Wonders of the Night Sky You Must See Before You Die by Bob King
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science
Take your night watching to the next level with Bob King's bucket list collection of 57 remarkable night sky wonders and dark sky destinations. Fill your nights with adventure and the ability to see some of the incredible phenomenon of the sky with this must-have book. Learn all about the brightest and ...Show more
The Climate Cure: Solving the Climate Emergency in the Era of COVID-19 by Tim Flannery
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
Australians are witnessing an unprecedented government response to crisis-swift decisive action to avert catastrophe. And the advice of scientists has informed every step of the way. But for decades the advice of scientists on the impending catastrophe that climate change will bring has been ignored, di ...Show more
Woman Who Changed Her Brain by Barbara Arrowsmith-Young
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
Barbara Arrowsmith-Young was born with severe learning disabilities that caused teachers to label her slow, stubborn - or worse. As a child, she read and wrote everything backward, struggled to process concepts in language, continually got lost, and was physically uncoordinated. She could make no sense ...Show more
When Galaxies Collide by Lisa Harvey-Smith
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Category: Science
Why is the Milky Way blue? Why isn't a black hole dark? How many stars can you see with your naked eye?* How much hotter are blue stars than red ones?**Humans are the only known astronomers in the universe. When we look up at the night sky, we are linked to our ancestors. Away from city lights, we can s ...Show more
Evolutions; 15 Myths That Explain Our .. by Oren Harman
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
A reimagining of modern science and ancient mythology, and of what it means to be human. We may no longer think that the world was hatched from an egg, as the ancient Chinese did, or that our fate is ruled by a capricious Zeus and a resentful Hera. We now use genes to explain desire, and physics to expl ...Show more
The Demon in the Machine by Paul Davies
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Category: Science
How does life create order from chaos? And just what is life, anyway? Leading physicist Paul Davies argues that to find the answers, we must first answer a deeper question- 'What is information?' To understand the origins and nature of life, Davies proposes a radical vision of biology which sees the un ...Show more
Biographic Tesla: Great Lives in Graphic Form by Brian CLEGG
$19.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Biographic Ser.
Many people know that Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) was an engineer and inventor, instrumental in developing the alternating-current (AC) electrical system and wireless radio communications we still use today. What, perhaps, they don't know is that he was born during a lightning storm; that when he first arr ...Show more
Biographic - Einstein - Great Lives in Graphic Form by Brian CLEGG
$19.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Biographic Ser.
Many people know that Albert Einstein (1879-1955) was the creator of the theory of relativity that revolutionized modern science. What, perhaps, they don't know is that he did not learn to speak until he was 4 years old; that he was asked to become the President of Israel in 1952, but refused; that he w ...Show more
The Science of Fate by Hannah Critchlow
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science
So many of us believe that we are free to shape our own destiny. But what if free will doesn't exist? What if our lives are largely predetermined, hardwired in our brains - and our choices over what we eat, who we fall in love with, even what we believe are not real choices at all? Neuroscience is chall ...Show more
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
Build Your Own Galaxy : The Big Unofficial Lego Builder's Book by Tim Lutz; Bischoff Oliver; Uhlmann Joachim; Albrecht Klang
$49.99 AUD
Category: Science
Star Wars(R), Star Trek(R), Battlestar Galactica(R), spaceships, shuttlepods, droids, and much moreBig and small, young and young at heart, this book is for all LEGO(R) fans"One day, long long ago, someone had the idea to build space ships etc. from the Star Wars movies. I was immediately excited by tha ...Show more