The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human by Siddhartha Mukherjee
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
This book is the story of the cell - past, present and future. Since the discovery of the cell in the 1660s and the discovery in the 1850s that most diseases can be traced back to our cells, human beings have been understood as an ecosystem of units that produce exponentially complex structures and effe ...Show more
The Songs of Trees: Stories from Nature's Great Connectors by David George Haskell
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science
The acclaimed author of Pulitzer Prize finalist The Forest Unseen visits with nature's most magnificent networkers - trees.In The Songs of Trees, David George Haskell brings his acute powers of observation to the biological networks that surround all species, including humans. He visits a dozen trees ar ...Show more
The Soul of Genius: Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, and the Meeting that Changed the Course of Science by Jeffrey Orens
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science | Reading Level: very good
In 1911, some of the greatest minds in science convened at the First Solvay Conference in Physics, a meeting like no other. Almost half of the attendees had won or would go on to win the Nobel Prize. Over the course of those few days, these minds began to realize that classical physics was about to give ...Show more
The Soviet Space Program - First Steps: 1941-1953 by Eberhard Rödel
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: The\Soviets in Space Ser.
This concise history is the first book in a new series on the Soviet space program, and features many rare photographs, diagrams, and charts. When Soviet rocket experts examined the first Nazi V-2s in early 1945, they immediately realized that their own technology was years behind what the Germans had d ...Show more
The Space Barons - Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos by Christian Davenport
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
The Space Barons is the story of a group of billionaire entrepreneurs who are pouring their fortunes into the epic resurrection of the American space program. Nearly a half-century after Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, these Space Barons-most notably Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, along with Richard Brans ...Show more
The Species That Changed Itself: How Prosperity Reshaped Humanity by Edwin Gale
$39.99 AUD
Category: Science
An inquisitive, expansive and fascinating exploration of humans as creatures of our own making Other species adapt to their environments; we alone create ours. Over generations, we have remade the world to suit ourselves - using improved knowledge and technology to confront the traditional scourges - a ...Show more
The Spinning Magnet - The Force That Created the Modern World - and Could Destroy It by Alanna Mitchell
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science
Many times through deep history Earth's magnetic poles have switched places, leaving our planet's protective shield weaker and life vulnerable to devastating solar storms. The last time it happened was 780,000 years ago, long before humans emerged, but it won't be long until it happens again. And when ...Show more
The Story of Mathematics in 24 Equations by Dana Mackenzie
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
The progress of humanity has often rested on proof, a law or a simple equation . It is literally a language without words, yet one that crosses cultures and spans centuries. Equations are the lifeblood of modern science and mathematics. Yet outside the realm s of science and mathematics the rest of the ...Show more
The Sun - One Thousand Years of Scientific Imagery by Katie Barrett; Harry Cliff
$44.99 AUD
Category: Science
Dazzling, beautiful, powerful, mysterious - the Sun has fascinated people throughout history. This book charts our changing understanding of the Sun through a rich collection of scientific imagery: from from a 10th-century manuscript drawing of an earth-centred universe, to awe-inspiring close-ups of ou ...Show more
The System: Who Owns the Internet, and How It Owns Us by James Ball
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science | Reading Level: very good
The internet is a network of physical cables and connections, a web of wires enmeshing the world, linking huge data centres to one another and eventually to us. All are owned by someone, financed by someone, regulated by someone. We refer to the internet as abstract from reality. By doing so, we obscure ...Show more
The Tangled Tree - A Radical New History of Life by David Quammen
$19.99 AUD
Category: Science
Longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction and A New York Times Notable Book of 2018. Our understanding of the 'tree of life', with powerful implications for human genetics, human health and our own human nature, has recently completely changed. This book is about a new method of telling the ...Show more
The Ten Types of Human: A New Understanding of Who We Are, and Who We Can Be by Dexter Dias
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science | Reading Level: near fine
'I emerged from this book feeling better about almost everything... a mosaic of faces building into this extraordinary portrait of our species.' Guardian 'The Ten Types of Humanis a fantastic piece of non-fiction, mixing astonishing real-life cases with the latest scientific research to provide a guide ...Show more