To Infinity and Beyond: A Journey of Cosmic Discovery by Neil deGrasse Tyson, Lindsey N. Walker
$55.00 AUD
Category: Science
Linked to a special mini season of the award-winning StarTalk podcast, this enlightening illustrated narrative by the world's most celebrated astrophysicist explains the universe from the solar system to the farthest reaches of space with authority and humor. No one can make the mysteries of the univers ...Show more
How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology by Philip Ball
$37.00 AUD
Category: Science
A cutting-edge new vision of biology that will revise our concept of what life itself is, how to enhance it, and what possibilities it offers. Biology is undergoing a quiet but profound transformation. Several aspects of the standard picture of how life works—the idea of the genome as a blueprint, of g ...Show more
Eve: How The Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution by Cat Bohannon
$37.00 AUD
Category: Science
An ambitious, eye-opening, myth-busting and groundbreaking history of the evolution of the female body, by a brilliant new scientist and writer. How did wet nurses drive civilization? Are women always the weaker sex? Is sexism useful for evolution? And are our bodies at war with our babies? In Eve, Ca ...Show more
Is Maths Real? How Simple Questions Lead Us to Mathematics' Deepest Truths by Eugenia Cheng
$37.00 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
How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind by Regan Penaluna
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
A timely critique investigating how four women philosophers persevered in a field that often suppressed and disregarded the insights of female thinkers. As a young woman growing up in a small, religious community, Regan Penaluna daydreamed about the big questions: Who are we and what is this strange wor ...Show more
21 Lessons for the 21st Century: 'Truly mind-expanding... Ultra-topical' Guardian by Yuval Noah Harari
$25.00 AUD
Category: Science
Sapiens showed us where we came from. Homo Deus looked to the future. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century explores the present. How can we protect ourselves from nuclear war, ecological cataclysms and technological disruptions? What can we do about the epidemic of fake news or the threat of terrorism? What ...Show more
Lost Connections: Why You're Depressed and How to Find Hope by Johann Hari
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Depression and anxiety are now at epidemic levels. Why? Across the world, scientists have uncovered evidence for nine different causes. Some are in our biology, but most are in the way we are living today. Lost Connections offers a radical new way of thinking about this cris ...Show more
The Hidden Life of Trees - What They Feel, How They Communicate - Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben
$33.00 AUD
Category: Science
Are trees social beings? In this international bestseller, forester and author Peter Wohlleben convincingly makes the case that, yes, the forest is a social network. He draws on groundbreaking scientific discoveries to describe how trees are like human families: tree parents live together with their chi ...Show more
Freedom to Think - The Long Struggle to Liberate Our Minds by Susie Alegre
$25.00 AUD
Category: Science
Without a moment's pause, we share our most intimate thoughts with trillion-dollar tech companies. Their algorithms categorize us and even shape our everyday thoughts and choices - from who we date to whether we vote. Our mental freedom is under threat like never before. But this is just the latest fron ...Show more
The Machine Age: An Idea, a History, a Warning by Robert Skidelsky
$55.00 AUD
Category: Science
A sweeping history of humanity's relationship with machines, showing how we got here and what happens next Faith in technological fixes for our problems is waning. Automation, which promised relief from toil, has reactivated the long-standing fear of job redundancy. Information technology, meant to lib ...Show more
Why We Die: The New Science of Ageing and the Quest for Immortality by Venki Ramakrishnan
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
The knowledge of death is so terrifying that we live most of our lives in denial of it. Our fear of death has underpinned our religions, inspired our cultures, and also driven our science. Today we are living through a revolution in biology. Giant strides are being made in our understanding of why we a ...Show more
A Book of Noises: Notes on the Auraculous by Caspar Henderson
$37.00 AUD
Category: Science
A wide-ranging exploration of the sounds that shape our world in invisible yet significant ways.The crackling of a campfire. The scratch, hiss, and pop of a vinyl record. The first glug of wine as it is poured from a bottle. These are just a few of writer Caspar Henderson's favorite sounds. In A Book of ...Show more