Quantum - Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality by Manjit Kumar
$25.00 AUD
Category: Science
For most people, quantum theory is a byword for mysterious, impenetrable science. And yet for many years it was equally baffling for scientists themselves. In this magisterial book, Manjit Kumar gives a dramatic and superbly-written history of this fundamental scientific revolution, and the divisive deb ...Show more
The Weather Makers: The History and Future Impact of Climate Change by Tim Flannery
$26.95 AUD
Category: Science
What does climate change mean? How will global warming affect our lives? Is it the cause of wilder storms and more frequent droughts? Are these events inevitable? Tim Flannery makes this urgent issue completely accessible. He tells the fascinating story of climate change over millions of years to help u ...Show more
The Stuff of Thought: : Language as a window into human nature by Steven Pinker
$23.00 AUD
Category: Science
The Stuff of Thought is an exhilarating work of non-fiction. Surprising, thought-provoking and incredibly enjoyable, there is no other book like it - Steven Pinker will revolutionise the way you think about language. He analyses what words actually mean and how we use them, and he reveals what this can ...Show more
Wildwood: A Journey Through Trees by Roger Deakin
$25.00 AUD
Category: Science
Roger Deakin's "Wildwood" is a much loved classic of nature writing. "Wildwood" is about the element wood, as it exists in nature, in our souls, in our culture and our lives. From the walnut tree at his Suffolk home, Roger Deakin embarks upon a quest that takes him through Britain, across Europe, to Cen ...Show more
The Canon : A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science by Natalie Angier
$32.95 AUD
Category: Science
From the Pulitzer Prize winner and best-selling author of Woman, a playful, passionate guide to the science all around us With the singular intelligence and exuberance that made Woman an international sensation, Natalie Angier takes us on a whirligig tour of the scientific canon. She draws on conversati ...Show more
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
$20.00 AUD
Category: Science
"The God Delusion" caused a sensation when it was published in 2006. Within weeks it became the most hotly debated topic, with Dawkins himself branded as either saint or sinner for presenting his hard-hitting, impassioned rebuttal of religion of all types. His argument could hardly be more topical. Whil ...Show more
Uncertainty by David Lindley
$24.95 AUD
$27.95 (10% off)
Category: Science
Werner Heisenberg's "uncertainty principle" challenged centuries of scientific understanding, placed him in direct opposition to Albert Einstein, and put Niels Bohr in the middle of one of the most heated debates in scientific history. Heisenberg's theorem stated that there were physical limits to what ...Show more
Scorcher: The Dirty Politics of Climate Change by Clive Hamilton
$29.95 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Black Inc. Agenda Ser.
This is the book that blows the whistle on the politics of global warming in Australia. Why have our political leaders been so slow to act? Which are the fossil-fuel lobby groups that still set the policy agenda? How many different ways can one spin, deceive, lie and obfuscate instead of facing facts an ...Show more
Curious Obsessions : In the history of science and spirituality by Rachael Kohn
$32.95 AUD
Category: Science
Astonishing stories of religious quests that have spurred humankind on to great discoveries, from popular ABC Radio National presenter and author Rachael Kohn. A monk who kept banned books in a secret library under the nose of the Pope; an abbess who designed outlandish royal garments for her nuns; a ma ...Show more
An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About it by Al Gore
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
The truth about the climate crisis is an inconvenient one that means we are going to have to change the way we live our lives. Our climate crisis may at times appear to be happening slowly, but in fact it has become a true planetary emergency and we must recognise that we are facing a crisis. So why is ...Show more
We are the Weather Makers by Tim Flannery
$22.95 AUD
Category: Science
Tim Flannery dedicated the first edition of The Weather Makers to children: 'to all of their generation who will have to live with the consequences of our decisions.' Seventy percent of the people who are alive now will be alive in 2050. This is the date, many scientists agree, by which we have to cut o ...Show more
Albertus Seba, Cabinet of Natural Curiosities by Irmgard Musch; Rainer Willmann; Jes Rust
$110.00 AUD
Category: Science
Albertus Seba's curious creatures: A most unusual collection of natural specimens Albertus Seba's Cabinet of Natural Curiosities is one of the 18th century's greatest natural history achievements and remains one of the most prized natural history books of all time. Though scientists of his era often col ...Show more