Animals Make Us Human by Leah Kaminsky; Meg Keneally
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Category: Nature and Science
Through words and images, writers, photographers and researchers reflect on their connection with animals and nature. They share moments of wonder and revelation from encounters in the natural world- seeing a wild platypus at play, an echidna dawdling across a bush track, or the inexplicable leap of a t ...Show more
Metazoa: Animal Minds and the Birth of Consciousness by Peter Godfrey-Smith
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Category: Nature and Science | Reading Level: very good
From the human being to the octopus, the shark to the humble sea squirt, all animals are physical beings made up entirely of cells. And yet they can think, to varying degrees. How did this come to be? How did a mind first grow from the matter that is the body? And at what stage did that clump of cells b ...Show more
Superlative - The Biology of Extremes by Matthew D. LaPlante
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Category: Nature and Science
2019 Foreword Indie Silver Award Winner for Science Welcome to the biggest, fastest, deadliest science book you'll ever read. The world's largest land mammal could help us end cancer. The fastest bird is showing us how to solve a century-old engineering mystery. The oldest tree is giving us insights i ...Show more
The Complete Field Guide to Dragonflies of Australia: Second Edition by Gunther Theischinger, John Hawking
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Category: Nature and Science
Dragonflies and damselflies are conspicuous insects: many are large and brightly coloured. They are also valuable indicators of environmental wellbeing. A detailed knowledge of the dragonfly fauna is therefore an important basis for decisions about environmental protection and management.This comprehens ...Show more
Photographic Guide to Birds of by Jim (Australian Museum) Flegg
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Category: Nature and Science | Series: Photographic Field Guide Ser.
This is a bird-identification guide with a difference. Instead of using colour plates of paintings to identify the species, it features photographs, covering all 840 bird species that live or visit the Australian continent. Following a brief introduction about bird biology, habitats and bird families, t ...Show more
The Little Book of Shells - A Guide to 100 Gems of Nature by M. G. Harasewych; Fabio Moretzsohn
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Category: Nature and Science | Series: The\Little Book Of Ser.
The Little Book of Shells introduces you to 75 exquisite examples from around the world.
Book of Wonders: How Euclid's Elements Built the World by Benjamin Wardhaugh
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Category: Nature and Science
Euclid's Elements of Geometry was a book that changed the world. In a sweeping history, Benjamin Wardhaugh traces how an ancient Greek text on mathematics – often hailed as the world's first textbook – shaped two thousand years of art, philosophy and literature, as well as science and maths. Thirteen vo ...Show more
Blue: A Scientist's Search for Nature's Rarest Colour by Kai Kupferschmidt
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Category: Nature and Science
A globe-trotting quest to find blue in the natural world--and to understand our collective obsession with this captivating colorSearch human history and you'll quickly conclude that we've been enamored of blue at least since the pharaohs. So, it's startling to turn to the realms of nature and discover t ...Show more
100 Dives of a Lifetime - The World's Ultimate Underwater Destinations by Carrie Miller; Brian Skerry
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Category: Nature and Science
Filled with more than 350 images from National Geographic, 100 Dives of a Lifetime provides the ultimate bucket list for ardent scuba divers and aspirational travelers alike. From diving with manta rays at night in Kona, Hawaii, and swimming with hammerheads of Cocos Island in Costa Rica to exploring ca ...Show more
This Is Your Mind On Plants: Opium-Caffeine-Mescaline by Michael Pollan
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Category: Nature and Science | Reading Level: very good
Of all the many things humans rely on plants for, surely the most curious is our use of them to change consciousness- to stimulate, calm, or completely alter, the qualities of our mental experience. In This Is Your Mind On Plants, Michael Pollan explores three very different drugs - opium, caffeine, and ...Show more
The Seven Ages of Death: A Forensic Pathologist's Journey Through Life by Dr Richard Shepherd
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Category: Nature and Science
Forensic pathologist and bestselling author of Unnatural Causes, Dr Richard Shepherd, brings his unparalleled honesty and insight to a new book about life and death.This book is about death, but in it I will take readers on a journey through life... How can death tell us about life? Conducting many thou ...Show more
Why You Should Give a F*ck About Farming by Gabrielle Chan
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Category: Nature and Science
'Australia has no national food security policy. No national agriculture policy. We know what has been going on with water allocations and there is still no national response. Those with the means and access shop at farmer's market and order their brunch referring to the origins of their eggs, bacon, bu ...Show more