Extraordinary Insects: Weird. Wonderful. Indispensable. The Ones Who Run Our World by Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science
A journey into the weird, wonderful and truly astonishing lives of the small but mighty creatures who keep the world turning. Out of sight, underfoot, unseen beyond fleeting scuttles or darting flights, insects occupy a hidden world, yet are essential to sustaining life on earth. Insects influence our e ...Show more
Rocks & Minerals: The Definitive Visual Guide by Pellant, Chris
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: DK Handbooks Ser.
A comprehensive, up-to-date field guide to the world's rocks and minerals This detailed and easy-to-use guide contains striking photography of rocks and minerals from around the globe, and is designed to help readers and collectors identify specimens of these compounds, which are formed by geological pr ...Show more
Memory-Wise: How Memory Works and What to Do When It Doesn't by Anne Unkenstein
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
Informs, reassures and gives practical guidance to people who worry they are losing their memory.
The Photographic Card Deck of the Elements by Theodore Gray
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
This companion to the category best-selling book The Elements is a beautiful card deck featuring all 118 elements in the periodic table. One element per card appears as a full-size image on the front and fascinating information about the element on the back. This is the most detailed and beautiful set o ...Show more
Never Mind the Bullocks, Here's the Science by Karl Kruszelnicki
$27.99 AUD
Category: Science
Dr Karl has taken on Santa Claus, atom bombs, 'friendly' dolphins and 'killer' whales, meteors, black holes, string theory and camel's humps. In his 27 mega-selling books, he demolishes myths, tells readers how to spot bogus science and advises readers to be wise, sceptical and to always challenge autho ...Show more
World Ocean Census: A Global Survey of Marine Life by Darlene Trew Crist
$55.00 AUD
Category: Science
What once lived in the global ocean? What is living there now? What will live there in the future? The answers to these questions are at the heart of World Ocean Census, which also explores the great adventures experienced during the books research. An insiders description of the comprehensive Census of ...Show more
Fermat's Last Theorem by Simon Singh
$24.95 AUD
Category: Science
'I have a truly marvellous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.' It was with these words, written in the 1630s, that Pierre de Fermat intrigued and infuriated the mathematics community. For over 350 years, proving Fermat's Last Theorem was the most notorious unso ...Show more
Memoirs of An Addicted Brain - A Neuroscientist Examines His Former Life on drugs by Marc Lewis
$29.95 AUD
Category: Science | Series: The\Addicted Brain Ser.
A gripping, ultimately triumphant memoir that's also the most comprehensive and comprehensible study of the neuroscience of addiction written for the general public. FROM THE INTRODUCTION: "We are prone to a cycle of craving what we don't have, finding it, using it up or losing it, and then craving it ...Show more
Zombie Tits, Astronaut Fish and Other Weird Animals by Rebecca Crew
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
From the mother-eating black-lace weaver spiders to Texas horned lizards that can shoot jets of poisonous blood from their eyes, this book from fearless science blogger Becky Crew will introduce you to a menagerie of the worlds weirdest animals. Did you know that the peacock mantis shrimp has the most ...Show more
The Science Magpie: A Miscellany of Paradoxes, Explications, Lists, Lives and Ephemera from the Wonderful World of Science by Simon Flynn
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
From the Large Hadron Collider rap to the sins of Isaac Newton, The Science Magpie is a compelling collection of scientific curiosities. Expand your knowledge as you view the history of the Earth on the face of a clock, tremble at the power of the Richter scale and learn how to measure the speed of ligh ...Show more
Emotional Life of Your Brain by Richard J. Davidson; Sharon Begley
$19.99 AUD
Category: Science
Why we behave the way we do has been the life study of pioneering neuroscientist Richard Davidson. Helping us to understand our own emotional responses and discover our unique 'emotional style', Davidson & Begley also show how we can retrain our brains through mindfulness and meditation to alter l ...Show more
Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google?: Fiendish Puzzles and Impossible Interview Questions from the World's Top Companies by William Poundstone
$19.95 AUD
Category: Science
You are shrunk to the height of a penny and thrown in a blender. The blades start moving in sixty seconds. What do you do? If you want to work at Google, or any of the world's top employers, you'll need to have a convincing answer to this and countless other baffling puzzles. Are You Smart Enough to Wor ...Show more