An Exquisite Legacy
An Exquisite Legacy is a compelling biography that delves deep into the life and achievements of George Vernon Hudson, one of New Zealand's most celebrated naturalist-artists. Written by his grandson, Dr George Gibbs, a prominent entomologist himself, this book offers an intimate and richly detailed portrait of Hudson's extraordinary dedication to the study and illustration of New Zealand’s insect fauna....Hardback$5999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowAn Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth
After returning to Earth following three remarkable spaceflights, Colonel Chris Hadfield shares his captivating memoir An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth. With almost 4,000 hours spent in space, Hadfield reveals not only extraordinary stories from his life as an astronaut but also invaluable lessons on making the impossible a reality, all with a fresh afterword exclusive to this edition....Paperback$2299Elsewhere:$2499Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowSoundings
Beautiful . . . Justifies its place alongside nature writing classics such as H is for Hawk — NEW STATESMAN Wonderful ... both frank and fearless — TELEGRAPH BEST TRAVEL BOOKS OF THE YEAR Fascinating — GUARDIAN TOP TEN NATURE MEMOIRS From Mexico to the Arctic ice, grey whale mothers swim with their calves. Following them, by bus, train and...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowExact Thinking in Demented Times
Albert Einstein's theory of relativity and the endeavours of Bertrand Russell and David Hilbert to establish the fundamental rules of mathematics inspired some of the most brilliant minds of their generation to convene in post-World War I Vienna. This assemblage, known as the Vienna Circle, consisted of intellectual giants like Kurt Gödel and Rudolf Carnap, who sought to advance the...Hardback$5999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowBattle for the Bird
On October 28th, hours after completing a $44 billion takeover of Twitter, Elon Musk tweeted to his millions of followers, "The bird is freed." Musk's takeover of Twitter was one of the most audacious and remarkable deals in tech history. The Battle for Twitter takes readers back to the very beginning and explores how we reached this point. It examines...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowSpaceman
Spaceman by Mike Massimino is a compelling memoir that takes readers on an extraordinary journey from the dreamscape of childhood fantasies to the curtains of outer space. It chronicles Massimino's evolution from a six-year-old entranced by Neil Armstrong's iconic moonwalk to a tenacious individual determined to break through NASA's barriers and actualize his aspirations. Massimino's path was fraught with challenges....Paperback$2299Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowFermat’s Last Theorem
The extraordinary story of the solving of a puzzle that has confounded mathematicians since the 17th century. The solution of Fermat’s Last Theorem is the most important mathematical development of the 20th century. In 1963, a schoolboy browsing in his local library stumbled across the world’s greatest mathematical problem: Fermat’s Last Theorem, a puzzle that every child can understand but...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowCritical
Immerse yourself in the gripping world of intensive care medicine with Critical by Dr. Matt Morgan, a poignant exploration of the highs and lows experienced within the ICU. In Critical, Dr. Matt Morgan takes readers on an unforgettable journey through the intensive care unit, sharing the deeply personal stories of the patients who have touched his life. The narrative elegantly...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowThe Telephone
One hundred and fifty years ago, the telephone burst onto the world stage like magic, a supernatural instrument bringing voices from afar. Instantly, the ability to speak across vast distances began to transform every part of life: from business organisation to military tactics, from news gathering to sex work. Telephones, though an extraordinary invention, became so ubiquitous - in offices...Paperback$3800Unit price /UnavailableOut 10 Nov 2026Pre-orderFull Throttle
A revolutionary pioneer of Australian rock, an emergency physician, and a decorated flight surgeon with the Marines – Deniz Tek is a man of many lives. In this raw yet reflective memoir, the Radio Birdman co-founder traces an improbable journey from his childhood in Ann Arbor, Michigan, to the high-intensity stages of Sydney's punk rock venues and the cockpit of...Paperback$4000Unit price /UnavailableOut 27 Oct 2026Pre-orderThe Weight of Witness
