Dr Space Junk vs the Universe - Archaeology and the Future by Alice Gorman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
Going boldly forth as a pioneer in the fledgling fieldof space archaeology, Dr Alice Gorman (aka Dr Space Junk) turns the commonperception of archaeology as an exploration of the ancient on its head. Hercaptivating inquiry into the most modern and daring of technologies spanningsome 60 years -- a mere s ...Show more
Infinite Powers - The Story of Calculus - the Language of the Universe by Steven Strogatz
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
A magisterial history of calculus (and the people behind it) from one of the world's foremost popularisers of mathematics, the author of The Joy of X.
The Wizard and the Prophet - Two Groundbreaking Scientists and Their Conflicting Visions of the Future of Our Planet by Charles C. Mann
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
Two Groundbreaking Scientists and Their Conflicting Visions of the Future of Our Planet'Does the earth's finite carrying capacity mean economic growth has to stop? That momentous question is the subject of Charles Mann's brilliant book.' Wall Street JournalIn forty years, the population of the Earth wil ...Show more
The Last Unknowns : Deep, Elegant, Profound Unanswered Questions About the Universe, the Mind, the Future of Civilization, and the Meaning of Life by John Brockman
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
THE UNIVERSE'S GREATEST UNANSWERED QUESTIONS, POSED BY "THE WORLD'S FINEST MINDS" (The Guardian) Featuring Jared Diamond, Steven Pinker, Nobel laureate Richard Thaler, Elaine Pagels, Booker Prize-winner Ian McEwan, Harvard physicist Lisa Randall, and more than 200 other leading thinkers. This is a boo ...Show more
Adventures in the Anthropocene: A Journey to the Heart of the Planet we Made (Patterns of Life) by Gaia Vince
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Patterns of Life Ser.
A series of special editions of the best popular science books to explore the patterns of our planet. Designed by Patternity, the award-winning creative studio and pattern consultancy. Explore the impact of humans on the planet in this beautiful new edition of Gaia Vincent's powerful work. In recent dec ...Show more
The Brain: A User's Manual: A Simple Guide to the World's Most Complex Machine by Marco Magrini
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
A simple guide to the world's most complex machine.
Working With Nature by Jeremy Purseglove
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science
From cocoa farming in Ghana to the orchards of Kent and the desert badlands of Pakistan, taking a practical approach to sustaining the landscape can mean the difference between prosperity and ruin. Working with Nature is the story of a lifetime of work, often in extreme environments, to harvest nature a ...Show more
The Equations of Life: How Physics Shapes Evolution by Charles Cockell
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
Britain's foremost astrobiologist offers an accessible and game-changing account of why life is like it is.
The Road to Conscious Machines by Michael Wooldridge
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Pelican Bks.
In this mythbusting guide to AI past and present, one of the world's leading researchers shows why our fears for the future are misplaced The ultimate dream of artificial intelligence is to build machines that are like us: conscious and self-aware. While this remains a remote possibility, rapid progres ...Show more
Origin Story: A Big History Of Everything by David Christian
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Australian
How did we get from the Big Bang to today's staggering complexity, in which seven billion humans are connected into networks powerful enough to transform the planet? And why, in comparison, are our closest primate relatives reduced to near-extinction?Big History creator David Christian gives the answers ...Show more
The Teenage Brain: A Neuroscientist's Survival Guide to Raising Adolescents and Young Adults by Frances E. Jensen
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science
Why is it that the behaviour of teenagers can be so odd? As they grow older, young children steadily improve their sense of how to behave, and then all of a sudden, they can become totally uncommunicative, wildly emotional and completely unpredictable. We used to think that erratic teenage behaviour was ...Show more
Perfect Motion: How Walking Makes Us Wiser by Jono Lineen
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science
In Perfect Motion, Jono Lineen investigates that transformation, and why walking has made us more creative, helped us to learn, constructed our perception of time, strengthened our resilience and provided a way of making sense of our life - and death.After the tragic loss of his younger brother, Lineen ...Show more