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How Innovation Works: Serendipity, Energy and the Saving of Time by Matt Ridley
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
Ridley is spot-on when it comes to the vital ingredients for success' Sir James Dyson Building on his bestseller The Rational Optimist, Matt Ridley chronicles the history of innovation, and how we need to change our thinking on the subject. Innovation is the main event of the modern age, the reason we e ...Show more
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
$25.00 AUD
Category: Science
#1 New York Times Bestseller From a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity's creation and evolution--a #1 international bestseller--that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be "human." One hundred thou ...Show more
The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson
$23.00 AUD
Category: Science
'We spend our whole lives in one body and yet most of us have practically no idea how it works and what goes on inside it. The idea of the book is simply to try to understand the extraordinary contraption that is us.' Bill Bryson sets off to explore the human body, how it functions and its remarkable a ...Show more
Stephen Hawking by Leonard Mlodinow
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
An icon of the last fifty years, Stephen Hawking seems to encapsulate genius- not since Albert Einstein has a scientific figure held such a position in popular consciousness. In this enthralling memoir, writer and physicist Leonard Mlodinow tells the story of his friend and their friendship, offering an ...Show more
The Better Half - On the Genetic Superiority of Women by Sharon Moalem
$30.00 AUD
Category: Science
Here are some facts - Women live longer than men. Women have stronger immune systems. They are less likely to suffer from learning and developmental disabilities, and are better at fighting cancer and surviving famine. Women are simply stronger than men at every stage of life, though we are taught the o ...Show more
The Language of Butterflies by Wendy Williams
$30.00 AUD
Category: Science
An enthralling look at one of the world's most beautiful and resilient animals, and the role they play in our ecosystem Butterflies are beloved across the globe, adorning gardens, parks and zoos. Their feats are staggering - monarchs migrate thousands of kilometres each year. They are smarter than we th ...Show more
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli
$13.00 AUD
Category: Science
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
The Genes That Make Us: Human Stories from a Revolution in Medicine by Edwin Kirk
$33.00 AUD
Category: Science
Genes -- we all have them and we're all affected by them, often in unknown ways. Whether directly inherited or modified by our environment, genes control or significantly influence almost every aspect of our lives, from the success of our conception and the development of our sexual characteristics, to ...Show more
Pluses and Minuses: How Maths Solves Our Problems by Stefan Buijsman; Andy Brown (Translator)
$33.00 AUD
Category: Science
You look up from your phone for a moment to order an espresso. It's made with one of those large stainless-steel coffee makers that heats the water until it's precisely the right temperature. It keeps track of how fast the water warms up and uses that to calculate whether it needs to apply more or less ...Show more
Pandemic Century - A History of Contagion From The Spanish Flu To Covid 19 by Mark Honigsbaum
$23.00 AUD
Category: Science
A Financial Times Best Book of the Year The most timely and informative history book you will read this year, tracing a century of pandemics, with a new chapter on COVID-19. Ever since the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic, scientists have dreamed of preventing catastrophic outbreaks of infectious disea ...Show more
The Doctor Who Fooled the World: Andrew Wakefield by Brian Deer
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
Award-winning investigative reporter Brian Deer reveals the shocking truth behind the rise of Andrew Wakefield the so-called father of the anti-vaccine movement. In February 1998, a then-unknown British doctor, Andrew Wakefield, published an explosive scientific paper in a top medical journal, The Lan ...Show more
The NeuroGeneration by Tan Le
$33.00 AUD
Category: Science
A highly engaging guided tour through the frontiers of what science knows about how the brain works, how to extend its power and how to fix it when it's broken.' - David Gillespie, author of Sweet Poison and Teen Brain'Tan Le writes with optimism and compassion about the extraordinary evolution of brain ...Show more