2052: A Global Forecast for the Next Forty Years by Jorgen Randers
$36.95 AUD
Category: Science
Forty years ago, The Limits to Growth study addressed the grand question of how humans would adapt to the physical limitations of planet Earth. It predicted that during the first half of the 21st century the ongoing growth in the human ecological footprint would stop-either through catastrophic "oversho ...Show more
Skulls: An Exploration of Alan Dudley's Curious Collection by Simon Winchester
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science
Skulls is a beautiful spellbinding exploration of more than 300 different animal skulls—amphibians, birds, fish, mammals, and reptiles—written by New York Times bestselling author, Simon Winchester and produced in collaboration with Theodore Gray and Touch Press, the geniuses behind The Elements and So ...Show more
A Short Introduction to Climate Change by Tony Eggleton
$39.95 AUD
Category: Science
A Short Introduction to Climate Change provides a clear, balanced and well documented account of one of the most important issues of our time. It covers developments in climate science over the past 250 years and shows that recent climate change is more than the result of natural variability. It explain ...Show more
The Scientists: An Epic of Discovery by Andrew Robinson
$49.95 AUD
Category: Science
This book tells the remarkable lives of the pioneers of science from Galileo and Newton, Faraday and Darwin, Pasteur and Marie Curie, to Einstein, Freud, Turing, and Crick and Watson. A series of seventy articles, written by an international team of distinguished scientists, historians of science and sc ...Show more
Calculus Diaries : A Year Discovering How Maths Can Help You Lose Weight, Win in Vegas and Survive a Zombie Apocalypse by Jennifer Ouellette
$30.00 AUD
Category: Science
Jennifer Ouellette never took maths in the sixth form, mostly because she - like most people - assumed that she wouldn't need it in real life. But then the English-graduate-turned-award-winning-science-writer had a change of heart and decided to revisit those equations and formulas that had haunted her ...Show more
The Violinist's Thumb by Sam Kean
$34.95 AUD
Category: Science
The epic true story of human DNA and what it can tell us about our world. The story of human DNA has a valid claim to being the greatest story ever told. It goes back across the aeons to the primordial soup where life first began and takes us through every stage of evolution to the present, as well as ...Show more
A Universe from Nothing (order smaller format) by Lawrence M. Krauss; Richard Dawkins
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
Bestselling author and acclaimed physicist Lawrence Krauss offers a paradigm-shifting view of how everything that exists came to be in the first place. "Where did the universe come from? What was there before it? What will the future bring? And finally, why is there something rather than nothing?" One ...Show more
Supersense: From Superstition to Religion - The Brain Science of Belief by Bruce Hood
$19.99 AUD
Category: Science
Why is it that Tony Blair always wore the same pair of shoes when answering Prime Minister's Questions? That John McEnroe notoriously refused to step on the white lines of a tennis court between points? And that President-elect Barack Obama played a game of basketball the morning of his victory in the I ...Show more
Thinking in Numbers: The Maths of Life, Love and Learning by Daniel Tammet
$30.00 AUD
Category: Science
This is the book that Daniel Tammet, bestselling author and mathematical savant, was born to write. In Tammet's world, numbers are beautiful and mathematics illuminates our lives and minds. Using anecdotes and everyday examples, Tammet allows us to share his unique insights and delight in the way number ...Show more
Diffusion of Innovations by Everett M. Rogers
$55.00 AUD
Category: Science
In an age of ever-increasing technological innovation, this renowned volume - which has sold more than 30,000 copies in each edition - is more important than ever. DIFFUSION OF INNOVATIONS lucidly explains how inventions are almost always perceived as uncertain or even risky. To overcome this, most peop ...Show more
The Self Illusion: Why There is No You Inside Your Head by Bruce Hood
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
Most of us believe that we possess a self - an internal individual who resides inside our bodies, making decisions, authoring actions and possessing free will. The feeling that a single, unified, enduring self inhabits the body - the 'me' inside me - is compelling and inescapable. This is how we interac ...Show more
Ignorance: How It Drives Science by Stuart Firestein
$25.95 AUD
Category: Science
Knowledge is a big subject, says Stuart Firestein, but ignorance is a bigger one. And it is ignorance--not knowledge--that is the true engine of science. Most of us have a false impression of science as a surefire, deliberate, step-by-step method for finding things out and getting things done. In fact, ...Show more