Adam Spencer's Big Book of Numbers by Adam Spencer
$29.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
A hilarious, enlightening romp through the world of numbers with one of Australia's best-loved broadcasters. Why do people get freaked out by Friday the 13th? Where does a 'dozen' come from? Who was Erno Rubik? And how do you become a master at Sudoku? In 100 bite-sized chapters, mathematician, broadcas ...Show more
Incredible Unlikeliness of Being: Evolution and the Making of Us, The by Dr. Alice Roberts
$39.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
The presenter of the BBC's The Incredible Human Journey gives us a new and highly accessible look at our own bodies, allowing us to understand how we develop as an embryo, from a single egg into a complex body, and how our embryos contain echoes of our evolutionary past. Bringing together the latest sci ...Show more
P53 The Gene That Cracked The Cancer Code by Armstrong Sue
$29.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
Description: All of us have lurking in our DNA a most remarkable gene, which has a crucial job - it protects us from cancer. Known simply as p53, this gene constantly scans our cells to ensure that they grow and divide without mishap, as part of the routine maintenance of our bodies. If a cell makes a ...Show more
Physics for Rock Stars - Making the Laws of the Universe Work for You by Christine McKinley
$19.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
From the host of the History channel's "Brad Meltzer's Decoded: " the laws of the universe like you've never experienced them before. This approachable book explains the world of physics with clarity, humor, and a dash of adventure. Physics for Rock Stars is not a weighty treatise on science, but a pers ...Show more
What Colour is the Sun?: Mind-Bending Science Facts in the Solar System's Brightest Quiz by Brian Clegg
$17.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
Why do your fingers go wrinkly in the bath? What kind of animal can have 21 limbs? Who would really win a fight between a T.Rex and Godzilla? Test your knowledge of all things scientific with the biggest, brightest and most mind-bending quiz book this side of the Big Bang. Featuring 100 brain-melting Q& ...Show more
Theories of Everything by Frank Close
$22.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences | Series: Ideas in Profile | Reading Level: General Adult
A Light History of Hot Air by Peter Doherty
$27.95 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
We've lit big fires and gentle flames over the ages to open our minds, to warn of danger, to brighten our way through the darkness and to allow us to read in bed at night...Nobel Prize-winner Peter Doherty's enthusiasm and curiosity about the world around him informs this atmospheric collection of stori ...Show more
How Life Works : The Inside Word from a Biochemist by William H. Elliott
$29.95 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
Complete with colour illustrations and written in a conversational style, biochemist William Elliott unravels the mystery of life while revealing its majesty. How do chemical reactions occur? How do genes hold information? Why do our bodies age? What happens when someone gets cancer? How Life Works prov ...Show more
The Eternal Frontier: an Ecological History of North America & Its Peoplles by Tim Flannery
$24.95 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
In the tradition of Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs and Steel, and Flannery's own best-seller, The Future Eaters, this is ecological history on a monumental scale. Tim Flannery has achieved something never before attempted: a history of the formation of North America as we know it today. The Eternal Frontie ...Show more
Spooky Action at a Distance by George Musser
$39.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
What is space? It isn't a question that most of us normally stop to ask. Space is the venue of physics; it's where things exist, where they move and take shape. Yet over the past few decades, physicists have discovered a phenomenon that operates outside the confines of space and time. The phenomenon, th ...Show more
Pluto by Richard Grossinger
$25.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
Encompassing astronomy, mythology, psychology, and astrology, this anthology offers a wealth of knowledge about our most famous dwarf planet. Pluto, once defined as the ninth and final planet, is, for the present, classified as the first dwarf planet in the second Kuiper Belt region of our solar system. ...Show more
Einstein's Dice and Schrodinger's Cat: How Two Great Minds Battled Quantum Randomness to Create a Unified Theory of Physics by Paul Halpern
$36.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
When the fuzzy indeterminacy of quantum mechanics overthrew the orderly world of Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein and Erwin Schrodinger were at the forefront of the revolution. Neither man was ever satisfied with the standard interpretation of quantum mechanics, however, and both rebelled against what they ...Show more