Material World: A Substantial Story of Our Past and Future by Ed Conway
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil and lithium. They built our world, and they will transform our future. These are the six most crucial substances in human history. They took us from the Dark Ages to the present day. They power our computers and phones, build our homes and offices, and create life-saving me ...Show more
The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us by Steve Brusatte
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Category: Science
The passing of the age of the dinosaurs allowed mammals to become ascendant. But mammals have a much deeper history. They - or, more precisely, we - originated around the same time as the dinosaurs, over 200 million years ago; mammal roots lie even further back, some 325 million years.Over these immense ...Show more
The Secret Lives of Numbers: A Global History of Mathematics & its Unsung Trailblazers by Kate Kitagawa; Timothy Revell
$36.99 AUD
Category: Science
A revisionist, completely accessible and radically inclusive history of maths. Mathematics shapes almost everything we do. But despite its reputation as the study of fundamental truths, the stories we have been told about it are wrong. In The Secret Lives of Numbers, historian Kate Kitagawa and journ ...Show more
21 Lessons for the 21st Century: 'Truly mind-expanding... Ultra-topical' Guardian by Yuval Noah Harari
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Category: Science
Sapiens showed us where we came from. Homo Deus looked to the future. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century explores the present. How can we protect ourselves from nuclear war, ecological cataclysms and technological disruptions? What can we do about the epidemic of fake news or the threat of terrorism? What ...Show more
A Year in Numbers by Kyle D. Evans
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
Did you know:-Only around 100 people have ever lived beyond a million hours (that's about 114 years)-Around 7% of everyone who has ever lived is currently alive-The '12 days of Christmas' song, when sung in full, results in 364 gifts being given - one for every day... except ChristmasBroken down into 12 ...Show more
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
$32.95 AUD
Category: Science
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poorblack tobacco farmer whose cells taken without her knowledge in 1951 became one of the most important tools in medicine, vital for developing the polio vaccine, cloning, gene mapping, and more.Henri ...Show more
Determined: Life Without Free Will by Robert M Sapolsky
$36.99 AUD
Category: Science
One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the science and philosophy of decision-making to mount a devastating case against free will, an argument with profound consequences.Robert Sapolsky's Behave, his now classic account of why humans do good and w ...Show more
A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through? by Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith
$55.00 AUD
Category: Science
From the bestselling authors of Soonish, a brilliant and hilarious off-world investigation into space settlement Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away - no climate change, no war, no Twitter - beckons, and settling the stars finally seems within our grasp. Or is it ...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
Nomad Century by Gaia Vince
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
We are facing a species emergency. With every degree of temperature rise, a billion people will be displaced from the zone in which humans have lived for thousands of years. From Bangladesh to Sudan to the western United States, and in cities from Cardiff to New Orleans to Shanghai, the quadruple threat ...Show more
A (Very) Short History of Life On Earth by Henry Gee
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science
'Exhilaratingly whizzes through billions of years . . . Gee is a marvellously engaging writer, juggling humour, precision, polemic and poetry to enrich his impossibly telescoped account . . . [making] clear sense out of very complex narratives' - The Times' 'Henry Gee makes the kaleidoscopically changin ...Show more
The Universe by Andrew Cohen, Professor Brian Cox
$39.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Professor Brian Cox
THE UNIVERSE The biggest character of them all…the universe itself. Infinite in scale, and eternal, we tackle it’s biggest mysteries – where did it all come from and how did it begin? The answers lie at the Big Bang. STARS There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on every planet in the s ...Show more