Adam Spencer's Top 100 by Adam Spencer
$34.99 AUD
Category: Popular Sciences | Reading Level: 4 Science
Australia's funniest mathematician returns in 2018 with more rollicking romps through the world of science, technology, numbers and all things nerdy. This terrific new fully illustrated title follows on from Adam's bestselling Big Book of Numbers (2014); World of Numbers (2015), Time Machine (2016), and ...Show more
The Origin of Species: and The Voyage of the Beagle (Vintage Classics) by Charles Darwin; Ruth Padel (Introduction by)
$14.99 AUD
Category: Popular Sciences | Reading Level: very good
"WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DARWIN'S GREAT-GREAT-GRANDDAUGHTER, RUTH PADEL When the eminent naturalist Charles Darwin returned from South America on board the H.M.S Beagle in 1836, he brought with him the notes and evidence which would form the basis of his landmark theory of evolution of species by a proc ...Show more
Scary Smart: The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our World by Mo Gawdat
$34.99 AUD
Category: Popular Sciences
'Technology is putting our humanity at risk to an unprecedented degree. This book is not for engineers who write the code or the policy makers who claim they can regulate it. This is a book for you. Because, believe it or not, you are the only one that can fix it.' Mo Gawdat Artificial intelligence is s ...Show more
The Science of Being Human - Why We Behave, Think and Feel the Way We Do by Marty Jopson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Popular Sciences
Offering a unique insight into human behaviour, this book explains why we behave the way we do and what happens when humans interact with the world and each other. Starting with evolutionary biology and what it physically means to be a human being, this book moves on to include a wide range of topics su ...Show more
Until the End of Time by Brian Greene
$49.99 AUD
Category: Popular 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
30-Second Meteorology: The 50 Most Significant Events and Phenomena, Each Explained in Half a Minute by Adam Scaife
$19.99 AUD
Category: Popular Sciences | Series: 30 Second
If you only have 30 seconds, there is time - using this book - to make sense of the science behind the seeming vagaries of the weather, the controversies, predictions and forecasts for climate change that shape our day-to-day experiences of the great outdoors. Ever since Aristotle first tried to explain ...Show more
Living by Numbers - In Defence of Quantity by Steven Connor
$24.99 AUD
Category: Popular Sciences
How do we really think about the world? We may use words to tell stories about it or draw pictures to represent it, but one thing we do far more than either of those is make calculations of the things that are in it--and to do that we use numbers. Numbers give shape and texture to almost everything we f ...Show more
Astrophysics for Young People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson, Gregory Mone
$27.95 AUD
Category: Popular Sciences
America's most celebrated astrophysicist invites young listeners to explore the mysteries of the universe. Neil deGrasse Tyson has become one of the most recognizable and respected figures in science, beloved to curious kids. In this adaptation of his #1 New York Times bestseller Astrophysics for Peopl ...Show more
Human Errors: Pointless Bones, Runaway Nerves and Other Human Defects by Nathan Lents
$29.99 AUD
Category: Popular Sciences
We like to think of ourselves as highly evolved creatures. But if we are evolution's greatest creation, why are we so badly designed? We have retinas that face backward, the stump of a tail, and way too many bones in our wrists. We must find vitamins and nutrients in our diets that other animals simply ...Show more
This Explains Everything - Deep, Beautiful, And Elegant Theories Of How The World Works by John Brockman
$24.99 AUD
Category: Popular Sciences | Series: Edge Question Series
In This Explains Everything, John Brockman, founder and publisher of Edge.org, asked experts in numerous fields and disciplines to come up with their favorite explanations for everyday occurrences. Why do we recognize patterns? Is there such a thing as positive stress? Are we genetically programmed to b ...Show more