Earth: Over 4 Billion Years in the Making by Chris Packham
$55.00 AUD
Category: Science
‘Combines the natural history of programmes such as David Attenborough’s Planet Earth with the planetary focus of Brian Cox’s Universe’ Guardian A beautiful, full colour book to accompany the 5 part BBC TV series telling the most important story of all, the deep history of our own planet. With the trade ...Show more
Earth: The Definitive Visual Guide by DK
$65.00 AUD
Category: Science
A fully updated edition of this beautifully illustrated, encyclopedic guide to planet Earth Explore and understand the natural and human wonders of our planet Now in its third edition, this landmark encyclopedia both celebrates our planet and explains the science underpinning the forces and processes th ...Show more
Earth in Our Hands: Photos from the International Space Station by THOMAS PESQUET
$49.95 AUD
Category: Science
Take a trip around Earth, with a front-row seat on the International Space Station and an astronaut as your guide The Earth in Our Hands is a work of amazing breadth and beauty Astronaut Thomas Pesquet brought his camera along for the ride when he was deployed to the International Space Station, and f ...Show more
Einstein in Time and Space: A Life in 99 Particles by Samuel Graydon
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science
DROPOUT. PACIFIST. PHYSICIST. CASANOVA. REFUGEE. REBEL. GENIUS.THINK YOU KNOW EINSTEIN? THINK AGAIN. His face is instantly recognisable. His name is shorthand for genius. Today, he's a figurehead as much as a man, symbolic of things larger than himself: of scientific progress, of the human mind, even o ...Show more
Eve: How The Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution by Cat Bohannon
$36.99 AUD
Category: Science
An ambitious, eye-opening, myth-busting and groundbreaking history of the evolution of the female body, by a brilliant new scientist and writer. How did wet nurses drive civilization? Are women always the weaker sex? Is sexism useful for evolution? And are our bodies at war with our babies? In Eve, Ca ...Show more
Exactly: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World by Simon Winchester
$26.99 AUD
Category: Science
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2018 Bestselling author Simon Winchester writes a magnificent history of the pioneering engineers who developed precision machinery to allow us to see as far as the moon and as close as the Higgs boson. Precision is the key to everything. It is an in ...Show more
Extinctions: How Life Survives, Adapts and Evolves by Michael J. Benton
$49.99 AUD
Category: Science
This timely and original book lays out the latest scientific understanding of mass extinction on our planet. Cutting-edge techniques across biology, chemistry, physics, and geology have transformed our understanding of the deep past, including the discovery of a previously unknown mass extinction. This ...Show more
Fantastic Numbers and Where to Find Them: A Journey to the Edge of Physics by Antonio Padilla
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
A dazzling exploration of the strange and extreme numbers that illuminate the ultimate nature of realityFor particularly brilliant theoretical physicists like James Clerk Maxwell, Paul Dirac or Albert Einstein, the search for mathematical truths - via ever more mind-boggling numbers - led to strange new ...Show more
Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World by John Vaillant
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science
A stunning account of this century's most intense urban fire, and a panoramic exploration of the rapidly changing relationship between fire and humankind In May 2016, Fort McMurray, Alberta, the hub of Canada's oil industry, was overrun by wildfire. The multi-billion-dollar disaster turned entire neigh ...Show more
God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
In god is Not Great Hitchens turned his formidable eloquence and rhetorical energy to the most controversial issue in the world: God and religion. The result is a devastating critique of religious faith god Is Not Great is the ultimate case against religion. In a series of acute readings of the major r ...Show more
Here be Monsters: Is Technology Reducing Our Humanity? by Richard King
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science
Technology is developing fast — so fast that it threatens to overwhelm the very species whose genius lies in its technological cunning: us. From the metaverse to genetic engineering and mood-altering pharmaceuticals, to cybersex and cyberwar and the widespread automation of work, new technologies are re ...Show more
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER Sapiens shows us where we came from. Homo Deus shows us where we're going. Yuval Noah Harari envisions a near future in which we face a new set of challenges. Homo Deus explores the projects, dreams and nightmares that will shape the twenty-first century and beyond - from ove ...Show more