Science: The Definitive Visual Guide by Adam Hart-Davis
$39.99 AUD
Category: Science
This is the complete illustrated science encyclopedia covering the history, key discoveries, inventions and people. "Science: The Definitive Visual Guide" reveals the story of scientific progress from the invention of the wheel to 21st-century climate solutions, including everything from ancient Greek g ...Show more
Mindwise: How We Understand What Others Think, Believe, Feel, and Want by Nicholas Epley
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
Arguably our brain's greatest sense is the ability to understand the minds of others - our real sixth sense. In Mindwise, renowned psychologist Nicholas Epley takes us on a tour of our incredible capacity for mind reading. This is the kind of mind reading we do every day of our lives, dozens of times a ...Show more
The Social Conquest of Earth by Edward O. Wilson
$34.95 AUD
Category: Science
In asking where we came from, what we are and where we are going, Edward O. Wilson directly addresses three fundamental questions of religion, philosophy and science. Refashioning the story of human evolution, he draws on his remarkable knowledge of biology and social behaviour to show that group select ...Show more
The Gene - An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science | Reading Level: very good
The Gene is the story of one of the most powerful and dangerous ideas in our history, from bestselling, prize-winning author Siddhartha Mukherjee. Spanning the globe and several centuries, The Gene is the story of the quest to decipher the master-code that makes and defines humans, that governs our form ...Show more
Unnatural Selection: Why The Geeks Will Inherit The Earth by Mark Roeder
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
Is Darwin's theory of evolution out of date? According to author Mark Roeder it is. In Charles Darwin's view, only the fittest of the species - the aplha males and females survived and evolved. But these days the game has changed. You no longer need physical strength and strong genes to make it - in fa ...Show more
Timekeepers: How the World Became Obsessed with Time by Simon Garfield
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science
Not so long ago we timed our lives by the movement of the sun. These days our time arrives atomically and insistently, and our lives are propelled by the notion that we will never have enough of the one thing we crave the most. How have we come to be dominated by something so arbitrary? The compelling s ...Show more
The Greatest Story Ever Told...So Far by Lawrence Krauss
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Category: Science
In the beginning there was light but more than this, there was gravity. After that, all hell broke loose...This is how the story of the greatest intellectual adventure in history should be introduced - how humanity reached its current understanding of the universe, one that is far removed from the realm ...Show more
Mind Change by Susa Greenfield
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
In Mind Change, Susan Greenfield discusses the all-pervading technologies that now surround us, and from which we derive instant information, connected identity, diminished privacy and exceptionally vivid here-and-now experiences. In her view they are creating a new environment, with vast implications, ...Show more
Dataclysm: Who We are (When We Think No One's Looking) by Christian Rudder
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
An irreverent, provocative, and visually fascinating look at what our online lives reveal about who we really are - and how this deluge of data will transform the science of human behaviour. Big Data is used to spy on us, hire and fire us, and sell us things we don't need. In 'Dataclysm', Christian Rudd ...Show more
Do Statins Work?: The Battle for Perfect Evidence-Based Medicine by Ben Goldacre
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science
An urgent examination of statins, the drugs at the heart of debates on evidence-based medicine and of the malign influence of Big Pharma Statins are the single most commonly prescribed class of drugs in the developed world. They're taken by more than 100 million patients, with millions more people being ...Show more
How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems by Randall Munroe
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Useless Self Help Guide | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
The world's most entertaining and useless self-help guide, from the brilliant mind behind the wildly popular webcomic xkcd and the million-selling What If? and Thing Explainer 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 try i ...Show more