Adam Spencer's Numberland by Adam Spencer
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
Australia's funniest mathematician returns in 2019 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), The ...Show more
The Secret Lives of Numbers: A Global History of Mathematics & its Unsung Trailblazers by Kate Kitagawa; Timothy Revell
$36.99 AUD
Category: Science
A revisionist, completely accessible and radically inclusive history of maths. Mathematics shapes almost everything we do. But despite its reputation as the study of fundamental truths, the stories we have been told about it are wrong. In The Secret Lives of Numbers, historian Kate Kitagawa and journ ...Show more
The Best Australian Science Writing 2023 by Donna Lu (Editor)
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: The\Best Australian Science Ser.
The annual collection — now in its thirteenth year — celebrating the finest voices in Australian science writing.Should we alter animals’ DNA to save them from extinction? What secrets will old ice reveal to us about the Earth’s deep past? How is the world’s most expensive — and explosive — substance ma ...Show more
The Universe by Andrew Cohen, Professor Brian Cox
$39.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Professor Brian Cox
THE UNIVERSE The biggest character of them all…the universe itself. Infinite in scale, and eternal, we tackle it’s biggest mysteries – where did it all come from and how did it begin? The answers lie at the Big Bang. STARS There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on every planet in the s ...Show more
Who Owns the Moon? : In Defence of Humanity's Common Interests in Space by A. C. Grayling
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science
Silicon for microchips; manganese for batteries; titanium for missiles. The moon contains a wealth of natural resources. So, as the Earth's supplies have begun to dwindle, it is no surprise that the world's superpowers and wealthiest corporations have turned their eyes to the stars. As this new Space Ra ...Show more
Smashing Physics by Jon Butterworth
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science
The discovery of the Higgs boson made headlines around the world. Two scientists, Peter Higgs and Francois Englert, whose theories predicted its existence, shared a Nobel Prize. The discovery was the culmination of the largest experiment ever run, the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Col ...Show more
Adventures in the Anthropocene: A Journey to the Heart of the Planet We Made by Gaia Vince
$37.99 AUD
Category: Science
** Winner of Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books 2015 ** We live in epoch-making times. Literally. The changes we humans have made in recent decades have altered our world beyond anything it has experienced in its 4.5 billion-year history -- we have become a force on a par with earth-shatterin ...Show more
The Vegetation Process: A Holistic Study of Long-Term Community Energetics in East Beringia by Dr Laszlo Orloci
$45.00 AUD
Category: Science
Process, as the Book uses this term, implies simultaneous execution of two fundamental functions in continuity. One creates complexity, the other reduces it. Ecologists refer to these as community assembly and disassembly. The process requires energy input which determines the momentary potential energy ...Show more
Flexible Computing in Statistical Ecology: External Appendix to Accompany L. Orloci's Statistical Ecology by Laszlo Orloci, Dr, PhD
$60.00 AUD
Category: Science
Problem flexible computing in statistical ecology The Book describes more than 40 executable (.exe) computer programs and presents examples of application which correspond to the examples included in Statistical Ecology*. The programs are flexibly problem specific and conversational. They allow option-d ...Show more
Invisible History of the Human Race: How DNA and History Shape Our Identities and Our Futures the by Christine Kenneally
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
We are doomed to repeat history if we fail to learn from it, but how are we affected by the forces that are invisible to us? In The Invisible History of the Human Race Christine Kenneally draws on cutting-edge research to reveal how both historical artifacts and DNA tell us where we come from and where ...Show more
The Quantum Age: How the Physics of the Very Small has Transformed Our Lives by Brian Clegg
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
The stone age, the iron age, the steam and electrical ages all saw the reach of humankind transformed by new technology. Now we are living in the quantum age, a revolution in everyday life led by our understanding of the very, very small. Today, technologies based on quantum physics account for 30 per c ...Show more
Time Warped Unlocking the Mysteries of Time Perception by Claudia Hammond
$31.99 AUD
Category: Science
Why does life speed up as we get older? Why does the clock in your head sometimes move at a different speed from the one on the wall? Time rules our lives, but how much do we understand it? And is it possible to retrain our brains and improve our relationship with it? Drawing on the latest research fro ...Show more