Summer Reading Guide 2024: Science, Nature & Gardening

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Big Garden Design

Paul Bangay, Simon Griffiths (photog.)

A garden that cannot be seen in one glance entices people to step outside with a sense of wonder. Landscape designer Paul Bangay has an extraordinary ability to envisage scale…

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The Natural Gardener

Richard Unsworth, Nicholas Watt (photog.)

Advice and inspiration for wildening your garden

$59.99 $49.99

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The Tree Atlas

Lonely Planet, Matthew Collins, Thomas Rutter

Discover 50 remarkable trees around the world in this stunning atlas, from Australia's towering mountain ash, to New England's flaming maples, and Namibia's quirky quiver tree. Packed with lavish photography…

$70.00 $59.99

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Enchantment by Birds

Russell McGregor

A fresh appreciation of the magic of birds and how watching them fulfils a human need to connect with nature.

$39.99

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Nexus

Yuval Noah Harari

From renowned historian and #1 Sunday Times bestselling author Yuval Noah Harari comes the story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world

$39.99 $32.99

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Why Are We Like This?

Zoe Kean

An exhilarating scientific journey, Why Are We Like This? takes us behind the scenes of the evolutionary paradoxes that make up life on this planet.

$32.99

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Let’s Tax Carbon

Ross Garnaut

A new path for Australia, as laid out by eminent economist and author of the bestselling Superpower

$36.99

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The Serviceberry

Robin Wall Kimmerer

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Braiding Sweetgrass, an inspiring vision of how to reorient our lives around gratitude, reciprocity and community

$32.99

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Wonders in the Deep

Mensun Bound, Mark Frary

An awe-inspiring deep-dive into the treasures found on the sea floor and what they reveal about our past.

$49.99 $39.99

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The Best Australian Science Writing 2024

Jackson Ryan (ed.), Carl Smith (ed.)

The finest voices in Australian science writing.

$32.99

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Health: Spirit, Country and Culture (First Knowledges)

Shawana Andrews, Fiona Stanley, Sandra Eades

What do you need to know to prosper as a people for 65,000 years or more? The First Knowledges series provides a deep understanding of the expertise, wisdom and ingenuity…

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Hour of the Heart

Irvin D. Yalom, Benjamin Yalom

For any fans of Dr Yalom's work, and for therapists and for those in training, Hour of the Heart is a collection of deeply moving personal stories that will tap…

$29.99

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Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t Pay Attention

Johann Hari

Why have we lost our ability to focus? What are the causes? And, most importantly, how do we get it back?

$32.99 $14.99

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The Body Illustrated

Bill Bryson

The Body Illustrated will have you marvelling at the form you occupy, and celebrating the genius of your existence, time and time again.

$65.00 $19.99

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The Genetic Book of the Dead

Richard Dawkins, Jana Lenzová (illus.)

From one of the world's great science writers, a book that explores the deepest principles of evolutionary history.

$49.99 $44.99

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The Knowledge Gene

Lynne Kelly

Drawing on a major discovery with tremendous implications, an Australian researcher uncovers the source of human creativity and learning in the functioning of a supergene she calls the knowledge gene.

$36.99

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Wild Science

Helen P. Waudby (ed.)

What's it like to study polar bears in the wild? How do you raise children among large carnivores? And how do you find a frog that no-one has seen for…

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