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
Being Mortal - Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Wellcome Collection Ser.
For most of human history, death was a common, ever-present possibility. It didn't matter whether you were five or fifty - every day was a roll of the dice. But now, as medical advances push the boundaries of survival further each year, we have become increasingly detached from the reality of being mort ...Show more
Brief Answers to the Big Questions: the final book from Stephen Hawking by Stephen Hawking
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Category: Science
THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. 'A beautiful little book by a brilliant mind'- DAILY TELEGRAPH. 'Effortlessly instructive, absorbing, up to the minute and - where it matters - witty'- GUARDIAN. The world-famous cosmologist and #1 bestselling author of A Brief History of Time leaves us with his final t ...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
How to Build a Universe by Brian Cox; Robin Ince; Alexandra Feachem
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Category: Science
The Infinite Monkey Cage, the legendary BBC Radio 4 programme, brings you this irreverent celebration of scientific marvels. Join us on a hectic leap through the grand and bizarre ideas conjured up by human imagination, from dark matter to consciousness via neutrinos and earthworms. Professor Brian Cox ...Show more
The Golden Ratio: The Divine Beauty of Mathematics by Gary B. Meisner
$39.99 AUD
Category: Science
The Golden Ratio examines the presence of this divine number in art and architecture throughout history, as well as its ubiquity among plants, animals, and even the cosmos. This gorgeous book--with layflat dimensions that closely approximate the golden ratio--features clear, enlightening, and entertaini ...Show more
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli
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Category: Science
In this mind-bending introduction to modern physics, Carlo Rovelli explains Einstein's theory of general relativity, quantum mechanics, black holes, the complex architecture of the universe, elementary particles, gravity, and the nature of the mind.Everything you need to know about modern physics, the u ...Show more
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
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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
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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
Finding the Mother Tree: Uncovering the Wisdom and Intelligence of the Forest by Suzanne Simard
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'A scientific memoir as gripping as any HBO drama series' Kate Kellaway, Observer A dazzling scientific detective story from the ecologist who first discovered the hidden language of trees No one has done more to transform our understanding of trees than the world-renowned s ...Show more