The Shape of Things to Come by Druin Burch
$52.99 AUD
Category: Science
In this humane and important exploration of modern medicine, Druin Burch examines the future of medicine, our changing physicalities and the implications of longer life. From birth to death and through the exploration of topics such as disease, sex, mind, eating and drinking, Burch tracks the future of ...Show more
Space - 10 Things You Should Know by Rebecca Smethurst
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
This book is for anyone who wants to easily understand the mind-blowing fundamentals of our extraordinary, expanding universe. Written by Oxford astrophysicist Dr Becky Smethurst and composed of ten captivating, simple essays, it guides you swiftly through the galaxies, explaining the mysteries of blac ...Show more
Handprints on Hubble - An Astronaut's Story of Invention by Kathryn D. Sullivan
$58.99 AUD
Category: Science
The first American woman to walk in space recounts her experience as part of the team that launched, rescued, repaired, and maintained the Hubble Space Telescope.The Hubble Space Telescope has revolutionized our understanding of the universe. It has, among many other achievements, revealed thousands of ...Show more
Rebel Star - Our Quest to Solve the Great Mysteries of the Sun by Colin Stuart
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
A fascinating and comprehensive guide to the sun - our home star - which remains the greatest mystery in the solar system, and why understanding it is pivotal to our future existence here on Earth.In 1869, a great mystery was born. As astronomers observed a total solar eclipse, for the first time they s ...Show more
Heaven on Earth - How Copernicus, Brahe, Kepler, and Galileo Discovered the Modern World by J. S. Fauber
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science
A vivid narrative that connects the lives off our great astronomers as they discovered, refined, and popularized the first major scientific discovery of the modern era: that the earth moves around the sun Today we take for granted that a telescope allows us to see galaxies millions of light years away. ...Show more
Fire - A Brief History (Second Edition) by Pyne, Stephen J
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
Over vast expanses of time, fire and humanity have interacted to expand the domain of each, transforming the earth and what it means to be human. In this concise yet wide-ranging book, Stephen J. Pyne?named by Science magazine as ?the world?s leading authority on the history of fire??explores the surpri ...Show more
117 Things You Should F*cking Know about Your World - The Best of IFL Science by IFL Science; Paul Parsons
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
Did you know your irises are lying to you and all human eyes are actually brown? Want to know the absolute worst way to die, according to science? Did you know that a smoking psychedelic toad milk could alleviate depression for up to four weeks? 117 Things You Should F*#king Know About Your World ...Show more
Extraterrestrial - The Search for Intelligent Life Beyond Earth by Avi Loeb
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science
"Provocative and thrilling ... Loeb asks us to think big and to expect the unexpected."--Alan Lightman, New York Times bestselling author of Einstein's Dreams and Searching for Stars on an Island in MaineHarvard's top astronomer lays out his controversial theory that our solar system was recently visite ...Show more
Cosmic Careers: Exploring the Universe of Opportunities in the Space Industries by Alastair Storm Browne; Maryann Karinch
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science
We are starting to see the first real progress in space exploration in the private sector, and there are many jobs becoming available, right now, in this fascinating new field. Now that companies are set to take both professional astronauts and well-trained passengers into space as early as summer of 20 ...Show more
Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality by Frank Wilczek
$39.99 AUD
Category: Science
One of our great contemporary scientists reveals the ten profound insights that illuminate what everyone should know about the physical world In Fundamentals, Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek offers the reader a simple yet profound exploration of reality based on the deep revelations of modern science. With ...Show more
First Steps: How Walking Upright Made Us Human by Jeremy DeSilva
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science
Humans are the only mammals to walk on two, rather than four, legs. From an evolutionary perspective, this is an illogical development, as it slows us down. But here we are, suggesting there must have been something tremendous to gain from bipedalism. First Steps takes our ordinary, everyday walking exp ...Show more
Into the Deep: A Memoir From the Man Who Found Titanic by Robert D. Ballard
$59.99 AUD
Category: Science
The legendary explorer of the Titanic shares inside stories of danger, suspense, and discovery--plus previously untold stories about his own dyslexia and how it has shaped his life. Best known for finding the doomed ship Titanic, celebrated adventurer Robert Ballard has a lifetime of stories about expl ...Show more