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  • Minds Make Societies

    How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create

    by Pascal Boyer ...
    A scientist integrates evolutionary biology, genetics, psychology, economics, and more to explore the development and workings of human societies.“There is no good reason why human societies should not be described and explained with the same precision and success as the rest of nature.” Thus argues evolutionary psychologist Pascal Boyer in this uniquely innovative book.Integrating recent insights ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD $1.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Venomous

    How Earth's Deadliest Creatures Mastered Biochemistry

    “Enthralling . . . a gripping read that offers a remarkably broad and in-depth look into the evolution and impact of Earth’s deadliest creatures.” ―Josh Goller, Spectrum CultureIn Venomous, the biologist Christie Wilcox investigates and illuminates the animals of our nightmares, arguing that they hold the keys to a deeper understanding of evolution, adaptation, and immunity. She reveals just how ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD $1.99 AUD

  • Exactly: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2018Bestselling author Simon Winchester writes a magnificent history of the pioneering engineers who developed precision machinery to allow us to see as far as the moon and as close as the Higgs boson.Precision is the key to everything. It is an integral, unchallenged and essential component of our modern social, mercantile, scientific, ... Read more

    $17.99 AUD $5.99 AUD

  • The Planets

    Photographs from the Archives of NASA

    “Might be just the book to bring out your inner astronomer . . . over 250 pages of breathtaking images from the past 50 years of NASA’s space exploration.” —ParadePreface by Bill NyeThis magnificent volume offers a rich visual tour of the planets in our solar system. More than two-hundred breathtaking photographs from the archives of NASA are paired with extended captions detailing the science ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD $1.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Periodic Tale

    My Sciencey memoir, the life-long experiment of Australia's favourite science champion Dr Karl Kruszelnicki, for fans of David Attenborough, Adam Spencer and Brian Cox

    How did a shy Polish immigrant kid - Karl Sven Woytek Sas Konkovitch Matthew Kruszelnicki - evolve into the fabulously eccentric Dr Karl?The only child of Holocaust survivors who fled to Australia in 1950, Karl has always forged his own destiny in an idiosyncratic way. Before he became one of the world's favourite scientific storytellers, he ambled through a convoluted cacophony of a career.In the ... Read more

    $16.99 AUD $4.99 AUD

  • The Emperor of All Maladies

    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

    $17.99 AUD $5.99 AUD

  • Mr and Mrs Gould

    The extraordinary true story about the life of Australia's greatest naturalists and explorers, from the award winning bestselling author and LONGLISTED FOR THE INDIE BOOK AWARDS 2025

    **The grand story of the famous 'Birdman' John Gould and his talented wife Elizabeth, who revealed the astonishing world of Australian birds and wildlife in one of the most important naturalist expeditions in history - f**rom the bestselling author of Sister Viv, Flinders, Banks, Mrs Kelly and The Remarkable Mrs Reibey.Longlisted for the Indie Book Awards 2025John and Elizabeth Gould sailed into . ... Read more

    $19.99 AUD $5.99 AUD

  • The Corinthian

    The novel begins with Sir Richard contemplating a dreary future of societal expectations and a loveless engagement. On a fateful night, he encounters Penelope, who is disguised as a boy and attempting to run away to avoid marrying her cousin. Feeling an unexpected kinship and a desire for adventure, Sir Richard agrees to help her. What ensues is a rollicking journey across the countryside filled ... Read more

    $1.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sapiens

    A Brief History of Humankind: The multi-million copy bestseller

    'Interesting and provocative... It gives you a sense of how briefly we've been on this Earth' Barack ObamaWhat makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens?One of the world's preeminent historians and thinkers, Yuval Noah Harari challenges everything we know about being human.Earth is 4.5 billion years old. In just a fraction of that time, one species among countless others has ... Read more

    $18.99 AUD

  • The Knowledge Gene

    The incredible story of the supergene that gives us human creativity

    by Lynne Kelly ...
    Drawing on a major discovery with tremendous implications, an Australian researcher uncovers the source of human creativity and learning in the functioning of a supergene she calls the knowledge gene.Over 500,000 years ago, a single gene mutated. It spread over time, becoming critical in the journey that transformed our earliest ancestors into fully modern humans, capable of navigating the entire ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD $4.99 AUD

  • The Art of Racing in the Rain

    by Garth Stein ...
    Soon to be a major motion picture, this heart-warming and inspirational tale follows Enzo, a loyal family dog, tells the story of his human family, how they nearly fell apart, and what he did to bring them back together.Enzo knows he is different from other dogs: he thinks and feels in nearly human ways. He has educated himself by watching extensive television, and by listening very closely to the ... Read more

    $7.99 AUD

  • The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science

    by Dava Sobel ...
    Dava Sobel, acclaimed and bestselling author of Longitude, chronicles the life and work of the most famous woman in the history of science – and the untold story of the young women who trained in her laboratory.‘A fresh and feminist study of the pioneering Nobel laureate reveals her impact on the women she mentored and set on the path to prominence’ Observer‘It is a novel lens through which to ... Read more

