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The Mammoth Book of Space Exploration and Disaster
In the words of those who trod the void and those at mission control, here are over 50 of the greatest true stories of suborbital, orbital and deep-space exploration. From...
Visions of the World: A History of Maps
Taking in cartography from all over the globe, "Visions of the World" charts the exploration and mapping of the planet - from before the age of printing to modern satellite...
Astronomy 2024 Australia: Your Guide to the Night Sky
This annual gem (produced each year since 1991) continues to take the Australian stargazer on a wondrous journey of the night sky. This critically acclaimed work, produced by three well...
Man Against Nature: Firsthand Accounts of Adventure and Exploration
The forty-five tales in Man Against Nature cover an extraordinary range of time and terrain.
A Short History of the World in 50 Places
$12.00 AUD
Discover the most impactful and incredible episodes from human history, from the prehistoric era to the early twenty-first century, through fifty of the most surprising and often less well-known places...
Minerals: Their Constitution and Origin
The new edition of this popular textbook, once again, provides an indispensable guide for the next generation of mineralogists. Designed for use on one- or two-semester courses, this second edition...
A Short History of Humanity: How Migration Made Us Who We Are
An international bestseller, covering 2 million years of human history in 250 pages, which proves that migration has always been essential to our survival. Humanity has often found itself on...
Trickster Travels: A Sixteenth-Century Muslim Between Worlds
Captured by Christian pirates in the Mediterranean and imprisoned by the Pope, then released, baptized, and allowed a European life of scholarship as the Christian writer Giovanni Leone, Al-Hasan al-Wazzan...
Handbook of CCD Astronomy
Charge-Coupled Devices (CCDs) are the state-of-the-art detector in many fields of observational science. Updated to include all of the latest developments in CCDs, this second edition of the Handbook of...
The New Cosmic Story: Inside Our Awakening Universe
A foremost thinker on science and religion argues that an adequate understanding of cosmic history requires attention to the emergence of interiority, including religious aspiration Over the past two centuries...
Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilisation
Bringing his cosmic perspective to civilization on Earth, Neil deGrasse Tyson, bestselling author of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry , shines new light on the crucial fault lines of...
Stonehenge: Neolithic Man and the Cosmos
There have been many attempts to explain the purpose of Stonehenge. Using archaelogical detail and a knowledge of the heavens as they were many millennia ago, North establishes the function...
Reinhold Messner: My Life at the Limit
$12.00 AUD
'- Reveals the long view from an icon who, with age, has added wisdom to his list of accomplishments - Messner climbing firsts: the world's fourteen peaks taller than 8000...
American Scientific Library (23 Vols.)
$200.00 AUD
Author: VariousBinding: HardbackPublished: American Scientific LibraryCondition:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerThe American Scientific Library is a landmark series that distills the wonders...
U.S.S. Enterprise Owners' Workshop Manual: 2151 onwards (NX-01,
The Starship Enterprise gets the Haynes treatment! This fascinating Haynes Manual features cutaway drawings, technical illustrations and photographs along with comprehensive background information and specifications on the technology used on...
Exploring The Southern West Sky: A Pictorial Atlas From The European Southern Observatory (Eso)
$20.00 AUD
Author: Svend Laustsen, Claus Madsen, Richard M. WestBinding: HardbackPublished: Springer-Verlag, 1987Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Light wear and minor rip...
The Individual And The Universe
$20.00 AUD
Author: A. C. B. LovellBinding: HardbackPublished: Oxford University Press, 1959Condition:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThe Individual And The Universe presents a profound scientific and...
Star Voyager:Exploring Space on Screen
STAR VOYAGER: EXPLORING SPACE ON SCREEN is a book that celebrates the history and future of space exploration through the moving image. Originally published in conjunction with the exhibition of...
Conservation and Biodiversity
This work provides an overview of the scientific issues involved in preserving the variety of ecosystems on the planet. Beginning with a discussion of the scientific and economic principles relevant...
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin: An Autobiography And Other Recollections
$90.00 AUD
Author: Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin; Katherine HaramundanisBinding: HardbackPublished: Cambridge University Press, 1984Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThis compelling autobiography, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin: An Autobiography And Other Recollections, chronicles the extraordinary life...
The Primacy of Doubt: From Quantum Physics to Climate Change, How the
$17.50 AUD
"Quite possibly the best popular science book I've ever read" ( Popular Science ) shows how the tools that enabled us to overcome the uncertainty of the weather will enable...
