The Science of Sin - Why We Do the Things We Know We Shouldn't by Jack Lewis
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science
'Entertaining and enlightening ... offers ways to temper our anti-social tendencies.' Dr Michael Mosley, science journalist and TV presenterIt can often seem that we are utterly surrounded by temptation, from the ease of online shopping and the stream of targeted advertising encouraging us to greedily a ...Show more
The Secret Life of Fungi - Discoveries from a Hidden World by Aliya Whiteley
$26.99 AUD
Category: Science
Fungi can appear anywhere, from desert dunes to frozen tundra, and create anew from rotting matter. They can invade bodies and thoughts; they can live between our toes or between our floorboards; they are unwelcome intruders or vastly expensive treats; they are symbols of both death and eternal life. Bu ...Show more
The Secret Life of Stars: Astrophysics for Everyone by Lisa Harvey-Smith
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science
The Secret Life of Stars takes us on a cosmic journey to meet some of the weirdest, most extreme and enigmatic stars in the universe.‘Astrophysics made fun!’Pam Melroy, former astronaut and space shuttle commander‘The most enjoyable stroll through the cosmos’Gerry Griffin, former flight director, Apollo ...Show more
The Selfish Ape - Human Nature and Our Path to Extinction by Nicholas P. Money
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
Weaving together stories of science and sociology, The Selfish Ape offers a refreshing response to common fantasies about the ascent of humanity. Rather than imagining modern humans as a species with godlike powers, or Homo deus, Nicholas P. Money recasts us as Homo narcissus--paragons of self-absorptio ...Show more
The Tale of the Duelling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery by Sam Kean
$19.99 AUD
Category: Science
For centuries, scientists had only one way to study the brain- wait for misfortune to strike - strokes, seizures, infections, lobotomies, horrendous accidents, phantom limbs, Siamese twins - and see how the victims changed afterwards. In many cases their survival was miraculous, and observers marvelled ...Show more
The Unseen Body: A Doctor's Journey Through the Hidden Wonders of Human Anatomy by Jonathan Reisman
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science
A fascinating, lyrical book... Reisman's experiences in other cultures bring a richness and depth to The Unseen Body. The way he thinks about the body and medicine--the rivers and tributaries, the flowing and unclogging, the top-down organization of the brain--is extraordinary!--Mary Roach In this fasci ...Show more
The Wake of Crows - Living and Dying in Shared Worlds by Thom van Dooren
$50.70 AUD
$57.95 (12% off)
Category: Science | Series: Critical Perspectives on Animals: Theory, Culture, Science, and Law Ser.
The Wake of Crows is an exploration of the entangled lives of humans and crows. Focusing on five key sites, Thom van Dooren asks how we might live well with crows in a changing world.
The Weather Handbook - The Essential Guide to How Weather Is Formed and Develops by Alan Watts
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science
The Weather Handbook is the essential guide to how the weather is formed, providing readers with the ability to look at the sky and interpret its signs, and combine this knowledge with information provided by professional forecasts to assess for themselves what the coming weather is likely to be.This ha ...Show more
Ticker - The Quest to Create an Artificial Heart by Mimi Swartz
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
It wasn't supposed to be this hard. If America could send a man to the moon, shouldn't the best surgeons in the world be able to build an artificial heart? In Ticker, Texas Monthly executive editor and two time National Magazine Award winner Mimi Swartz shows just how complex and difficult it can be to ...Show more
Turning the Tide on Plastic - How Humanity (and You) Can Make Our Globe Clean Again by Lucy Siegle
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science
Enough plastic is thrown away every year to circle the world 4 timesMore than 8 million tonnes of plastic enter the oceans each year300 million tonnes of new plastic is produced every yearAn estimated 15-51 trillion pieces of plastic now litter the world's oceans38.5 million plastic bottles are used eve ...Show more
Unravelling the Double Helix - The Story of DNA by Gareth Williams
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science | Reading Level: near fine
DNA. The double helix; the blueprint of life; and, during the early 1950s, a baffling enigma that could win a Nobel Prize. Everyone knows that James Watson and Francis Crick discovered the double helix. In fact, they clicked into place the last piece of a huge jigsaw puzzle that other researchers had as ...Show more
Vaccines For Dummies by Megan Coffee, Sharon Perkins
$37.95 AUD
Category: Science
Inoculate yourself against the confusion and misinformation surrounding vaccines Measles, mumps, and rubella—oh my! Why are we vaccinating our children—and ourselves—against these diseases, and what goes on in our bodies after the needle comes out? Vaccines For Dummies will inform and entertain you abo ...Show more