Rethinking Our World: an invitation to rescue our future by David Shaw, Maja Gopel
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
A compelling and persuasive look at the social transformations needed to cope with our environmental crises.Our world is at a tipping point, and we feel it every day. On the one hand, we have never been so well off; on the other hand, we find destruction and crisis everywhere we look. Whether throughout ...Show more
Frequently Asked Questions About the Universe by Daniel Whiteson, Jorge Cham
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
You've got questions: about space, time, gravity, and the odds of meeting your older self inside a wormhole. All the answers you need are right here.As a species, we may not agree on much, but one thing brings us all together: a need to know. We all wonder, and deep down we all have the same big questio ...Show more
Numb and Number by William Hartston
$29.99 AUD
Category: 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
More. Numbers. Every. Day. by Micael Dahlen; Helge Thorbjørnsen
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science
"How many steps have you done today? How many emails answered? How much money have you spent this week And how many hours have you slept? Welcome to the numberdemic, where a deluge of figures, stats and data manipulate your every move. From the way you work, date and exercise to the products you buy and ...Show more
Biomimetics: How Lessons from Nature can Transform Technology by Brian Clegg
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Hot Science Ser.
An exploration of the transformative ways in which nature has inspired the technological advancement of humankind.
The Black Swan: The Impact Of The Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
The Black Swan is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb's landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don't understand. The other books in the series are Fooled by Randomness, Antifragile, Skin in the Gam ...Show more
Philosophy : 50 Ideas in 500 Words by Jeremy Stangroom
$19.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: 50 Ideas in 500 Words Ser.
Philosophy : 50 in 500 unravels its most central concepts through five tightly focused chapters. From metaphysics to modern economic theories, from grou ndbreaking advances inspired in psychology to its relationship with postmodernist theory, this book examines the greatest ide as from the greatest thin ...Show more
Impossible, Possible, and Improbable: Science Stranger Than Fiction by John Gribbin
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
'Gribbin has inspired generations with his popular science writing' Jim Al-KhaliliA scintillating collection of short essays that really does cover 'life, the Universe, and everything'.From the mysteries of the subatomic world to the curious property of water that makes our planet inhabitable, master of ...Show more
The Invention of Surgery by David Schneider
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
"Bold and compelling... Uniformly excellent, and often wryly amusing."" - The Wall Street Journal"A globetrotting historical adventure, told from the inside of the operating room... Medical writing at its most exhilarating." - Michael Paul Mason"Comprehensively researched, deftly told, and radiating bot ...Show more
The Importance of Being Interested - Adventures in Scientific Curiosity by Robin Ince
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science
The popular comedian and presenter journeys through science, explaining why it should be for everyone - including enthusiastic amateurs. Comedian Robin Ince quickly abandoned science at school, bored by a fog of dull lessons and intimidated by the barrage of equations. But, twenty years later, he fell ...Show more
The Social Lives of Animals: How Co-operation Conquered the Natural World by Ashley Ward
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
Everything you ever wanted to know about how animals live together, and what that means for us 'Any writer who can evoke the existential sadness of a lonely cockroach, or make krill thrilling, or describe a snorkelling colleague being engulfed in a "gargantuan cetacean bum detonation" is a real gift to ...Show more
Many Things Under a Rock The Mysteries of Octopuses by David Scheel
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science
"Fascinating... the deepest of octopus books.' Peter Godfrey-Smith 'Mind-blowing and soul-expanding' Sy Montgomery Of all the creatures of the deep blue, none captivates us quite like the octopus. This highly intelligent master of disguise is one of our planet's most intriguing and enigmatic creatures ...Show more