Enlightening SymbolsA Short History of Mathematical Notation and Its Hidden Powers by Joseph Mazur
$39.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
While all of us regularly use basic math symbols such as those for plus, minus, and equals, few of us know that many of these symbols weren't available before the sixteenth century. What did mathematicians rely on for their work before then? And how did mathematical notations evolve into what we know to ...Show more
Dr Karl's Big Book of Science Stuff and Nonsense by Karl Kruszelnicki
$17.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
This book is bigger than the BIG BANG! Divided into sections such as SPACED OUT, BODY BITS and PIECES, DINO DYNAMOS, ANIMAL ALLSORTS, MICRO ME and READ IT AND BELIEVE IT!, this activity book (with a difference) is stuffed with things to read, draw, puzzle, invent, order, unscramble, create, write, decod ...Show more
Game of Knowns: Science is Coming by Karl Kruszelnicki
$19.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
<b>There are Known Knowns, Known Unknowns, and Unknown Unknowns. And then there is Dr Karl. </b> <b>"Dr Karl is Australia's incumbent President of Science" <i>The Age</i></b> <b>"There's no topic on which Dr Karl does not have an interestingly expressed opinio ...Show more
House of Karls by Dr Karl Kruszelnicki
$32.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
In the ruthless pursuit of scientific fact, there is no candidate more formidable than Dr Karl Kruszelnicki. Power hungry for experimentation, data manipulation and outlandish science propaganda, Dr Karl is Australia's incumbent President of Science. In House of Karls, he addresses a range of issues and ...Show more
House of Karls by Karl Kruszelnicki
$19.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
In the ruthless pursuit of scientific fact, there is no candidate more formidable than Dr Karl Kruszelnicki. Power hungry for experimentation, data manipulation and outlandish science propaganda, Dr Karl is Australia's incumbent President of Science. In House of Karls, he addresses a range of issues and ...Show more
The Doctor by Karl Kruszelnicki
$19.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
THE TIME(LESS) LORD OF SCIENCE, DR KARL KRUSZELNICKI, IS BACK. No need for the Tardis when you can mind travel through "wibbly-wobbly" theories of Time Travel, how alcohol makes you speak louder, how to tell what part of a movie the audience is watching without looking, and why Americans are no longer t ...Show more
The Vital Question: Why is Life the Way it is? by Nick Lane
$24.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
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
Connected World by Philip Larrey
$35.00 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
The world as we know it is changing. Driverless cars, drone deliveries and autonomous weapon systems are no longer the stuff of science fiction. But what's next for technology and business, and how will it impact our society? In Connected World, Philip Larrey of the Vatican University explores the conse ...Show more
QI: The Third Book of General Ignorance by John Lloyd
$19.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences | Series: Quite Interesting Ser.
The Third Book of General Ignorance gathers together 180 questions, both new and previously featured on the BBC TV programme's popular 'General Ignorance' round, and show why, when it comes to general knowledge, none of us knows anything at all. Who invented the sandwich? What was the best thing before ...Show more
Cosmos: The Infographic Book of Space by Stuart Lowe
$19.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
Life. The Universe. Everything. The human race has always revealed an insatiable hunger to search "to infinity and beyond". In this truly mind-blowing book, partners in science Stuart Lowe and Chris North use cutting edge infographics to illuminate - in a new and unique way - the most amazing places and ...Show more
The Upright Thinkers: The Human Journey from Living in Trees to Understanding the Cosmos by Leonard Mlodinow
$52.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
In this fascinating and illuminating work, Leonard Mlodinow guides us through the critical eras and events in the development of science, all of which, he demonstrates, were propelled forward by humankind's collective struggle to know. From the birth of reasoning and culture to the formation of the stud ...Show more
The Planet Remade: How Geoengineering Could Change the World by Oliver Morton
$39.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
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.