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Coral : A Pessimist in Paradise by Steve Jones
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
While writing this book, Steve Jones had beside him the coral brooch that his sea captain grandfather brought back across the Indian Ocean. This simple object is a starting point for a dazzling narrative that touches on a number of the most important issues facing us today. Following in the footsteps of ...Show more
Darwin's Island by Steve Jones
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
The Origin of Species may be the most famous book in science but its stature tends to obscure much of Charles Darwin's other works. His visit to the Galapagos lasted just five weeks and on his return he never left Britain again. Darwin spent forty years working on the plants, animals and people of his n ...Show more
Darwin's Island: The Galapagos in the Garden of England by Steve Jones
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
The Origin of Species is the most famous book in science but its stature tends to obscure the genius of Charles Darwin's other works. The Beagle voyage, too, occupied only five of the fifty years of his career. He spent only five weeks on the Galapagos and on his return never left Britain again. Darwin ...Show more
Here Comes the Sun by Steve Jones
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science
In Here Comes the Sun, Steve Jones explores the dependency of all life and systems on Earth - ecological, biological and physical - on our nearest star. It is a book about connections between those systems, and also about the connections between the various disciplines that study them - from astronomy t ...Show more
Introducing Genetics: A Graphic Guide by Steve Jones
$12.99 AUD
Category: Introducing & Short History Series | Series: Introducing... S.
Genetics is the newest of all sciences - nothing useful was known about inheritance until just over a century ago. Now genetics is exploding, and before long we will have the complete code, written in three thousand million letters of DNA, of what makes a human being. Introducing Genetics takes us from ...Show more
The Serpent's Promise by Professor Steve Jones
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science
The Bible was the first scientific textbook of all; and it got some things right (and plenty more wrong). Steve Jones' new book rewrites it in the light of modern science. Are we all descended from a single couple, a real-life Adam and Eve? Was the Bible's great flood really a memory of the end of the I ...Show more
The Single Helix: A Turn Around the World of Science by Steve Jones
$27.95 AUD
Category: Science
THE SINGLE HELIX is a miscellany of a hundred easy pieces about science. It brings to life a vast diversity of subjects, united under the banner of scientific truth - the universal solvent that brings clarity to almost all the mysteries of the world we live in. Scientists are trained to know ever more a ...Show more
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