Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science | Reading Level: good
In this mind-bending introduction to modern physics, Carlo Rovelli explains Einstein's theory of general relativity, quantum mechanics, black holes, the complex architecture of the universe, elementary particles, gravity, and the nature of the mind.Everything you need to know about modern physics, the u ...Show more
We Are Electric: The New Science of Our Body's Electrome by Sally Adee
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science
Award-winning science and technology journalist Sally Adee reveals the new science of our body's electrome You may be familiar with the idea of our body's biome - the bacterial fauna that populates our gut and can so profoundly affect our health. In We Are Electric we cross the next frontier of scientif ...Show more
Regenesis: How to Feed the World Without Devouring the Planet by George Monbiot
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science
Campaigners, chefs and food writers rail against 'intensive farming'. But the problem isn't the adjective. It's the noun. Around the world, farming has been wiping out vast habitats, depleting freshwater, polluting oceans, and accelerating global heating, while leaving millions undernourished and unfed ...Show more
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
When we think of fungi, we likely think of mushrooms. But mushrooms are only fruiting bodies, analogous to apples on a tree. Most fungi live out of sight, yet make up a massively diverse kingdom of organisms that supports and sustains nearly all living systems. Fungi provide a key to understanding the p ...Show more
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
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Category: Science | Reading Level: good-very good
The acclaimed bestseller that will change the way you make decisions.In Thinking, Fast and Slow, Kahneman takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think and make choices. One system is fast, intuitive, and emotional; the other is slower, more delib ...Show more
Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet by Hannah Ritchie
$36.99 AUD
Category: Science
Feeling anxious, powerless or confused about the future of our planet? This book will transform how you see our biggest environmental problems - and how we can solve them We are bombarded by doomsday headlines that tell us the soil won't be able to support crops, fish will vanish from our oceans, that w ...Show more
100 Inspirational Quotes By Albert Einstein That Will Change Your Life And Set You Up For Success by Smith David
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science
The book "100 Inspirational Quotes By Albert Einstein That Will Change Your Life And Set You Up For Success" features a 100 amazing and inspiring quotes by one of the most famous scientists in history - Albert Einstein. Undoubtedly, this collection will give you a huge boost of inspiration and knowledge ...Show more
Fermat's Last Theorem by Simon Singh
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
'I have a truly marvellous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.' It was with these words, written in the 1630s, that Pierre de Fermat intrigued and infuriated the mathematics community. For over 350 years, proving Fermat's Last Theorem was the most notorious unso ...Show more
What's Gotten into You - The Story of Your Body's Atoms, from the Big Bang Through Last Night's Dinner by Dan Levitt
$65.00 AUD
Category: Science | Series: confirm availability
For readers of Bill Bryson, Neil deGrasse Tyson and Siddhartha Mukherjee, a wondrous, wildly ambitious, and vastly entertaining work of popular science that tells the awe-inspiring story of the elements that make up the human body, and how these building blocks of life travelled billions of miles and ac ...Show more
The Biggest Footprint by Rob Sears
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
An illustrated, fact-filled book about climate change, by the bestselling author of The Beautiful Poetry of Donald Trump. The mega human: colossal, clueless... And the biggest hope for life on earth. There are eight billion of us humans. All breathing, eating, fidgeting and thinking deep thoughts. It ...Show more
Is Maths Real? How Simple Questions Lead Us to Mathematics' Deepest Truths by Eugenia Cheng
$36.99 AUD
Category: Science
One of the world's most creative mathematicians offers new ways to look at maths - focusing on questions, not answers Why is -(-1) = 1? Why do odd and even numbers alternate? What's the point of algebra? Is maths even real? From imaginary numbers to the perplexing order of operations we all had drilled ...Show more
The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human by Siddhartha Mukherjee
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
This book is the story of the cell - past, present and future. Since the discovery of the cell in the 1660s and the discovery in the 1850s that most diseases can be traced back to our cells, human beings have been understood as an ecosystem of units that produce exponentially complex structures and effe ...Show more