Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words (PB) by Randall Munroe
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science
From the No. 1 bestselling author of What If? - the man who created xkcd and explained the laws of science with cartoons - comes a series of brilliantly simple diagrams ('blueprints' if you want to be complicated about it) that show how important things work: from the nuclear bomb to the biro.It's good ...Show more
The Story of the Brain in 10½ Cells by Richard Wingate
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
Peer into a microscopic world - and fall in love with the beauty of the brain There are more than 100 billion brain cells in our heads, and every single one represents a fragment of thought and feeling. And yet each cell is a mystery of beauty, with branching, intricate patterns like shattered glass. Ri ...Show more
The Importance of Being Interested by Robin Ince
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
The popular comedian and presenter journeys through science, explaining why it should be for everyone - including enthusiastic amateurs. Comedian Robin Ince quickly abandoned science at school, bored by a fog of dull lessons andintimidated by the barrage of equations. But, twenty years later, he fell in ...Show more
Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity by Peter Attia MD
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
This is the ultimate manual for longevity.For all its successes, mainstream medicine has failed to make much progress against the diseases of ageing that kill most people- heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer's disease, and type 2 diabetes. Too often, it intervenes with treatments too late, prolonging lifes ...Show more
Mother Brain: Separating Myth from Biology - the Science of the Parental Brain by Chelsea Conaboy
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science
A groundbreaking exploration of the parental brain that untangles insidious myths from complicated realities, Mother Brain explodes the concept of "maternal instinct" and tells a new story about what it means to become a parent. Before journalist Chelsea Conaboy gave birth, she anticipated the joy o ...Show more
Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration of the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation and Time Travel by Michio Kaku
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
'A brilliant, provocative, freewheeling tour around the exotic shores of physics'IndependentFrom cyborgs, starships,UFOs, aliens and antimatter to telepathy, invisibility, psychokinesis and precognitionAccording to Albert Einstein, 'If at first an idea does not sound absurd, there is not hope for it.' P ...Show more
Losing Our Minds: What Mental Illness Really Is - and What It Isn't by Lucy Foulkes
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science
Losing Our Minds provides an accessible distillation and empowering guide to the latest science of mental illness, overturning the notion that we are experiencing an 'epidemic' of mental illness, especially among young people. Much progress has been made in recent years to promote awareness and openness ...Show more
Taking Flight: The Evolutionary Story of Life on the Wing by Lev Parikian
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
This is the miracle of flight as you've never seen it before: the evolutionary story of life on the wing.A bird flits overhead. It's an everyday occurrence, repeated hundreds, thousands, millions of times daily by creatures across the world. It's something so normal, so entirely taken for granted, that ...Show more
The Good Virus: The Untold Story of Phages by Tom Ireland
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science
At every moment, within your body and all around you, trillions of microscopic combatants are fighting an invisible war. Countless times per second, 'good' viruses known as phages are infecting and destroying bacteria. These phages are the most abundant life form on the planet and have an incredible pow ...Show more
The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times by Jane Goodall and Douglas Abrams; With Gail Hudson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Global Icons Series
A legendary conservationist. A lifetime spent fighting for nature. An indispensable message of hope.The world-renowned naturalist and conservationist Jane Goodall has spent more than a half-century warning of our impact on our planet. From her famous encounters with chimpanzees in the forests of Gombe a ...Show more
An Immense World - How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science | Reading Level: near fine
A grand tour through the hidden realms of animal senses that will transform the way you perceive the world - from Pulitzer prize-winning journalist and bestselling author of I Contain Multitudes. The Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fi ...Show more
Helgoland by Carlo Rovelli
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
The instant Sunday Times bestseller -- a dazzling story of rebellion and science. In June 1925, twenty-three-year-old Werner Heisenberg, suffering from hay fever, had retreated to the treeless, wind-battered island of Helgoland in the North Sea in order to think. Walking all night, by dawn he had wrest ...Show more