Time Travel by James Gleick
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
From the acclaimed author of The Information and Chaos, a mind-bending exploration of time travel: its subversive origins, its evolution in literature and science, and its influence on our understanding of time itself. Gleick's story begins at the turn of the twentieth century with the young H. G. Wells ...Show more
Evolution: A Visual Record by Robert Clark
$49.95 AUD
Category: Science
Stunning images to reawaken us to the scientific process that drives the amazing diversity of life on earth Evidence of evolution is everywhere. Through 200 revelatory images, award-winning photographer Robert Clark makes one of the most important foundations of science clear and exciting to everyone. E ...Show more
The Man Who Wasn't There - Tales from the Edge of the Self by Anil Ananthaswamy
$27.00 AUD
Category: Science
An Oliver Sacks-style tour of the neuroscience of schizophrenia, autism, Alzheimer's, epilepsy, Cotard's syndrome and out of body experiences in which people lose some critical sense of themselves - with sometimes bizarre and often painful results - revealing the absolute importance of our sense of self ...Show more
Reality is Not What it Seems by Carlo Rovelli
$39.99 AUD
Category: Science
From the best-selling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics comes a new book about the mind-bending nature of the universe What are time and space made of? Where does matter come from? And what exactly is reality? Scientist Carlo Rovelli has spent his whole life exploring these questions and pushing ...Show more
Physics for Future Presidents by Richard A. Muller
$33.00 AUD
Category: Science
"Physics for Future Presidents" gives the reader the science behind the headlines - the tools of terrorists, the dangers of nuclear power and the reality of global warming. We live in complicated, dangerous times. They are also hypertechnical times. As citizens of the world today, we need to know - trul ...Show more
The Gardener and the Carpenter by Alison Gopnik
$39.99 AUD
Category: Science
One of the world's leading child psychologists shatters the myth of 'good parenting'. Caring deeply about our children is part of what makes us human. Yet the thing we call 'parenting' is a surprisingly new invention. In the past thirty years, the concept of parenting and the huge industry surrounding i ...Show more
How to Make a Spaceship: A Band of Renegades, an Epic Race and the Birth of Private Space Flight by Julian Guthrie
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
Alone in a spartan black cockpit, test pilot Mike Melvill rocketed towards space. He had eighty seconds to exceed the speed of sound and begin the climb to a target no civilian pilot had ever reached. He might not make it back alive. If he did, he would make history as the world's first commercial astro ...Show more
Picasso's Brain The basis of creative genius by Christine Temple
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
A fascinating study of the factors that contribute to creative genius from an eminent neuropsychologist, using Pablo Picasso as our case study Where does creativity come from? Why are some people more creative than others? Eminent neuropsychologist Christine Temple navigates a wide range of factors from ...Show more
Einstein's Greatest Mistake - The Life of a Flawed Genius by David Bodanis
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
Widely considered the greatest genius of all time, Albert Einstein revolutionised our understanding of the cosmos with his general theory of relativity and helped to lead us into the atomic age. Yet in the final decades of his life he was also ignored by most working scientists, his ideas opposed by eve ...Show more
The Most Perfect Thing: Inside (and Outside) a Bird's Egg by Tim Birkhead
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science
'I think that, if required on pain of death to name instantly the most perfect thing in the universe, I should risk my fate on a bird's egg' Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 1862 How are eggs of different shapes made, and why are they the shape they are? When does the shell of an egg harden? Why do some eggs ...Show more
The Planet Remade: How Geoengineering Could Change the World by Oliver Morton
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
The risks of global warming are real, and potentially vast. The difficulty of doing without fossil fuels is daunting, and possible insurmountable. So there is an urgent need for new thinking on climate. To meet that need, a small but increasingly influential group of scientists is exploring proposals fo ...Show more
Hunt for Vulcan - How Albert Einstein .. by Thomas Levenson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Science
In 1859, the brilliant scientist Urbain LeVerrier discovered that the planet Mercury has a wobble, that its orbit shifts over time. His explanation was that there had to be an unseen planet circling even closer to the sun. He called the planet Vulcan. Supported by the theories of Sir Isaac Newton, the f ...Show more