Adam Spencer's Big Book of Numbers: Everything You Wanted to Know About Numbers 1 to 100 by Adam Spencer
$27.00 AUD
Category: Science
How can a prime number be 'sexy' and 'safe' at the same time? Why shouldn't Aussie cricketers be scared of the number 87? And how many bacteria live in your pants ... All the answers and more are in Adam Spencer's Big Book of Numbers. This is a book for readers of all ages who love numbers, who want to ...Show more
Life: The Leading Edge of Evolutionary Biology, Genetics, Anthropology, and Environmental Science by John Brockman
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Best of Edge Ser.
The newest addition to John Brockman's Edge.org series explores life itself, bringing together the world's leading biologists, geneticists, and evolutionary theorists-including Richard Dawkins, Edward O. Wilson, J. Craig Venter, and Freeman Dyson. Scientists' understanding of life is progressing more ra ...Show more
The Tyrannosaur Chronicles: The Biology of the Tyrant Dinosaurs by David Hone
$28.00 AUD
Category: Science
'Gripping and wonderfully informative' Tom Holland, New Statesman Adored by children and adults alike, Tyrannosaurus is the most famous dinosaur in the world, one that pops up again and again in pop culture, often battling other beasts such as King Kong, Triceratops or velociraptors in Jurassic Park. Bu ...Show more
The Disappearing Spoon...and other true tales from the Periodic Table by Sam Kean
$23.00 AUD
Category: Science
Fascinating and hilarious true stories from the Periodic Table - Longlisted for the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books 2011 Why did Gandhi hate iodine (I, 53)? Why did the Japanese kill Godzilla with missiles made of cadmium (Cd, 48)? How did radium (Ra, 88) nearly ruin Marie Curie's reputatio ...Show more
Black Hole Blues & Other Songs/Outer Spa by Janna Levin
$30.00 AUD
Category: Science
The full inside story of the detection of gravitational waves at LIGO, one of the most ambitious feats in scientific history. Travel around the world 100 billion times. A strong gravitational wave will briefly change that distance by less than the thickness of a human hair. We have perhaps less than a f ...Show more
The Brain - The Story of You by David Eagleman
$25.00 AUD
Category: Science
'This is the story of how your life shapes your brain, and how your brain shapes your life.' Join renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman on a whistle-stop tour of the inner cosmos. It's a journey that will take you into the world of extreme sports, criminal justice, genocide, brain surgery, robotics and ...Show more
Snowball in a Blizzard: The Tricky Problem of Uncertainty in Medicine by Steven C. Hatch
$30.00 AUD
Category: Science
There's a running joke among radiologists: finding a possible tumour in a mammogram, they say, is akin to finding a snowball in a blizzard. The result? Up to 30% of breast cancer surgeries are done on those who have no cancer at all. In this landmark book, medical professor Steven Hatch reveals that alt ...Show more
Extreme Fear: The Science of Your Mind in Danger by Jeff Wise
$30.00 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Macsci
Fear is a mysterious force. It sabotages our ability to think clearly and can drive us to blind panic, yet it can also give us superhuman speed, strength, and powers of perception. Having baffled mankind for ages, fear is now yielding its secrets to scientific inquiry. The simple model of "fight or flig ...Show more
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
$23.00 AUD
Category: Science
The God Delusioncaused a sensation when it was published in 2006. Within weeks it became the most hotly debated topic, with Dawkins himself branded as either saint or sinner for presenting his hard-hitting, impassioned rebuttal of religion of all types. His argument could hardly be more topical. While E ...Show more
The Gene - An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
The Gene is the story of one of the most powerful and dangerous ideas in our history, from bestselling, prize-winning author Siddhartha Mukherjee. Spanning the globe and several centuries, The Gene is the story of the quest to decipher the master-code that makes and defines humans, that governs our form ...Show more
Fashion Faith and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe by Roger Penrose
$65.00 AUD
Category: Science
What can fashionable ideas, blind faith, or pure fantasy possibly have to do with the scientific quest to understand the universe? Surely, theoretical physicists are immune to mere trends, dogmatic beliefs, or flights of fancy? In fact, acclaimed physicist and bestselling author Roger Penrose argues tha ...Show more
Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future by Martin Ford
$25.00 AUD
Category: Science
Winner of the 2015 FT McKinsey Business Book of the Year AwardA "New York Times" BestsellerTop Business Book of 2015 at ForbesOne of NBCNews.com 12 Notable Science and Technology Books of 2015 What are the jobs of the future? How many will there be? And who will have them? As technology continues to ac ...Show more