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Abbey's Science Central

Science Books

SCIENCE CENTRAL represents the vast science book catalogue at Abbey's Bookshop, 131 York Street, Sydney.

We are Australia's specialist bookstore for science: Medical, Mathematics, Geoscience, Geology, Geography (all the Gs), Biology, Technology, Engineering, Physics, Astronomy, Chemistry, IT - wherever your reading or research interests take you, we have books sourced from publishers large and small, and from university presses across the globe.

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BOOKS WRITTEN BY HUMANS ABOUT AI

PROMPT: Using a humorous tone, write one short paragraph explaining that we have many books written by humans available to read about the rise of AI but AI is as yet unable to say when AI will be popping around to clean your bathroom.

RESPONSE: "We’ve got shelves groaning under the weight of books written by humans about the rise of AI — everything from thrilling predictions to “should we be worried?” bedtime reads — but rest assured, AI itself still has no idea when it will be turning up to scrub your bathroom tiles. For now, the only thing AI reliably cleans up is your grammar, not your grout."

PROMPT: We actually want AI to clean our bathrooms to save us humans from this burden. Can you revise it to reflect that unfortunately AI can't help with that.

RESPONSE: "Our shelves are packed with human-written books about the rise of AI — thoughtful essays, bold predictions, even the odd doomsday scenario — but sadly not a single one tells us when AI will finally roll up its sleeves and clean the bathroom. For now, despite all the hype, AI can write you a 5,000-word essay on the philosophy of soap but won’t actually pick up a sponge, leaving us poor humans still scrubbing away."

PROMPT: Um, Any idea when AI will be able to clean my bathroom?

RESPONSE: "Not just yet, unfortunately! Right now AI lives mostly in screens and servers, which makes it brilliant at crunching words, numbers, and cat videos—but terrible at wielding a toilet brush. For AI to clean your bathroom, it needs a physical body: think advanced robotics with dexterous hands, strong arms, and the ability to tell the difference between bleach and toothpaste. Companies like Boston Dynamics and Dyson are inching toward robots that can handle household chores, but “bathroom deep-cleaner” is still a few technological leaps away. My best guess? Maybe in the next 10–20 years—but until then, it’s still on your chore list.

Want me to give you a lighthearted “future ad” for the first AI bathroom-cleaning robot?"


PROMPT: Sure. I'll be scrubbing this toilet bowl while you enjoy your wordsmithery.

RESPONSE: "Tired of negotiating peace treaties with soap scum? Exhausted from hand-to-hand combat with your shower grout? Fear not! The ScrubBot 3000™ is the world’s first AI-powered bathroom-cleaning companion—able to detect toothpaste splatter at three meters, identify 47 species of mildew, and politely remind you that three empty shampoo bottles do not count as interior design. Powered by cutting-edge robotics and a questionable sense of smell, ScrubBot 3000™ doesn’t just clean your bathroom—it silently judges your life choices while doing it."

*slow hand-clap*

NATURE'S LAST DANCE: Tales of wonder in an age of extinction

Set against the backdrop of a rapidly unfolding mass extinction event, Nature’s Last Dance takes readers across hunting grounds, through jungles and oceans, inside communities, through courtrooms, and into the heart of battles to survive against all odds.

Award-winning environmentalist Natalie Kyriacou confronts the extinction crisis with courage and curiosity, charting a new course for nature and showing us why it is so worth fighting for.

Human / Nature: On life in a wild world

Several years ago, Jane Rawson packed up her beloved inner-city home and moved to the bush. Scared about what climate change would do to the big city, and keen to meet more animals, she found a new home in a cottage in the Huon Valley. But in a place where nature never really leaves you alone, she had to confront her uncomfortable relationship with the outdoors.

365+ Ways to Save the Planet and Your Money at the Same Time

Lottie Dalziel’s (founder of Banish and BRAD) book seeks to answer the questions that we all have – how to live well but with less impact on the planet, while saving money at the same time …

The Little Book of Cosmic Catastrophes

Dr Sara Webb shares her enthusiasm for the question: What, in the end, will signal the end of the world? It’s the question we all ponder, but what could actually happen?

