The Raven's Hat - Fallen Pictures, Rising Sequences, and Other Mathematical Games by Jonas Peters; Nicolai Meinshausen; Malte Meinshausen (Illustrator)
$39.99 AUD
Category: Science
Games that show how mathematics can solve the apparently unsolvable.This book presents a series of engaging games that seem unsolvable--but can be solved when they are translated into mathematical terms. How can players find their ID cards when the cards are distributed randomly among twenty boxes? By a ...Show more
The Re-Origin of Species: A Second Chance for Extinct Animals by Torill Kornfeldt
$35.00 AUD
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 Red Planet: A Natural History of Mars by Simon Morden
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science
An enthralling narrative journey through the paradoxes, eccentricities and mysteries of Mars by an award-winning writer, geologist and geophysicist. Mars is never far from our news headlines or imaginations: there has never been a better time to acquaint ourselves with its dramatic history and asto ...Show more
The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science
"What is it, I wondered, that makes a man willing to sit on top of an enormous Roman Candle, such as a Redstone, Atlas, Titan, or Saturn rocket, and wait for someone to light the fuse? I decided on the simplest approach possible. would ask a few of the astronauts and find out- The men had it. Yeager. Co ...Show more
The Sacred Balance: Rediscovering Our Place in Nature (25th Anniversary Edition) by David Suzuki
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: David Suzuki Institute Ser.
'The Sacred Balance has a beautiful spirit.' — E.O. WilsonWith a new foreword from Robin Wall Kimmerer, New York Times bestselling author of Braiding Sweetgrass — and an afterword from Bill McKibben — this special 25th anniversary edition of a beloved bestseller invites readers to see ourselves as part ...Show more
The Sawbones Book: the Hilarious, Horrifying Road to Modern Medicine by Sydnee McElroy; Teylor Smirl (Illustrator); Justin McElroy
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science
New for 2020 Join the 750,000 listeners of the Sawbones Podcast as Dr Sydnee McElroy and her husband Justin humorously discuss centuries of medical myths, mishaps and mayhem, including modern day medicine and pandemics. Newly revised and updated for 2020, this new Paperback edition of the bestsellin ...Show more
The Science of Can and Can't: A Physicist's Journey Through the Land of Counterfactuals by Chiara Marletto
$45.00 AUD
Category: Science
From a young British scientist, a groundbreaking exploration of a radically different approach to physics There is a vast class of things that science has so far almost entirely neglected. They are central to the understanding of physical reality both at an everyday level and at the level of the most fu ...Show more
The Science of Discworld (#1) by Terry Pratchett; Ian Stewart; Jack Cohen
$19.95 AUD
Category: Science | Series: The Science of Discworld
Not just another science book and not just another Discworld novella, The Science of Discworld is a creative, mind-bending mash-up of fiction and fact, that offers a wizard's-eye view of our world that will forever change how you look at the universe. Can Unseen University's eccentric wizards and orang ...Show more
The Science of Fate by Hannah Critchlow
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science | Reading Level: very good
So many of us believe that we are free to shape our own destiny. But what if free will doesn't exist? What if our lives are largely predetermined, hardwired in our brains - and our choices over what we eat, who we fall in love with, even what we believe are not real choices at all? Neuroscience is chall ...Show more
The Science of Life and Death in Frankenstein by Sharon Ruston
$49.99 AUD
Category: Science
What is life? This was a question of particular concern for Mary Shelley and her contemporaries. But how did she, and her fellow Romantic writers, incorporate this debate into their work, and how much were they influenced by contemporary science, medicine and personal loss?This book is the first to comp ...Show more
The Sea - Nature and Culture by Richard Hamblyn
$37.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Earth Ser.
Sailing across time and geography, the imaginary and the real, The Sea chronicles the many physical and cultural meanings of the watery abyss. This book explores the sea and its meanings from ancient myths to contemporary geopolitics, from Atlantis to the Mediterranean migrant crisis. Richard Hambly ...Show more
The Secret Life of Fungi - Discoveries from a Hidden World by Aliya Whiteley
$26.99 AUD
Category: Science
Fungi can appear anywhere, from desert dunes to frozen tundra, and create anew from rotting matter. They can invade bodies and thoughts; they can live between our toes or between our floorboards; they are unwelcome intruders or vastly expensive treats; they are symbols of both death and eternal life. Bu ...Show more