Item category 2: Science & Technology

In this book, young readers will learn about the diet, life cycle, behaviour and habitat of wombats. Special emphasis is placed on the wombat's burrow habitat.

A collection of artworks inspired by the lives and achievements of fifty famous women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, from the ancient world to the present, profiles each notable individual.

How can we be sure that Pythagoras's theorem is really true? Why is the 'angle in a semicircle' always 90 degrees? And how can tangents help determine the speed of a bullet? David Acheson takes the reader on a highly illustrated tour through the history of geometry, from ancient Greece to the pre...

Wander in and look about you as you stroll through five dazzling habitats, where life in all its variety abounds. Explore a rainforest, desert, coral reef, woodland and mountain range with breathtaking engraved illustrations which bring life to Earth’s wonder garden.

Our relationship to birds is different from our relationship to other wild creatures. We love to watch them, listen to them, keep them as pets, wear their feathers, even converse with them. Birds, Jim Robbins posits, have helped us in so many of our endeavours- learning to fly, clothing and feedi...

What does it take to be a STEM genius? Check out these exciting, highly readable profiles of a dozen contemporary women who are on the cutting edge of scientific research. Searching the cosmos for a new Earth. Using math to fight human trafficking. Designing invisible (and safer) cars. Unlocking ...

Between 1903 and 1969, scientists and other experts made hundreds of predictions about what the future would hold. Their forecasts ranged from ruefully funny to eerily prescient and optimistically utopian.

The answers to life's biggest questions can be found in the smallest places, once you're ready to look. Get set for an insightful (and hilarious) peek into what we can learn from the world of the ant.

Have you ever heard of a meat-eating plant? Or a plant that traps spiders and flies? Welcome to "The Wonderful World of Carnivorous Plants", where sticky leaves and slippery stems are just some of the fascinating ways some plants capture their food. Explore the unique features and adaptations of ...

This book provides a lively and visual introduction to Einstein's theory of relativity. It brings to life the excitement of this fascinating subject, for an audience including young people at school and the general public with an interest in modern physics.