On Giants' Shoulders by Melvyn Bragg
$27.95 AUD
Category: Science
Published to tie-in with BBC Radio 4 series, the story of science unfolds in this account of the lives and discoveries of twelve of its greatest figures, from Archimedes to Crick and Watson. Exploring their impact and legacy with leading scientists of today, Bragg conveys the excitement and importance o ...Show more
Human Brain The by Greenfield Susan
$25.00 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Science Masters Ser.
Locked away remote from the rest of the body in its own custom-built casing of skull bone, with no intrinsic moving parts, the human brain remains a tantalising mystery. But now, more than ever before, we have the expertise to tackle this mystery - the last 20 years have seen astounding progress in brai ...Show more
Longitude by Dava Sobel
$23.00 AUD
Category: Science
The dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest and of one man's forty-year obsession to find a solution to the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day--"the longitude problem." Anyone alive in the eighteenth century would have known that "the longitude problem" was the thorniest scientific dilemma ...Show more
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
$24.95 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Penguin Classics
Rachel Carson's Silent Spring was first published in three serialized excerpts in the New Yorker in June of 1962. The book appeared in September of that year and the outcry that followed its publication forced the banning of DDT and spurred revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and ...Show more
The Watchman's Rattle: Thinking Our Way Out of Extinction by Rebecca Costa
$32.95 AUD
Category: Science
Why does it feel as if our most challenging problems today- the worldwide recession, global warming, fast-spreading viruses, terrorism and poverty- aren't getting solved? What if our brain has limits that prevent it from solving such complex problems? If ancient civilisations collapsed because they, too ...Show more