The Best Australian Science Writing 2011 by Stephen Pincock (Editor)
$29.95 AUD
Category: Science
From the elemental forces that drive our expanding universe to the delicate hairs on the back of your neck, science offers talented writers the kind of scope that other subjects simply cant match. This dynamic genre of Australian writing has never, until now, been showcased in an anthology. With a forew ...Show more
E=mc2 : A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation by David Bodanis
$22.95 AUD
Category: Science
'By the end of the astonishing "E=mc2", a dedicated reader will have achieved, if only by osmosis, an understanding of Einstein's theory of relativity and feel quite at ease dining with Nobel Prize winners. It's a lucid, even thrilling study: the very best kind of science journalism. I didn't know I cou ...Show more
Shadows Bright as Glass: The Extraordinary Transformation of One Man's Brain and the Neuroscience That Makes Us Who We Are by Amy Ellis Nutt
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
The compelling account of one man's extraordinary odyssey. Jon Sarkin, an ordinary family man, recovered from a massive stroke to discover that he had become a man possessed with the compulsion to create art.
Future Science: Essays from the Cutting Edge by Max Brockman
$18.95 AUD
Category: Science
From 19 talented young scientists comes an exciting volume of essays about the future of science. Including cutting edge research across a wide range of fields, we make exciting new discoveries about some of the most interesting scientific problems today, from neuroscience and evolutionary psychology to ...Show more
The Magic of Reality - How We Know What's Really True by Richard Dawkins; Dave McKean (Illustrator)
$39.95 AUD
Category: Science
Richard Dawkins, the world's most famous evolutionary biologist, presents a gorgeously lucid, science book examining some of the nature's most fundamental questions both from a mythical and scientific perspective. Science is our most precise and powerful tool for making sense of the world. Before we dev ...Show more
Here on Earth : An Argument for Hope by Tim Flannery
$24.95 AUD
Category: Science
"We stand at a crossroads, where comprehension of our place in nature - of our true abilities and of our history - is supremely important. We have formed a global civilisation of unprecedented might, driven forward by the power of our minds - a civilisation which is transforming our Earth. We are master ...Show more
Wild Comfort: the Solace of Nature by Kathleen Dean Moore
$26.95 AUD
Category: Science
In an effort to make sense of the deaths in quick succession of several loved ones, Kathleen Dean Moore turned to the comfort of the wild, making a series of solitary excursions into ancient forests, wild rivers, and windswept islands to learn what the environment could teach her in her time of pain. Th ...Show more
Moby-Duck : The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools, Including the Author, Who Went in Search of Them by Donovan Hohn
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
A revelatory tale of science, adventure, and modern myth When the writer Donovan Hohn heard of the mysterious loss of thousands of bath toys at sea, he figured he would interview a few oceanographers, talk to a few beachcombers, and read up on Arctic science and geography. But questions can be like ocea ...Show more
The God Species : How the Planet Can Survive the Age of Humans by Mark Lynas
$27.99 AUD
Category: Science
We humans are the God Species, both the creators and destroyers of life. In this groundbreaking new book, Mark Lynas shows us how we must use our technological mastery over nature to the planet from ourselves. Building on recent scientific discoveries, Mark Lynas explains that there are nine 'planetary ...Show more
Seeing Further - The Story of Science and the Royal Society by Bill Bryson (ed.)
$33.00 AUD
Category: Science
Edited and introduced by Bill Bryson, and with contributions from Richard Dawkins, Margaret Atwood, David Attenborough, Martin Rees and Richard Fortey amongst others, this is a remarkable volume celebrating the 350th anniversary of the Royal Society. Since its inception in 1660, the Royal Society has pi ...Show more
Genome Generation by Elizabeth Finkel
$32.95 AUD
Category: Science
The year 2001 saw the completion of the human genome project, the culmination of a 14-year, $3 billion, international race to read every letter of the code that makes up a human being. Reading this code was the most profound revelation in the history of humankind, and it was thought that the secrets of ...Show more