A First Course in Network Theory by Ernesto Estrada; Philip A. Knight
$213.95 AUD
Category: Science
The study of network theory is a highly interdisciplinary field, which has emerged as a major topic of interest in various disciplines ranging from physics and mathematics, to biology and sociology. This book promotes the diverse nature of the study of complex networks by balancing the needs of students ...Show more
Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson
$59.99 AUD
Category: Science
From the author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies, this is the astonishingly intimate story of Elon Musk, the most fascinating and controversial innovator of our era—a rule-breaking visionary who helped to lead the world into the era of electric vehicles, private space exploration, and art ...Show more
Impossible Monsters: Dinosaurs, Darwin and the Victorian War Between Science and Religion by Michael Taylor
$36.99 AUD
Category: Science
Impossible Monsters is the captivating story of the discovery of the dinosaurs and how it upended our understanding of the origins of the world - overturning the literal reading of the Bible, liberating science from the shackles of religion, and giving birth to the secular age.In 1811, a twelve-year-old ...Show more
GM Crops and the Global Divide by Jennifer Thomson
$30.00 AUD
$59.99 (49% off)
Category: Science
Attitudes to GM crops continue to generate tension, even though they have been grown commercially for over 20 years. Negative sentiment towards their development limits their adoption in Western countries, despite there being no evidence of harm to human health. These unfounded concerns about geneticall ...Show more
On the Origin of Species (Concise Edition) by CHARLES DARWIN
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Foundations Ser.
Darwin's masterpiece helped shaped the cultural landscape of the world today. Now in a digestible, pocket format for the modern reader. Initially received with muted applause, Darwin's The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection was soon recognised as the breakthrough scientific advance that exp ...Show more
How To Speak Whale: A Voyage Into The Future Of Animal Communication by Tom Mustill
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science
A thrilling investigation into whale science and animal communication, and a poignant look at how science may change our relationship with animals forever. In 2015, wildlife filmmaker Tom Mustill was whale watching when a humpback breached onto his kayak and nearly killed him. A video clip of the event ...Show more
The Emerging Spatial Mind by Jodie M. Plumert (Editor); John P. Spencer (Editor)
$306.00 AUD
Category: Science
How does the spatial mind develop? In this book, Jodie Plumert and John Spencer bring together the leading researchers from the field of spatial cognitive development to examine how the spatial mind emerges from its humble origins in infancy and becomes its mature, flexible, and skilled adult form. The ...Show more
Heat: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet by Jeff Goodell
$37.99 AUD
Category: Science
A searing examination of the impact that temperature rise will have on our lives and what we can do to stop it, by the author of The Water Will Come.'When heat comes, it's invisible. It doesn't bend tree branches or blow hair across your face to let you know it's arrived ... The sun feels like the barre ...Show more
Life As Told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal by Juan José Millás, Juan Luis Arsuaga
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
Prehistory is all around us. We just need to know where to look. Juan Jose Millas has always felt like he doesn't quite fit into human society. Sometimes he wonders if he is even a Homo sapiens at all, or something simpler. Perhaps he is a Neanderthal who somehow survived? So he turns to Juan Luis Arsua ...Show more
Third Millennium Thinking by Saul Perlmutter
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science
Based on a wildly popular UC Berkeley course, a primer on how to think critically, make sound decisions, and solve problems--individually and collectively--using scientists' tricks of the trade. In our deluge of information, it's getting harder and harder to distinguish the revelatory from the contradic ...Show more
30 Second Genetics: The 50 most revolutionary discoveries in genetics by Jonathan Weitzman
$27.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: 30 Second
Genetics is the study of heredity, and reveals how the characteristics of living organisms are determined by the genes passed down the generations. The human genome was mapped in 2003, and this enhanced ability to study our genes is transforming medicine, from CRISPR, the gene editing technology that al ...Show more
Digital Ape How to Live (in Peace) with Smart Machines by Nigel;Hampson Shadbolt
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science
How smart machines are transforming us all - and what we should do about it. The smart machines revolution is re-shaping our lives and our societies. Here, Shadbolt and Hampson - Britain's pre-eminent authorities on AI - dispel terror, confusion, and misconception by demonstrating that we are not about ...Show more