Weather: A Force of Nature by The Royal Meteorological Society
$49.99 AUD
Category: Science
These are the most breathtaking images from previous years of the Weather Photographer of the Year competition, an annual contest held by The Royal Meteorological Society.They depict dramatic weather phenomena from every corner of the globe and often reveal fascinating stories about their impact on huma ...Show more
The Carbon Almanac by Seth Godin
$37.99 AUD
Category: Science
When it comes to the climate, we don't need more marketing or anxiety. We need established facts and a plan for collective action. The climate is the fundamental issue of our time, yet it seems we can barely agree on what is really going on, let alone what needs to be done. We urgently need facts, not o ...Show more
The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann (PB) by Ananyo Bhattacharya
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science
A FINANCIAL TIMES AND TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR An exhilarating new biography of John von Neumann: the lost genius who invented our world 'A sparkling book, with an intoxicating mix of pen-portraits and grand historical narrative. Above all it fizzes with a dizzying mix of deliciously vital ideas. . . A stag ...Show more
Fermat's Last Theorem by Simon Singh
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Collins Modern Classics Ser.
Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience - classics which will endure for generations to come. 'Maths is one of the purest forms of thought, and to outsiders mathematicians may seem almo ...Show more
The Alien Perspective: A New View of the Cosmos and Our Future by David Whitehouse
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science
A journey through the evolving cosmos, considering how human survival will depend on otherworldly perspectives.
Sensational: A New Story of our Senses by Ashley Ward
$39.99 AUD
Category: Science
Why do women have a better sense of smell than men?Has the iPhone changed how we touch? Does the Danube really look blue when you're in love?Our senses are at the heart of how we navigate the world. They help us recognise the expressions on a loved one's face, know whether fruit is ripe by its smell, or ...Show more
The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery by Adam Gopnik
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
"[W]ise, companionable, and often extremely funny." --Oliver Burkeman, The AtlanticBest-selling author and New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik investigates a foundational human question: How do we learn--and master--a new skill?For decades now, Adam Gopnik has been one of our most beloved writers, a brilliant ...Show more
Welcome to the Universe in 3D: A Visual Tour by Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michael A. Strauss, J. Richard Gott, Robert J. Vanderbei
$39.99 AUD
Category: Science
Journey into the vast depths of the observable universe by visualising the most spectacular images in astronomy in stereoscopic 3D.Welcome to the Universe in 3D takes you on a grand tour of the observable universe, guiding you through the most spectacular sights in the cosmos — in breathtaking 3D. Prese ...Show more
Hands of Time - A Watchmaker's History of Time by Rebecca Struthers
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science
An intricate and personal history of watches and time from an extraordinary watchmaker and historian A watchmaker's world is not much bigger than a thumbnail. I spend whole days working on mechanisms which can contain hundreds of tiny components. Each of them has a specific task to perform. Every mornin ...Show more
An Intimate History of Evolution: The Story of the Huxley Family by Alison Bashford
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
In his early twenties, poor, depressed, stranded in the Coral Sea on the seemingly endless survey mission of HMS Rattlesnake, hopelessly in love with the young Englishwoman Henrietta Heathorn, Thomas Henry Huxley was a nobody. And yet together he and Henrietta would return to London and go on to found o ...Show more
Guns, Germs and Steel: A short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years by Jared Diamond
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
**WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE** Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe? Jared Diamond puts the case that geography and biogeography, not race, moulded the contrasting fates of Europeans, Asians, Native Americans, sub-Saharan Africans, and aboriginal Australians. An ambitious syn ...Show more
The Body Illustrated: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson
$65.00 AUD
Category: Science
A new, beautifully illustrated edition of the Number One Bestseller and Sunday Times Science Book of the Year, which takes us on a head-to-toe tour of the marvel that is the human body. A directory of wonders' - Guardian 'Jaw-dropping' -The Times 'It is a feat of narrative skill to bake so many facts in ...Show more