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
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin Abbott Abbott
$24.95 AUD
Category: Science
In 1884, Edwin Abbott Abbott wrote a mathematical adventure set in a two-dimensional plane world, populated by a hierarchical society of regular geometrical figures-who think and speak and have all too human emotions. Since then Flatland has fascinated generations of readers, becoming a perennial scienc ...Show more
Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth by Andrew H. Knoll
$39.95 AUD
$41.95 (4% off)
Category: Science | Series: Princeton Science Library
Australopithecines, dinosaurs, trilobites--such fossils conjure up images of lost worlds filled with vanished organisms. But in the full history of life, ancient animals, even the trilobites, form only the half-billion-year tip of a nearly four-billion-year iceberg. Andrew Knoll explores the deep histor ...Show more
On Immunity: An Inoculation by Eula Biss
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
When Eula Biss became a mother, she stepped into a new world of fear: fear of the government, the medical establishment, the contents of her child's air, food, mattress and vaccines. In this bold, fascinating book, Biss investigates the metaphors and myths surrounding our conception of immunity, and its ...Show more
This Idea Must Die: Scientific Theories That Are Blocking Progress by John Brockman
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Edge Question Series
The bestselling editor of This Explains Everything brings together 175 of the world’s most brilliant minds to tackle Edge.org’s 2014 question: What scientific idea has become a relic blocking human progress? Each year, John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org—”The world’s smartest website” (The Guardian)—c ...Show more
10% Human: How Your Body's Microbes Hold the Key to Health and Happiness by Alanna Collen
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
Obesity, autism, mental health problems, IBS, allergies, auto-immunity, cancer. Does the answer to the modern epidemic of 'Western' diseases lie in our gut? You are 10% human. For every one of your cells, there are nine impostors hitching a ride. You are not just flesh and bone, but also bacteria and fu ...Show more
Brain Wars: The Scientific Battle Over the Existence of the Mind and the Proof That Will Change the Way We Live Our Lives by Mario Beauregard
$19.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
A Neuroscientist Offers Evidence of Where the Brain Ends and Consciousness Begins
Starmus 50 Years of Man in Space by Garik Israelian
$75.00 AUD
Category: Science
'Starmus' is an incredible series of talks, articles, and recollections that celebrate the human exploration of space. It is the result of the Starmus meeting in 2011, where legendary Russian and American pioneers of the space age met up for the first time to share the moments that electrified the human ...Show more