What's the Use? The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics by Ian Stewart
$29.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
A bestselling author tries to rehabillitate a much-maligned field.
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
Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death by Nick Lane
$49.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
For decades, biology has been dominated by information - the power of genes. Yet there is no difference in information content between a living cell and one that died a moment ago. A better question goes back to the formative years of biology: what processes animate cells and set them apart from lifeles ...Show more
Startalk: Everything You Ever Need to Know about Space Travel, Sci-Fi, the Human Race, the Universe, and Beyond by Neil deGrasse Tyson (Editor); Jeffrey Simons; Charles Liu
$32.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
For decades, beloved astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has interpreted science with a combination of brainpower and charm that resonates with fans everywhere. This pioneering, provocative book brings together the best of StarTalk, his beloved podcast and television show devoted to solving the most conf ...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
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
White Holes: Inside the Horizon by Carlo Rovelli
$35.00 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
A mesmerizing trip to the strange new world of white holes, from Carlo Rovelli, the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics. Let us journey, with beloved physicist Carlo Rovelli, into the heart of a black hole. Let us slip beyond its boundary, the horizon, and tumble - on and on - down thi ...Show more
The Short Story of Science: A Pocket Guide to Key Histories, Experiments, Theories, Instruments and Methods by Tom Jackson, Mark Fletcher
$32.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences | Series: The\Short Story Of Ser.
The Short Story of Science is a new introduction to the complete subject of science. Covering 60 key experiments, from Archimedes' investigations of buoyancy to the discovery of dark matter, and then linking these to the history of science, as well as to the key theories and methods, the book simplifies ...Show more
The Matter of Everything: Twelve Experiments that Changed Our World by Suzie Sheehy
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Category: Physical Sciences
The astonishing story of twentieth-century physics, told through the twelve experiments that changed our world.How did a piece a gold foil completely change our understanding of atoms? What part did a hot air balloon play in the discovery of cosmic rays?How did the experiments in the run-up to the Large ...Show more
The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
$24.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
From a star theoretical physicist, a journey into the world of particle physics and the cosmos--and a call for a more liberatory practice of science.Winner of the 2021 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Science & TechnologyA Finalist for the 2022 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing AwardA Smiths ...Show more
2023 Australasian Sky Guide by Nick Lomb
$19.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
The Australasian Sky Guide will tell you everything you need to know about the southern night sky. With month-by-month features and sky maps for viewing the Moon, planets, stars and constellations, it is ideal for stargazers who are beginners and experts alike.Including the latest information on the sol ...Show more
Helgoland by Carlo Rovelli
$24.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
The instant Sunday Times bestseller -- a dazzling story of rebellion and science. In June 1925, twenty-three-year-old Werner Heisenberg, suffering from hay fever, had retreated to the treeless, wind-battered island of Helgoland in the North Sea in order to think. Walking all night, by dawn he had wrest ...Show more