Our Mathematical Universe - My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality by Max Tegmark
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
In Our Mathematical Universe, Max Tegmark, one of the most original physicists at work today, leads us on an astonishing journey to explore the mysteries uncovered by cosmology and to discover the nature of realityPart-history of the cosmos, part-intellectual adventure, Our Mathematical Universe travels ...Show more
Mortals: How the fear of death shaped human society by Rachel Menzies, Ross Menzies
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science
Human society is shaped by many things, but underlying them all is one fundamental force - our fear of death. This is the ground-breaking theory explored in Mortals.Mortals is a ground-breaking book uncovering the fear of death as the hidden driver of most of our species' endeavours over millennia. The ...Show more
Starry Messenger - Cosmic Perspectives on Civilisation by Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Category: Science
Bringing his cosmic perspective to civilization on Earth, Neil deGrasse Tyson, bestselling author of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, shines new light on the crucial fault lines of our time-war, politics, religion, truth, beauty, gender, race, and tribalism-in a way that stimulates a deeper sense of ...Show more
Flights Of Fancy (HB) by Richard Dawkins
$39.99 AUD
Category: Science
The Wonder of Flight. The Science of Evolution. From both, Richard Dawkins weaves a fascinating and beautifully illustrated account of how nature and humans have learned to overcome the pull of gravity and take to the skies. Have you ever dreamt you could fly? Or imagined what it would be like to glide ...Show more
Phenomena : The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis by Annie Jacobsen (Contribution by)
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Category: Science
For more than forty years, the U.S. government has researched extrasensory perception, using it to locate hostages, fugitives, secret bases, and downed fighter jets, to divine other nations' secrets, and even to predict future threats to national security. Now, for the first time, Annie Jacobsen tells t ...Show more
The Night Sky Explorer by Robin & Jackson Kerrod
$39.95 AUD
Category: Science
The Night Sky Explorer contains all the information and equipment the aspiring astronomer needs to get started. The hardback case contains two separate pocket size books, designed to travel with you on star gazing trips: • Mapping the Skies includes maps of the major constellations for each month of the ...Show more
A (Very) Short History of Life On Earth by Henry Gee
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science
'Exhilaratingly whizzes through billions of years . . . Gee is a marvellously engaging writer, juggling humour, precision, polemic and poetry to enrich his impossibly telescoped account . . . [making] clear sense out of very complex narratives' - The Times' 'Henry Gee makes the kaleidoscopically changin ...Show more
Forbidden Archeology by CREMO
$60.00 AUD
Category: Science
Over the centuries, researchers have found bones and artifacts proving that humans like us have existed for millions of years. Mainstream science, however, has supppressed these facts. Prejudices based on current scientific theory act as a knowledge filter, giving us a picture of prehistory that is larg ...Show more
Hyperspace - A scientific odyssey through the 10th dimension by Michio Kaku
$19.95 AUD
Category: Science
The author, one of the pioneers of string theory, has produced an accessible guide for the general reader to some of the most formidable modern concepts of mathematics and physics. These include string theory itself, hyperspace, non-Euclidean geometry, Kaluza-Klein theory and supergravity.
Longitude by Dava Sobel
$19.99 AUD
Category: Science
The dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest and of one man's forty-year obsession to find a solution to the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day--"the longitude problem." Anyone alive in the eighteenth century would have known that "the longitude problem" was the thorniest scientific dilemma ...Show more
Physics on the Fringe: Smoke Rings, Circlons, and Alternative Theories of Everything by Margaret Wertheim
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Category: Science
In 1993, Jim Carter, a trailer park owner in Enumclaw, Washington, sent out to a select group of scientists a letter announcing the publication of a book in which he proposed a complete alternative theory of physics. Gravity and matter, the periodic table, and the creation of the universe-all these Cart ...Show more
Elephants on Acid From Zombie Kittens to Tickling Machines: The Most Outrageous Experiments from the History of Science by Alex Boese
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Category: Science
Have you ever wondered if a severed head retains consciousness long enough to see what happened to it? Or whether your dog would run to fetch help, if you fell down a disused mineshaft? And what would happen if you were to give an elephant the largest ever single dose of LSD? The chances are that someon ...Show more