    $14.99 AUD $4.99 AUD

  • Dune

    The inspiration for the blockbuster film

    by Frank Herbert ...
    Series Book 34 - S.F. MASTERWORKS
    What The Lord of the Rings is to fantasy, Dune is to science fiction. Presenting one of the most influential works 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.'An astonishing science fiction phenomenon' WASHINGTON POST'I know nothing comparable to it except The Lord of the Rings' Arthur C ... Read more

    $11.99 AUD

  • The Great Dune Trilogy

    Dune, Dune Messiah, Children of Dune

    by Frank Herbert ...
    Three of the greatest SF novels in the world in one bumper omnibus, and the inspiration for the spectacular cinematic events Dune: Part One and Dune: Part Two.'An astonishing science fiction phenomenon' WASHINGTON POST'I know nothing comparable to it except The Lord of the Rings' Arthur C ClarkeHerbert's evocative, epic tales are set on the desert planet Arrakis, the focus for a complex pol... ... Read more

    $32.99 AUD

  • Bad Blood

    Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

    **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 $4.99 AUD

  • A City on Mars

    Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?

    WINNER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY TRIVEDI SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2024ONE OF THE TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW SCIENTIST BEST SCIENCE BOOKS OF THE YEAR**GUARDIAN BEST SCIENCE AND NATURE BOOK 2024A HUGO AWARD WINNER FOR BEST RELATED WORK 2024THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERTHE #2 MOST GIFTED BOOK IN THE SOLAR SYSTEMFrom the bestselling authors of Soonish, a brilliant and hilarious off-world investigation into space ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD $16.99 AUD

  • Walking in the Woods

    Go back to nature with the Japanese way of shinrin-yoku

    'It is clear that our bodies still recognize nature as our home...' - Yoshifumi Miyazaki'Forest bathing' or shinrin-yoku is a way of walking in the woods that was developed in Japan in the 1980s. It brings together ancient ways and wisdom with cutting edge environmental health science.Simply put, forest bathing is the practice of walking slowly through the woods, in no hurry, for a morning, an ... Read more

    $12.99 AUD

  • Treasure Island A Fossicker's Guide to Australia

    Geology is everywhere, never dull and always scenic -you just need a sense of adventure and wonder.Treasure Island - A fossicker's guide to Australia is a treasure trove foranyone keen to learn more about geology, minerals, gems and fossils. Throughinspirational commentary, marvellously illustrated maps and photography, itexplores over eight different areas across Australia including over 50 ... Read more

    $10.99 AUD

  • Under Full Sail

    by Rob Mundle ...
    How the mighty clipper ships transformed Australia from convict outpost to a nation.More than one million Australians can trace their heritage to the migrant ships of the mid-to-late 19th century...The story of the Clipper ships, and the tens of thousands of migrants they bought to the Australian colony of the nineteenth century, is one of the world's great migration stories. For anyone who ... Read more

    $16.99 AUD

  • The World Without Us

    by Alan Weisman ...
    Revised Edition with New Afterword from the AuthorTime #1 Nonfiction Book of the YearFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle AwardOver 3 million copies sold in 35 Languages"On the day after humans disappear, nature takes over and immediately begins cleaning house - or houses, that is. Cleans them right off the face of the earth. They all go."What if mankind disappeared... ... Read more

    $18.99 AUD

  • The Invisible Universe

    Why There's More to Reality than Meets the Eye

    From the discovery of entirely new kinds of galaxies to a window into cosmic ‘prehistory’, Bothwell shows us the Universe as we’ve never seen it before – literally.Since the dawn of our species, people all over the world have gazed in awe at the night sky. But for all the beauty and wonder of the stars, when we look with just our eyes we are seeing and appreciating only a tiny fraction of the ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD

  • Termites in the Canberra Region

    by JAL Watson ...
    This second edition reflects the changing emphasis in termite identification and control. The first step in coping with termites is still the location and treatment of their nests but there is greater emphasis on barrier treatments to exclude them from buildings, and the need to install barriers during construction no matter where the building is sited.This book is well illustrated with black and ... Read more

    $28.99 AUD

  • Life As Told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal

    A New Scientist Book of the YearPrehistory is all around us. We just need to know where to look.Juan José Millás 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 Arsuaga, one of the world’s leading palaeontologists and a super-smart ... Read more

    $25.99 AUD

  • Fermat’s Last Theorem

    by Simon Singh ...
    ‘I have a truly marvellous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.’It was with these words, written in the 1630s, that Pierre de Fermat intrigued and infuriated the mathematics community. For over 350 years, proving Fermat’s Last Theorem was the most notorious unsolved mathematical problem, a puzzle whose basics most children could grasp but whose solution ... Read more

    $18.99 AUD