The Secret Life of Equations: The 50 Greatest Equations and How They Work by Richard Cochrane
$19.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Secret Life of
Discover the 50 equations that have led to incredible discoveries, ground-breaking technology and have shaped our understanding of the world. From much heralded classics, like Zeno's Dichotomy and Pythagoras's Theorem, to The Schrodinger Wave Equation and Google PageRank, each equation is broken down an ...Show more
The Coal Truth: The fight to stop Adani, defeat the big polluters and reclaim our democracy by David Ritter; Hilary Bambrick (Contribution by); Geoffrey Cousins (Contribution by); Tara Moss (Foreword by); John Quiggin (Contribution by); Berndt Sellheim (Foreword by)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
Since 2012, the fight to stop the opening of the vast Galilee coal basin has emerged as an iconic pivot of the Australian climate and environment movement. The Coal Truth: the fight to stop Adani, defeat the big polluters and reclaim our democracy provides a timely and colourful contribution to one of t ...Show more
Troublemakers: How a Generation of Silicon Valley Upstarts Invented the Future by Leslie Berlin
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science
THE GRIPPING TALE OF THE EARLY FRONTIER DAYS OF SILICON VALLEY FROM ACCLAIMED HISTORIAN LESLIE BERLIN. `Kaleidoscopic, ambitious, and brilliant, the book draws on a dazzling cast of characters to chart the rise of the five industries that have come to define technology today and, collectively, to remake ...Show more
Forgotten Women: The Scientists by Zing Tsjeng
$27.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Forgotten Women Ser.
'To say this series is "empowering" doesn't do it justice. Buy a copy for your daughters, sisters, mums, aunts and nieces - just make sure you buy a copy for your sons, brothers, dads, uncles and nephews, too.' - indy100 'Here's to no more forgotten women.' Evening Standard The women who shaped and ...Show more
The Interview - How We Can Finally End All the Turmoil & Suffering in the World! by Jeremy Griffith; Craig Conway (Interviewed By)
$17.99 AUD
Category: Science
The best introduction to biologist Jeremy Griffith’s world-saving explanation of the human condition! The transcript of acclaimed British actor and broadcaster Craig Conway’s astonishing, world-changing and world-saving 2020 interview with Australian biologist Jeremy Griffith about his book FREEDOM: The ...Show more
Underland: A Deep Time Journey by Robert Macfarlane
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science
Hailed as "the great nature writer of this generation" (Wall Street Journal), Robert Macfarlane is the celebrated author of books about the intersections of the human and the natural realms. In Underland, he delivers his masterpiece: an epic exploration of the Earth's underworlds as they exist in myth, ...Show more
Astronomy 2019 Australia by Glenn Dawes
$29.95 AUD
Category: Science
This annual gem (produced each year since 1991) continues to take the Australian stargazer on a wondrous journey of the night sky. This critically acclaimed work, produced by three well known experts in the field, takes a unique approach to explaining and identifying the Sun, Moon, planets and constella ...Show more
Flesh Made New: The Unnatural History and Broken Promises of Stem Cell Research by Carl Power; John Rasko
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science
The dazzling promise of stem-cell treatment: does it work and will it save us? Two experts look at the hype For decades, we've been anticipating the dawn of regenerative medicine. Again and again, we've been promised that stem cells will soon cure just about every ill imaginable. If not tomorrow, then t ...Show more
Honeysuckle Creek: The Story of Tom Reid, a Little Dish, and Neil Armstrong's First Step by Andrew Tink
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science
Honeysuckle Creek reveals the pivotal role that the tracking station at Honeysuckle Creek, near Canberra, played in the first moon landing. Andrew Tink gives a gripping account of the role of its director Tom Reid and his colleagues in transmitting some of the most-watched images in human history as Nei ...Show more
A Little History of Science by William Bynum
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Little Histories Ser.
Science is fantastic. It tells us about the infinite reaches of space, the tiniest living organism, the human body, the history of Earth. People have always been doing science because they have always wanted to make sense of the world and harness its power. From ancient Greek philosophers through Einste ...Show more
Dirt to Soil by Gabe Brown
$18.67 AUD
Category: Science
Gabe Brown didn't set out to change the world when he first started working alongside his father-in-law on the family farm in North Dakota. But as a series of weather-related crop disasters put Brown and his wife, Shelly, in desperate financial straits, they started making bold changes to their farm. Br ...Show more
Adam Spencer's Mini Book of Numbers by Adam Spencer
$19.99 AUD
Category: Science
Our very own Sultan of STEM, Crusader of Calculus, Prince of Pi - Adam Barrington Spencer - is back in 2019 with more teasing, tantalising and tricky maths games, puzzles and quizzes for young and hungry minds.Scared of square roots? Petrified of Pythagoras? Frightened of factorials? Let Australia's fun ...Show more