What We Cannot Know by Marcus du Sautoy
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
Britain's most famous mathematician takes us to the edge of knowledge to show us what we cannot know. Is the universe infinite? Do we know what happened before the Big Bang? Where is human consciousness located in the brain? And are there more undiscovered particles out there, beyond the Higgs boson? In ...Show more
Do Statins Work?: The Battle for Perfect Evidence-Based Medicine by Ben Goldacre
$30.00 AUD
Category: Science
Statins are the single most commonly prescribed class of drugs in the whole of the developed world. They're taken by over 100 million people, with millions more patients being offered them every year. We know that statins do some good, but we don't know how big the benefits are. This book gives patients ...Show more
The Secret Code: The Mysterious Formula That Rules Art, Nature, and Science by Priya Hemenway
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
Deals with the Divine Proportion, a secret code that rules art, nature, and science; known by many names: Golden Mean, Sacred Cut and Phi are only a few.
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Life by Richard Dawkins
$60.00 AUD
Category: Science
A fully updated edition of one of the most original accounts of evolution ever written, featuring new fractal diagrams, six new 'tales' and the latest scientific developments. THE ANCESTOR'S TALE is a dazzling, four-billion-year pilgrimage to the origins of life: Richard Dawkins and Yan Wong take us on ...Show more
Adam Spencer's World of Numbers by Adam Spencer
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
What's a 'firkin'? Is a tardigrade animal, vegetable or mineral? How fast is Usain Bolt ... really? And what's the record for the most lobster rolls eaten in 10 minutes? All these questions and more are answered in Adam Spencer's World of Numbers. This is a book for young and old - for anyone who's ever ...Show more
We are All Stardust - Scientists Who Shaped Our World Talk About Their Work, Their Lives, and What They Still Want to Know by Stefan Klein
$28.00 AUD
Category: Science
World-leading natural and social scientists shed light on their discoveries and lives in conversation with an award-winning science writer.When acclaimed science writer Stefan Klein asks Nobel Prize - winning chemist Roald Hoffmann what sets scientists apart, Hoffmann says, 'First and foremost, curiosit ...Show more
The Planet Remade: How Geoengineering Could Change the World by Oliver Morton
$39.99 AUD
Category: Science
A climate-crisis book which offers a new - and controversial - solution: geoengineering, and which delivers a rich, deep history of climate change, and the science and politics that underpin it.
How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method by George Polya (Stanford Univ. Stanford University, California Stanford Univ. Stanford Univ. Stanford Univ. Stanford Univ. Stanford Univ. Stanford Univ. Stanford Univ. Stanford Univ. Stanford Univ. Stanford Univ. Stanford Univ. Stanford Univ. Stanford Univ.)
$30.00 AUD
Category: Science
Polya reveals how the mathematical method of demonstrating a proof can be of help in attacking any problem that can be 'reasoned' out. Generations of readers have relished Polya's instructions on stripping away irrelevancies and going straight to the heart of the problem.
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe
$23.00 AUD
Category: Science
From the creator of the wildly popular webcomic xkcd, hilarious and informative answers to important questions you probably never thought to ask Millions of people visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe’s iconic webcomic. His stick-figure drawings about science, technology, language, and love h ...Show more
Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology by Johnjoe McFadden (University of Surrey)
$45.00 AUD
Category: Science
Life is the most extraordinary phenomenon in the known universe; but how did it come to be? Even in an age of cloning and artificial biology, the remarkable truth remains: nobody has ever made anything living entirely out of dead material. Life remains the only way to make life. Are we still missing a v ...Show more
The Four Dimensional Human: Ways of Being in the Digital World by Laurence Scott
$62.99 AUD
Category: Science
This book is the winner of the Jerwood Prize. A constellation of everyday digital phenomena is rewiring our inner lives. We are increasingly coaxed from the third-dimensional containment of our pre-digital selves into a wonderful and eerie fourth dimension, a world of ceaseless communication, instant in ...Show more
The Laws of Medicine: Field Notes from an Uncertain Science by Siddhartha Mukherjee
$19.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: TED
The Laws of Medicine follows Pulitzer-Prize-winning author, Dr Mukherjee as he investigates some of the most perplexing and illuminating cases of his career - the cases that ultimately led him to identify the three key principles that govern medicine. As a young medical student, Mukherjee discovered The ...Show more