Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death by Caitlin Doughty
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science
What happens if someone dies on a plane?Can we give Grandma a Viking funeral?Why don't animals dig up all the graves?Will my hair keep growing in my coffin after I'm buried?Every day, funeral director Caitlin Doughty receives dozens of questions about death. In this book she offers factual, hilarious an ...Show more
30-Second Elements by Eric Scerri
$19.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: 30-Second
30-Second Elements presents you with the foundations of chemical knowledge, distilling the 50 most significant chemical elements into half-a-minute individual entries, using nothing more than two pages, 300 words and one picture. Divided into seven chapters, it includes the atomic details of the other 6 ...Show more
The Biology Book: From the Origin of Life to Epigenics, 250 Milestones in the History of Biology by Michael C. Gerald
$39.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Sterling Milestones
Authors Michael and Gloria Gerald explore 250 of the most significant and interesting biology milestones from roughly 4 million BCE to modern times, such thought-provoking questions as Are animals altruistic? Why does the heart beat? What do the smallest microbe and the largest mammal have in common? Ke ...Show more
The Universe : An Illustrated History of Astronomy by Tom Jackson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Ponderables Ser.
Astronomers today believe that the Universe may have begun 13.7 billion years ago, when its entire energy, mass, space, and even time, expanded out from a single point. New, empty space was lit by innumerable baby stars and infant galaxies, their light finally reaching Earth many billions of years later ...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
Maths on the Back of an Envelope: Clever Ways to (Roughly) Calculate Anything by Rob Eastaway
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
Does that statistic make sense? How much will this round of drinks come to? And what are the chances of winning the lottery? Twice? Learn how to do complex maths with nothing but the back of an envelope, a pencil and some good old-fashioned brain power. Doing mathematics without a calculator seems like ...Show more
Adam Spencer's World of Numbers by Adam Spencer
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science | Reading Level: very good
What's a 'firkin'? Is a tardigrade animal, vegetable or mineral? How fast is Usain Bolt ... really? And what's the record for the most lobster rolls eaten in 10 minutes? All these questions and more are answered in Adam Spencer's World of Numbers. This is a book for young and old - for anyone who's ever ...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
River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life by Richard Dawkins
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Science Masters Ser.
The No.1 SUNDAY TIMES bestseller. A fascinating explanation of how evolution works, from bestselling author of THE GOD DELUSION, Richard Dawkins. The river of Dawkins's title is a river of DNA, flowing through time from the beginning of life on earth to the present - and onwards. Dawkins explains that D ...Show more
Ask an Astronaut: My Guide to Life in Space (Official Tim Peake Book) by Tim Peake
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
The new book from astronaut Tim Peake, the number one bestselling author of Hello, is this planet Earth?How does it feel to orbit the earth ten times faster than a speeding bullet?What's it like to eat, sleep and go to the toilet in space?And where to next - the Moon, Mars or beyond?Ask an Astronaut is ...Show more
The Little Book of Big Ideas - 150 Concepts and Breakthroughs That Transformed History by Daniel Smith
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
An exploration of some of the most important and enduring ideas in human history - from religion, science, philosophy, medicine, psychology, politics, economics and art - each presented in brief, accessible form. 'Big' ideas are those concepts and theories that have radically transformed our understandi ...Show more
The Vaccine Race: How Scientists Used Human Cells to Combat Killer Viruses by Meredith Wadman
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
**SHORTLISTED FOR THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE 2018 ** ** A GUARDIAN SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 ** 'Riveting ... invites comparison to Rebecca Skloot's The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks'Nature The epic and controversial story of a major breakthrough in cell biology that led to the conquest of rubell ...Show more