Game of Knowns by Karl Kruszelnicki
32.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE & NATURE
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
50 Shades of Grey Matter by Dr Karl Kruszelnicki
19.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE & NATURE
Welcome to the wonderful world of Dr Karl: where oddities are embraced, facts reign supreme, curiosity is king and brightly coloured shirts are compulsory! In 50 Shades of Grey Matter, Australia's National Living Treasure Dr Karl Kruszelnicki applies his trademark straight-talkin'-no-high-falutin' scien ...Show more
Going, Going, Gone: 100 Animals and Plants on the Verge of Extinction by Various
39.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE & NATURE
We asked 100 conservation groups around the world: 'if you could pick one species that epitomises your work, which would it be?' From the RSPB to WWF to the Cheetah Conservation Fund, and many, many more, the answers came rolling in. Each provided a synopsis of the threats faced by their selected specie ...Show more
Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
22.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE & NATURE | Reading Level: very good
Antifragile is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb's landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don't understand. The other books in the series are Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan, and The Bed of ...Show more
50 Quantum Physics Ideas You Really Need to Know by Joanne Baker
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Category: SCIENCE & NATURE | Series: 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know Series
Following on from the highly successful 50 Physics Ideas You Really Need to Know, author Joanne Baker consolidates the foundation concepts of physics and moves on to present clear explanations of the most cutting-edge area of science: quantum physics. With 50 concise chapters covering complex theories a ...Show more
50 Human Brain Ideas You Really Need to Know by Moheb Costandi
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Category: SCIENCE & NATURE | Series: 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know Series
Neuroscience is one of the most fascinating and complex areas of scientific research, with new advances being made every day. In 50 Human Brain Ideas You Really Need to Know, Mo Costandi condenses all we know about the brain and how it works into series of introductions to the most important concepts. ...Show more
A Walk Through the Southern Sky: A Guide to Stars, Constellations and Their Legends by Milton Heifetz
39.95 AUD
Category: SCIENCE & NATURE
A Walk through the Southern Sky is a beautifully illustrated guide to the stars and constellations of the southern hemisphere. By following the simplified and easy-to-use starmaps, readers will be able to identify constellations with no equipment but normal sight and a clear night sky. This book provide ...Show more
Party's Over by Richard Heinberg
22.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE & NATURE
The world is about to run out of cheap oil and change dramatically. Within the next few years, global production will peak. Thereafter, even if industrial societies begin to switch to alternative energy sources, they will have less net energy each year to do all the work essential to the survival of com ...Show more
Physics on the Fringe: Smoke Rings, Circlons, and Alternative Theories of Everything by Margaret Wertheim
29.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE & NATURE
In 1993, Jim Carter, a trailer park owner in Enumclaw, Washington, sent out to a select group of scientists a letter announcing the publication of a book in which he proposed a complete alternative theory of physics. Gravity and matter, the periodic table, and the creation of the universe-all these Cart ...Show more
The Serpent's Promise by Professor Steve Jones
32.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE & NATURE
The Bible was the first scientific textbook of all; and it got some things right (and plenty more wrong). Steve Jones' new book rewrites it in the light of modern science. Are we all descended from a single couple, a real-life Adam and Eve? Was the Bible's great flood really a memory of the end of the I ...Show more
Seven Elements That Have Shaped the World: Uranium, Carbon, Iron, Titanium, Gold, Silver, Silicon by John Browne
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Category: SCIENCE & NATURE
Uranium, carbon, iron, titanium, gold, silver and silicon - how seven elements are shaping the 21st century, for good and bad. With carbon we access heat, light and mobility at the flick of a switch, while silicon enables us to communicate across the globe in an instant. Yet our use of the Earth's miner ...Show more
Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
24.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE & NATURE | Reading Level: very good
I simply wanted to know - for myself and my family - what meat is. Where does it come from? How is it produced? What are the economic, social and environmental effects? Are there animals that it is straightforwardly right to eat? Are there situations in which not eating animals is wrong? If this began a ...Show more