Why are We Like This?

ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- Why do humans care? Why do we make love, have two sexes, get cancer, sleep, age, drink or have inner lives? These questions are intriguing and perpetual, and a whole lot of evolutionary biologists are exploring the answers. From whale strandings to peppermint stick insects, Tasmanian devils to epaulette sharks, great apes to jellyfish, the studies of different species are contributing to understanding life’s big questions – and ourselves. Engaging and stimulating science writing for the general reader.  Lindy

Living on Earth

Peter Godfrey-Smith delivers the eagerly anticipated conclusion to his three-part exploration of the origins of intelligence on Earth, which began with the bestselling Other Minds in 2018 and continued with Metazoa in 2020.

The scuba-diving philosopher examined the evolution of sentience in Other Minds and, in Metazoa, asked how that consciousness shaped and was shaped by animal bodies. Now, in Living on Earth, he takes that line of questioning a step further, asking, how has life shaped and been shaped by our planet?

IN HOT WATER

In this fascinating, candid and urgent book, Paul Hardisty dives into the history of the Great Barrier Reef and cuts through the rhetoric to chart the circumstances and acceleration of its decline, as well as the determined efforts to save it.

HUMPBACK HIGHWAY

Vanessa Pirotta, acclaimed wildlife scientist, has been mugged by whales, touched by a baby whale and covered in whale snot. In Humpback Highway, Pirotta dives beneath the surface to reveal the mysterious world of humpback whales — from their life cycle and the challenges humans present, to why whale snot and poo are important for us and the ocean. Plus the cutting-edge new technologies that allow us to see where they swim, listen to them talk and spy on them underwater.

DEEP WATER

James Bradley's Deep Water is a hymn to the beauty, mystery and wonder of the ocean. Weaving together science, history and personal experience, it offers vital new ways of understanding humanity's relationship with our planet, looking to our past and our future.



Science Books Highlights

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Why Do Birds Sing?

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Grainne Cleary

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Science Under Siege

how to fight the five most powerful...

Michael Mann

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Extinctions

How Life Survives, Adapts and Evolves...

Michael J. Benton

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How to Save the Internet

The Threat to Global Connection...

Nick Clegg

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The Atomic Human

Understanding Ourselves in the Age...

Neil D. Lawrence

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Dingo

The true story of Australia's most...

Roland Breckwoldt

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$34.99 

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The Weight of Nature

How a Changing Climate Changes Our...

Clayton Aldern

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Human Nature

nine ways to feel about our changing...

Kate Marvel

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Bird of the Year

A Celebration of the Birds of Aotearoa...

Forest and Bird NZ

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$40 

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Brave New Words

How AI Will Revolutionize Education...

Salman Khan

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$24.99 

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How To Think About AI

A Guide For The Perplexed

Richard Susskind

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$24.95 

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Planet Fungi

A Photographer's Foray

Catherine Marciniak

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$59.99 

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BBC Walking With Dinosaurs

Uncovering the Secret Stories of...

Andrew Cohen

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$55 

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Precious

The History and Mystery of Gems...

Helen Molesworth

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White Light

The Essential Element that Changed...

Jack Lohmann

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$39.99 

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Alien Earths

The Search for Life in the Cosmos...

Lisa Kaltenegger

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The Catalyst

RNA and the Quest to Unlock Life's...

Thomas R. Cech

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Birds, Sex and Beauty

The Extraordinary Implications of...

Matt Ridley

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The Unaccountability Machine

Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions...

Dan Davies

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$24.99 

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Our Oaken Bones

Reviving a Family, a Farm and Britain’s...

Merlin Hanbury-Tenison

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$49.99 

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Adaptable

The Surprising Science of Human...

Herman Pontzer

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$55 

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Every Living Thing

The Great and Deadly Race to Know...

Jason Roberts

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Plug In

The Electrification Handbook

Saul Griffith

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The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire

Why Our Species is on the Edge...

Henry Gee

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Breaking Through

A Memoir

Katalin Karikó

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The Ideological Brain

A Radical Science of Susceptible...

