Every Brain Needs Music - The Neuroscience of Making and Listening to Music by Lawrence Sherman; Dennis Plies; Susi Davis (Illustrator)
$52.95 AUD
Category: Science
Larry S. Sherman, a neuroscientist and lifelong musician, and Dennis Plies, a professional musician and teacher, collaborate to show how our brains and music work in harmony. Written for both musical and nonmusical people, including newcomers to brain science, this book is a lively and easy-to-read expl ...Show more
Moons: The Mysteries and Marvels of our Solar System by Kate Howells
$39.99 AUD
Category: Science
ALMOST EVERY PLANET IN OUR SOLAR SYSTEM HAS ONE, SO WHY DO WE KNOW SO LITTLE ABOUT MOONS? Join astronomer Kate Howells on an interplanetary voyage to explore the mind-boggling moons of our solar system, from the volcanic hellscape of Io to the ice mountains and methane seas of Titan. Beautifully illustr ...Show more
Shells - A Natural and Cultural History by Fabio Moretzsohn
$44.99 AUD
Category: Science
A stunningly illustrated scientific and cultural history of shells. Shells have captivated humans from the dawn of time: the earliest known artwork was made on a shell. As well as containers for food, shells have been used as tools, jewellery and decorations for dwellings, and to bring good luck or to w ...Show more
The Planets: The Definitive Visual Guide to Our Solar System by DK
$47.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: The Definitive Visual Guide
Featuring all-new 3D models built using data gathered by NASA and the European Space Agency, The Planets is an awe-inspiring journey through the Solar System, from Earth to Mars and beyond. Viewed layer by layer, planets and other objects in the Solar System are taken out of the night sky and presented ...Show more
The Sea is Not Made of Water: Life Between the Tides by Adam Nicolson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science
From Adam Nicolson, winner of the Wainwright Prize 2018 Few places are as familiar as the shore – and few as full of mystery and surprise. How do sandhoppers inherit an inbuilt compass from their parents? How do crabs understand the tides? How can the death of one winkle guarantee the lives of its comp ...Show more
Magic Furnace by Chown Marcus
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
Marcus Chown's extraordinary account of how scientists unravelled the mystery of atoms and helped to explain the dawn of life is one of the greatest detective stories in the history of science. In fact, it is two puzzles intertwined: The origin of atoms, and the origin of stars. Neither story could be t ...Show more
On the Edge of Infinity by Stefan Klein
$12.99 AUD
Category: Science
From Germany's bestselling popular science author, Stefan Klein - How a rose blossom can demonstrate that nothing and nobody exists on their own. - How a hurricane can reveal the world's unpredictability. - How the exploits of burglars in New York and London can demonstrate how everything can be in two ...Show more
Timelines of Science
$55.00 AUD
Category: Science
This highly accessible history of science brings key milestones and events to life in visual timelinesDiscover the world of science as never before in this richly illustrated guide. The history of humankind has been driven by scientific discovery. From our distant ancestors learning to use tools and fir ...Show more
Life As We Knew It: the extraordinary story of Australia's pandemic by Aisha Dow, Melissa Cunningham
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
It was never part of the plan that Australia would be locked down and shut off from the world for two years. But when the COVID-19 pandemic arrived in 2020, and the bodies began piling up overseas, Australians took unprecedented steps to avoid a catastrophe heading their way. The country’s near-eliminat ...Show more
Rocks & Minerals: The Definitive Visual Guide by Pellant, Chris
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: DK Handbooks Ser.
A comprehensive, up-to-date field guide to the world's rocks and minerals This detailed and easy-to-use guide contains striking photography of rocks and minerals from around the globe, and is designed to help readers and collectors identify specimens of these compounds, which are formed by geological pr ...Show more
A Brief History of Black Holes: And why nearly everything you know about them is wrong by Dr Becky Smethurst
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
In A Brief History of Black Holes, the award-winning University of Oxford researcher Dr Becky Smethurst charts five hundred years of scientific breakthroughs in astronomy and astrophysics.Right now, you are orbiting a black hole.The Earth orbits the Sun, and the Sun orbits the centre of the Milky Way: a ...Show more
The Complete Human Body: The Definitive Visual Guide by Alice Roberts, Alice Roberts
$65.00 AUD
Category: Science
The most detailed guide to the human body available for the general readerThe definitive guide to the development, form, function, and disorders of the human body.The most detailed popular reference book on human anatomy available, this beautiful exploration of the human body is now in its third edition ...Show more