The Biology Book: From the Origin of Life to Epigenics, 250 Milestones in the History of Biology by Michael C. Gerald
$45.00 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Sterling Milestones
Authors Michael and Gloria Gerald explore 250 of the most significant and interesting biology milestones from roughly 4 million BCE to modern times, such thought-provoking questions as Are animals altruistic? Why does the heart beat? What do the smallest microbe and the largest mammal have in common? Ke ...Show more
Brain Electric: The Dramatic High-Tech Race to Merge Minds and Machines by Malcolm Gay
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science
Imagine controlling a machine with your mind. Imagine a communication line direct from your mind to someone else's. Imagine controlling a prosthetic limb with a thought, or 'seeing' through a camera located miles away. Once the stuff of science fiction, such remarkable feats are now within the grasp of ...Show more
The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution by David Wootton
$70.00 AUD
Category: Science
We live in a world made by science. How and when did this happen? This book tells the story of the extraordinary intellectual and cultural revolution that gave birth to modern science, and mounts a major challenge to the prevailing orthodoxy of its history. Before 1492 it was assumed that all significan ...Show more
Cosmos: An Infographic Book of Space by Stuart Lowe
$49.99 AUD
Category: Science
The Universe is the ultimate in extremes and superlatives. The biggest. The heaviest. The oldest. The most powerful explosions. Even black holes - which can literally lead to regions beyond our infinite Universe! In this truly mind-blowing book, we use cutting edge infographics to illuminate - in a new ...Show more
Atmosphere of Hope: Searching for Solutions to the Climate Crisis by Tim Flannery
$30.00 AUD
Category: Science
A timely intervention on climate change from the internationally acclaimed scientist and author of the hugely influential The Weather Makers. How close is the great climate crisis? Can our desire to overcome it drive humanity's next great waves of positive technological economic and social revolution? ...Show more
A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature's Deep Design by Frank Wilczek
$60.00 AUD
Category: Science
In this scientific tour de force, world-class physicist Frank Wilczek argues that beauty is at the heart of the logic of the universe, a principle that has guided his pioneering work in quantum physics. As this book demonstrates, the human quest to find the beauty embodied in the universe connects all s ...Show more
Knowledge Wars by Peter Doherty
$30.00 AUD
Category: Science
"Climate scientists have warned that we need to change our behaviour in ways that may be inconvenient and threaten the commercial status quo. The result has been a polarising division in society and a sustained attack on their research. In The Knowledge Wars, Nobel prizewinner Peter Doherty makes a pass ...Show more
The Universe in Your Hand: A Journey Through Space, Time and Beyond by Christophe Galfard
$20.00 AUD
Category: Science
Imagine if The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy were a real, practical book about the mysteries of the universe...The Universe In Your Hand takes us on a wonder-filled journey to the surface of our dying Sun, shrinks us to the size of an atom and puts us in the deathly grip of distant Black Holes. Along ...Show more
The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
$22.95 AUD
Category: Science
The million copy international bestseller, critically acclaimed and translated into over 25 languages. This 30th anniversary edition includes a new introduction from the author as well as the original prefaces and foreword, and extracts from early reviews. As relevant and influential today as when it wa ...Show more
The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest To Understand, Enhance and Empower the Mind by Michio Kaku
$25.00 AUD
Category: Science
Mind reading, recording memories, downloading dreams, telekinesis- no longer are these the province of science fiction. In some laboratories, they already exist. Michio Kaku takes us on a thrilling tour of the latest advances in brain science - in this life, and beyond. 'A mind-bending study of the poss ...Show more
Biology of Desire: Why Addiction is Not a Disease by Marc Lewis
$30.00 AUD
Category: Science | Series: The\Addicted Brain Ser.
Through the vivid, true stories of five people who journeyed into and out of addiction, a renowned neuroscientist explains why the 'disease model' of addiction is wrong, and illuminates the path to recovery.The psychiatric establishment and rehab industry in the Western world have branded addiction a br ...Show more
Complications : A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science by Atul Gawande
$23.00 AUD
Category: Science
This is a stunningly well-written account of the life of a surgeon: what it is like to cut into people's bodies and the terrifying - literally life and death - decisions that have to be made. There are accounts of operations that go wrong; of doctors who go to the bad; why autopsies are necessary; what ...Show more