Numb and Number by William Hartston
$29.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
'A wise, witty and insightful guide to clear thinking amid a deluge of percentages and probabilities.' Ian StewartLike it or not, our lives are dominated by mathematics. Our daily diet of news regales us with statistical forecasts, opinion polls, risk assessments, inflation figures, weather and climate ...Show more
Instant Physics: Key Thinkers, Theories, Discoveries and Concepts by Giles Sparrow
$29.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science | Series: Instant Ser.
Instant Physics pulls together all the pivotal physics knowledge and thought into one concise volume.
The Best Australian Science Writing 2023 by Donna Lu (Editor)
$32.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science | Series: The\Best Australian Science Ser.
The annual collection — now in its thirteenth year — celebrating the finest voices in Australian science writing.Should we alter animals’ DNA to save them from extinction? What secrets will old ice reveal to us about the Earth’s deep past? How is the world’s most expensive — and explosive — substance ma ...Show more
Immune: A Journey into the Mysterious System That Keeps You Alive by Philipp Dettmer
$49.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
A gorgeously illustrated deep dive into the immune system that will forever change how you think about your body, from the creator of the wildly popular science YouTube channel Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell'A truly brilliant introduction to the human body's vast system for fighting infections and other thr ...Show more
Infinite Powers - The Story of Calculus - the Language of the Universe by Steven Strogatz
$29.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
A magisterial history of calculus (and the people behind it) from one of the world's foremost popularisers of mathematics, the author of The Joy of X.
Black Holes - the Reith Lectures by Stephen Hawking
$12.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
"It is said that fact is sometimes stranger than fiction, and nowhere is that more true than in the case of black holes. Black holes are stranger than anything dreamed up by science fiction writers."In 2016 Professor Stephen Hawking delivered the BBC Reith Lectures on a subject that fascinated him for d ...Show more
Life on our Planet by Dr Tom Fletcher
$59.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
Accompanying an 8-part Netflix series from Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment and George Lucas's Industrial Light and Magic, a new 'Walking with Dinosaurs' that offers a stunning re-examination of prehistoric life on Planet Earth. Today there are 20 million species on our planet. Yet what we see is ...Show more
Brief Answers to the Big Questions: the final book from Stephen Hawking by Stephen Hawking
$32.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
'Effortlessly instructive, absorbing, up to the minute and - where it matters - witty' - GUARDIAN The world-famous cosmologist and #1 bestselling author of A Brief History of Time leaves us with his final thoughts on the universe's biggest questions in this brilliant posthumous work. This limited editi ...Show more
Horridus: Journey of a Triceratops by Chris Flynn
$64.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
What can a set of ancient bones tell us about the wonder and fragility of our world?Can a relic from the past give us a unique insight into how to approach the future?An exploration of the far-reaching cultural impact of Horridus, gathering together considered musings from celebrated cultural figures an ...Show more
The Illusionist Brain: The Neuroscience of Magic by Jordi Camí, Luis M. Martínez
$34.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
How magicians exploit the natural functioning of our brains to astonish and amaze us How do magicians make us see the impossible? The Illusionist Brain takes you on an unforgettable journey through the inner workings of the human mind, revealing how magicians achieve their spectacular and seemingly imp ...Show more
101 Things You Didn’t Know About Einstein : Sex, Science, and the Secrets of the Universe by Shana Cynthia; Priwer Phillips
$21.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science | Series: 101 Things
Learn everything you need to know about Albert Einstein, the genius who created the Theory of Relativity and calculated mass-energy equivalence.101 Things You Didn’t Know About Einstein provides in-depth, fascinating facts about the famous scientist and mathematician—including details about his personal ...Show more