Sex at Dawn : The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality by Christopher Ryan; Cacilda Jethá
$27.99 AUD
Category: Science
Since Darwin's day, we've been told that sexual monogamy comes naturally to our species. Mainstream science - as well as religious and cultural institutions - has maintained that men and women evolved in families in which a man's possessions and protection were exchanged for a woman's fertility and fide ...Show more
The Wandering Mind: What the Brain Does When You're Not Looking by Michael C. Corballis
$39.99 AUD
Category: Science
If I've done my job well - and, let's be honest, if I'm lucky - you'll read to the end of this piece of copy. Most likely, however, you won't. Somewhere in the middle of the next paragraph, your mind will wander off. Minds wander. That's just how it is. That may be bad news for me, but is it bad news f ...Show more
Einstein's Masterwork - 1915 and the General Theory of Relativity by John Gribbin
$39.99 AUD
Category: Science
In 1915, Albert Einstein presented his masterwork to the Prussian Academy of Sciences--a theory of gravity, matter, space and time: the General Theory of Relativity. Einstein himself said it was "the most valuable theory of my life," and "of incomparable beauty." It describes the evolution of the univer ...Show more
Galaxy: Mapping the Cosmos by James Geach
$39.99 AUD
Category: Science
The numbers involved when it comes to discussing stars, galaxies and the inconceivably vast tracts of empty space between them are staggering. With hundreds of billions of galaxies in the observable universe, all of varying shapes, sizes and ages - each containing hundreds of billions of suns - at first ...Show more
Genius: Great Inventors and Their Creations by Jack Challoner
$39.99 AUD
Category: Science
Published in association with the Science Museum, London, Genius: Great Inventors and Their Creations, gives readers an unprecedented insight into the minds and lives of some of the great men and women who have helped shape the modern world. The book transports the reader back in time to share the excit ...Show more
The Rocks Don't Lie: A Geologist Investigates Noah's Flood by David R. Montgomery
$22.95 AUD
Category: Science
In Tibet, geologist David R. Montgomery heard a local story about a great flood that bore a striking similarity to Noah s Flood. Intrigued, Montgomery began investigating the world s flood stories and drawing from historic works by theologians, natural philosophers, and scientists discovered the counter ...Show more
When Galaxies Collide (Signed by Lisa Harvey-Smith) by Lisa Harvey-Smith
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
Why is the Milky Way blue? Why isn't a black hole dark? How many stars can you see with your naked eye?* How much hotter are blue stars than red ones?** Humans are the only known astronomers in the universe. When we look up at the night sky, we are linked to our ancestors. Away from city lights, we c ...Show more
Nature Via Nurture - Genes, Experience, and What Makes Us Human by Matt Ridley
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science
Acclaimed author Matt Ridley's thrilling follow-up to his bestseller Genome. Armed with the extraordinary new discoveries about our genes, Ridley turns his attention to the nature versus nurture debate to bring the first popular account of the roots of human behaviour. What makes us who we are? In Febru ...Show more
Nature Via Nurture: Genes, experience and what makes us human by Matt Ridley
$24.95 AUD
Category: Science
Acclaimed author Matt Ridley's thrilling follow-up to his bestseller Genome. Armed with the extraordinary new discoveries about our genes, Ridley turns his attention to the nature versus nurture debate to bring the first popular account of the roots of human behaviour. What makes us who we are?In Februa ...Show more
Climate Change - The Facts 2020 by Jennifer Marohasy (Editor)
$59.95 AUD
Category: Science
On 24 September 2019, the 17-year-old activist Greta Thunberg addressed the United Nations Climate Action Summit saying, "People are suffering. People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction." A day earlier, however, the climate policy foundation Climate ...Show more
Weather Journal by Australian Geographic ((various roles))
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
This journal allows you to record the weather where you live, a daily practice that will bring you a new awareness of the beauty of Australian skies and an insight into our changing climate.
Bechamp or Pasteur? - A Lost Chapter in the History of Biology by Ethel Hume
$30.00 AUD
Category: Science
This volume contains new editions of two books.R. Pearson's Pasteur, Plagiarist, Imposter, originally published in 1942, serves as the introduction. It details some of the reasons for the rancorous relationship between Louis Pasteur and Antoine Béchamp. Pearson points out many of the problems in Pasteur ...Show more