Citizen Science : How Ordinary People Are Changing the Face of Discovery by Caren B. Cooper
$29.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
Do you think you need a degree in science to contribute to important scientific discoveries' Think again. All around the world, from Britain to Australia, in fields ranging from astronomy to zoology, millions of ordinary people take part in the scientific process. Working in conjunction with scientists ...Show more
1001 Ideas That Changed the Way We Think by Robert Arp
$39.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
An elegant addition to the successful "1001" series--a comprehensive, chronological guide to the most important thoughts from the finest minds of the past 3,000 years. 1001 Ideas That Changed the Way We Think is a comprehensive guide to the most interesting and imaginative thoughts from the finest mind ...Show more
At the Edge of Uncertainty: 11 Discoveries Taking Science by Surprise by Michael Brooks
$21.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
The atom. The Big Bang. DNA. Natural selection. All ideas that have revolutionised science - and that were dismissed out of hand when they first appeared. The surprises haven't stopped: here, Michael Brooks, bestselling author of 13 Things that Don't Make Sense, investigates the new wave of unexpected i ...Show more
At the Edge of Uncertainty: 11 Discoveries Taking Science by Surprise by Michael Brooks
$27.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
The atom. The Big Bang. DNA. Natural selection. All ideas that have revolutionised science - and that were dismissed out of hand when they first appeared. The surprises haven't stopped: here, Michael Brooks, bestselling author of 13 Things that Don't Make Sense, investigates the new wave of unexpected i ...Show more
Six Impossible Things by John Gribbin
$19.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences | Series: Quanta of Solace & Mysteries of Subatomic World
Quantum physics is strange. It tells us that a particle can be in two places at once. Indeed, that particle is also a wave, and everything in the quantum world can be described entirely in terms of waves, or entirely in terms of particles, whichever you prefer. All of this was clear by the end of the ...Show more
Until the End of Time by Brian Greene
$49.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
In both time and space, the cosmos is astoundingly vast, and yet is governed by simple, elegant, universal mathematical laws. On this cosmic timeline, our human era is spectacular but fleeting. Someday, we know, we will all die. And, we know, so too will the universe itself. Until the End of Time is ...Show more
The Knowledge Machine - How an Unreasonable Idea Created Modern Science by Michael Strevens
$22.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
It is only in the last three centuries that the formidable knowledge-making machine we call modern science has transformed our way of life and our vision of the universe - two thousand years after the invention of law, philosophy, drama and mathematics. Why did we take so long to invent science? And how ...Show more
Everybody Hertz: The Amazing World of Frequency, from Bad Vibes to Good Vibrations by Richard Mainwaring
$34.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
A voyage of discovery through the vibrations that move us, whether we can hear them or not. Vic Tandy was a level-headed scientist, but there was no denying it: at this late hour in his lonely lab at Coventry University, he kept seeing a grey apparition out of the corner of his eye. Bathed in a cold sw ...Show more
Elusive: How Peter Higgs Solved the Mystery of Mass by Frank Close
$55.00 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
The story of the Higgs boson - the so-called 'God particle' - and the man who thought of it. In the summer of 1964, a reclusive young professor at the University of Edinburgh wrote two scientific papers which have come to change our understanding of the most fundamental building blocks of matter and th ...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
Your Conscious Mind: Unravelling the Enigma of Consciousness by New Scientist
$29.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences | Series: New Scientist Instant Expert
What is this strange mental world that seems so essential to being human? The conscious mind brings together sensations, perceptions, thoughts and memories to generate the seamless movie of a person's life. It makes us aware of the world around us and our own self. How all this emerges from a kilogram o ...Show more
The Star Builders: Nuclear Fusion and the Race to Power the Planet by Arthur Turrell
$32.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
From a young, award-winning scientist, a look at one of the most compelling and historic turning points of our time--the race to harness the power of the stars and produce controlled fusion, creating a practically unlimited supply of clean energy. The most important energy-making process in the univers ...Show more