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13 Things That Don't Make Sense : The Most Intriguing Scientific Mysteries of Our Time by Michael Brooks
$22.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
Science starts to get interesting when things don't make sense. Even today there are experimental results that the most brilliant scientists can neither explain nor dismiss. In the past, similar anomalies have revolutionised our world: in the sixteenth century, a set of celestial irregularities led Cope ...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
Can We Travel Through Time? The 20 Big Questions in Physics by Michael Brooks
$19.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
Can We Travel Through Time? addresses 20 of the most fundamental and frequently asked questions in physics. What is the God particle? Does chaos theory spell disaster? Am I unique in the universe? What is light? Each 3,000 word essay examines these eternally perplexing questions in a way that is compr ...Show more
Hollywood Wants to Kill You - The Peculiar Science of Death in the Movies by Michael Brooks; Rick Edwards
$22.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
The hilarious new popular science book from the bestselling authors of the Sunday Times Book of the Year Science(ish). With wit, intelligence and irreverence, Rick Edwards and Dr Michael Brooks explore the science of death and mass destruction through some of our best-loved Hollywood blockbusters. From ...Show more
Hollywood Wants to Kill You - The Science of Death in the Movies by Rick Edwards & Dr. Michael Brooks
$29.99 AUD
Category: film and television
Asteroids, killer sharks, nuclear bombs, viruses, deadly robots, climate change, the apocalypse - why is Hollywood so obsessed with death and the end of the world? And how seriously should we take the dystopian visions of our favourite films? With wit, intelligence and irreverence, Rick Edwards and Dr M ...Show more
Kingdom of Olives and Ash: Writers Confront the Occupation by Michael Chabon; Ayelet Waldman ; Colum Mccann ; Colm Toibin ; Dave Eggers ; Geraldine Brooks ; Jacqueline Woodson ; Mario Vargas Llosa
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
Published to coincide the with 50th anniversary of the Israel occupation of the West Bank, an anthology that explores the human cost of the conflict there as witnessed by such notable writers as Colum McCann, Colm Toibin, Dave Eggers, Madeleine Thien, Eimear McBride, Taiye Selasi and editors Michael Cha ...Show more
Science(ish) : The Peculiar Science Behind the Movies by Michael Rick; Brooks Edwards
$29.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
Just like you, Dr Michael Brooks and Rick Edwards have watched movies and been sucked into those fictional worlds. Unlike you, they've written an amusing book exploring and unpicking these much-loved stories, revealing the science within. They've chatted to some of the most respected names in science to ...Show more
Secret Anarchy of Science by Michael Brooks
$24.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
This is a bold expose of science's mavericks. For more than a century, science has cultivated a sober public image for itself. But as bestselling author Michael Brooks explains, the truth is very different: many of our most successful scientists have more in common with libertines than librarians. This ...Show more
The Art of More: How Mathematics Created Civilisation by Michael Brooks
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
Bestselling science writer Michael Brooks takes us on a fascinating journey through the history of civilisation, as he explains why maths is fundamental to our understanding of the world.Bestselling science writer Michael Brooks takes us on a fascinating journey through the history of civilisation, as h ...Show more
The Quantum Astrologer's Handbook by Michael Brooks
$12.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
This is a landmark in science writing. It resurrects from the vaults of neglect the polymath Jerome Cardano, a Milanese of the sixteenth century. Who is he? A gambler and blasphemer, inventor and chancer, plagued by demons and anxieties, astrologer to kings, emperors and popes. This stubborn and unworld ...Show more
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