Urban Legends from Space - The Biggest Myths about Space Demystified by Bob King
$24.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
Don't confuse science fiction for science fact. Bob King, author of Wonders of the Night Sky and writer for Sky & Telescope magazine, helps you debunk the myths about space you've been believing your whole life. From chem trails to black holes and supernovas, misinformation about space travels faste ...Show more
Curious: Life hacks through maths by Lily Serna
$29.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
Find love. Win at games and sport. Look smart. Save time.Lily Serna, a curious mathematician, believes passionately that 'mathematics is our golden key to unlocking the secrets of the universe'. She is on a quest to share her own sense of wonder about maths, and to leave all of us - even the maths phobi ...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
Evolutions - Fifteen Myths That Explain Our World by Oren Harman; Ofra Kobliner (Illustrator)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
'Daring, learned and humane ... A revelatory restoration of wonder'Stephen Greenblatt. We no longer think, like the ancient Chinese did, that the world was hatched from an egg, or, like the Maori, that it came from the tearing-apart of a love embrace. The Greeks told of a tempestuous Hera and a cunning ...Show more
Einstein's Unfinished Revolution - The Search for What Lies Beyond the Quantum by Lee Smolin
$22.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
From Canada's leading mind on contemporary physics, a daring new vision of the universe, and the scandals controversies, and questions that will illuminate our future. Quantum physics is the golden child of modern science. It is the basis of our understanding of our world--atoms, radiation, elementa ...Show more
The Planets by Professor Brian Cox
$19.95 AUD
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Category: Physical Sciences
'So staggering you go "whoa " every few seconds' Guardian 'Really impressive' Eamonn Holmes, ITV This Morning A companion book to the critically acclaimed BBC series. The bestselling authors of Wonders of the Universe are back with another blockbuster, a groundbreaking exploration of our Solar System ...Show more
An Elegant Defense - The Extraordinary New Science of The Immune System by Matt Richtel
$34.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
NATIONAL BESTSELLER A grand tour of the human immune system and the secrets of health, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist "One of those rare nonfiction books that transcends the genre. ... Extraordinary." --Douglas Preston A terminal cancer patient rises from the grave. A medical ...Show more
Turned On - Science, Sex and Robots by Kate Devlin
$22.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
An exploration of sexuality, technology, and humanity through the promises of artificial intelligence. The idea of the seductive sex robot is the stuff of myth, legend and science fiction. But beyond the fantasies there are real and fundamental questions about our relationship with technology as it mov ...Show more
The Number Bias by Sanne Blauw
$29.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
Even if you don't consider yourself a numbers person, you are a numbers person. The time has come to put numbers in their place. Not high up on a pedestal, or out on the curb, but right where they belong: beside words. It is not an overstatement to say that numbers dictate the way we live our lives. Th ...Show more
2021 Guide to the Night Sky - Southern Hemisphere by Storm Dunlop; Wil Tirion
$19.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
A comprehensive handbook to the planets, stars and constellations visible from the southern hemisphere. 6 pages for each month covering January-December 2021. Diagrams drawn for the latitude of southern Australia, but including events visible from New Zealand and South Africa. Written and illustrated ...Show more
The Secret Life of Stars: Astrophysics for Everyone by Lisa Harvey-Smith
$34.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
The Secret Life of Stars takes us on a cosmic journey to meet some of the weirdest, most extreme and enigmatic stars in the universe.‘Astrophysics made fun!’Pam Melroy, former astronaut and space shuttle commander‘The most enjoyable stroll through the cosmos’Gerry Griffin, former flight director, Apollo ...Show more
What Is Life? Understand Biology in Five Steps by Sir Paul Nurse
$24.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
Life is all around us, abundant and diverse. It is truly a marvel. But what does it actually mean to be alive, and how do we decide what is living and what is not? After a lifetime of studying life, Nobel Prize-winner Sir Paul Nurse, one of the world's leading scientists, has taken on the challenge of d ...Show more