The Weight of Witness brings together the voices of Australian and New Zealand healthcare workers who have served in Gaza during the ongoing genocide, preserving frontline testimonies of courage, grief, humanity and resistance in the face of Israel’s devastation. This book bears witness to the horror and trauma that the people of Gaza have endured and to the deliberate destruction...Paperback$2999Elsewhere:$3700Unit price /UnavailableOut 6 Oct 2026Pre-orderOff the Charts
Stories full of infectious, hospital-grade humour and loads of heart, from Australia's favourite nurse. Showering in gumboots. Bomb threats. Tables of turds. Welcome to the life of a nurse. Nurses are our number-one unsung heroes. They're the ones in the trenches mopping up bodily fluids, holding hands, keeping things ticking - and always with a smile on their face. In...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksLine in the Sand
Dean Yates was the ideal warzone correspondent: courageous, compassionate, dedicated. After years of facing the worst, though, including the Bali bombings and the Boxing Day tsunami, one final incident undid him. In July 2007, two of his staff members were brutally gunned down by an American helicopter in Iraq. What followed was an unravelling of everything Dean thought he knew...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksLife In His Hands
Life In His Hands is the remarkable true story of Charlie Teo, one of Australia's most celebrated yet controversial neurosurgeons. His pioneering 'keyhole' techniques have earned him praise around the world, but in his home country, he is regarded by some in the profession as reckless and even dangerous. His stock in trade is 'inoperable' brain tumours—those malignant cancers that...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksLetters
Oliver Sacks is a neurologist, a man of humane eloquence, and a genuine communicator – Observer Oliver Sacks, one of the great humanists of our age – who describes himself in these pages as a 'philosophical physician' and an 'astronomer of the inward' – wrote to an eclectic array of family and friends. Most were scientists, artists, and writers, even...Paperback$4499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksLetters
Oliver Sacks is a neurologist, a man of humane eloquence, and a genuine communicator Observer Oliver Sacks, one of the great humanists of our age - who describes himself in these pages as a 'philosophical physician' and an 'astronomer of the inward' - wrote to an eclectic array of family and friends. Most were scientists, artists, and writers, even statesmen: Francis...Hardback$5500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksJust About Coping
At the psychologist's clinic of an NHS hospital, Noah needs help with procrastination, Bill compulsively lies, Steph is coping with rejection and their therapist, Dr Natalie Cawley, is dealing with her own emotional crisis, breathing into a paper bag between patient sessions. In this lively and honest memoir of training to be a psychotherapist, we meet the patients grappling with...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksJust About Coping
'I loved this witty, insightful journey into the world of psychotherapy' - Raynor Winn, bestselling author of The Salt Path At the psychologist's clinic of an NHS hospital, Noah needs help with procrastination, Bill compulsively lies, Steph is coping with rejection and their therapist, Dr Natalie Cawley, is dealing with her own emotional crisis, breathing into a paper bag between...Hardback$4799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksIn Search of the Woman Who Sailed the World
A voyage of discovery, nature and untold histories - in the vein of Clare Wright, Edmund de Waal and Helen Macdonald. When the first woman to circumnavigate the world completed her journey in 1775, she returned home without any fanfare at all. Jeanne Barret, an impoverished peasant from Burgundy, disguised herself as a man and sailed on the 1766 Bougainville...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksHow Not to be a Doctor
The essential book on how not to be a doctor – and how to be a better one. Drawn from his popular medical columns over the years, John Launer shares fifty of his best-loved essays, covering topics from essential skills they don't teach you in medical school to his poignant account of being a patient himself as he received treatment...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksHealing Lives
A story of friendship like no other... breathtaking in its tenderness and inspiration. The Hon. Dame Quentin Bryce AD CVO Two incredible women, an unlikely friendship, and a united mission to save the lives of some of the world's poorest and most desperate women. Healing Lives reveals the untold tale of Mamitu Gashe, Dr Catherine Hamlin's protégée, and the inspiring...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksHawking
