Light Years: The Extraordinary Story of Mankind's Fascination with Light by Brian Clegg
$21.99 AUD
Category: Science
This is the story of light and the people who were determined to unlock the secrets of one of the greatest puzzles of the Universe. Acclaimed science writer Brian Clegg recounts how civilisations from the Ancient Egyptians to the Mayans understood light spiritually, and looks at the first scientific gra ...Show more
Quantum Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum by Leonard Susskind
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Category: Science
In The Theoretical Minimum, world-class physicist Leonard Susskind provided a brilliant first course in classical mechanics, offering readers not an oversimplified introduction but the real thing - everything you need to start doing physics, and nothing more. Now he returns with the next challenge that ...Show more
The Vital Question: Why Is Life the Way It Is? by Nick Lane
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Category: Science
Why is life the way it is? Bacteria evolved into complex life just once in four billion years of life on earth - and all complex life shares many strange properties, from sex to ageing and death. If life evolved on other planets, would it be the same or completely different?In The Vital Question, Nick L ...Show more
Einstein's Masterwork: 1915 and the General Theory of Relativity by John Gribbin
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Category: Science
In 1915, Albert Einstein presented his masterwork to the Prussian Academy of Sciences - a theory of gravity, matter, space and time: the General Theory of Relativity. Einstein himself said it was 'the most valuable theory of my life', and 'of incomparable beauty'. It describes the evolution of the Unive ...Show more
Brain Maker: The Power of Gut Microbes to Heal and Protect Your Brain - for Life by David Perlmutter
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Category: Science
The NYT bestseller by the author of Grain Brain uncovers the powerful role of gut bacteria in determining your brain's destiny. Debilitating brain disorders are on a steep rise--from children diagnosed with autism to adults developing dementia at younger ages than ever before. But a medical revoluti ...Show more
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks
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Category: Science
'A humane discourse on the fragility of our minds, of the bodies that give rise to them, and of the world they create for us. This book is filled with wonders' Daily Telegraph Oliver Sacks' compassionate tales of people struggling to adapt to different neurological conditions have fundamentally changed ...Show more
An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales by Oliver Sacks
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Category: Science
Here are seven detailed and fascinating portraits of neurological patients, including a surgeon consumed by the compulsive tics of Tourette's syndrome unless he is operating; an artist who loses all sense of color in a car accident, but finds a new sensibility and creative power in black and white; and ...Show more
30-Second Maths by Richard Brown
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Category: Science | Series: 30 Second
The ideal introduction to the key theories and principles of mathematics.
Junkyard Planet: Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade by Adam Minter
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Category: Science
When you drop your Diet Coke can or yesterday's newspaper in the recycling bin, where does it go? Probably halfway around the world, to people and places that clean up what you don't want and turn it into something you can't wait to buy. In "Junkyard Planet," Adam Minter--veteran journalist and son of a ...Show more
Sex Drugs & Rock n Roll - The Science of Hedonism and the Hedonism of Science by Zoe Cormier
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Category: Science
Chilled: How Refrigeration Changed the World and Might Do So Again by Tom Jackson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science
The refrigerator. This white box that sits in the kitchen may seem mundane nowadays, but it is one of the wonders of 20th century science - life-saver, food-preserver and social liberator, while the science of refrigeration is crucial, not just in transporting food around the globe but in a host of bran ...Show more
Alex's Adventures in Numberland by Alex Bellos
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
The world of maths can seem mind-boggling, irrelevant and, let's face it, boring. This groundbreaking book reclaims maths from the geeks. Mathematical ideas underpin just about everything in our lives: from the surprising geometry of the 50p piece to how probability can help you win in any casino. In se ...Show more