter, Happier, and More Productive While Protecting Your Brain for Life

    by Max Lugavere, Paul Grewal M.D. ...
    Book 1 - Genius Living
    New York Times BestsellerDiscover the critical link between your brain and the food you eat and change the way your brain ages, in this cutting-edge, practical guide to eliminating brain fog, optimizing brain health, and achieving peak mental performance from media personality and leading voice in health Max Lugavere.After his mother was diagnosed with a mysterious form of dementia, Max Lugavere ... Read more

    $15.99 AUD

  • What Doesn't Kill Us

    the bestselling guide to transforming your body by unlocking your lost evolutionary strength

    by Scott Carney ...
    What are our bodies really capable of?We like to sit in air-conditioned comfort, yet each year millions of ordinary people train in CrossFit boxes, compete in Tough Mudders, and challenge themselves in Spartan races. They are connecting with their environment and, whether they realise it or not, unlocking their hidden evolutionary potential.No one exemplifies this better than Wim Hof, whose ... Read more

    $23.99 AUD

  • A Journey Through Potions and Herbology

    by Pottermore Publishing ...
    Book 2 - A Journey Through…
    This non-fiction short-form eBook features content which is adapted from the audiobook Harry Potter: A History of Magic - inspired by the British Library exhibition of the same name.Potions have been made for thousands of years - associated with bubbling pots and mysterious ingredients, they have been brewed to make medicines, drugs and poisons. Harry Potter became much better at Potions with a ... Read more

    $4.99 AUD

  • A Devil's Chaplain

    Selected Writings

    by Prof Richard Dawkins ...
    Richard Dawkins is one of the finest minds in science, and in this superb collection of essays and letters, he demonstrates the depth of his knowledge and the rich variety of his interests. Whether he is examining postmodernism or the Human Genome Project, penning a letter to his daughter, or writing a moving eulogy to Douglas Adams and e-mailing Stephen Jay Gould, Dawkins writes with an ... Read more

    $13.99 AUD

  • Life on the Edge

    The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology

    by Jim Al-Khalili, Johnjoe McFadden ...
    Life is the most extraordinary phenomenon in the known universe; but how does it work? Even in this age of cloning and synthetic biology, the remarkable truth remains: nobody has ever made anything living entirely out of dead material. Life remains the only way to make life. Are we missing a vital ingredient in its creation?Like Richard Dawkins' The Selfish Gene, which provided a new perspective ... Read more

    $16.99 AUD

  • The Story of the Human Body

    Evolution, Health and Disease

    by Daniel Lieberman ...
    Story of the Human Body explores how the way we use our bodies is all wrong. From an evolutionary perspective, if normal is defined as what most people have done for millions of years, then it's normal to walk and run 9 -15 kilometers a day to hunt and gather fresh food which is high in fibre, low in sugar, and barely processed. It's also normal to spend much of your time nursing, napping, making ... Read more

    $15.99 AUD

  • The Ancestor's Tale

    A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Life

    by Prof Richard Dawkins, Yan Wong ...
    A fully updated edition of one of the most original accounts of evolution ever written, featuring new fractal diagrams, six new 'tales' and the latest scientific developments.THE ANCESTOR'S TALE is a dazzling, four-billion-year pilgrimage to the origins of life: Richard Dawkins and Yan Wong take us on an exhilarating reverse journey through evolution, from present-day humans back to the microbial ... Read more

    $14.99 AUD

  • Otherlands

    A World in the Making - A Sunday Times bestseller

    by Thomas Halliday ...
    FOYLES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEARA SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERTHE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING - HIGHLY COMMENDEDLONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTIONA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE SUNDAY TIMES, TELEGRAPH, PROSPECT, THE NEW YORKER AND BBC HISTORYWATERSTONES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH'The best book on the history of life on Earth I have ev... ... Read more

    $16.99 AUD

  • The Microbiome Solution

    a radical new way to heal your body from the inside out

    by Robynne Chutkan, MD ...
    The author of Gutbliss and one of today’s preeminent gastroenterologists distils the latest research on the microbiome into a practical program for boosting overall health.The microbiome — the collective name for the trillions of bacteria that live in our gut — is today’s hottest medical topic. Synthesising the latest findings, Dr Robynne Chutkan explains how the standard Western diet and ... Read more

    $25.99 AUD