Unexplained : Supernatural Stories for Uncertain Times by Richard MacLean Smith
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science
'A grisly treat' Financial Times on the podcast Based on the 'world's spookiest podcast' of the same name comes Unexplained: a book of ten real-life mysteries which might be best left unexplained. . . ******************************* What can a case of demonic possession in 1970's Germany teach us about ...Show more
Everything You Know about the World Is Wrong by Matt Brown
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Everything You Know Is Wrong Ser.
A fascinating and humorous read that debunks the surprising myths about the world we always believed. The latest addition to the popular Everything You Know series, this book will blow apart your beliefs in the world's physical and social landscape, leaving you staggered by astounding facts about our ...Show more
Honeysuckle Creek: The Story of Tom Reid, a Little Dish, and Neil Armstrong's First Step by Andrew Tink
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science
Honeysuckle Creek reveals the pivotal role that the tracking station at Honeysuckle Creek, near Canberra, played in the first moon landing. Andrew Tink gives a gripping account of the role of its director Tom Reid and his colleagues in transmitting some of the most-watched images in human history as Nei ...Show more
The Beginning and the End of Everything by Paul Parsons
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science
'Prepare to have your mind blown! A brilliantly written overview of the past, present and future of modern cosmology.' - DALLAS CAMPBELL, author of Ad AstraThe Beginning and the End of Everything is the whole story as we currently understand it - from nothing, to the birth of our universe, to its ultima ...Show more
The Human Tide - How population shaped the modern world by Paul Morland
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science
Every phase since the advent of the industrial revolution - from the fate of the British Empire, to the global challenges from Germany, Japan and Russia, to America's emergence as a sole superpower, to the Arab Spring, to the long-term decline of economic growth that started with Japan and has now sprea ...Show more
Darwin Comes to Town by Menno Schilthuizen
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science
*Carrion crows in the Japanese city of Sendai have learned to use passing traffic to crack nuts.*Lizards in Puerto Rico are evolving feet that better grip surfaces like concrete.*Europe's urban blackbirds sing at a higher pitch than their rural cousins, to be heardover the din of traffic.How is this hap ...Show more
The Creativity Code: How AI is Learning to Write, Paint and Think by Marcus Du Sautoy
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science
Will a computer ever compose a symphony, write a prize-winning novel, or paint a masterpiece? And if so, would we be able to tell the difference? As humans, we have an extraordinary ability to create works of art that elevate, expand and transform what it means to be alive. Yet in many other areas, new ...Show more
Moon - From Inner Worlds to Outer Space by Marie Laurberg + Anja C. Andersen + Lærke Jørgensen et al
$55.00 AUD
Category: Science
Myths of the moon in the arts and sciences, 50 years after the first manned landingThe moon has long furnished humankind with an artistic icon, an image of longing and object of scientific inquiry. Encompassing art, film, literature, architecture, design, natural history and historical objects, and publ ...Show more
Manual for Survival: Chernobyl .. Future by Kate Brown
$45.00 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Chernobyl Guide to The Future
The official death toll of the 1986 Chernobyl accident, 'the worst nuclear disaster in history', is only 54, and stories today commonly suggest that nature is thriving there. Yet award-winning historian Kate Brown uncovers a much more disturbing story, one in which radioactive isotopes caused hundreds o ...Show more
Einstein's Unfinished Revolution by Lee Smolin
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
Human beings, says Lee Smolin, have always had a problem with the boundary between reality and fantasy, confusing our representations of the world with the world itself. Nowhere is this more evident than in quantum physics, which forms the basis for our understanding of everything from elementary partic ...Show more
Plastic Soup - An Atlas of Ocean Pollution by Michiel Roscam Abbing
$37.99 AUD
Category: Science
Plastics have transformed every aspect of our lives. Yet the very properties that make them attractive--they are cheap to make, light, and durable--spell disaster when trash makes its way into the environment. Plastic Soup: An Atlas of Ocean Pollution is a beautifully-illustrated survey of the plastics ...Show more
The Moon by Royal Observatory Greenwich Staff
$44.99 AUD
Category: Science
Written by the Royal Observatory's leading astronomers and moon experts, this landmark work explores man's fascination with our only natural satellite. Learn how we started to observe the Moon, how we used it to mark time and navigate, how lunar lore developed across the world, how the Chinese developed ...Show more