Starborn: How the Stars Made Us - and Who We Would Be Without Them by Roberto Trotta
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science
Imagine how different our world would be if our ancestors had looked up and there were no stars . . .For tens of thousands of years, the stars were our constant companions. One of our species' most enduring and universal relationships has been with the night sky itself, yet in the glow of today's artifi ...Show more
Curves for the Mathematically Curious: An Anthology of the Unpredictable, Historical, Beautiful, and Romantic by Julian Havil
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science
Ten amazing curves personally selected by one of today's most important math writers Curves for the Mathematically Curious is a thoughtfully curated collection of ten mathematical curves, selected by Julian Havil for their significance, mathematical interest, and beauty. Each chapter gives an accoun ...Show more
The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking, Leonard Mlodinow
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science
"In the last thirty years of his life Albert Einstein searched for a unified theory - a theory which could describe all the forces of nature in a single framework. But the time was not right for such a discovery in Einstein's day. Neither was the time right when, in 1988, Professor Stephen Hawking wrote ...Show more
The Quantum Universe - Everything That Can Happen Does Happen by Brian Cox & Jeff Forshaw
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
From the bestselling authors of "Why does E=mc2?" comes "The Quantum Universe", in which Brian Cox, presenter of the BBC's "Wonders of the Solar System" and "Wonders of the Universe", and Jeff Forshaw go on a brilliantly ambitious mission to show that everyone can understand the deepest questions of sci ...Show more
The Upright Thinkers by Leonard Mlodinow
$27.99 AUD
Category: Science
From the bestselling author of The Drunkard's Walk and Subliminal, this is the inspiring and illuminating story of how we have come to understand the world, from the invention of the very first tools to the mind-bending theories of quantum physics. Leonard Mlodinow guides us through the critical eras an ...Show more
I Think You'll Find it's a Bit More Complicated Than That by Ben Goldacre
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Category: Science
The very best journalism from one of Britain's most admired and outspoken science writers, author of the bestselling Bad Science and Bad Pharma. In Bad Science, Ben Goldacre hilariously exposed the tricks that quacks and journalists use to distort science. In Bad Pharma, he put the $600 billion global p ...Show more
The Earth: A Biography of Life: The Story of Life On Our Planet through 47 Incredible Organisms by Elsa Panciroli
$55.00 AUD
Category: Science
It is difficult to conceive of the vast scale of the history of life on Earth, from the very first living organisms that developed in hydrothermal deep-sea vents to the diversity of life today. The evolution of life is a sweeping epic of a tale, with twists and turns, surprising heroes and unlikely surv ...Show more
Beyond: The Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our Planet and Journey into Space by Stephen Walker
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science
'Thrilling ... High-definition history: tight, thrilling and beautifully researched' SUNDAY TIMES'This book is a triumph' DAN SNOW9.07 a.m., April 12, 1961. A top-secret rocket site in the USSR. A young Russian sits inside a tiny capsule on top of the Soviet Union's most powerful intercontinental ballis ...Show more
Lapidarium: The Secret Lives of Stones by Hettie Judah
$45.00 AUD
Category: Science
'A delightful storybook . . . a portrait of our whole world created from the contents of the ground' Literary Review 'A real cabinet of curiosities' Sunday Times From the hematite used in cave paintings to the moldavite that became a TikTok sensation; from the stolen sandstone of Scone to the unexpecte ...Show more
This Way to the Universe: A Journey into Physics by Michael Dine
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
Everything you need to know about physics, written in language anyone can follow by one of the greatest living physicistsThis Way to the Universe is a celebration of the astounding, ongoing scientific investigations that have revealed the nature of reality at its smallest, at its largest, and at the sca ...Show more
Elusive by Frank Close
$26.99 AUD
Category: Science
The story of the Higgs boson - the so-called 'God particle' - and the man who thought of it In the summer of 1964, a reclusive young professor at the University of Edinburgh wrote two scientific papers which have come to change our understanding of the most fundamental building blocks of matter and the ...Show more
Vital Organs by Suzie Edge
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science
The remarkable stories of the world's most famous body parts.Louis XIV's rear end inspired the British National Anthem. Queen Victoria's armpit led the development of antiseptics. Robert Jenkin's ear started a war. All too often, historical figures feel distant and abstract; more myth and legend than r ...Show more