Kraken: The Curious, Exciting, and Slightly Disturbing Science of Squid by Wendy Williams
$29.95 AUD
Category: Science
The oceans are perhaps the last remaining source of profound mystery and discovery on Earth, and are as such of perennial fascination. Kraken introduces one of the most charismatic, monstrous, enigmatic, and curious inhabitants - the squid, which has supplanted the whale as the sea creature that now obs ...Show more
You're Looking Very Well: The Surprising Nature of Getting Old by Lewis Wolpert
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science
The essential book on ageing from acclaimed scientist and broadcaster Lewis Wolpert. We now live longer today than at any time in history. In the UK, more people are aged over sixty-five than under sixteen and by 2050, over a third of the developed world will be over sixty. How should we deal with this ...Show more
Deep Future: The Next 100,000 Years of Life on Earth by Curt Stager
$32.95 AUD
Category: Science
In this major new book, paleoclimatologist Curt Stager vividly shows how what we do to the environment in the 21st century will affect the next 100,000 years of life on this planet. Most of us have accepted that our planet is warming and that we've played the key role in causing climate change. Yet few ...Show more
The Music Instinct: How Music Works and Why We Can't Do without it by Philip Ball
$24.95 AUD
Category: Science
This is a pre-read / used book. Fair to Good condition. minor marks & foxing on pages. minor crease at spine. Why have all human cultures - today and throughout history - made music? Why does music excite such rich emotion? And how do we make sense of musical sound? These are questions that have ...Show more
Unnatural: The Heretical Idea of Making People by Philip Ball
$59.95 AUD
Category: Science
Can we make a human being? That question has been asked for many centuries, and has produced recipes ranging from the homunculus of the medieval alchemists and the clay golem of Jewish legend to Frankenstein's monster and the mass-produced test-tube babies in "Brave New World". All of these efforts to c ...Show more
The Book of Universes by John D. Barrow
$59.95 AUD
Category: Science
This is a book about universes. It tells a story that revolves around a single extraordinary fact: that Albert Einstein's famous theory of relativity describes a series of entire universes. Not many solutions to Einstein's tantalising universe equations have ever been found, but those that have are all ...Show more
Proust Was a Neuroscientist by Jonah Lehrer
$24.95 AUD
Category: Science
Is science the only path to knowledge? In this sparkling and provocative book Jonah Lehrer explains that when it comes to understanding the brain, art got there first. Taking a group of celebrated writers, painters and composers, Lehrer shows us how artists have discovered truths about the human mind - ...Show more
The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos by Brian Greene
$49.95 AUD
Category: Science
In this exhilarating new book, Brian Greene explores our most current understanding of the universe, its deepest laws of nature, and our continuing quest to know more. "The Hidden Reality" reveals how major developments in different branches of fundamental theoretical physics - relativistic, quantum, co ...Show more
Quirk: Brain Science Makes Sense of Your Peculiar Personality by Hannah Holmes
$24.95 AUD
Category: Science
Are you neurotic, eager to please, and honest? Or cheerful, gregarious, and disorganised? Whatever you're like, with the tweak of a couple of genes, scientists can make a mouse just like you. And mice, and the scientists who study them, can tell us a lot about ourselves. As Hannah Holmes shows us by hum ...Show more
The Information - A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
James Gleick, the author of the bestsellers Chaos and Genius, brings us his crowning work: a revelatory chronicle that shows how information has become the modern era's defining quality--the blood, the fuel, the vital principle of our world. The story of information begins in a time profoundly unlike ou ...Show more
Smart Solutions to Climate Change: Comparing Costs and Benefits by Bjorn Lomborg
$39.95 AUD
Category: Science
The failure of the Copenhagen climate conference in December 2009 revealed major flaws in the way the world's policy makers have attempted to prevent dangerous levels of increases in global temperatures. The expert authors in this specially commissioned collection focus on the likely costs and benefits ...Show more
Pathfinders: The Golden Age of Arabic Science by Jim Al-Khalili
$55.00 AUD
Category: Science
For over 700 years the international language of science was Arabic. In "Pathfinders", Jim al-Khalili celebrates the forgotten pioneers who helped shape our understanding of the world. All scientists have stood on the shoulders of giants. But most historical accounts today suggest that the achievements ...Show more