Science : a History 1543-2001 by John Gribbin
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
Science: A History is the enthralling story of the men and women who changed the way we see the world, and the turbulent times they lived in: from Galileo, tried by the Inquisition for his ideas, to Newton, who wrote his rivals out of the history books; from Marie Curie, forced to work apart from male s ...Show more
Eurekaaargh! - A Spectacular Collection of Inventions That Nearly Worked by Adam Hart-Davis
$27.45 AUD
Category: Science
The Illustrated Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking (Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Cambridge University)
$65.00 AUD
Category: Science
Stephen Hawking
OUR CHANGING PLANET by KING MICHAEL EDITOR
$69.95 AUD
Category: Science
For over 40 years, satellites have been orbiting the Earth quietly monitoring the state of our planet. Unseen by most of us, they are providing information on the many changes taking place, from movements in the land and volcanic eruptions, to human-caused changes such as the growth of cities, deforesta ...Show more
Proust Was a Neuroscientist by Jonah Lehrer
$24.95 AUD
Category: Science
Is science the only path to knowledge? In this sparkling and provocative book Jonah Lehrer explains that when it comes to understanding the brain, art got there first. Taking a group of celebrated writers, painters and composers, Lehrer shows us how artists have discovered truths about the human mind - ...Show more
Full Moon by Michael Light
$98.95 AUD
Category: Science
"Full Moon" is a visual journey to the moon and back. In the course of the Apollo missions, the astronauts took 32,000 photographs. These were shot on Hasselblad cameras with remarkable definition. The original film has been stored in special conditions by NASA, but the second generation of films is ref ...Show more
The Future of the Brain: Essays by the World's Leading Neuroscientists by Gary Marcus
$43.95 AUD
Category: Science
Including a chapter by 2014 Nobel laureates May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser An unprecedented look at the quest to unravel the mysteries of the human brain, The Future of the Brain takes readers to the absolute frontiers of science. Original essays by leading researchers such as Christof Koch, George Ch ...Show more
The Symbiotic Planet by Lynn Margulis
$19.75 AUD
Category: Science
Lynn Margulis is an ardent supporter of the Gaia hypothesis: the idea that due to the finely balanced interdependence of all life forms, the planet functions as a single, giant cell. She argues that no organism is an island, and that all are linked to each other. Written with tremendous zest and autho ...Show more
The Oxford Illustrated History of Science by Iwan Rhys Morus
$50.95 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Oxford Illustrated History Ser.
The Oxford Illustrated History of Science is the first-ever fully illustrated global history of science, from Aristotle to the atom bomb - and beyond. The first part of the book tells the story of science in both the East and West from antiquity to the Enlightenment: from the ancient Mediterranean worl ...Show more
Seeing and Believing: The Story of the Telescope, or How We Found Our Place in the Universe by Richard Panek
$18.65 AUD
Category: Science
In 1609, Galileo fitted two lenses inside a cylindrical tube, aimed it at the sky and forever changed the world. Panek tells the story and details the character, discovery by discovery of the telescope, one of the few inventions that have revolutionised our view of the universe and how we fit in to it. ...Show more
Once Upon a Number by John Allen Paulos
$10.00 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Allen Lane Science S.
First published by Basic Books in 1998, this book explores, with wit and originality, the unexpected relationships that tie the realm of mathematics, statistics and exact science to the contrasting world of personal experience - our memories and emotions, the stories that make up our lives.