Leor Zmigrod

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These Strange New Minds

How AI Learned to Talk and What...

Christopher Summerfield

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$36.99 

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Going Nuclear

How the Atom Will Save the World...

Tim Gregory

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$36.99 

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Is a River Alive?

Robert Macfarlane

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$55 

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Ocean

Earth's Last Wilderness

Sir David Attenborough

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$34.99 

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The Shortest History of AI

Toby Walsh

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$27.99 

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Beyond Green

The Social Life of Australian Nature...

Lesley Head

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$39.99 

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The Meteorites

Encounters with Outer Space and...

Helen Gordon

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$39.99 

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Under a Metal Sky

A Journey Through Minerals, Greed...

Philip Marsden

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Carbon

The Book of Life

Paul Hawken

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$34.99 

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The Social Genome

The New Science of Nature and Nurture...

Dalton Conley

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$49.95 

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Against the Odds

Women Pioneers of Science

John Gribbin & Mary Gribbin

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$37.99 

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Sea Wonders

The Octopus, the Cuttlefish, and...

Marco Colombo

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$29.99 

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Human / Nature

On life in a wild world

Jane Rawson

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$34.99 

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Around the World in 80 Birds

Mike Unwin

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$32.99 

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The Secret Formula

How a Mathematical Duel Inflamed...

Fabio Toscano

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$34.99 

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Sound Affects

How Sound Shapes Our Lives, Our...

Julian Treasure

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$34.99 

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The Ancients

Discovering the world's oldest surviving...

Andrew Darby

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$34.99 

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Funga Obscura

Photo journeys among fungi

Alison Pouliot

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$49.99 

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Cosmic Bullsh*t

Chris Ferrie

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Everything Is Tuberculosis

The History and Persistence of Our...

John Green

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On this Ground

Best Australian Nature Writing

Dave Witty

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Fabulous Frogs

Katrina Germein

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$24.99 

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The Art of Physics

How ideas from science can transform...

Zahaan Bharmal

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Color in Nature

Justin Marshall

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$59.99 

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How to Survive History

Cody Cassidy

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$24.99 

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Seven Deadly Sins

The Biology of Being Human

Guy Leschziner

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$36.99 

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Living with Wildlife

A Guide for Our Homes and Backyards...

Tanya Loos

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$39.99 

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The Enlightenment's Most Dangerous Woman

Émilie du Châtelet and the Making...

Andrew Janiak

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$54.95 

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The Best Australian Science Writing 2024

Jackson Ryan

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$32.99 

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Why are We Like This?

An Evolutionary Search for Answers...

Zoe Kean

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Lunar

A History of the Moon in Myths,...

Matthew Shindell

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Eyes in the Sky

Space Telescopes from Hubble to...

Andrew May

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$25.99 

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DARK

An A to Z of the Cosmos

James Wilkins

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The Future Loves You

How and Why We Should Abolish Death...

Dr Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston

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A City on Mars

Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle...

Dr. Kelly Weinersmith

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100 Ways You Can Help Save The Planet

Earthtopia

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Finding Australian Birds

A Field Guide to Birding Locations...

Tim Dolby

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Human Peoples

On the Genetic Traces of Human Evolution,...

Lluís Quintana-Murci

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The Forgotten Sense

The New Science of Smell

Jonas Olofsson

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Cybersecurity

Politics, Governance and Conflict...

Damien Van Puyvelde (Leiden University, Netherlands)

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A Book of Noises

Notes on the Auraculous

Caspar Henderson

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The Hidden Language of Cats

Learn what your feline friend is...

Dr Sarah Brown

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The Serengeti Rules

The Quest to Discover How Life Works...

Sean B. Carroll

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How to Kill an Asteroid

The Real Science of Planetary Defense...

Robin George Andrews

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The Language of Trees

How Trees Make Our World, Change...

Katie Holten

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The Secret Lives of Numbers

A Global History of Mathematics...

Kate Kitagawa

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Birds as Individuals

Len Howard

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Underground Empire

How America Weaponized the World...

