Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX by Eric Berger
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science
The dramatic inside story of the first four historic flights that launched SpaceX-and Elon Musk-from a shaky startup into the world's leading edge rocket company. In 2006, SpaceX-a brand-new venture with fewer than 200 employees-rolled its first, single-engine rocket onto a launch pad at Kwajalein Atoll ...Show more
Into the Grey Zone: A Neuroscientist Explores the Border Between Life and Death by Adrian Owen
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
In 2006 Dr Adrian Owen and his team made medical history. They discovered a new realm of consciousness, a twilight zone somewhere between life and death. They called this the Grey Zone.The people who inhabit the Grey Zone are often mistakenly labelled as being irretrievably lost, with no awareness and n ...Show more
Adam Spencer's World of Numbers by Adam Spencer
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science
What's a 'firkin'? Is a tardigrade animal, vegetable or mineral? How fast is Usain Bolt ... really? And what's the record for the most lobster rolls eaten in 10 minutes? All these questions and more are answered in Adam Spencer's World of Numbers. This is a book for young and old - for anyone who's ever ...Show more
Hidden Figures: The Untold Story of the African-American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
Before John Glenn orbited the earth or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as "human computers" used pencils, slide rules, and adding machines to calculate the numbers that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space. Now in a special new edition perf ...Show more
Missions to Mars - A New Era of Rover and Spacecraft Discovery on the Red Planet by Larry Crumpler
$55.00 AUD
Category: Science
From a long-term planning lead for the Mars Exploration Rover Project comes this vivid insider account of some of NASA's most vital and exciting missions to the Red Planet--a wondrous chronicle of unprecedented scientific discovery and the search for evidence of life on Mars. "There are probably just ...Show more
How the Brain Lost its Mind by Allan Ropper, Brian David Burrell
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
In 1882, Jean-Martin Charcot was the premiere physician in Paris, having just established a neurology clinic at the infamous Salpetriere Hospital, a place that was called a 'grand asylum of huma misery'. Assessing the dismal conditions, he quickly set up to upgrade the facilities, and in doing so, revo ...Show more
The Practical Astronomer by Will Gater
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
An accessible and inspirational astronomy guide that gives you all the knowledge you need to expand your understanding of the night sky.This guide explains and demystifies stargazing, teaching you to recognise different objects such as moons, comets, and asteroids, and explains how they move through the ...Show more
2017 Australasian Sky Guide by Nick Lomb
$16.95 AUD
Category: Science
Compact, easy to use and reliable, this popular guide by well known astronomer and author Dr Nick Lomb has been providing stargazers with everything they need to know about the southern night sky for over 25 years. The 2017 guide contains monthly astronomy maps, viewing tips and highlights, and details ...Show more
Surgery, the Ultimate Placebo: A Surgeon Cuts Through the Evidence by Ian Harris
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
For many complaints and conditions, the benefits from surgery are lower, and the risks higher, than you or your surgeon think. In this book you will see how commonly performed operations can be found to be useless or even harmful when properly evaluated. That these claims come from an experienced, pract ...Show more
Death on Earth: Adventures in Evolution and Mortality by Jules Howard
$27.99 AUD
Category: Science
As you read these words Planet Earth teems with trillions of life-forms, each going about their own business; eating, reproducing, thriving . Yet the life of almost every single entity draws nearer and nearer to certain death. Why? Why is death such a universal companion to life on Earth? Why haven't an ...Show more
Burn Out: The Endgame for Fossil Fuels by Dieter Helm
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
An energy revolution is under way with far-reaching consequences for nations, companies, and the way we address climate change Low oil prices are sending shockwaves through the global economy, and longtime industry observer Dieter Helm explains how this and other shifts are the harbingers of a coming en ...Show more
Psychogenic Non-Epileptic Seizures: a Guide by Lorna Myers
$45.00 AUD
Category: Science
You've just been told that those seizures you've been having for months or years and that have been making a mess of your life aren't actually due to epilepsy and that instead they are caused by psychological stress. Maybe you're discharged from the hospital by your neurologist with a name and a number ...Show more