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 Non-fiction Evolution in the AntipodesApril 2009
Darwin detested Australia. It's sometimes a hard fact to swallow, but a little easier to understand when you think about the hardships of the early colonists.  Mr Darwin's Incredible Shrinking World: Science and Technology in 1859April 2009
The publication of On the Origin of Species was a remarkable event that changed the world forever, right? Not so, says Macinnis. He argues that Darwin's book was not the cause of change, but a symptom of it.  Darwin's Armada: How Four Voyagers to Australiasia Won the Battle for Evolution and Changed the WorldApril 2009
Between these covers is a story of adventure: setting sail amid gales and plunging barometers, men lost overboard and the lonely captain who shoots himself in a fit of depression when he's appointed the task of mapping Argentina's bleak Tierre del Fuego.  Guesstimation: Solving the World's Problems on the Back of a Cocktail NapkinApril 2009
How many people in the world are picking their nose right now? Weinstein and Adam solve this and 79 other world problems on chemistry, physics, biology and history – and all on the back of a napkin.  The SuperorganismApril 2009
They're a formidable duo: Bert Hölldobbler and E. O. Wilson are the only professional scientists to have won a Pulitzer Prize in general non-fiction, for The Ants (1990).  From Here to Infinity: The Royal Observatory, Greenwich Guide to AstronomyFebruary 2009
What exactly did Galileo see through his telescope? Is the Sun a perfect sphere? Are there multiple universes?  A Ball, A Dog, and a Monkey: 1957- the Space Race BeginsFebruary 2009
The space race began on 4 October 1957, when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the first artificial satellite.  An Ocean of Air: A Natural History of the AtmosphereFebruary 2009
Starting 400 years ago with Galileo, Walker traces the tales of adventure behind centuries of atmospheric research.  The Little Book of Maths: Theorems, Theories and ThingsFebruary 2009
This fun book is a great way to discover the wonder of maths without the need for calculators, integrals or graphs.  Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Sex and ScienceFebruary 2009
It would take a rather more brash soul than this reviewer to read Bonk on the train without blushing. There's the unmistakable title in bold pink lettering surrounded by drawings of humans and animals in acrobatic couplings.  Lamarck's EvolutionFebruary 2009
At the start of the 19th century, French scientist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck suggested characteristics acquired by an organism during its lifetime could be passed on to its offspring.  The Black Hole WarFebruary 2009
The “Black Hole War” of the title was a deep rift that developed between the theories of general relativity (Hawking) and quantum mechanics (Susskind).  Genomes and What to Make of ThemFebruary 2009
The book sets the scene with Austrian monk Gregor Mendel and follows the history of the science of genetics to Craig Venter, the maverick made famous by the Human Genome Project.  World Without End?February 2009
Ian Whyte's most recent book covers 12,000 years of human history, looking at how the fate of some civilisations depended on the interaction between societies and their environments.  Feathered Dinosaurs: The Origin of BirdsFebruary 2009
Would dinosaurs have tasted like chicken? John Long, a palaeontologist at Museum Victoria, thinks so. 
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