Solar System - Understanding Every Planet, Star and Space Object That Surrounds Us by David W. Hughes; Carole Stott
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science
Featuring incredible photography from satellites and manned spaceflights, from the International Space Station to the Hubble telescope, this book brings the night sky to life. The cosmos are an expansive and fascinating area to study. There is much that we don't know about space, but science has made le ...Show more
Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension by Matt Parker
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
This is the complete guide to exploring the fascinating world of maths you were never told about at school. Stand-up comedian and mathematician Matt Parker uses bizarre Klein Bottles, unimaginably small pizza slices, knots no one can untie and computers built from dominoes to reveal some of the most exo ...Show more
Out of Eden: The Peopling of the World by Stephen Oppenheimer
$29.95 AUD
Category: Science
In a brilliant synthesis of genetic, archaeological, linguistic and climatic data, Oppenheimer challenges current thinking with his claim that there was only one successful migration out of Africa. In 1988, "Newsweek" headlined the startling discovery that everyone alive on the earth today can trace the ...Show more
Reading in the Brain: The New Science of How We Read by Stanislas Dehaene
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science
"Brings together the cognitive, the cultural, and the neurological in an elegant, compelling narrative. A revelatory work." -Oliver Sacks, M.D. The act of reading is so easily taken for granted that we forget what an astounding feat it is. How can a few black marks on white paper evoke an entire univ ...Show more
Losing Earth: The Decade We Could Have Stopped Climate Change by Nathaniel Rich
$19.99 AUD
Category: Science
By 1979, we knew all that we know now about the science of climate change - what was happening, why it was happening and how to stop it. Over the next ten years, we had the very real opportunity to stop it. Obviously, we failed. Nathaniel Rich's groundbreaking account of that failure - and how tantalis ...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
When Galaxies Collide by Lisa Harvey-Smith
$19.99 AUD
Category: Science
In 2018, Lisa Harvey-Smith was appointed as the inaugural Australian Women in STEM Ambassador by the Australian Federal Government. 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 on ...Show more
ALIEN OCEANS THE SEARCH FOR LIFE IN THE DEPTHS OF SPACE by HAND KEVIN
$49.99 AUD
Category: Science
Inside the epic quest to find life on the water-rich moons at the outer reaches of the solar systemWhere is the best place to find life beyond Earth? We often look to Mars as the most promising site in our solar system, but recent scientific missions have revealed that some of the most habitable real es ...Show more
Universe by DK
$65.00 AUD
Category: Science
Marvel at the wonders of the Universe, from stars and planets to black holes and nebulae, in this exploration of our Solar System and beyond. Universe opens with a look at astronomy and the history of the Universe, using 3D artworks to provide a comprehensive grounding in the fundamental concepts of as ...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
The Climate Cure: Solving the Climate Emergency in the Era of COVID-19 by Tim Flannery
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
Australians are witnessing an unprecedented government response to crisis-swift decisive action to avert catastrophe. And the advice of scientists has informed every step of the way. But for decades the advice of scientists on the impending catastrophe that climate change will bring has been ignored, di ...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