From his early days at Oxford, Stephen Hawking's brilliance and good humour were obvious to everyone he met. At twenty-one, he was diagnosed with ALS, a disease that limited his ability to move and speak, though it did nothing to limit his mind. He went on to do groundbreaking work in cosmology and theoretical physics for decades after being told...Paperback$4999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksDutch Light
Filled with incident, discovery, and revelation, Dutch Light is a vivid account of Christiaan Huygens's remarkable life and career, but it is also nothing less than the story of the birth of modern science as we know it. Europe's greatest scientist during the latter half of the seventeenth century, Christiaan Huygens was a true polymath. A towering figure in the...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksDarwin on the Beagle
The story of the voyage that changed human understanding forever. In 1831, Charles Darwin set out on an expedition to South America, brought along as a gentleman companion for Captain Robert FitzRoy. Initially conceived as a Christian mission, the voyage would change drastically as the Beagle sailed through the Pacific, with Darwin’s observations becoming the building blocks of his revolutionary...Paperback$4199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksBreaking Twitter
Gripping and darkly comic, Breaking Twitter takes readers inside the battle between one of the most intriguing, polarizing, influential men of our time — Elon Musk — and the company that owns our world's best hope for a shared global conversation. From employee accounts within Twitter headquarters to the mission-driven team Musk surrounded himself with, this is the full story...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksA Nurse's Story
Moving, honest and inspiring - this is a nurse's story of life in a busy A&E department during the Covid-19 crisis. Working in A&E is a challenging job, but nurse Louise Curtis loves it. She was newly qualified as an advanced clinical practitioner, responsible for life or death decisions about the patients she saw, when the unthinkable happened and the...Paperback$1999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksA Human's Guide to the Future
Technology is evolving at the fastest rate we've ever seen, but it may be the slowest rate we'll ever see again! What does this mean for the future of the human race? Do we resist these changes or embrace them? Australian biomedical engineer, inventor and visionary Dr Jordan Nguyen has lived a life of curiosity and wonder—exploring positive opportunities in...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksA Fortunate Woman
Polly Morland and Richard Baker have more than done justice to the original John Berger book - and produced a work that stimulates the eye and mind in equal measure. Alain de Botton A Fortunate Woman is a compelling, thoughtful and insightful look at the life and work of a country doctor. Funny, moving and not afraid of the dark,...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksA Doctor in Africa
Including a preface by HRH The Princess Royal, Princess Anne. The Australian doctor saving the lives and dignity of thousands of women in Africa, one surgery at a time. From Ethiopia to Sierra Leone, Tanzania to Togo, Dr Andrew Browning has been helping women affected by obstetric fistulas—a debilitating condition resulting from obstructed childbirth—for nearly two decades. Andrew began his...Paperback$4199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksA Caring Life
As a nurse for nearly fifty years, Keith Cox provided expert care and comfort to countless people facing the unimaginable. With insight and sensitivity, A Caring Life takes us behind the scenes of his remarkable nursing career and the moving stories of hope, determination and loss that underpinned it. Along the way, he shares lessons gained from a career spent...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksThe Impossible Man
A Guardian Best Science Book of the Year The first biography—'a stunning achievement' (Kai Bird, American Prometheus)—of the dazzling and painful life of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Roger Penrose. When he was six years old, Roger Penrose discovered a sundial in a clearing near his house. Through that machine made of light, shadow, and time, Roger glimpsed a "world behind the...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksThe Examined Illness
A visceral personal memoir of being seriously unwell—and the consolations of philosophy during sickness. Being a patient is part of being alive. Disease and serious illness often strike randomly, and when they do, we quickly become subject to the impersonal forces of biochemistry and pharmacology. We rarely think about sickness beforehand and are often totally unprepared for it when it...Paperback$5699Unit price /UnavailableOut 24 Sep 2026Pre-orderAlbert Sabin
