The Particle Zoo by Gavin Hesketh
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science
What is everything really made of? If we split matter down into smaller and infinitesimally smaller pieces, where do we arrive? At the Particle Zoo - the extraordinary subatomic world of antimatter, ghostly neutrinos, strange-flavoured quarks and time-travelling electrons, gravitons and glueballs, mindb ...Show more
15 Million Degrees: A Journey to the Centre of the Sun by Lucie Green
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
110 times wider than Earth; 15 million degrees at its core; an atmosphere so huge that Earth is actually within it: come and meet the star of our solar system Light takes eight minutes to reach Earth from the surface of the Sun. But its journey within the Sun takes hundreds of thousands of years. What i ...Show more
More Human: Designing a World Where People Come First by Steve Hilton
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
Government, business, the lives we lead, the food we eat, the way our children are brought up, the way we relate to the natural world around us - it's all become too big and distant and industrialised. Inhuman. It's time to do something about it. It's time to put people first. It's time to make the worl ...Show more
Particle Physics Brick by Brick by Dr. Ben Still
$26.99 AUD
Category: Science
All matter comprises of twelve 'building block' particles. This book explains how these building blocks are formed and interact, using toy building blocks to create a uniquely visual and clear depiction of the way our universe is put together. This is the perfect introduction to the enigmatic and fascin ...Show more
Ghost in My Brain by Clark A. Elliott
$27.99 AUD
Category: Science
In 1999, Dr Clark Elliott suffered a concussion when his car was rear-ended. Overnight his life changed from that of a rising professor to a humbled man struggling to get through a single day. In one final effort to resume a normal life, Elliott crossed paths with two brilliant Chicago-area research cli ...Show more
Astronomy 101: From the Sun and Moon to Wormholes and Warp Drive, Key Theories, Discoveries, and Facts About the Universe by Carolyn Collins Petersen
$27.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: 101
Explore the curiosities of our galaxy! Too often, textbooks obscure the beauty and wonder of outer space with tedious discourse that even Galileo would oppose. Astronomy 101 cuts out the boring details and lengthy explanations, and instead, gives you a lesson in astronomy that keeps you engaged as you d ...Show more
And Then You're Dead by Cody Cassidy
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
What would happen if you stuck your head into a nuclear particle accelerator? What if you jumped into an interstellar black hole, or slipped out of a deep-sea submarine wearing only a pair of Speedos? In And Then You're Dead: The world's most interesting ways to die, we'll give serious answers to these ...Show more
Testosterone Rex: Unmaking the Myths of Our Gendered Minds by Cordelia Fine
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
Testosterone Rex is the powerful myth that squashes hopes of sex equality by telling us that men and women have evolved different natures. Fixed in an ancestral past that rewarded competitive men and caring women, these differences are supposedly re-created in each generation by sex hormones and male an ...Show more
Science(ish) : The Peculiar Science Behind the Movies by Michael Rick; Brooks Edwards
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
Just like you, Dr Michael Brooks and Rick Edwards have watched movies and been sucked into those fictional worlds. Unlike you, they've written an amusing book exploring and unpicking these much-loved stories, revealing the science within. They've chatted to some of the most respected names in science to ...Show more
The Re-Origin of Species: A Second Chance for Extinct Animals by Torill Kornfeldt
$32.99 AUD
$35.00 (5% off)
Category: Science
From the Siberian permafrost to balmy California, scientists across the globe are working to resurrect all kinds of extinct animals, from ones that just left us to those that have been gone for many thousands of years. Their tools in this hunt are both fossils and cutting-edge genetic technologies. Some ...Show more
The Greatest Story Ever Told...So Far by Lawrence Krauss
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science
In the beginning there was light but more than this, there was gravity. After that, all hell broke loose...This is how the story of the greatest intellectual adventure in history should be introduced - how humanity reached its current understanding of the universe, one that is far removed from the realm ...Show more
Under the Knife by Arnold van de Laar
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science
In Under the Knife, surgeon Arnold Van de Laar uses his own experience and expertise to tell the witty history of the past, present and future of surgery. From the story of the desperate man from seventeenth-century Amsterdam who grimly cut a stone out of his own bladder to Bob Marley's deadly toe, Unde ...Show more