Brain Food by Karl Kruszelnicki
$19.99 AUD
Category: Science
In 'Brain Food' Dr Karl places the food industry under the microscope, gives an insight into your insides, reveals how hamburgers can kill, and puts his palate on the line - all in the name of flavoursome entertainment. Featuring 16 pages crammed full of glorious words and pictures, 'Brain Food' will ma ...Show more
The Planets by Professor Brian Cox; Andrew Cohen
$39.99 AUD
Category: Science
Jupiter: The Ruthless One - Mars: The Doomed One - Sun: The Fiery One - Saturn: The Beautiful One - Pluto: The Mysterious One Professor Brian Cox is back with another insightful and mind-blowing exploration of space. This time he shows us our solar system as we've never seen it before. We're living thro ...Show more
Seven and a Half Lessons about the Brain by Lisa Feldman Barrett
$19.99 AUD
Category: Science
'"I thought it might be fun for people to be able to a read a neuroscience book on the beach," Barrett explains. But be warned: you may find your world turned upside down before it is time for cocktails.' - Guardian'Each lesson will enlighten and unsettle you. It's like lifting up the hood of a car to s ...Show more
Gemstones in Victoria by Bill Birch, Dermot Henry
$29.95 AUD
Category: Science
Victoria is often seen as the forgotten state when it comes to gem minerals. The history of gems in Victoria is inextricably linked to the discovery of gold in 1851. In 1854, George Milner Stephen publicised for the first time, the discovery of gems in Victoria. These included blue and white sapphires f ...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
Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution by Neil deGrasse Tyson, Donald Goldsmith
$32.95 AUD
Category: Science
Our true origins are not only human, or even terrestrial, but in fact cosmic. Drawing on recent scientific breakthroughs and cross-pollination among geology, biology, astrophysics, and cosmology, Origins illuminates the soul-stirring leaps in our understanding of the cosmos. This newly revised and updat ...Show more
Micro Life: Miracles of the Miniature World Revealed by DK
$59.99 AUD
Category: Science
This book combines graceful design and beautiful photography to provide an elegant introduction to microscopic nature. Explore the everyday miracle of the microscopic world. With spectacular macro photography and microscope images, this book reveals a hidden, living world full of intricate structures be ...Show more
Brief Answers to the Big Questions: the final book from Stephen Hawking by Stephen Hawking
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. 'A beautiful little book by a brilliant mind'- DAILY TELEGRAPH. 'Effortlessly instructive, absorbing, up to the minute and - where it matters - witty'- GUARDIAN. The world-famous cosmologist and #1 bestselling author of A Brief History of Time leaves us with his final t ...Show more
The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science
Time is a mystery that does not cease to puzzle us. Philosophers, artists and poets have long explored its meaning while scientists have found that its structure is different from the simple intuition we have of it. From Boltzmann to quantum theory, from Einstein to loop quantum gravity, our understandi ...Show more
The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee by Jared Diamond
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
More than 98 percent of human genes are shared with two species of chimpanzee. The 'third' chimpanzee is man. This work surveys life-cycle, culture, sexuality and destructive urges both towards ourselves and the planet to explore the ways in which we are uniquely human yet still influenced by our animal ...Show more
Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays by Stephen Hawking
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science
Covering subjects ranging from the personal to the wholly scientific, this is a collection of Stephen Hawking's essays and other pieces, revealing him as scientist, man, concerned world citizen and imaginative thinker. He recalls his first experience of nursery school, punctures the arrogance of those w ...Show more
Wayfinding: The Science and Mystery of how Humans Navigate the World by Maura O'Connor
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science