This is Improbable: Cheese String Theory, Magnetic Chickens, and Other WTF Research by Marc Abrahams
$19.95 AUD
Category: Science
Marc Abrahams, the founder of the Ig Nobel Prizes, offers an addictive, wryly funny expose of the oddest, most imaginative, and just plain improbable research from around the globe. He looks into why books on ethics are more likely to get stolen, the best way to slice a ham sandwich (mathematically), an ...Show more
The Math Book: From Pythagoras to the 57th Dimension, 250 Milestones in the History of Mathematics by Clifford A. Pickover
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Sterling Milestones Ser.
This is an accessible, fascinating book that unravels the mysteries and beauty of mathematics. It covers 250 milestones in mathematical history. This paperback version of the bestselling title includes facts about scientists' lives and real-world applications of the theorems. Maths' infinite mysteries a ...Show more
Scatter, Adapt and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction by Newitz Annalee
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
Climate change. Pandemics. Catastrophic volcanoes. Should we just give up and accept our doom? Absolutely not. Homo sapiens will survive the next mass extinction. Annalee Newitz's brilliantly speculative and hopeful work of popular science focuses our attention on humanity's long history of dodging the ...Show more
Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science
Have you ever seen something that wasn't really there? Heard someone call your name in an empty house? Sensed someone following you and turned around to find nothing? Hallucinations don't belong wholly to the insane. Much more commonly, they are linked to sensory deprivation, intoxication, illness, or ...Show more
The Big Questions in Science: The Quest to Solve the Great Unknowns by Mun Keat Looi
$29.95 AUD
Category: Science
What are the great scientific questions of our modern age and why don't we know the answers? The Big Questions in Science takes on the most fascinating and pressing mysteries we have yet to crack and explains how tantalizingly close science is to solving them (or how frustratingly out of reach they rema ...Show more
Game of Knowns by Karl Kruszelnicki
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science
There are Known Knowns, Known Unknowns, and Unknown Unknowns. And then there is Dr Karl. The inimitable Dr Karl is back again with more scintillating science scenarios, techy tales and tasty morsels to sate even the most haemoglobin-thirsty of his army of Twitter followers. In Game of Knowns, he tells u ...Show more
You Are the Music: How Music Reveals What it Means to be Human by Victoria Williamson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science | Reading Level: very good
'You are the music / While the music lasts' T.S. Eliot, The Four Quartets Do babies remember music from the womb? Can classical music increase your child's IQ? Is music good for productivity? Can it aid recovery from illness and injury? And what is going on in your brain when Ultravox's 'Vienna', Schoen ...Show more
Quantum Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum by Leonard Susskind
$45.00 AUD
Category: Science
This one-of-a-kind introduction to the strange world of quantum mechanics by world-class physicist Leonard Susskind and data engineer Art Friedman is the ultimate master class in physics and a brilliant follow-up to the international bestseller The Theoretical Minimum. In Quantum Mechanics: The Theor ...Show more
Classical Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum by Leonard Susskind; George Hrabovsky
$19.99 AUD
Category: Science
Here is the ultimate master class in modern physics. In Classical Mechanics, world-class physicist and father of string theory Leonard Susskind and citizen-scientist George Hrabovsky combine forces in a primer that teaches the skills you need to do physics yourself. Combining crystal-clear explanations ...Show more
Seven Elements That Have Changed the World: Iron, Carbon, Gold, Silver, Uranium, Titanium, Silicon by John Browne
$19.99 AUD
Category: Science
Humans have put the Earth's resources to extraordinary use, but not always for the benefit of humankind. SEVEN ELEMENTS vividly describes how iron, carbon, gold, silver, uranium, titanium and silicon have shaped the world around us - for good and for bad. This book takes you on an adventure of human pa ...Show more
Question Everything: 132 Science Questions - and Their Unexpected Answers by Mick O'Hare
$19.99 AUD
Category: Science
The latest in the bestselling New Scientist Last Word series All science begins with questions...- Why is the night sky black, even though it's full of stars? - How do pebbles skim on water? - Why doesn't your own snoring wake you up? - And why is the Large Hadron Collider so ...er ...large? And as thes ...Show more
Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter
$45.00 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Penguin Science Ser. | Reading Level: very good
'What is a self, and how can a self come out of inaminate matter?' This book examines this riddle. Linking together the music of J S Bach, the graphic art of Escher and the mathematical theorems of Godel, as well as ideas drawn from logic, biology, psychology, physics and linguistics, it reveals the mys ...Show more