Henry Farrell

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$28.99 

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The Genetic Book of the Dead

A Darwinian Reverie

Richard Dawkins

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The New World on Mars

What We Can Create on the Red Planet...

Robert Zubrin

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$24.99 

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The Serviceberry

An Economy of Gifts and Abundance...

Robin Wall Kimmerer

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Peter Hitchcock

Defender of Forests: His Story Protecting...

Lorraine Cairnes

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The Botanists' Library

The most important botanical books...

Carolyn Fry

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How to Feed the World

A Factful Guide

Vaclav Smil

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$36.99 

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Wild Science

Unexpected Encounters When Working...

Helen P. Waudby

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$36.99 

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The Princeton Field Guide to Predatory Dinosaurs

Gregory S. Paul

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$59.99 

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Mr and Mrs Gould

The Extraordinary Adventurers Who...

Grantlee Kieza

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$49.99 

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The Secret Life of the Universe

An Astrobiologist's Search for the...

Nathalie A. Cabrol

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$34.99 

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The Little Book of Cosmic Catastrophes (That Could End...

What has happened • What can happen...

Dr Sara Webb

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Let's Tax Carbon

And Other Ideas for a Better Australia...

Ross Garnaut

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$36.99 

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Mapping the Darkness

The Visionary Scientists Who Unlocked...

Kenneth Miller

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$24.99 

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Into the Clear Blue Sky

The Path to Restoring Our Atmosphere...

Rob Jackson

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$55 

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Enchantment by Birds

A History of Birdwatching in 22...

Russell McGregor

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This Earthly Globe

A Venetian Geographer and the Quest...

Andrea di Robilant

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$34.99 

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The Elements of Marie Curie

How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path...

Dava Sobel

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In a Flight of Starlings

The Wonder of Complex Systems

Giorgio Parisi

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White Holes

Carlo Rovelli

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Material World

A Substantial Story of Our Past...

Ed Conway

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The Universe in a Box

A New Cosmic History

Andrew Pontzen

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Tardigrades

Nature's Toughest Survivors

Anne Morgan

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A Traveler’s Guide to the Stars

Les Johnson

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Saving the World

How Forests Inspired Global Efforts...

Brett M. Bennett

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Weather Science

How Meteorology Has Gone from Folklore...

Brian Clegg

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The Long History of the Future

Why tomorrow's technology still...

Nicole Kobie

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$39.99 

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The Universal History of Us

A 13.8 billion year tale from the...

Tim Coulson

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$39.99 

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Playing with Reality

How Games Shape Our World

Kelly Clancy

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$55 

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CLIMATE, CARBON & RENEWABLE

Knowledge, as always, is a powerful tool and citizens and corporate leaders are arming themselves with knowledge around the challenges of climate change. Books are at the forefront and we've compiled a search across our site for books on 'carbon, climate, renewables' bringing up over 700 titles. You will find books on all sides of the issues as the battle of ideas plays out.

Earth & Environmental Sciences

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The Britannias

An Island Quest

Alice Albinia

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$55 

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The Lost Rainforests of Britain

Guy Shrubsole

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$24.99 

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This is Planet Earth

Your ultimate guide to the world...

New Scientist

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$24.99 

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The Fires Next Time

Understanding Australia's Black...

Peter Christoff

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$35 

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Computing the Climate

How We Know What We Know About Climate...

Steve M. Easterbrook

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$49.95 

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Invisible Lines

Boundaries and Belts that Define...

Maxim Samson

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$45 

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Biomimetics

How Lessons from Nature can Transform...

Brian Clegg

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$25.99 

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The Catch

Australia's love affair with fishing...

Anna Clark

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Looking Up

The True Adventures of a Storm-Chasing...

Matthew Cappucci

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$32.99 

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Footprints in the Woods

The Secret Life of Forest and Riverbank...

Sir John Lister-Kaye

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$36.99 

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World Heritage Sites of Australia

2nd Edition

Peter Valentine

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$59.99 

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River of the Gods

Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in...

Candice Millard

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$39.99 

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Straits

Beyond the Myth of Magellan

Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

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$22.99 

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Mesozoic Art

Dinosaurs and Other Ancient Animals...

