Cosmos - The Art and Science of the Universe by Roberta J. M. Olson; Jay M. Pasachoff
$80.00 AUD
Category: Science
Since time immemorial, the nocturnal skies have mesmerized us, and heavenly bodies have inspired the imaginations of artists, poets, and scientists. Featuring paintings, sculpture, drawings, watercolors, prints, as well as plates from books, celestial diagrams, and astronomical photography, this book sh ...Show more
Einstein's Unfinished Symphony: The Story of a Gamble, Two Black Holes, and a New Age of Astronomy by Marcia Bartusiak
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science
An updated classic that recounts the long hunt for Einstein's predicted gravitational waves-and celebrates their recent discovery In February 2016, astronomers announced that they had verified the last remaining prediction of Einstein's general theory of relativity-vibrations in space-time, called gravi ...Show more
The Universe: A Travel Guide - created in collaboration with NASA JPL by Lonely Planet
$39.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Lonely Planet Ser.
The world's first and only guide to the Universe The follow-up to the best-selling The World has been developed with NASA and is the world's first and only guide to the Universe. It explores in detail the planets within our solar system and informs readers of their distance from Earth, temperature and a ...Show more
The Human Body Atlas - How the Human Body Works by Global Book Publishing; National Geographic Staff
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
The Human Body Atlas presents the human body and how it works, explaining the amazing work done behind the scenes by each part of the body. The human body is a complicated thing, but now you can learn how it works in-depth. The beautiful, full-color illustrations in The Human Body Atlas are accompanied ...Show more
Boneheads and Brainiacs - Heroes and Scoundrels of the Nobel Prize in Medicine by Moira Dolan
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
Even the greatest minds in medicine have been terribly, terribly wrong. The inventor of the lobotomy won a Nobel prize in medicine for destroying his patients' brains. Another Nobel laureate thought malaria cured syphilis. The discoverer of anaphylactic shock also researched the spirit world and ESP. A ...Show more
Twenty Worlds - The Extraordinary Story of Planets Around Other Stars by Niall Deacon
$39.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Universe Ser.
Thirty years ago, the only planets we knew were the ones orbiting our own sun; we now know of thousands of other worlds orbiting distant stars. In this book, astronomer Niall Deacon journeys to twenty of these globes: from giant, blisteringly hot planets orbiting close to their parent stars to planets t ...Show more
To Be a Machine - Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death by Mark O'Connell
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science
Transhumanism is a movement pushing the limits of our biology-of our senses, intelligence, and life spans-with technology. Its supporters have reached a critical mass and now include some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley and beyond, among them Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and Ray Kurzweil. In this pro ...Show more
The Little Book of Black Holes by Steven S. Gubser; Frans Pretorius
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Science Essentials Ser.
Dive into a mind-bending exploration of the physics of black holes Black holes, predicted by Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity more than a century ago, have long intrigued scientists and the public with their bizarre and fantastical properties. Although Einstein understood that black holes ...Show more
The Last Unknowns : Deep, Elegant, Profound Unanswered Questions About the Universe, the Mind, the Future of Civilization, and the Meaning of Life by John Brockman
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
THE UNIVERSE'S GREATEST UNANSWERED QUESTIONS, POSED BY "THE WORLD'S FINEST MINDS" (The Guardian) Featuring Jared Diamond, Steven Pinker, Nobel laureate Richard Thaler, Elaine Pagels, Booker Prize-winner Ian McEwan, Harvard physicist Lisa Randall, and more than 200 other leading thinkers. This is a boo ...Show more
The Rising Tide: Among the Islands and Atolls of the Pacific Ocean by Tom Bamforth
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
Vanuatu. The Cook Islands. Fiji. The names evoke white-sand beaches, swaying palms and lazy holidays. But in reality, these idyllic places are tropical maelstroms of global realpolitik, caught between the world's superpowers and former colonial masters. Collectively the Pacific nations, which form one t ...Show more
The Origins of Everything in 100 Pages, More or Less by David Bercovici
$27.99 AUD
Category: Science
With wonder, wit, and flair-and in record time and space-geophysicist David Bercovici explains how everything came to be everywhere, from the creation of stars and galaxies to the formation of Earth's atmosphere and oceans, to the origin of life and human civilization. Bercovici marries humor and legiti ...Show more
Brain Ponderables by Tom Jackson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Ponderables Ser.
Here is the essential guide to the human brain, an authoritative reference book and timeline that examines the three pounds of matter inside our heads that does all our thinking for us. With 100 billion nerve cells joined by thousands more to every corner of the body, the brain is wired together with 10 ...Show more