Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain by Antonio Damasio
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Category: Nature and Science
Explores two questions that have haunted philosophers, neurologists, cognitive scientists and psychologists for centuries: how do brains construct minds, and how do minds become conscious? This work presents scientific evidence that consciousness - what we think of as self - is in fact a biological proc ...Show more
The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard
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Category: Nature and Science | Reading Level: good-very good
A beloved multidisciplinary treatise comes to Penguin Classics Rare is the work of philosophy that invites both the casual reader and the academic. Rare, too, is the text so universal that luminaries across an array of fields lay claim to it. Yet, that is precisely the case with Gaston Bachelard’s The P ...Show more
Toxic: The Rotting Underbelly of the Tasmanian Salmon Industry by Richard Flanagan
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Category: Nature and Science
Is Tasmanian salmon one big lie? In a triumph of marketing, the Tasmanian salmon industry has for decades succeeded in presenting itself as world’s best practice and its product as healthy and clean, grown in environmentally pristine conditions. What could be more appealing than the idea of Atlantic sal ...Show more
Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Absolutely Everything by Jordan Ellenberg
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Category: Nature and Science
How should a democracy choose its representatives? How does Covid-19 spread? How do computers teach themselves chess, and why is chess easier for them than analyzing a sentence? What should your kids study in school if they really want to learn to think? All of these are questions about geometry. Seriou ...Show more
The Hidden Life of Trees (Illustrated Edition) by Peter Wohlleben
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Category: Nature and Science
In his international bestseller, The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben opened readers? eyes to the wonders and amazing processes at work in the forest. Now this new, breathtakingly illustrated edition brings those wonders to life like never before. With compelling selections from the original book a ...Show more
Nature's Temples: A Natural History of Old-Growth Forests Revised and Expanded by Joan Maloof
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Category: Nature and Science
An impassioned case for the importance of ancient forests and their preservation Standing in an old-growth forest, you can instinctively sense the ways it is different from forests shaped by humans. These ancient, undisturbed ecosystems are increasingly rare and largely misunderstood. Nature's Templ ...Show more
The Leaf Supply Guide to Creating Your Indoor Jungle by Lauren Camilleri, Sophia Kaplan
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Category: Nature and Science
This book is a luxurious guide to creating the very densest of jungles in your living room. It's time to finally turn that thumb green. With this stunningly photographed greenery guide, anyone can master the art of making your living room thrive. When done correctly, curating any decent houseplant can b ...Show more
Green Guide: Crocodiles of Australia by Webb Grahame
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Category: Nature and Science | Series: Green Guide Ser.
This will be popular with crocodile enthusiasts of all ages, from primary school students studying reptiles to adults interested in natural history or the tourist visiting one of the crocodile parks or river cruises in NT, Far North Qld or WA (the contact and location details are in the book).
A Brief Welcome to the Universe: A Pocket-Sized Tour by Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michael A. Strauss, J. Richard Gott
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Category: Nature and Science
A pocket-style edition based on the New York Times bestseller A Brief Welcome to the Universe offers a breathtaking tour of the cosmos, from planets, stars, and galaxies to black holes and time loops. Bestselling authors and acclaimed astrophysicists Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michael A. Strauss, and J. Richa ...Show more
Below the Edge of Darkness: A Memoir of Exploring Light and Life in the Deep Sea by Edith Widder
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Category: Nature and Science
An exhilarating underwater exploration for readers wanting to recapture their sense of wonder Edith Widder grew up wanting to become a marine biologist. But after complications from surgery caused her to go temporarily blind while at university, she became fascinated by light, and her focus turned to bi ...Show more