A Scheme of Heaven: Astrology and the Birth of Science by Alexander Boxer
39.99 AUD
Category: Science
Despite a resurgence in popularity, horoscopes are generally considered to be pseudoscience today - but they were once a cutting-edge scientific tool. In this ingenious work of history, data scientist Alexander Boxer examines a treasure trove of esoteric classical sources to expose the deep imaginative ...Show more
The NeuroGeneration by Tan Le
32.99 AUD
Category: Science
A highly engaging guided tour through the frontiers of what science knows about how the brain works, how to extend its power and how to fix it when it's broken.' - David Gillespie, author of Sweet Poison and Teen Brain'Tan Le writes with optimism and compassion about the extraordinary evolution of brain ...Show more
Cutting-Edge Science by Colin Barras
29.99 AUD
Category: Science
How did the atom bomb help save the elephant? Have we found the secret to eternal youth? Could a parasite be manipulating you right now? This dazzling collection of stories reveals the key recent breakthroughs in science, across all fields. Inside you will meet the killers lurking in Earth's ice, the s ...Show more
Cracking the Elements by Rebecca Mileham
26.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Cracking Ser.
From the earliest-known elements to those named in 2016, this book takes a comprehensive look at the development of the periodic table - and reveals untold stories, unsung pioneers and plenty of fascinating science along the way. In twelve illustrated chapters, the book makes sense of the patterns and ...Show more
Cosmological Koans: A Journey to the Heart of Physical Reality by Anthony Aguirre
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Category: Science
Could there be a civilization on a mote of dust? How much of your fate have you made? Who cleans the universe? Through more than fifty Koans -- pleasingly paradoxical vignettes following the ancient Zen tradition -- leading physicist Anthony Aguirre takes the reader across the world from Japan to Italy ...Show more
Vargic's Curious Cosmic Compendium by Martin Vargic
55.00 AUD
Category: Science
If there were ever a great time to be publishing a fresh, innovative and up-to-date book on the universe it's now; 2019 is the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing and commercial travel into space feels closer than ever. For everyone who has ever wanted to know more about the space around us, Varg ...Show more
Million Dollar Maths: The Secret Maths of Becoming Rich (or Poor) by Hugh Barker
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Category: Science
How can you turn $1000 into $1 million? What is the best way to beat the lottery odds? When is the best time to take out a loan? How did one group of gamblers bet on hole-in-ones to win 500,000? How can maths help you set up a successful tech start-up? What about proving the Goldbach Conjecture for $1 m ...Show more
Consciousness : Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist by Christof Koch
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Category: Science
Description: What links conscious experience of pain, joy, color, and smell to bioelectrical activity in the brain? How can anything physical give rise to nonphysical, subjective, conscious states? Christof Koch has devoted much of his career to bridging the seemingly unbridgeable gap between the physic ...Show more
The Periodic Table: A visual guide to the elements by Tom Jackson
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Category: Science
Which is the densest element? Which has the largest atoms? And why are some elements radioactive? From the little-known uses of gold in medicine to the development of the hydrogen bomb, this is a fresh new look at the Periodic Table.Combining cutting edge science with fascinating facts and stunning info ...Show more
How Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon by Joshua D. Mezrich
22.99 AUD
Category: Science
A beautifully written and compelling memoir of a largely unexplored area of medicine: transplant surgery.
Music by the Numbers: From Pythagoras to Schoenberg by Eli Maor
44.99 AUD
Category: Science
How music has influenced mathematics, physics, and astronomy from ancient Greece to the twentieth centuryMusic is filled with mathematical elements, the works of Bach are often said to possess a math-like logic, and Igor Stravinsky said "musical form is close to mathematics," while Arnold Schoenberg, Ia ...Show more
The Physics Book: From the Big Bang to Quantum Resurrection, 250 Milestones in the History of Physics by Clifford A. Pickover
44.99 AUD
Category: Science
Following the hugely successful The Science Book and The Math Book comes a richly illustrated chronology of physics, containing 250 short, entertaining, and thought-provoking entries. In addition to exploring such engaging topics as dark energy, parallel universes, the Doppler effect, the God particle, ...Show more