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Space 2069 - After Apollo: Back to the Moon, to Mars, and Beyond by David Whitehouse
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science
Half a century after Apollo 11 we have still not returned to the Moon, but that is about to change. The thirteenth person to walk on the Moon could soon be part of a crew establishing a base on the lip of a crater at the lunar south pole.The discovery of ice in the eternal shadows of the polar regions t ...Show more
The Best Australian Science Writing 2020 by Sara Phillips (Editor)
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science
The annual collection – now in its tenth year – celebrating the finest voices in Australian science writing.Can fish feel pain? Does it matter if a dingo is different from a dog? Is there life in a glob of subterranean snot? Science tackles some unexpected questions. At a time when the world is buffeted ...Show more
Pluses and Minuses: How Maths Solves Our Problems by Stefan Buijsman; Andy Brown (Translator)
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science
You look up from your phone for a moment to order an espresso. It's made with one of those large stainless-steel coffee makers that heats the water until it's precisely the right temperature. It keeps track of how fast the water warms up and uses that to calculate whether it needs to apply more or less ...Show more
Memory Craft: Improve Your Memory Usin.. by Lynne Kelly
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science
In her bestselling book The Memory Code Lynne Kelly uncovers the memory methods of the ancients. She has now tested them thoroughly and in Memory Craft she shows how anyone of any age can use traditional memory methods to expand their memory capacity and to memorise whatever they want.
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER Sapiens shows us where we came from. Homo Deus shows us where we're going. Yuval Noah Harari envisions a near future in which we face a new set of challenges. Homo Deus explores the projects, dreams and nightmares that will shape the twenty-first century and beyond - from o ...Show more
The Comedy of Error: Why Evolution Made Us Laugh by Jonathan Silvertown
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
What is humour? Why do we laugh? And why is the root of a good joke almost always error? Good jokes, bad jokes, clever jokes, dad jokes -- the desire to laugh is universal. But why do we find some gags hilarious, whilst others fall flat? Why does explaining a joke make it less amusing rather than more s ...Show more
How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems (XKCD) by Randall Munroe
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science
Randall Munroe is . . .'Nerd royalty' Ben Goldacre 'Totally brilliant' Tim Harford 'Laugh-out-loud funny' Bill Gates 'Wonderful' Neil Gaiman AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER For any task you might want to do, there's a right way, a wrong way, and a way so monumentally bad that no one would ever t ...Show more
On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin; William Bynum (Editor, Notes by, Introduction by); Janet Browne (Editor); Damien Hirst (Illustrator)
$16.99 AUD
Category: Penguin Spinner Non-fiction
On the Origin of Species is Charles Darwin's classic treatise on his theory of evolution and natural selection and is among the most important works in the history of science and evolutionary biology. When on board H.M.S. Beagle, as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of ...Show more
Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science
A New York Times BestsellerA Midwest Connections PickA National BestsellerNamed one of Time magazine's "100 Most Influential People"A Time and Entertainment Weekly Best Book of 2016 So FarLab Girl is a book about work, love, and the mountains that can be moved when those two things come together. It is ...Show more
Guns Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond
$24.99 AUD
Category: Penguin Spinner Non-fiction | Series: Patterns of Life Ser.
PATTERNED PLANET: SPECIAL EDITIONS OF GROUNDBREAKING SCIENCE BOOKS Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe? In this Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Jared Diamond puts the case that geography and biogeography, not race, moulded the contrasting fates of Europeans, Asians, Native Americ ...Show more
The Brain That Changes Itself by Norman Doidge
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Category: Science | Series: The Neuroplasticity Chronicles | Reading Level: very good
An astonishing new scientific discovery called neuroplasticity is overthrowing the centuries-old notion that the adult human brain is fixed and unchanging. It is, instead, able to change its own structure and function, even into old age. Psychiatrist and researcher Norman Doidge, MD, travelled around th ...Show more
Emotional Intelligence - Why it can matter more than IQ by Daniel Goleman
$24.95 AUD
Category: Science | Reading Level: good
Everyone knows that high IQ is no guarantee of success, happiness, or virtue, but until Emotional Intelligence, we could only guess why. Daniel Goleman's brilliant report from the frontiers of psychology and neuroscience offers startling new insight into our "two minds"--the rational and the emotional-- ...Show more