The untold story of Albert Sabin, who developed the oral polio vaccine and became a controversial public health advocate for children worldwide. “Introduces readers to a passionate, driven and irascible scientist through the story of his life’s work.”—Adrian Woolfson, Wall Street Journal Jonas Salk may be the name most associated with the polio vaccine, but it was Albert Sabin’s oral...Hardback$8600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksAfter Shock
In this powerful follow-up to her bestselling memoir, In Shock, a doctor asks: What does it truly mean to heal? In the aftermath of her own critical illness, physician and writer Dr. Rana Awdish finds herself oddly estranged from her own body. Medicine has conditioned her to view sick bodies as broken objects, not as sites of meaning, mystery, and...Hardback$6900Unit price /UnavailableOut 29 Sep 2026Pre-orderThe Big Hop
The powerful true story of the first flight across the Atlantic - and of the ordinary heroes who risked their lives to race in pursuit of progress. A non-stop flight across the Atlantic might seem routine today. But it is only possible because of those who went first. Vivid and compelling - John Lancaster A delectable serving of escapist nostalgia...Paperback$3500Unit price /UnavailableOut 6 Oct 2026Pre-orderSleuth-Hound
From the bestselling author of The Butchering Art and The Facemaker comes the astonishing true story of Joseph Bell, the Scottish surgeon whose extraordinary talent for detection inspired Sherlock Holmes. Edinburgh, 1878. A medical student named Arthur Conan Doyle squeezes into the Royal Infirmary's packed operating theatre, hoping to catch a glimpse of the celebrated professor whose uncanny powers of...Hardback$6500Unit price /UnavailableOut 27 Oct 2026Pre-orderThe Scientific Legacy of Har Gobind Khorana
This book is the only scientific biography of the Nobel Prize-winning Indian American chemist, Har Gobind Khorana. It begins with the story of Khorana's origins in poverty in rural India and how he managed to emerge from that to be trained in chemistry in Britain and Switzerland before immigrating to Canada and the United States. Science was the dominant focus...Paperback$11300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksThere Is Life After the Nobel Prize
One day in 1996, the neuroscientist Eric R. Kandel took a call from his program officer at the National Institute of Mental Health, who informed him that he had been awarded a key grant. Also, the officer said, he and his colleagues thought Kandel would win the Nobel Prize. "I hope not soon," Kandel's wife, Denise, said when she heard...Paperback$3199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksSurgeon on the Edge
Surgeon on the Edge is a literary memoir about the cost of becoming a surgeon and the even greater cost of leaving. Frances Mei Hardin, MD—a former ENT surgeon turned writer and entrepreneur—invites readers into the interior life of modern medical training: the devotion, the brutality, the prestige, and the quiet unraveling that happens when a person learns to outrun...Paperback$5100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksCut Open
Leadership Lessons Surgery Never Taught—the Nonclinical Skills That Save Careers Surgeons and health care professionals are trained to fix the human body, but they are poorly prepared for the nonclinical realities that accompany their careers—complications, harsh criticism, difficult personalities, leadership failures, and the silent weight of moral injury. Most try to push through by imitating senior colleagues who were never...Paperback$6400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksCut Open
Leadership Lessons Surgery Never Taught-the Nonclinical Skills That Save Careers Surgeons and health care professionals are trained to fix the human body, but they are poorly prepared for the nonclinical realities that accompany their careers—complications, harsh criticism, difficult personalities, leadership failures, and the silent weight of moral injury. Most try to push through by imitating senior colleagues who were never...Hardback$8400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksThe 50 Greatest Scientists
In this beautifully illustrated hardback, Jon Balchin explores the achievements of 50 of history's greatest scientists, showcasing their profound impact on our understanding of the cosmos and the natural world. Featuring luminaries like Einstein, Hubble, Franklin, and Hawking, this book demonstrates how their work has shaped our lives, advanced medicine, and unravelled the complexities of nature and humanity. With stunning...Hardback$4999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 1 weekJ. Robert Oppenheimer
