Geography: Ideas in Profile by Danny Dorling
$21.99 AUD
Category: Science
Ideas in Profile: Small Introductions to Big TopicsGeography gives shape to our innate curiosity; cartography is older than writing. Channelling our twin urges to explore and understand, geographers uncover the hidden connections of human existence, from infant mortality in inner cities to the decision- ...Show more
Taming the Truffle by Ian Robert Hall
$49.99 AUD
Category: Science
Whether the world's best truffles are found in Piedmont or Perigord inspires impassioned debate, but the effects of dwindling supply and insatiable demand for the elusive, ultimate mushroom are unquestionable: prices through the roof, intrigue and deception, and ever more intensive efforts to cultivate. ...Show more
Psychology for Dummies 2nd edition by Adam Cash
$30.95 AUD
Category: Science | Series: For Dummies Ser.
Learn about: The evolution of modern psychology The major schools of thought and how they differ The ways in which humans think, learn and feel The application of psychology in everyday life From Freud to forensics, take a fascinating journey of discovery through the science of psychology Wha ...Show more
Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart
$19.99 AUD
Category: Science
The author of two critically acclaimed novels, The Russian Debutante's Handbook and Absurdistan, Gary Shteyngart has risen to the top of the fiction world. Now, in his hilarious and heartfelt new novel, he envisions a deliciously dark tale of America's dysfunctional coming years--and the timeless and te ...Show more
Edison Vs. Tesla : The Battle over Their Last Invention by William J. Joel; Birnes Martin
$37.99 AUD
Category: Science
Thomas Edison closely following the alternative physics work of Albert Einstein and Max Planck, convincing him that there was an entire reality unseen by the human eye. This led to the last and least-known of all Edison's inventions, the spirit phone. His former associate, now bitter rival, Nikola Tesla ...Show more
50 Maths Ideas You Really Need to Know by Tony Crilly
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know Series
Who invented zero? Why 60 seconds in a minute? How big is infinity? Where do parallel lines meet? And can a butterfly's wings really cause a storm on the far side of the world? In 50 Maths Ideas You Really Need to Know, Professor Tony Crilly explains in 50 clear and concise essays the mathematical conce ...Show more
30-Second Elements by Eric Scerri
$19.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: 30-Second
30-Second Elements presents you with the foundations of chemical knowledge, distilling the 50 most significant chemical elements into half-a-minute individual entries, using nothing more than two pages, 300 words and one picture. Divided into seven chapters, it includes the atomic details of the other 6 ...Show more
Rise of Superman: Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance by Steven Kotler
$19.99 AUD
Category: Science
Right now, more people are risking their lives for their sports then ever before in history. As Thomas Pynchon once put it in Gravity's Rainbow, 'it is not often that Death is told so clearly to f@%* off'. Over the past three decades, the bounds of the possible in action and adventure sports - from sky- ...Show more
The Best Australian Science Writing 2016 by Jo Chandler
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
The annual collection celebrating the finest voices in Australian science writing. From the furthest reaches of the universe to the microscopic world of our genes, science offers writers the kind of scope other subjects simply can't match. Good writing about science can be moving, funny, exhilarating or ...Show more
My First Book of Relativity by Sheddad Kaid-Salah Ferrón; Eduard Altarriba
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
It's never too early to start exploring big ideas. This companion volume to My First Book of Quantum Physics introduces complex science to children through bright illustrations and amusing text. Einstein's theory of relativity is one of the cornerstones of modern physics but it requires a total rethink ...Show more
Biology Essentials for Dummies by Rene Fester Kratz; Donna Rae Siegfried
$15.95 AUD
Category: Science
Biology Essentials For Dummies (9781119589587) was previously published as Biology Essentials For Dummies (9781118072677). While this version features a new Dummies cover and design, the content is the same as the prior release and should not be considered a new or updated product. Just the core concep ...Show more
Exactly: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World by Simon Winchester
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2018 Bestselling author Simon Winchester writes a magnificent history of the pioneering engineers who developed precision machinery to allow us to see as far as the moon and as close as the Higgs boson. Precision is the key to everything. It is an int ...Show more