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
Wonders of the Universe by Brian Cox; Andrew Cohen
$39.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
"Cox brings a magical enchantment to this life-changing book. . . . I swear that you will never be the same again after you turn the last page of this unique and irresistible book." --Sunday Express (London) Experience the cosmos as never before with Brian Cox's Wonders of the Universe, a gorgeously il ...Show more
Anaximander: And the Nature of Science by Carlo Rovelli
$35.00 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
The bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics tells the thrilling story of one of the greatest intellectual leaps of all time Over two millennia ago, a Greek philosopher had a number of wondrous insights that paved the way to cosmology, physics, geography, meteorology and biology, setting in ...Show more
The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking, Leonard Mlodinow
$19.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences | Reading Level: very good
"In the last thirty years of his life Albert Einstein searched for a unified theory - a theory which could describe all the forces of nature in a single framework. But the time was not right for such a discovery in Einstein's day. Neither was the time right when, in 1988, Professor Stephen Hawking wrote ...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
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
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
I Used to Know That: History by Emma Marriott
$14.95 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences | Series: I Used to Know That Ser.
If your response to a mention of the Wars of the Roses, the Sumerians or the Reformation is, 'Hmm, I've heard of that - what was that again?', then this is the book for you. This entertaining yet informative book travels back through time to fill in those embarrassing gaps in your knowledge, from the in ...Show more
How to Expect the Unexpected: The Science of Making Predictions and the Art of Knowing When Not To by Kit Yates
$34.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
A Waterstones Best Popular Science Book of 2023 'Delightfully clear and vivid to read...A splendid book! Philip Pullman 'Absolutely fascinating' James O'Brien 'An exceptional book - readable, funny and more needed than ever' Dr Chris van Tulleken, bestselling author of Ultra-Processed People Are you ...Show more
The Matter of Everything: Twelve Experiments that Changed Our World by Suzie Sheehy
$29.99 AUD
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
How Space Works: The Facts Visually Explained by DK
$35.00 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
The clearest, most visual guide to space and the Universe for complete beginners to astronomy. Have you ever asked yourself how big the Universe is, how far it is to the nearest star, or what came before the Big Bang? Then this is the book for you. How Space Works shows you the different types of object ...Show more
How Not to be Wrong: The Hidden Maths of Everyday Life by Jordan Ellenberg
$24.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
The maths we learn in school often seems like a mysterious and impenetrable set of rules, laid down by the ancients and not to be questioned. In How Not to Be Wrong, acclaimed mathematician Jordan Ellenberg shows us just how wrong this view is- in fact, maths touches everything we do, allowing us to see ...Show more