Is Maths Real? How Simple Questions Lead Us to Mathematics' Deepest Truths by Eugenia Cheng
$36.99 AUD
Category: Science
One of the world's most creative mathematicians offers new ways to look at maths - focusing on questions, not answers Why is -(-1) = 1? Why do odd and even numbers alternate? What's the point of algebra? Is maths even real? From imaginary numbers to the perplexing order of operations we all had drilled ...Show more
Is the Moon Upside Down? by Greg Quicke
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
During his younger days working as a bush mechanic and pearl diver in remote WA, Greg Quick spent countless nights lying in a swag and staring at the stars. That daily distraction grew into a passion that has seen him become one of Australia's best known and most engaging astronomers. In recent years Gr ...Show more
Island of the Blue Foxes : Disaster and Triumph on the World's Greatest Scientific Expedition by Stephen R. Bown
$39.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Merloyd Lawrence
The immense 18th-century scientific journey, variously known as the Second Kamchatka Expedition or the Great Northern Expedition, from St. Petersburg across Siberia to the coast of North America, involved over 3,000 people and cost Peter the Great over one-sixth of his empire's annual revenue. Until now ...Show more
It All Adds Up - The Story of People and Mathematics by Mickael Launay; Stephen S. Wilson (Translator)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science
'Fascinating ... so enlightening that suddenly maths doesn't seem so fearsome as it once did' SIMON WINCHESTER From Aristotle to Ada Lovelace: a brief history of the mathematical ideas that have forever changed the world and the everyday people and pioneers behind them. The story of our best invention ...Show more
It's Alive!: Artificial Intelligence from the Logic Piano to Killer Robots by Toby Walsh
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science
The development of Artificial Intelligence is an adventure as bold and ambitious as any that humans have attempted. And the truth is that thinking machines are already an indispensable part of our lives. Without them, Google couldn't answer your questions in a fraction of a second. Autonomous cars would ...Show more
Jellyfish Age Backwards Nature's Secrets to Longevity by Nicklas Brendborg
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
This eye-opening book offers a revelatory scientific deep dive into how plants and animals have already unlocked the secrets to immortality-and the lessons they hold for us all. Recent advances in medicine and technology have expanded our understanding of aging across the animal kingdom, and our own tim ...Show more
Jet - The Engine That Changed the World by Graham Hoyland
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
The invention of the jet engine had a profound effect on the world. Commercial jet aircraft revolutionized travel, opening up every corner of the planet. Few know that the jet engine was invented by an Englishman in 1929. The invention was a masterstroke of genius by 21-year-old Frank Whittle, replacing ...Show more
Joined-Up Thinking: The Science of Collective Intelligence and its Power to Change Our Lives by Hannah Critchlow
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science
At a time of existential global challenges we need our best brainpower to solve them.We can no longer rely on the myth of the lone genius to create a breakthrough.As neuroscientist and bestselling author of The Science of Fate Hannah Critchlow shows, two heads have always been better than one. Almost ev ...Show more
Jungle: How Tropical Forests Shaped the World - and Us by Patrick Roberts
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
A new and ambitious history of the world that reveals the deep-rooted and symbiotic relationship between humankind and tropical forest Jungle is a new and ambitious history of the world, telling the remarkable story of the world's tropical forests from the arrival of the first plants millions of years ...Show more
Karl, the Universe and Everything by Karl Kruszelnicki
$19.99 AUD
Category: Science
Grab your towel and hitchhike across the galaxy with Australia's most popular scientist Dr Karl Kruszelnicki. Learn about Dr Karl, the universe and everything, and discover how air-conditioning is sexist, how you can kill a spinning hard drive by shouting at it and how space junk is threatening our futu ...Show more
Karl, the Universe and Everything by Karl Kruszelnicki
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science
Grab your towel and hitchhike across the galaxy with Australia's most popular scientist Dr Karl Kruszelnicki. Learn about Dr Karl, the universe and everything, and discover how air-conditioning is sexist, how you can kill a spinning hard drive by shouting at it and how space junk is threatening our futu ...Show more
King Solomon's Ring by Konrad Lorenz
$36.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
Solomon, the legend goes, had a magic ring which enabled him to speak to the animals in their own language. Konrad Lorenz was gifted with a similar power of understanding the animal world. He was that rare beast, a brilliant scientist who could write (and indeed draw) beautifully. He did more than any o ...Show more