The First of Everything by Stewart Ross
26.99 AUD
Category: Science
The First of Everything follows a context-setting introduction with seven stimulating sections: In the Beginning (The Big Bang to Homo Sapiens), At Home (the first glass windows to dentures and bikinis); Health and Medicine (herbs to heart transplants); Getting About (donkeys to double deckers); Science ...Show more
The Science of Being Human - Why We Behave, Think and Feel the Way We Do by Marty Jopson
24.99 AUD
Category: Science
Offering a unique insight into human behaviour, this book explains why we behave the way we do and what happens when humans interact with the world and each other. Starting with evolutionary biology and what it physically means to be a human being, this book moves on to include a wide range of topics su ...Show more
COMM CHECK THE FINAL FLIGHT OF SHUTTLE COLUMBIA by CABBAGE MICHAEL
50.00 AUD
Category: Science
Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea by Charles Seife
24.99 AUD
Category: Science
The Babylonians invented it, the Greeks banned it, the Hindus worshipped it, and the Christian Church used it to fend off heretics. Today it's a timebomb ticking in the heart of astrophysics. This is a concise tour of a universe of ideas bound up in the simple notion of nothing.
The Reality Bubble: Blind Spots, Hidden Truths and the Dangerous Illusions That Shape Our World by Ziya Tong
29.99 AUD
Category: Science
What are we not seeing?Our naked eyes see only a thin sliver of reality. We are blind in comparison to the x-rays that peer through skin, the mass spectrometers that detect the dead inside the living, or the high-tech surveillance systems that see with artificial intelligence.And we are blind compared t ...Show more
Arboretum by David Byrne
39.99 AUD
Category: Science
For over thirty years, besides making music, David Byrne has focused his unique genius upon forms as diverse as the archaeology of music as we know it, architectural photography and the uses of PowerPoint. Now he presents his most personal work to date, a collection of drawings exploring the form of the ...Show more
So You Think You've Got Problems?: Surprising and rewarding puzzles to sharpen your mind by Alex Bellos
32.99 AUD
Category: Science
This is a collection of ingenious and satisfying puzzles drawn from across the ancient and modern world. You will be imprisoned by a sadistic logician; thrown in an arena with a famished lion; and balancing along an ever-expanding elastic band. Implausible scenarios in daily life, perhaps. But in puzzle ...Show more
Reef Life: An underwater memoir by Callum Roberts
35.00 AUD
Category: Science
How did one of the world's preeminent marine conservation scientists fall in love with coral reefs? We first meet Callum as a young student who had never been abroad, spending a summer helping to map the unknown reefs of Saudi Arabia. From that moment, when Callum first cleared his goggles, he never loo ...Show more
Proving Einstein Right - The Daring Expeditions That Changed How We Look at the Universe by James Gates; Cathie Pelletier
39.99 AUD
Category: Science
A thrilling adventure story chronicling the perilous journey of the scientists who set out to prove the theory of relativity--the results of which catapulted Albert Einstein to fame and forever changed our understanding of the universe. In 1911, a relatively unknown physicist named Albert Einstein publi ...Show more
A Pocket History of Human Evolution - The Apes, the Others, and Us by Silvana Condemi; François Savatier
24.99 AUD
Category: Science
Why aren't we more like other apes? How did we win the evolutionary race? Find out how "wise" Homo sapiens really are. Prehistory has never been more exciting: New discoveries are overturning long-held theories left and right. Stone tools in Australia date back 65,000 years--a time when, we once though ...Show more
How to Be Human - The Ultimate Guide to Your Amazing Existence by New Scientist Staff
29.99 AUD
Category: Science
If you thought you knew who you were, THINK AGAIN. Did you know that half your DNA isn't human? That somebody, somewhere has exactly the same face? Or that most of your memories are fiction? What about the fact that you are as hairy as a chimpanzee, various parts of your body don't belong to yo ...Show more
Beyond the Known - How Exploration Created the Modern World and Will Take Us to the Stars by Andrew Rader
32.99 AUD
Category: Science
From brilliant young polymath Andrew Rader--an MIT-credentialed scientist, popular podcast host, and SpaceX mission manager--an illuminating chronicle of exploration that spotlights humans' insatiable desire to continually push into new and uncharted territory, from civilization's earliest days to curre ...Show more