Fat: the Secret Organ by Mariette Boon; Liesbeth van Rossum; Colleen Higgins (Translator)
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science
Everywhere we look, whether on TV or in a magazine, we're confronted with the same message. You need to be thinner, you need to be on a diet, you need to take so-called 'fat burning' supplements. But should this be accepted wisdom? What do we know about the fat that we would like to lose rather than emb ...Show more
Fire in the Sky - Cosmic Collisions, Killer Asteroids, and the Race to Defend Earth by Gordon L. Dillow
$27.99 AUD
Category: Science
This "accessible and always entertaining" (Booklist) combination of history, pop science, and in-depth reporting offers a fascinating account of the asteroids that hit Earth long ago and those streaming toward us now, as well as how prepared we are against asteroid-caused catastrophe. One of these days ...Show more
The Big Book of Mars - From Ancient Egypt to The Martian, A Deep-Space Dive into Our Obsession with the Red Planet by Marc Hartzman
$41.99 AUD
Category: Science
Mars has been a source of fascination and speculation ever since the Ancient Sumerians observed its blood-red hue and named it for their god of war and plague. But it wasn't until 1877, when "canals" were observed on the surface of the Red Planet, suggesting the presence of water, that scientists, novel ...Show more
Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain by David Eagleman
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science
How can a blind person learn to see with her tongue or a deaf person learn to hear with his skin? What does a baby born without a nose tell us about our sensory machinery? Might we someday control a robot with our thoughts? And what does any of this have to do with why we dream?The answers to these ques ...Show more
The Art of NASA - The Illustrations That Sold the Missions by Piers Bizony
$79.99 AUD
Category: Science
In The Art of NASA, ultra-rare artworks illustrate a unique history of NASA hardware and missions from 1958 to today, giving readers an unprecedented look at how spacecraft, equipment, and missions evolved-and how they might have evolved.
Decoding the World - How the Genetic Era will Change the World by Po Bronson; Arvind Gupta
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Category: Science
A vision of the future where the latest Silicon Valley tech meets cutting-edge genetics. Po Bronson and Arvind Gupta, venture capitalists from Silicon Valley, take everyday news headlines and decode them, leading us on a journey through their unique and highly entertaining view of the world. Each chapte ...Show more
Calling Bullshit - The Art of Scepticism in a Data-Driven World by Carl T Bergstrom; Jevin D West
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Category: Science
The world is awash in bullshit, and we're drowning in it. Politicians are unconstrained by facts. Science is conducted by press release. Startup culture elevates bullshit to high art. These days, calling bullshit is a noble act. Based on their popular, eponymous, course at the University of Washington, ...Show more
Black Hole Survival Guide by Janna Levin
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
From the acclaimed author of Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space--an authoritative and accessible guide to the most alluring and challenging phenomena of contemporary science.Through her writing, astrophysicist Janna Levin has focused on making the science she studies not just comprehensib ...Show more
Transcendence - How Humans Evolved Through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time by Gaia Vince
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science
* A TIMES BEST SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR *From the prize-winning author of Adventures in the Anthropocene, the astonishing story of how culture enabled us to become the most successful species on Earth 'A wondrous, visionary work' Tim Flannery, author of The Weather Makers Humans are a planet-altering ...Show more
A History of the Universe in 100 Stars by Florian Freistetter
$39.99 AUD
Category: Science
From the Big Bang to the Gaia Mission, this is a very personal history of the universe through the author's favourite 100 stars.Astronomer Florian Freistetter has chosen 100 stars that have almost nothing in common. Some are bright and famous, some shine so feebly you need a huge telescope. There are bi ...Show more
Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX by Eric Berger
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Category: Science
The dramatic inside story of the first four historic flights that launched SpaceX-and Elon Musk-from a shaky startup into the world's leading edge rocket company. In 2006, SpaceX-a brand-new venture with fewer than 200 employees-rolled its first, single-engine rocket onto a launch pad at Kwajalein Atoll ...Show more
The Sleeping Beauties: and other stories of the social life of illness by Suzanne O'Sullivan
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science
'In my view the best science writer around - a true descendant of Oliver Sacks.' Sathnam Sanghera, author of The Boy with the TopknotIn Sweden, refugee children fall asleep for months and years at a time. In upstate New York, high school students develop contagious seizures. In the US Embassy in Cuba, e ...Show more