The Frog with Self-Cleaning Feet - And Other Extraordinary Tales from the Animal World by Michael Bright
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Category: Nature and Science
Wild animals do the most extraordinary things. Some are exceptionally bright, use tools and solve complex problems. Others are devious: they cheat, steal and run protection rackets. There are animals with enormous appetites and those that self-medicate. In this fascinating collection author and film-mak ...Show more
The Climate Cure: Solving the Climate Emergency in the Era of COVID-19 by Tim Flannery
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Category: Nature and Science
Australians are witnessing an unprecedented government response to crisis-swift decisive action to avert catastrophe. And the advice of scientists has informed every step of the way. But for decades the advice of scientists on the impending catastrophe that climate change will bring has been ignored, di ...Show more
Vesper Flights - New and Collected Essays by Helen Macdonald
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Category: Nature and Science | Reading Level: very good
Animals don't exist to teach us things, but that is what they have always done, and most of what they teach us is what we think we know about ourselves. From the internationally acclaimed author of H is for Hawk comes Vesper Flights, a transcendent collection of essays about the human relationship to th ...Show more
Innate - How the Wiring of Our Brains Shapes Who We Are by Kevin J. Mitchell
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Category: Nature and Science
A leading neuroscientist explains why your personal traits are more innate than you think What makes you the way you are--and what makes each of us different from everyone else? In Innate, leading neuroscientist and popular science blogger Kevin Mitchell traces human diversity and individual difference ...Show more
Guide to the Manta and Devil Rays of the World by Guy Stevens; Daniel Fernando; Marc Dando; Giuseppe Notarbartolo Di Sciara
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Category: Nature and Science | Series: Wild Nature Press Ser.
Manta and devil rays are some of the most intriguing creatures in the ocean. Driven forward by powerful beats of wing-like pectoral fins, these filter feeders search the waters for prey, their horn-like head fins giving rise to ancient mariners' tales of fearsome devilfish dragging boats into the ocean ...Show more
A Most Interesting Problem: What Darwin's Descent of Man Got Right and Wrong about Human Evolution by Jeremy Desilva (Editor) Janet Browne (Foreward)
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Category: Nature and Science
Leading scholars take stock of Darwin's ideas about human evolution in the light of modern science In 1871, Charles Darwin published The Descent of Man, a companion to Origin of Species in which he attempted to explain human evolution, a topic he called 'the highest and most interesting problem for the ...Show more
Astronomy 2021 Australia - Your Guide to the Night Sky by Peter Northfield Glenn Dawes
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Category: Nature and Science
Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape by Cal Flyn
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Category: Nature and Science
‘Meticulous research, lyrical writing … A book that goes to the eeriest, most desolate places on Earth and finds hope' LOUISE GRAY This is a book about abandoned places: exclusion zones, no man's lands, ghost towns and post-industrial hinterlands – and what nature does when we're not there to see it. ...Show more
Explaining Humans by Camilla Pang
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Category: Nature and Science
Diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder at the age of eight, Dr Camilla Pang struggled to understand the world around her. Desperate for a solution, Camilla asked her mother if there was an instruction manual for humans that she could consult. But, without the blueprint to life she was hoping for, Camil ...Show more
Coral Reefs: A Natural History by Charles Sheppard
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Category: Nature and Science
Corals are among the most varied lifeforms on Earth, ranging from mushroom corals and leather corals to button polyps, sea fans, anemones, and pulse corals. Bridging the gap between plant and animal, these marine invertebrates serve as homes to reef fish and share symbiotic relationships with photosynth ...Show more
Insectpedia: A Brief Compendium of Insect Lore by Eric R. Eaton
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Category: Nature and Science | Series: Pedia Bks.
A fun and fact-filled A–Z treasury for the insect lover in all of us.Insectpedia introduces you to the wonders of the insect world while inviting you to make discoveries of your own. Featuring dozens of entries on topics ranging from murder hornets and the 'insect apocalypse' to pioneering entomologists ...Show more
The Cloudspotter's Guide by Gavin Pretor-Pinney
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Category: Nature and Science | Reading Level: very good
'The clouds are nature's poetry, and the most egalitarian of her displays, since everyone has an equally fantastic view of them. Clouds are for dreamers, and their contemplation benefits the soul. Yet their beauty is so everyday as to be in danger of being overlooked ...' Gavin Pretor Pinney is the chai ...Show more