Why Does It Still Hurt?: how the power of knowledge can overcome chronic pain by Paul Biegler
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
Chronic pain is the single biggest cause of human suffering. Yet pain that persists for three months or more is often unrelated to any physical injury. So why does it still hurt? Research over the last few decades shows that many of us - sufferers of chronic pain and health practitioners alike - are vi ...Show more
Machines Behaving Badly : The Morality of AI by Toby Walsh
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
Can we build moral machines? Toby Walsh, AI expert, examines the ethical issues we face in a future dominated by artificial intelligence.Artificial intelligence is an essential part of our lives - for better or worse. It can be used to influence what we buy, who gets shortlisted for a job and even how w ...Show more
Wild Design - The Architecture of Nature by Kimberly Ridley
$50.00 AUD
Category: Science
Wild Design reveals the wonders of the natural world as never seen before, through the stunning, extraordinary, and functional forms created by animals, plants, and other organisms all around us. Art and science beautifully intertwine in this fascinating exploration of structures and shapes found in nat ...Show more
The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson
$25.00 AUD
Category: Science
'We spend our whole lives in one body and yet most of us have practically no idea how it works and what goes on inside it. The idea of the book is simply to try to understand the extraordinary contraption that is us.' Bill Bryson sets off to explore the human body, how it functions and its remarkable ab ...Show more
How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics by Michael Pollan
$25.00 AUD
Category: Science
Could psychedelic drugs change our worldview? One of America's most revered writers takes us on a mind-altering journey to the frontiers of human consciousness. 'It's as if we made entering gothic cathedrals illegal, or museums, or sunsets!' When LSD was first discovered in the 1940s, it seemed to resea ...Show more
Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
$25.00 AUD
Category: Science
From the bestselling author of The Black Swan, a bold book that challenges many of our long-held beliefs about risk and reward, politics and religion, finance and personal responsibility Why should we never listen to people who explain rather than do? Why do companies go bust? How is it that we have mor ...Show more
Woo's Wonderful World of Maths by Eddie Woo
$30.00 AUD
Category: Science
Why is a rainbow curved? Why aren't left-handers extinct? How is a sunflower like a synchronised swimmer? Why is 'e' a magic number?The answer to these questions is contained within one simple word: MATHS. Because maths is all about patterns, and our universe is extraordinarily patterned.With enthusiasm ...Show more
Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity by Carlo Rovelli
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Category: Science
What are time and space made of? Where does matter come from? And what exactly is reality? Scientist Carlo Rovelli has spent his life exploring these questions and pushing the boundaries of what we know. Here he explains how our image of the world has changed throughout centuries. From Aristotle to Albe ...Show more
The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Biog of Cancer
A magnificent, beautifully written biography of cancer -- from its first documented appearances thousands of years ago through the epic battles to cure, control and conquer it, to a radical new understanding of its essence. In The Emperor of All Maladies, Siddhartha Mukherjee, doctor, researcher and awa ...Show more
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
$25.00 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Bryson
Bill Bryson describes himself as a reluctant traveller, but even when he stays safely at home he can't contain his curiosity about the world around him.A Short History of Nearly Everything is his quest to understand everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization - how we got ...Show more
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli
$23.00 AUD
Category: Science
In this mind-bending introduction to modern physics, Carlo Rovelli explains Einstein's theory of general relativity, quantum mechanics, black holes, the complex architecture of the universe, elementary particles, gravity, and the nature of the mind.Everything you need to know about modern physics, the u ...Show more
The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science by Andrea Wulf
$27.00 AUD
Category: Science
The acclaimed author of Founding Gardeners reveals the forgotten life of Alexander von Humboldt, the visionary German naturalist whose ideas changed the way we see the natural world--and in the process created modern environmentalism. Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was an intrepid explorer and the ...Show more