Physical Intelligence - The Science of Thinking Without Thinking by Scott Grafton
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science
'An instant classic' Michael S. Gazzaniga, author of The Consciousness Instinct How do you pick the right moment to cross a busy road? Or decide if you can drive through a storm? What helps you discover a shortcut to a familiar route? The answer is PHYSICAL INTELLIGENCE. Renowned neuroscientist, do ...Show more
Movement Matters: Essays on Movement Science, Movement Ecology, and the Nature of Movement by Katy Bowman
$30.75 AUD
Category: Science
If you could fit our culture of convenience into a petri dish, what would it look like? Movement Matters is a series of essays in which biomechanist Katy Bowman continues to explain the mechanics of a sedentary culture and the deep complexity of the phenomenon we call movement. By exposing convenience a ...Show more
Blue Spaces: How & Why Water Can Make You Feel Better by Catherine Kelly
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
Dr Catherine Kelly, geographer, wellbeing practitioner and cold-water swimming enthusiast, explores the latest research into the physical, psychological and social factors that connect water and wellbeing and explains why water makes us feel better. Includes exercises and suggestions. Why do so many of ...Show more
Sold Down the River: How Robber Barons and Wall Street Traders Cornered Australia's Water Market by Scott Hamilton, Stuart Kells
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science
The Murray-Darling Basin is Australia's greatest environmental asset. The story of water in Australia is written into its ancient rivers, creeks and wetlands. It's home to more than forty Indigenous nations, and it covers an area bigger than France. It is the beating heart of our regions and sustains 40 ...Show more
The Shape of Things to Come by Druin Burch
$52.99 AUD
Category: Science
In this humane and important exploration of modern medicine, Druin Burch examines the future of medicine, our changing physicalities and the implications of longer life. From birth to death and through the exploration of topics such as disease, sex, mind, eating and drinking, Burch tracks the future of ...Show more
Age of Genius: The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of the Modern Mind: The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of the Modern Mind by A. C. Grayling
$27.99 AUD
Category: Science
What happened to the European mind between 1605, when an audience watching Macbeth at the Globe might believe that regicide was such an aberration of the natural order that ghosts could burst from the ground, and 1649, when a large crowd, perhaps including some who had seen Macbeth forty-four years earl ...Show more
New Scientist: The Origin of (Almost) Everything: From the Big Bang to Belly-Button Fluff (HB) by New Scientist Magazine Staff; Stephen Hawking; Jennifer Daniel (Illustrator); Graham Lawton
$45.00 AUD
Category: Science
From what actually happened in the Big Bang to the accidental discovery of post-it notes, the history of science is packed with surprising discoveries. Did you know, for instance, that if you were to get too close to a black hole it would suck you up like a noodle (it's called spaghettification), why yo ...Show more
Apollo 8: The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon by Jeffrey Kluger
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
The untold story of the historic voyage to the moon that closed out one of our darkest years with a nearly unimaginable triumph. In August 1968, NASA made a bold decision: in just sixteen weeks, the United States would launch humankind's first flight to the moon. Only the year before, three astronauts h ...Show more
Adam Spencer's Top 100 by Adam Spencer
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science
Australia's funniest mathematician returns in 2018 with more rollicking romps through the world of science, technology, numbers and all things nerdy. This terrific new fully illustrated title follows on from Adam's bestselling Big Book of Numbers (2014); World of Numbers (2015), Time Machine (2016), and ...Show more
Will China Save the Planet? by Barbara Finamore
$20.95 AUD
Category: Science
Now that Trump has turned the United States into a global climate outcast, will China take the lead in saving our planet from environmental catastrophe? Many signs point to yes. China, the world's largest carbon emitter, is leading a global clean energy revolution, phasing out coal consumption and leadi ...Show more
Capturing Nature: Early Scientific Photography at the Australian Museum 1857–1893 by Vanessa Finney
$49.99 AUD
Category: Science
The ground-breaking scientific photographs of Australian Museum curator Gerard Krefft and taxidermist Henry Barnes are revealed for the first time. In the mid-nineteenth century, some of the earliest adopters of the revolutionary new art form of photography were scientists. Museums around the world were ...Show more
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Universe: And Our Place Within It by Professor Andrew Newsam
$19.99 AUD
Category: Science
The Universe is a beautiful, awe-inspiring place – from glowing nebulae to the sweeping majesty of the Milky Way, from complex cloud patterns on Jupiter to the rippling curtains of aurorae. But many of us struggle to grasp the complex ideas and science behind it all, or to see how it relates to our ever ...Show more