This captivating biography delves into the pioneering work of J. Robert Oppenheimer, from his early scientific achievements to leading the Manhattan Project and his complex legacy as the mind behind the atom bomb. The brilliant theoretical physicist, J. Robert Oppenheimer, is now known primarily for his work on the development of the atomic bomb from 1942-45 at Los Alamos in...Paperback$2399Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 1 weekA History of Women in Astronomy and Space Exploration
The first history of women astronomers in English to cover individuals from antiquity to the modern day. Features 30 in-depth biographies and 99 brief portraits of women astronomers, space explorers, and astrophysicists. For the last four hundred years, women have played a part far in excess of their numerical representation in the history of astronomical research and discovery. It was...Hardback$6499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 1 weekHell Days
When I think of my hell days, I think of crime scenes. Familiar sites, made uncanny with violence. In the fluorescent tedium of a call centre in 2018, acclaimed novelist Laura Elizabeth Woollett finds herself meticulously plotting her own death. Until her period arrives, and equilibrium with it. After years of dismissing these monthly turns, she's diagnosed with premenstrual dysphoric...Paperback$3800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksThe Traveller
An inspiring biography of the remarkable naturalist, explorer and revolutionary, by the bestselling author of The Invention of Nature. George Forster was a man out of time—he journeyed to the far reaches of the known world and challenged the worldviews of eighteenth-century Europe with radical ideas about equality and freedom. Celebrated during his lifetime, he knew Goethe, Benjamin Franklin, Mary...Hardback$10000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksThe Lifesavers
The remarkable true story of the trailblazing men and women of Britain's blood transfusion service in World War Two. The Lifesavers were a little-known band of men and women at the forefront of groundbreaking battlefield care in the Second World War. As part of a new and pioneering service, unconventional and iconoclastic, they pushed and pulled blood from hundreds of...Hardback$6500Unit price /UnavailableOut 22 Sep 2026Pre-orderThe Incredible Afterlives of Dr. Stevenson
The untold story of an iconoclastic scientist: a psychiatrist who dedicated his career to documenting consciousness after death. While Ian Stevenson (1918–2007) was an academic psychiatrist with a serious demeanour, right down to his three-piece suits and wingtip shoes, he made his name researching an unusual topic for a behavioural scientist: the afterlife. For over four decades, Stevenson travelled the...Hardback$7400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksBuild
An unorthodox guide to making things worth making, from "the father of the iPod and iPhone" and the creator of Nest. The New York Times Bestseller. An unorthodox guide to making things worth making, from "the father of the iPod and iPhone" and the creator of Nest. Everyone deserves a mentor. For every career crisis, every fork in the road,...Paperback$3000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksHidden Figures
The phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America's greatest achievements in space. Soon to be a major motion picture starring Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monae, Kirsten Dunst, and Kevin Costner. Before John Glenn orbited the earth, or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female...Paperback$8400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksAutobiography of a Face [Thirtieth Anniversary Edition]
“So many memoirs make you feel that you've been sealed up inside a wall with a monomaniac. A really good one, like Autobiography of a Face, makes you feel there is more to ask and learn. You are not just seeing the writer; you are not trying to see yourself. You are seeing the world in a different way.”--Margo Jefferson...Paperback$5100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksWhy Fish Don'T Exist
A Best Book of 2020: The Washington Post NPR Chicago Tribune * Smithsonian A "remarkable" (Los Angeles Times), "seductive" (The Wall Street Journal) debut from the new cohost of Radiolab, Why Fish Don't Exist is a dark and astonishing tale of love, chaos, scientific obsession, and—possibly—even murder. "At one point, Miller dives into the ocean into a school of fish...comes...Paperback$5100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks"What Do You Care What Other People Think?"
