How the World Really Works - A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present, and Future by Vaclav Smil
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
Delightfully contrarian, this is the one book you need to read to understand our modern world. We have never had so much information at our fingertips and yet most of us don't know how the world really works. This book explains seven of the most fundamental realities governing our survival and prosperit ...Show more
Phenomena : The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis by Annie Jacobsen (Contribution by)
$24.99 AUD
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
Resurrection Science by Mr O'Connor
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
In a world dominated by human interference and rapid climate change, species large and small are increasingly vulnerable to extinction. In Resurrection Science, journalist M.R. O'Connor explores the extreme measures that scientists are taking to try and save them, from captive breeding and translocating ...Show more
House of Karls by Dr Karl Kruszelnicki
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science
In the ruthless pursuit of scientific fact, there is no candidate more formidable than Dr Karl Kruszelnicki. Power hungry for experimentation, data manipulation and outlandish science propaganda, Dr Karl is Australia's incumbent President of Science. In House of Karls, he addresses a range of issues and ...Show more
Wonders of the Universe by Brian Cox; Andrew Cohen
$39.99 AUD
Category: Science
"Cox brings a magical enchantment to this life-changing book. . . . I swear that you will never be the same again after you turn the last page of this unique and irresistible book." --Sunday Express (London) Experience the cosmos as never before with Brian Cox's Wonders of the Universe, a gorgeously il ...Show more
Anatomy: A Cutaway Look Inside the Human Body by Jean-Claude Druvert; Hélène Druvert
$39.99 AUD
Category: Science
Anatomy is a gorgeous, large-format book filled with clever cutouts exploring every detail of the organs, systems and senses that make up that most marvellous of machines, the human body. This fact-filled journey is illustrated by Hélène Druvert, the acclaimed creator of the award-winning Paris Up, Up a ...Show more
The Wood for the Trees: The Long View of Nature from a Small Wood by Richard A. Fortey
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science
From one of our greatest science writers, this biography of a beech-and-bluebell wood through diverse moods and changing seasons combines stunning natural history with the ancient history of the countryside to tell the full story of the British landscape. 'The woods are the great beauty of this country. ...Show more
A Universe From Nothing by Lawrence M. Krauss
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science
Where did the universe come from? What was there before it? What will the future bring? And finally, why is there something rather than nothing? Lawrence Krauss' provocative answers to these and other timeless questions in a wildly popular lecture now on YouTube have attracted almost a million viewers. ...Show more
Why Does E=MC2?: (and Why Should We Care?) by Brian Cox
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
Cutting-edge scientists unlock the secrets of Einstein's iconic equation in this "thrilling experience of passionate comprehension." (Ann Druyan, co-writer, "Cosmos")
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
The Art of Logic: how to make sense in a world that doesn't by Eugenia Cheng
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
Emotions are powerful. In newspaper headlines and on social media, they have become the primary way of understanding the world. But strong feelings make it more difficult to see the reality behind the rhetoric. In The Art of Logic, Eugenia Cheng shows how mathematical logic can help us see things more c ...Show more