Oxford Bible Atlas
This new edition of the Oxford Bible Atlas, now with full-colour maps and illustrations, has been thoroughly revised to bring it up to date with regard both to biblical scholarship...
Mapping the World
Mapping the World takes you on a journey through the history of cartography and is essentially a history of the world and how its territories were discovered and explored. Maps...
The Crown Of The Road: The Story Of The RACV
$15.00 AUD
Author: Susan PriestleyBinding: HardbackPublished: Four Winds Press, 1977Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThis compelling non-fiction work chronicles humanity's enduring fascination with life beyond our planet, presenting a comprehensive...
Precious: The History and Mystery of Gems Across Time
World-renowned gemmologist, Helen Molesworth traces the journey of gems, showing how their remarkable stories are a sparkling new way of exploring the history of humanity. 'A gem of a book'...
Rocket Dreams: Musk, Bezos, and the Inside Story of the New,
A fleet of modern rockets among the most powerful in the world. A lunar land rush that has sparked a competition over the strategic high ground. Scientific discoveries that could...
Pinpoint: How GPS is Changing Our World
Over the last fifty years, humanity has developed an extraordinary global utility which is omnipresent, universal, and available to all. Neither the internet nor the cloud would work without the...
The Birth Of Time: How We Measured The Age Of The Universe
$12.00 AUD
Author: John GribbinBinding: PaperbackPublished: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1999Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis compelling work of popular science chronicles humanity's quest to...
The Hidden Universe
$15.00 AUD
Author: Michael DisneyBinding: HardbackPublished: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1984Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThe academic work The Hidden Universe by Michael Disney presents a compelling journey into the...
Abalone Pioneers: The untold stories of the Victorian Western Zone
Abalone Pioneers is the Australian story of the divers, deckhands, researchers and processors who established and developed the zone's abalone industry, from the amateur fishermen of the 1950s and the...
A School Atlas Of Astronomy
$150.00 AUD
Author: Alex. Keith JohnstonBinding: HardbackPublished: William Blackwood and Sons, 1856Condition:Book: AcceptableJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: [RARE] - Spine...
The Moon: A Visitor's Guide
Discover everything you need to know about the Moon in this entertaining visitor's guide! What's this floating high in the starry sky? We call it the Moon. But has it...
Into the Blue: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before
$10.00 AUD
Captain James Cook's three epic journeys between 1768 and 1779 were the last great voyages of discovery. Sailing some 170,000 miles, Cook's ships reached every continent and every ocean, from...
Otherlands: A World in the Making
A dazzlingly original, lyrical and epic encounter with the Earth as it used to be This is the past as we've never seen it before. Otherlands is an epic, exhilarating...
Ancient Australian Landscapes
Some parts of the Australian landscape are more than 100 million years old. The dinosaurs roamed a land in which Kakadu, the Macdonnell and Flinders ranges, the Arcoona Plateau and...
The Fifth Essence: Search for Dark Matter in the Universe
Zobi and the Zoox: A Story of Coral Bleaching
With her home under threat from a warming ocean, Zobi, a brave rhizobia bacterium, teams up with a family of slow but steady Zoox (zooxanthellae). As the coral bleaches, everyone...
Astrology by Moonlight: Exploring the Relationship Between Moon Phases
$12.00 AUD
Written as a unification of Eastern and Western approaches, Astrology by Moonlight presents a fresh look at the Moon and how its eight phases interact with every sign and planetary...
Amazing Ecosystems: A Journey Through Our Planet's Spectacular Ecology
Over millions of years, countless animals, plants, fungi and other forms of life evolved together to form complexecosystems in each habitat type. Today, each resulting ecosystem of our world comprises...
The Big Book of the Ocean
Covering around 70 per cent of our planet's surface and home to more than 200,000 known species, the world's oceans are vital to life on Earth. However, despite producing around...
The Rivers and Wetlands of the Murray-Darling Basin
This book seeks to awaken a new generation to the wonders of the Murray-Darling Basin; to explore its heart and soul as we connect with its ancient history, First Nation...
Living Landscapes Vol. 2: A Journey Through Australia's Rich and
This book illustrates and celebrates Australia's vibrant cultural diversity as we visit islands of the Torres Strait to the sea cliffs of the Great Australian Bight. Through the insight and...
Australia's Amazing Islands
The Australian mainland is surrounded by over 8,000 islands, islets and rock stacks.Each of these offers unique habitats for animals and plants, which has driven the evolution of thousands of...