The Making Of The Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
With a new Introduction by the author, the twenty-fifth anniversary edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning epic about how the atomic bomb came to be. In rich, human, political, and scientific detail, here is the complete story of the nuclear bomb. Few great discoveries have evolved so swiftly-or h ...Show more
TED: How We'll Live on Mars by Stephen Petranek
$20.00 AUD
Category: Science
Part of the TED series: How We'll Live on Mars It sounds like science fiction, but award-winning journalist Stephen Petranek considers it fact: within 20 years, humans will live on Mars. We'll need to. In this sweeping, provocative book that mixes business, science and human reporting, Petranek makes th ...Show more
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert
$20.00 AUD
Category: Science
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE From the author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe, a powerful and important workabout the future of the world, blending intellectual and natural history and field reporting into a compelling account of the mass extinction unfolding before our eyes. Over the last half a bil ...Show more
The One Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka; Larry Korn (Translator); Wendell Berry (Preface by); Frances Moore Lappe (Introduction by)
$15.95 AUD
Category: Science | Series: New York Review Books Classics
Call it "Zen and the Art of Farming" or a "Little Green Book," Masanobu Fukuoka's manifesto about farming, eating, and the limits of human knowledge presents a radical challenge to the global systems we rely on for our food. At the same time, it is a spiritual memoir of a man whose innovative system of ...Show more
Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science - and the World by Rachel Swaby
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
Fifty-two inspiring and insightful profiles of history s brightest female scientists. In 2013, the"New York Times"published an obituary for Yvonne Brill. It began: She made a mean beef stroganoff, followed her husband from job to job, and took eight years off from work to raise three children. It wasn t ...Show more
Future Crimes: Everything is Connected, Everyone is Vulnerable and What We Can Do About it by Marc Goodman
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
Technological advances have benefited our world in immeasurable ways, but there is an ominous flipside. Criminals are often the earliest, and most innovative, adopters of technology and modern times have lead to modern crimes. Today's criminals are stealing identities, draining online bank-accounts and ...Show more
Toms River : A Story of Science and Salvation by Dan Fagin
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
Newly available in paperback, Dan Fagin's Pulitzer Prize-winning tale of a small town ravaged by industrial pollution is environmental reporting at its best. The true story of a small town ravaged by industrial pollution, Toms River won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction and has been hailed ...Show more
The New Wild: Why Invasive Species Will be Nature's Salvation by Fred Pearce
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
Veteran environmental journalist Fred Pearce used to think of invasive species as evil interlopers spoiling pristine 'natural' ecosystems. Most conservationists would agree. But what if traditional ecology is wrong, and true environmentalists should be applauding the invaders? In The New Wild, Pearce go ...Show more
Complexity: A Guided Tour by Melanie Mitchell
$21.95 AUD
Category: Science
What enables individually simple insects like ants to act with such precision and purpose as a group? How do trillions of neurons produce something as extraordinarily complex as consciousness? In this remarkably clear and companionable book, leading complex systems scientist Melanie Mitchell provides an ...Show more
River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life by Richard Dawkins
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Science Masters Ser.
The No.1 SUNDAY TIMES bestseller. A fascinating explanation of how evolution works, from bestselling author of THE GOD DELUSION, Richard Dawkins. The river of Dawkins's title is a river of DNA, flowing through time from the beginning of life on earth to the present - and onwards. Dawkins explains that D ...Show more
To Explain the World The Discovery of Modern Science by Steven Weinberg
$39.99 AUD
Category: Science
In To Explain the World, pre-eminent theoretical physicist Steven Weinberg offers a rich and irreverent history of science from a unique perspective - that of a scientist. Moving from ancient Miletus to medieval Baghdad to Oxford, and from the Museum of Alexandria to the Royal Society of London, he show ...Show more
Cracking the Code by Stephen Damiani
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science
This story of a father's search to find a diagnosis, and ultimately a cure, for his son's mystery disease is an inspiration that has set the world of genetic medicine and research abuzz with the possibilities for the future. After Cracking the Code screened on Australian Story Stephen Damiani and his ex ...Show more