Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space by Janna Levin
$55.00 AUD
Category: Science
The full inside story of the detection of gravitational waves at LIGO, one of the most ambitious feats in scientific history. Travel around the world 100 billion times. A strong gravitational wave will briefly change that distance by less than the thickness of a human hair. We have perhaps less than a f ...Show more
The Vital Question: Why is Life the Way it is? by Nick Lane
$25.00 AUD
Category: Science
Why is life the way it is? Bacteria evolved into complex life just once in four billion years of life on earth-and all complex life shares many strange properties, from sex to ageing and death. If life evolved on other planets, would it be the same or completely different? In The Vital Question, Nick La ...Show more
Digital vs Human - How We'll Live, Love, and Think in the Future by Richard Watson
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
From the author of the international bestseller Future Filescomes the one book you need to prepare for the world of tomorrow. On most measures that matter, we've never had it so good. Physically, life for humankind has improved immeasurably over the last fifty years. Yet, spreading across the world, the ...Show more
No Need for Geniuses: Revolutionary Science in the Age of the Guillotine by Professor Steve Jones
$33.00 AUD
Category: Science
Paris at the time of the French Revolution was the world capital of science. Its scholars laid the foundations of today's physics, chemistry and biology. They were true revolutionaries: agents of an upheaval both of understanding and of politics. Many had an astonishing breadth of talents. The Minister ...Show more
The Penultimate Curiosity: How Science Swims in the Slipstream of Ultimate Questions by Roger Wagner
$50.95 AUD
Category: Science
When young children first begin to ask 'why?' they embark on a journey with no final destination. The need to make sense of the world as a whole is an ultimate curiosity that lies at the root of all human religions. It has, in many cultures, shaped and motivated a more down to earth scientific interest ...Show more
Idiot Brain: A Neuroscientist Explains What Your Head is Really Up to by Dean Burnett
$30.00 AUD
Category: Science
Why do you lose arguments with people who know much less than you? Why can you recognise that woman, from that thing...but can't remember her name? And why, after your last break-up, did you find yourself in the foetal position on the sofa for days, moving only to wipe the snot and tears haphazardly fro ...Show more
To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science by Steven Weinberg
$27.00 AUD
Category: Science
In To Explain the World, pre-eminent theoretical physicist Steven Weinberg offers a rich and irreverent history of science from a unique perspective - that of a scientist. Moving from ancient Miletus to medieval Baghdad to Oxford, and from the Museum of Alexandria to the Royal Society of London, he show ...Show more
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
$33.00 AUD
Category: Science
THE NEW YORK TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Finishing this book and then forgetting about it is simply not an option...Unmissable' New York Times At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decadeâe(tm)s training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with ...Show more
In Love with Betty the Crow - The Science Show ABC radio by Robyn Williams
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science
Robyn Williams reflects on why science matters, after 40 years of ABC RN's The Science Show. The Science Show with Robyn Williams on Radio National is one of the longest running programs on Australian radio. Scientific issues, debates, events, personalities, exposing scientific fraud, discoveries and b ...Show more
Galileo's Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and the Search for Justice in Science by Alice Dreger (Northwestern University Medical School, Illinois)
$50.00 AUD
Category: Science
Jared Diamond, author of "Guns, Germs, and Steel" and "The World until Yesterday""Alice Dreger would win a prize for this year's most gripping novel, except for one thing: her stories are true, and this isn't a novel. Instead, it's an exciting account of complicated good guys and bad guys, and the pursu ...Show more
The Telomerase Revolution: The Breakthrough That Holds the Key to Slowing the Ageing Process by Michael Fossel
$30.00 AUD
Category: Science
Science is on the cusp of a revolutionary breakthrough. We now understand more about aging - and how to prevent and reverse it - than ever before.Dr. Michael Fossel has been in the forefront of aging research for decades. In The Telomerase Revolution, he takes us on a scientific journey, with startling ...Show more
Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs: The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe by Lisa Randall
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science