The Particle Zoo by Gavin Hesketh
$22.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
What is everything really made of? If we split matter down into smaller and infinitesimally smaller pieces, where do we arrive? At the Particle Zoo - the extraordinary subatomic world of antimatter, ghostly neutrinos, strange-flavoured quarks and time-travelling electrons, gravitons and glueballs, mindb ...Show more
Black Hole Blues & Other Songs/Outer Spa by Janna Levin
$29.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
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 Beak of the Finch: Story of Evolution in Our Time by Jonathan Weiner
$29.95 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
The Beak of the Finch tells the story of two Princeton University scientists--evolutionary biologists--engaged in an extraordinary investigation. They are watching, and recording, evolution as it is occurring--now--among the very species of Gal pagos finches that inspired Darwin's early musings on the o ...Show more
No Need for Geniuses : Revolutionary Science in the Age of the Guillotine by Steve Jones
$24.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
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
Adapt How Nature's Strangest Inventions Are Helping Design Our Future by Amina Khan
$29.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
Nature's creations are more sophisticated and elegant than anything humans have created. Geckos can run upside down along ceilings. Termite mounds can stay cool in the desert without air conditioning. Adapt explores how we can harness such ideas through the ground-breaking new science of biomimicry - wh ...Show more
A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History by Nicholas Wade
$19.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
Wade, a longtime journalist covering genetic advances for The New York Times, draws widely on the work of scientists who have made crucial breakthroughs in establishing the reality of recent human evolution. The most provocative claims in this book involve the genetic basis of human social habits. What ...Show more
The Puzzler's Dilemma by Derrick Niederman
$19.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
The Puzzler's Dilemma explores the world of classic logic puzzles, and tells the amazing stories behind them, from the Lighthouse of Alexandria to code-breaking with the Enigma machine. Here are brain teasers that even maths whizzes have never seen explained by a mind as nimble as Derrick Niederman's, a ...Show more
Great Calculations: A Surprising Look Behind 50 Scientific Inquiries by Colin Pask
$34.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
Science is based not only on observation and experiment, but on theory as well. As Einstein said, Theory tells us what to measure. And theories are often crystallized into succinct calculations, like those made using Einstein's famous "E = mc2." This book looks at fifty such great calculations, explorin ...Show more
Creation: The Origin of Life / The Future of Life by Adam Rutherford
$24.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
Creation- The Origin of Life What is life? In what form did it first appear? And how? Every creature, plant and cell that has ever inhabited the Earth owes its existence to the emergence, some four billion years ago, of a single living being. From this first, unique life-form, all other life subsequen ...Show more
Cracking the Cube: Going Slow to Go Fast and Other Unexpected Turns in the World of Competitive Rubik's Cube Solving by Ian Scheffler
$39.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
A journalist and aspiring speedcuber attempts to break into the international phenomenon of speedsolving the Rubik s Cube think chess played at the speed of Ping-Pong while exploring the Cube s rise to iconic status around the globe and the lessons that can be learned through solving it. When Hungarian ...Show more
Imagine That - Technology by Michael Sells
$12.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences | Series: Imagine That Ser.
Michael Sells brand new Imagine That series#151;short, popular histories of how the past didn't quite happen#151;launches with four titles this year. Each book is a flight of imagination that explores how the smallest changes to history could have spiraled out of control. Would a happy ending to Casabl ...Show more
50 Astronomy Ideas You Really Need to Know by Giles Sparrow
$24.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences | Reading Level: very good
From our own solar system to the edges of the universe, 50 Astronomy Ideas You Really Need to Know is your introduction to the most important concepts, discoveries and mysteries in astronomy. How did the universe begin? Where did the Moon come from? What happens in the heart of a black hole? Why are gra ...Show more