Like the "funny, brilliant, bawdy" (The New Yorker) Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!, this book’s many stories—some funny, others intensely moving—display Richard P. Feynman’s unquenchable thirst for adventure and unparalleled ability to recount important moments from his life. Here we meet Feynman’s first wife, Arlene, who taught him of love’s irreducible mystery as she lay dying in a hospital bed...Paperback$4600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksThe Innovators
Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson's New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed The Innovators is a riveting, propulsive, and at times deeply moving (The Atlantic) story of the people who created the computer and the Internet.Paperback$5600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksMountains Beyond Mountains
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • 20th Anniversary Edition, with a new foreword by the author • “[A] masterpiece . . . an astonishing book that will leave you questioning your own life and political views.” — USA Today “If any one person can be given credit for transforming the medical establishment’s thinking about health care for the destitute, it is...Paperback$5200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksEverything Happens for a Reason
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A meditation on sense-making when there’s no sense to be made, on letting go when we can’t hold on, and on being unafraid even when we’re terrified.” — Lucy Kalanithi NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY REAL SIMPLE Kate Bowler is a professor at Duke Divinity School with a modest Christian...Paperback$5000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksDoppelganger
A finalist for the 2023 National Book Critics Circle AwardWinner of the Women's Prize for NonfictionNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER National Indie Bestseller A New York Times notable book of 2023Vulture's #1 book of 2023One of Slate's ten best books of 2023A Guardian best ideas book of 2023One of Time's ten best books of 2023Winner of the Pacific Northwest Book Award...Paperback$5300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksBrain on Fire (10th Anniversary Edition)
An anniversary edition of the award-winning memoir and instant New York Times bestseller that goes far beyond its riveting medical mystery, Brain on Fire is the powerful account of one woman's struggle to recapture her identity--with a new note to readers by the author. When twenty-four-year-old Susannah Cahalan woke up alone in a hospital room, strapped to her bed and...Paperback$5100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksBetween Two Kingdoms
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A deeply moving memoir of illness and recovery that traces one young woman’s journey from diagnosis to remission to re-entry into “normal” life—from the founder of The Isolation Journals and a subject of the Netflix documentary American Symphony. ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post,...Paperback$5300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksL.A. Coroner
"Choi's true-crime biography adds much-needed detail and perspective to Noguchi's unusual and compelling story." -Booklist L.A. Coroner is a gripping true crime biography of Dr. Thomas Noguchi, the controversial "Coroner to the Stars," who performed the autopsies of Marilyn Monroe, Robert F. Kennedy, Natalie Wood, and hundreds of other notable personalities. Choi, an award-winning historian and professor, deftly blends Los...Hardback$6900Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksJourneys to the Nearby
Inspired by the adventures of world travellers but unwilling to rack up her fossil fuel consumption, Elspeth sets out with a deep curiosity to explore the world that exists in her own garden. Told over the course of four seasons, Journeys to the Nearby is inspired by the beauty in the small moments of discovery. After spending the winter holidays...Paperback$5200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksFast, Faster, Fastest
The authorised biography of a polymath racecar engineer. This biography of Bill Sadler tells the story of an innovator who set the racing world astir with his boldly inventive cars. His original creations—including the Formula Libre and the Sadler Mark V—brought him racing victories at tracks such as Watkins Glen and the Brighton Speed Trials throughout the 1950s and early...Hardback$20999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksBanks
Lust, science, adventure — Joseph Banks and his voyages of discovery The extraordinary life of one of the world's most famous and notorious adventurers Sir Joseph Banks was a man of passion whose influence spanned the globe. A fearless adventurer, his fascination with beautiful women was only trumped by his obsession with the natural world and his lust for scientific...Hardback$4500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksReach for the Stars!
Meet the History Heroes who led us into space! Puzzle your way through the planets in this fact-packed jigsaw puzzle! Get to know 17 inspiring people who shaped our knowledge of the solar system, from scientists and mathematicians to astronauts and authors. Spot Galileo with his trusty telescope, Neil Armstrong taking his famous first steps on the Moon, Katherine Johnson...200 PieceJigsaw$3999Unit price /UnavailableOut 15 Sep 2026Pre-orderThe Art of Curiosity
Fifty of the world’s most creative people share their stories, their inspirations, and their unique takes on science and education, all inspired by the Exploratorium science museum. What do music visionary Brian Eno, kinetic sculptor Theo Jansen, science writer Mary Roach, Mythbuster Adam Savage, and Pulitzer-winning journalist Thomas Friedman have in common? They are all game-changers: scientists, artists, entertainers, and...Hardback$7900Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksAn Expert Witness
