Eve: How The Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution by Cat Bohannon
$36.99 AUD
Category: Science
An ambitious, eye-opening, myth-busting and groundbreaking history of the evolution of the female body, by a brilliant new scientist and writer. How did wet nurses drive civilization? Are women always the weaker sex? Is sexism useful for evolution? And are our bodies at war with our babies? In Eve, Ca ...Show more
The Meaning of it All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist by Richard P. Feynman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
Many appreciate Richard P. Feynmans contributions to twentieth-century physics, but few realize how engaged he was with the world around himhow deeply and thoughtfully he considered the religious, political, and social issues of his day. Now, a wonderful bookbased on a previously unpublished, three-part ...Show more
Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher by Matthew Sands, Richard Feynman, Robert Leighton
$26.99 AUD
Category: Science
The six easiest chapters from Feynmans landmark work, Lectures on Physics specifically designed for the general, non-scientist reader.
Beyond Measure - The Hidden History of Measurement by James Vincent
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science
A revelatory and vibrant story of measurement which will make you look at the world around you anew.'A wildly ambitious book by a formidably talented young writer.'ROBERT MACFARLANE'Vivid, epic, and full of curiosities. This is a book to delight and fascinate.'TIM HARFORD, bestselling author of How to M ...Show more
Dance of the Photons: From Einstein to Quantum Entanglement and Teleportation by Anton Zeilinger
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
A Nobel Laureate explains quantum entanglement and teleportation and why Einstein was wrong about the nature of reality. What is the true nature of reality? To find out, Nobel Laureate Anton Zeilinger takes us (along with his fictional students Alice and Bob) on a voyage through a quantum wonderland, e ...Show more
Beyond DNA: How Epigenetics is Transforming our Understanding of Evolution by Benjamin Oldroyd
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
Uncover how a new approach to epigenetics affects the basis for our understanding of evolutionary biologyBeyond DNA is a journey through uncharted territory, advancing new ways of thinking about evolution and adaptation. For nearly a hundred years evolutionary biologists have understood that evolution p ...Show more
A Future We Can Love: How We Can Reverse the Climate Crisis with the Power of Our Hearts and Minds by Susan Bauer-Wu
$47.99 AUD
Category: Science
Discover wisdom and guidance to face the climate emergency from the most influential spiritual and environmental leaders of our time, including the Dalai Lama, Greta Thunberg, Joanna Macy, Vandana Shiva, Paul Hawken, Katharine Hayhoe, and Matthieu Ricard. When the Dalai Lama and Greta Thunberg spoke fo ...Show more
The Experience Machine: How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality by Andy Clark
$55.00 AUD
Category: Science
A grand new vision of cognitive science that explains how our minds build our worlds For as long as we've studied the mind, we've believed that information flowing from our senses determines what our mind perceives. But as our understanding has advanced in the last few decades, a hugely powerful new vi ...Show more
2024 Guide to the Night Sky Southern Hemisphere: A Month-by-Month Guide to Exploring the Skies Above Australia, New Zealand and South Africa by Storm Dunlop, Wil Tirion, Collins Astronomy
$19.99 AUD
Category: Science
The ideal gift for all amateur and seasoned astronomers. A comprehensive handbook to the planets, stars and constellations visible from the southern hemisphere. 6 pages for each month covering January–December 2024. Diagrams drawn for the latitude of southern Australia, but including events visible from ...Show more
Ways of Being - Animals, Plants, Machines - The Search for a Planetary Intelligence by James Bridle
$26.99 AUD
Category: Science | Reading Level: very good
Artist, technologist, and philosopher James Bridle's Ways of Being is a brilliant, searching exploration of different kinds of intelligence--plant, animal, human, artificial--and how they transform our understanding of humans' place in the cosmos. What does it mean to be intelligent? Is it something uni ...Show more
Eight Improbable Possibilities by John Gribbin
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science
A mind-warping excursion into the wildly improbable truths of science.
The Human Mind A Brief Tour of Everything We Know by Paul Bloom
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
Paul Bloom is Professor of Psychology at Yale University. He is an internationally recognised expert on the psychology of language, social reasoning, morality and art. His previous books include Just Babies and How Pleasure Works, and he has written for numerous publications, including the New York Time ...Show more