The Joy of X - A Guided Tour of Mathematics from One to Infinity by Steven Strogatz
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science | Reading Level: very good
Award-winning Steven Strogatz, one of the foremost popularisers of maths, has written a witty and fascinating account of maths' most compelling ideas and how, so often, they are an integral part of everyday life. How should you flip your mattress to get the maximum wear out of it? How many people should ...Show more
Nothing: From absolute zero to cosmic oblivion - amazing insights into nothingness by Edited by Jeremy Webb
$19.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: New Scientist | Reading Level: good
Zero, zip, nada, zilch. It's all too easy to ignore the fascinating possibilities of emptiness and non-existence, and we may well wonder what there is to say about nothing. But scientists have known for centuries that nothing is the key to understanding absolutely everything, from why particles have mas ...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
Missing Microbes: How Killing Bacteria Creates Modern Plagues by Martin Blaser
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
Far beneath our skin exists an unfathomable, ancient universe - an internal Eden that is critical to our health. Dr Martin Blaser invites us into the wilds of the human microbiome, unfurling its inner workings and evolution, in a book that stands as the Silent Spring of our day. For thousands of years, ...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
Why Aren't We Dead Yet? The Survivor's Guide to the Immune System by Ben Barak
$27.99 AUD
Category: Science
Disease - specifically infectious disease - is what eventually kills the overwhelming majority of us. In fact, it's amazing that it doesn't get us sooner: we fight off millions of disease-causing germs every day. So how come we're not dead yet? In this lively and accessible book, Idan Ben-Barak tells us ...Show more
Feral: Searching for Enchantment on the Frontiers of Rewilding by George Monbiot
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science
How many of us sometimes feel that we are scratching at the walls of this life, seeking to find our way into a wider space beyond? That our mild, polite existence sometimes seems to crush the breath out of us?Feralis the lyrical and gripping story of George Monbiot's efforts to re-engage with nature and ...Show more
Human Evolution: A Pelican Introduction by Robin Dunbar
$14.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Pelican Books
What makes us human? How did we develop language, thought and culture? Why did we survive, and other human species fail? Robin Dunbar is an evolutionary psychologist and former director of the Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology at Oxford University. His acclaimed books include How Many ...Show more
A Revolution in the Making: 3D Printers, Robots and the Future by Guy Rundle
$19.99 AUD
Category: Science
The world is changing fast. The dust has barely settled on the digital revolution and now we have to strap ourselves in for another certain thrust into the unknown: the material revolution. Look at 3D printing, for example. They're talking about being able to print human organs in the not-too-distant fu ...Show more
History of the World in 1000 objects by Dorling Kindersley
$49.99 AUD
Category: Science
A treasure trove of human creativity from around the world. History of the World in 1000 Objects takes a fresh look at world history, viewing cultures and early civilizations through the objects that they created. Humanity is defined by our talent for making things from everyday objects to inventions th ...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