White Holes: Inside the Horizon by Carlo Rovelli
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
A mesmerizing trip to the strange new world of white holes, from Carlo Rovelli, the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics. Let us journey, with beloved physicist Carlo Rovelli, into the heart of a black hole. Let us slip beyond its boundary, the horizon, and tumble - on and on - down thi ...Show more
The Internet of Animals: Discovering the Collective Intelligence of Life on Earth by Martin Wikelski
$36.99 AUD
Category: Science
For readers of An Immense World, this thrilling book unveils a new scientific technology that tracks animal movements from space and 'could fundamentally reshape the way we understand the role of mobility on our changing planet'. -The New York Times Animal senses are finely tuned to their environments. ...Show more
Untitled by Bob Beale
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science
Reveals a major scientific breakthrough that will actually change the way humanity thinks about the world. Somewhere in Australia a small group of dedicated scientists is about to clinch success in a revolutionary research project that will change the way humanity thinks about the world. It will be som ...Show more
Life - A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth by Richard Fortey
$45.00 AUD
Category: Science | Reading Level: good
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice "Extraordinary. . . . Anyone with the slightest interest in biology should read this book."--The New York Times Book Review "A marvelous museum of the past four billion years on earth--capacious, jammed with treasures, full of learning and wide-eyed wonder."- ...Show more
Genius by James Gleick
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
The fascinating story of Richard Feynman and modern physics.
Cancer: A Beginner's Guide by Paul Scotting
$24.95 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Beginner's Guides
Cancer is the second biggest killer in the world, but few of us understand how it works or how we treat it. In this illuminating introduction, Paul Scotting explains the science behind the disease and explores why some of us are more likely to develop it than others. Arguing that we're in a new age of u ...Show more
The Smell of Fresh Rain: The Unexpected Pleasures of our most Elusive Sense by Barney Shaw
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science | Reading Level: very good
What do we actually mean when we say that something smells of fresh paint? Or frying bacon? And what does five o clock in the morning smell like? Inspired by an unsettlingly synaesthesic question put to him by his son, Barney Shaw looks into the science of smell: peering behind its sensory nature to dis ...Show more
The Philosophical Breakfast Club: Four Remarkable Friends Who Transformed Science and Changed the World by Laura J Snyder
$19.95 AUD
Category: Science
"The""Philosophical Breakfast Club "recounts the life and work of four men who met as students at Cambridge University: Charles Babbage, John Herschel, William Whewell, and Richard Jones. Recognizing that they shared a love of science (as well as good food and drink) they began to meet on Sunday morning ...Show more