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
Numb and Number by William Hartston
$29.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
'A wise, witty and insightful guide to clear thinking amid a deluge of percentages and probabilities.' Ian StewartLike it or not, our lives are dominated by mathematics. Our daily diet of news regales us with statistical forecasts, opinion polls, risk assessments, inflation figures, weather and climate ...Show more
Perfect Planet by Huw Cordey
$59.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
There is no place like home.The conditions of Earth are not just good for life, they are perfect. Everything about our planet - its size, its distance from the Sun, its spin and tilt, its moon - is perfectly suited to our existence, and our planet's forces serve to nurture its spectacular biodiversity. ...Show more
Beyond the Known: How Exploration Created the Modern World and Will Take Us to the Stars by Andrew Rader
$22.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
From brilliant young polymath Andrew Rader--an MIT-credentialed scientist, popular podcast host, and SpaceX mission manager--an "engaging" (Tim Marshall, New York Times bestselling author) chronicle showcasing our human desire to continually explore new and uncharted territory, from civilization's earli ...Show more
Screen Time: How to Make Peace with Your Devices and Find Your Techquilibrium by Becca Cady
$29.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
Fed up with your screentime going up and up every week, but unable to give up your phone? It is time for a new, balanced approach.
The Mission: a True Story by David W. Brown
$34.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
A masterful, genre-defying narrative of the most ambitious science project ever conceived: NASA's deep-space mission to Europa--the Jovian moon where might swim the first known alien life in our solar system--powered by a motley team of obsessives and eccentrics.When scientists discovered the first ocea ...Show more
Extraterrestrial - The Search for Intelligent Life Beyond Earth by Avi Loeb
$32.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences | Reading Level: near fine
"Provocative and thrilling ... Loeb asks us to think big and to expect the unexpected."--Alan Lightman, New York Times bestselling author of Einstein's Dreams and Searching for Stars on an Island in MaineHarvard's top astronomer lays out his controversial theory that our solar system was recently visite ...Show more
Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality by Frank Wilczek
$39.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
One of our great contemporary scientists reveals the ten profound insights that illuminate what everyone should know about the physical world In Fundamentals, Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek offers the reader a simple yet profound exploration of reality based on the deep revelations of modern science. With ...Show more