Steve White

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$59.99 

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Life as We Made It

How 50,000 years of human innovation...

Beth Shapiro

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$22.99 

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A Feeling for Nature

A Natural History Memoir - Notes...

Stanley Breeden

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$34.99 

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No Miracles Needed

How Today's Technology Can Save...

Mark Z. Jacobson

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$22.95 

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Living Planet

The Web of Life on Earth

David Attenborough

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$24.99 

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The Climate Cure

Solving the Climate Emergency in...

Tim Flannery

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$24.99 

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The Treeline

The Last Forest and the Future of...

Ben Rawlence

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$24.99 

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Life Sciences Books

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The Naked Neanderthal

Ludovic Slimak

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$42.99 

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Cave of Bones

A True Story of Discovery, Adventure,...

Lee Berger

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$36.99 

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How Life Works

A User’s Guide to the New Biology...

Philip Ball

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$36.99 

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Otherlands

A World in the Making

Thomas Halliday

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$24.99 

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The Evolution of Evolution

St George Jackson Mivart

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$19.95 

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Baby Brain

The surprising neuroscience of how...

Dr Sarah McKay

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$34.99 

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Ocean Life in the Time of Dinosaurs

Nathalie Bardet

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$49.99 

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Diprotodon

A Megafauna Journey

Bronwyn Saunders

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$24.99 

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Beyond DNA

How Epigenetics Is Transforming...

Benjamin Oldroyd

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$35 

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Sleeping Beauties

The Mystery of Dormant Innovations...

Andreas Wagner

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$39.99 

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Genes

A Very Short Introduction

Jonathan Slack

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$21.95 

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Still Life with Bones

Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains...

Alexa Hagerty

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$32.99 

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Being Human

How our biology shaped world history...

Lewis Dartnell

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$35 

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Sensational

A New Story of our Senses

Ashley Ward

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$45 

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Thylacine

The History, Ecology and Loss of...

Branden Holmes

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$59.99 

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Homo Sapiens Rediscovered

The Scientific Revolution Rewriting...

Paul Pettitt

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$49.99 

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DNA Demystified

Unravelling the Double Helix

Alan McHughen

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$94.95 

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Why Do Birds Do That?

Over fifty answers to the most often...

Grainne Cleary

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$34.99 

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Underground Lovers

Encounters with fungi

Alison Pouliot

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$29.99 

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Planktonia

The Nightly Migration of the Ocean's...

Erich Hoyt

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$45 

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Understanding Coronavirus

Raul Rabadan

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$37.95  $31.99

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Australian Falcons

Ecology, Behaviour and Conservation...

Stephen Debus

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$49.99 

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Medical Science Books

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Food for Life

Your Guide to the New Science of...

Tim Spector

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$27.99 

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The Facemaker

One Surgeon's Battle to Mend the...

Lindsey Fitzharris

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$24.99 

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Contraception

The Answers You've Been Looking...

Paula Briggs

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$22.95 

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From One Cell

A Journey into Life's Origins and...

Ben Stanger

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$67.95  $57.42

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The Plague Year

America in the Time of Covid

Lawrence Wright

Hardback

$45  $15

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Sounds Like Misophonia

How to Stop Small Noises from Causing...

Dr Jane Gregory

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$32.99 

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Fighting Fate

Justin Yerbury

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$34.99 

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The Laughter Effect

How to Build Joy, Resilience and...

Ros Ben-Moshe

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$32.99 

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You Called an Ambulance for What?

Tim Booth

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$36.99 

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Remember

The Science of Memory and the Art...

Lisa Genova

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$24.99 

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The Swedish Art of Ageing Well

life wisdom from someone who will...

Margareta Magnusson

Hardback

$29.99 

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Leadership Development for Interprofessional Education...

D. Forman

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$177.95  $10

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How Biology Works

The Facts Visually Explained

DK

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$37.99 

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Dark Winter

An Insider's Guide to Pandemics...

Raina MacIntyre

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$32.99 

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The Australian Autism Handbook

The Essential Guide to Parenting...

Benison O'Reilly

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$39.99 

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Hippocrates, Volume I

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