From Britain's best-known forensic scientist, a book that explains what forensic science is, how it evolved and, through a series of landmark cases, the shocking truth about where it is headed. The relationship between law enforcement, science and the legal system is a complicated one. When it works well, it makes compelling television. Equally, when it does not work well,...Paperback$4000Unit price /UnavailableOut 13 Oct 2026Pre-orderIngenious
Benjamin Franklin was one of the preeminent scientists of his time. Driven by curiosity, he conducted cutting-edge research on electricity, heat, ocean currents, weather patterns, chemical bonds, and plants. But today, Franklin is remembered more for his political prowess and diplomatic achievements than his scientific creativity. In this incisive and rich account of Benjamin Franklin's life and career, Richard Munson...Paperback$3799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksThe Drunken Forest
Embark on a captivating adventure through the Argentine Pampas and the little-known Chaco territory of Paraguay with Gerald Durrell, the much-loved author of My Family and Other Animals. A riveting account of one of Durrell's expeditions in search of rare animals, The Drunken Forest is informative, witty and guaranteed to have you laughing out loud. As you journey through the...Paperback$2800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksSmall
As a paediatric surgeon, Catherine Musemeche operates on the smallest of human beings, manipulates organs the size of walnuts, and uses sutures as thin as hairs to resolve matters of life or death. Working in the small space of a premature infant's chest or abdomen allows no margin for error. It is a world rife with emotion and risk. Small...Hardback$6999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksBanneker
The brainchild of Daniel Alexander Payne Murray, Banneker: The Afro-American Astronomer was first conceived after Murray discovered what he found to be a beautifully written letter to Thomas Jefferson by a then unknown writer of colour. Aided in his research by Will A. Allen, the pair discovered the man to be one Benjamin Banneker, a mathematician and astronomer. An extraordinary...Paperback$4500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksVera Rubin
The first biography of a pioneering scientist who made significant contributions to our understanding of dark matter and championed the advancement of women in science. One of the great lingering mysteries of the universe is dark matter. Scientists are not sure what it is, but most believe it's out there, and in abundance. The astronomer who finally convinced many of...Hardback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksStephen Hawking
Stephen Hawking was diagnosed with motor neurone disease at the age of 21 and was expected to live for only another two years. He went on to write books and deliver public lectures right up until his death at the age of 76 in 2018. Hawking achieved commercial success with several works of popular science in which he discusses his...Paperback$1500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksWhy Fish Don't Exist
LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2025 When Lulu Miller's relationship falls apart, she turns to an unlikely figure for guidance—the 19th-century naturalist, David Starr Jordan. Pouring over his diaries, Lulu discovers a man obsessed with nature's hidden order, devoted to studying shimmering scales and sailing the world in search of new species of fish. After the 1906 San...Paperback$3799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksIlluminating Natural History
This book explores the life and work of the 18th-century English artist, explorer, naturalist, and author Mark Catesby (1683–1749). During Catesby’s lifetime, science was poised to shift from a world of amateur virtuosi to one of professional experts. He worked against a backdrop of global travel that incorporated collecting and direct observation of nature. Catesby spent two prolonged periods in...Hardback$9599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksEmerson, the Stoics, and Me
“This is a beautiful book, full of ideas that could help restore America’s genius for freedom and promise.” —Thomas Moore, New York Times bestselling author of Care of the Soul A lifelong Emersonian scholar, teacher, and spiritual seeker reveals how American philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson’s twelve essential teachings hold the answer to living an authentic and fulfilling life, one that...Paperback$4500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksThe Girl on the Roof
Nine decades, one life - a remarkable memoir by an Australian living treasure. The Girl on the Roof by Valerie Brown introduces us to a bookish, rebellious child who had made an important discovery when she escaped to the roof of her large family home. As she watched the activities of her family down below, she found that they did...Paperback$3800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksNeil Armstrong
Much has been written about Neil Armstrong, America's modern hero and history's most famous space traveller. Yet, shy of fame and never one to steal the spotlight, Armstrong was always reluctant to discuss his personal side of events. Here for the first time is the story of Neil's life of flight, shared for five decades with his trusted friend Jay...Paperback$6700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksThree Minutes for a Dog
Contrary to popular belief Polio is not extinct. This is the true story of an indomitable spirit afflicted with unimaginable physical and psychological challenges. Paul Alexander's life is a saga that started in 1946 and has been profoundly shaped by the Polio epidemic of the early 1950's. Survivors of the 1950's Polio Epidemic in America are rare. Polio victims, like...Paperback$6500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksDizzy
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