Rewording the Brain by David Astle
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
Master wordsmith and crossword king David Astle scientifically proves how cryptic crosswords can ward off dementia.
Scatterbrain: How the mind’s mistakes make humans creative, innovative and successful by Henning Beck
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
In this mind-bending book, award-winning neuroscientist Henning Beck explains why perfectionism is pointless – and argues that mistakes, missteps and flaws are the keys to success. Remember that time you messed up simple maths or forgot the name of your favourite song? What if someone told you that o ...Show more
Wooleen Way: Renewing an Australian Resource by David Pollock
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Australian Memoir
The outback conjures many images that the Australian psyche is built upon. Its grand vistas of sweeping dusty plains and its evocation of a tough pioneering spirit form the foundation of our prosperous culture. But these romantic visions often hide the stark environmental, economic, and social problems ...Show more
Nuts and Bolts: Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World (in a Big Way) by Roma Agrawal
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science
Smartphones, skyscrapers, spacecraft. Modern technology seems mind-bogglingly complex. But beneath the surface, it can be beautifully simple. In Nuts and Bolts, award-winning engineer and broadcaster Roma Agrawal deconstructs our most complex feats of engineering into seven fundamental inventions: the n ...Show more
The First Astronomers: How Indigenous Elders read the stars by Duane Hamacher
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science
The First Astronomers is the first book to reveal the rich knowledge of the stars and the planets held by First Peoples around the world. Our eyes have been drawn away from the skies to our screens. We no longer look to the stars to forecast the weather, predict the seasons or plant our gardens. Most of ...Show more
The Night Sky Explorer by Robin & Jackson Kerrod
$39.95 AUD
Category: Science
The Night Sky Explorer contains all the information and equipment the aspiring astronomer needs to get started. The hardback case contains two separate pocket size books, designed to travel with you on star gazing trips: • Mapping the Skies includes maps of the major constellations for each month of the ...Show more
Atlas of the Southern Sky - 5th edition by Steve Massey; Steve Quirk
$14.99 AUD
$39.99 (62% off)
Category: Science
If you ever needed a book to help you explore the wonderful nightskies from down under, be it Australia, South America, South Africaor New Zealand, this is it!. With hundreds of full colour star chartsand maps of the Moon and planets of our Solar System, this bookwill ensure you get the most out of a pa ...Show more
The Brain that Changes Itself: stories of personal triumph from the frontiers of brain science by Norman Doidge
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: The Neuroplasticity Chronicles
An astonishing new scientific discovery called neuroplasticity is overthrowing the centuries-old notion that the adult human brain is fixed and unchanging. It is, instead, able to change its own structure and function, even into old age. Psychiatrist and researcher Norman Doidge, MD, travelled around th ...Show more
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson
$26.95 AUD
Category: Science
# 1 New York Times BestsellerLibraryReads PickSMLWhat is the nature of space and time? How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit within us? Today, few of us have time to contemplate the cosmos. Now Neil deGrasse Tyson brings the universe down to Earth succinctly and clearly, within sp ...Show more
Albert Einstein (Genius) by Isabel Munoz
$19.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Genius
Meet Albert Einstein and find out about his life and work in this engagingly illustrated biography. Join physicist Albert Einstein on his journey of scientific discovery and see how the Nobel Prize winner forever changed the way we think about energy, gravity, and the world around us. Children will le ...Show more
Noise by Daniel Kahneman
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
Wherever there is human judgement, there is noise.From the world-leaders in strategic thinking and the multi-million copy bestselling authors of Thinking Fast and Slow and Nudge, the next big book to change the way you think.Imagine that two doctors in the same city give different diagnoses to identical ...Show more
Together We Can: Everyday Australians Doing Amazing Things To Give Our Planet a Future by Claire O'Rourke
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science
Inspiring stories about people around Australia who are taking action on climate change, helping create a better future for our children and for the planet, while at the same time deepening connections with each other. Millions of Australians are quietly freaking out about climate change, and Claire O'R ...Show more