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
The Universe: The Book of the BBC TV Series Presented by Professor Brian Cox by Andrew Cohen, Professor Brian Cox
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
Every night, above our heads, a drama of epic proportions is playing out. Diamond planets, zombie stars, black holes heavier than a billion Suns. The cast of characters is extraordinary, and each one has its own incredible story to tell. We once thought of our Earth as unique, but we have now discovere ...Show more
Pathogenesis - How infectious diseases shaped human history by Jonathan Kennedy
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science | Reading Level: very good
Humans did not make history - we played host. This book is Guns, Germs and Steel without the guns and steel, Sapiens for the pandemic era. A major new history of the world. This humbling and revelatory book shows how infectious disease has shaped humanity at every stage, from the first success of Homo s ...Show more
Nuts and Bolts: Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World (in a Big Way) by Roma Agrawal
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science
Smartphones, skyscrapers, spacecraft. Modern technology seems mind-bogglingly complex. But beneath the surface, it can be beautifully simple. In Nuts and Bolts, award-winning engineer and broadcaster Roma Agrawal deconstructs our most complex feats of engineering into seven fundamental inventions: the n ...Show more
Nine Musings on Time: Science Fiction, Science Fact, and the Truth About Time Travel by John Gribbin
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Category: Science
Time travel is a familiar theme of science fiction, but is it really possible?
What's the Use?: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics by Ian Stewart
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
A bestselling author tries to rehabilitate a much-maligned field.
What's Eating the Universe?: And Other Cosmic Questions by Paul Davies
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science
Combining the latest scientific advances with storytelling skills unmatched in the cosmos, an award-winning astrophysicist and popular writer leads us on a tour of some of the greatest mysteries of our universe. In the constellation of Eridanus, there lurks a cosmic mystery: It's as if something has tak ...Show more
Helgoland by Carlo Rovelli
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Category: Science
The instant Sunday Times bestseller -- a dazzling story of rebellion and science. In June 1925, twenty-three-year-old Werner Heisenberg, suffering from hay fever, had retreated to the treeless, wind-battered island of Helgoland in the North Sea in order to think. Walking all night, by dawn he had wrest ...Show more
The Invisible Universe: Why There's More to Reality than Meets the Eye by Matthew Bothwell
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science
A guide to the 99% of the Universe our eyes can't see from a dazzling new voice in popular science From the discovery of entirely new kinds of galaxies to a window into cosmic 'prehistory', Bothwell shows us the Universe as we've never seen it before - literally. Since the dawn of our species, p ...Show more
The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human by Siddhartha Mukherjee
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
This book is the story of the cell - past, present and future. Since the discovery of the cell in the 1660s and the discovery in the 1850s that most diseases can be traced back to our cells, human beings have been understood as an ecosystem of units that produce exponentially complex structures and effe ...Show more
The Body Illustrated: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson
$65.00 AUD
Category: Science
A new, beautifully illustrated edition of the Number One Bestseller and Sunday Times Science Book of the Year, which takes us on a head-to-toe tour of the marvel that is the human body. A directory of wonders' - Guardian 'Jaw-dropping' -The Times 'It is a feat of narrative skill to bake so many facts in ...Show more
Black Hole Survival Guide by Janna Levin
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science
A very short book for readers of Carlo Rovelli that explains the science of Black Holes by taking the reader on a journey inside oneWhat would happen if you fell into a Black Hole?Black holes are found throughout the universe. They can be microscopic. They can be billions of times larger than our Sun. T ...Show more