A Housefly Buzzes in the Key of F: Hilarious and fascinating facts on all things flora and fauna from BBC Radio 4's award-winning series Nature Table by Simon Nicholls, Simon Nicholls
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science
Based on the smash BBC Radio 4 popular science and comedy series Nature Table and written by same team. FROM THE TEAM BEHIND BBC RADIO 4'S AWARD-WINNING NATURE AND COMEDY SERIES NATURE TABLE Did You Know That... A housefly buzzes in the key of F? A cockroach can live for a week without its head, befo ...Show more
The Big Switch: Australia's Electric Future by Saul Griffith
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
An inspiring, practical plan to transform Australia's energy system and supercharge our response to the climate crisis An optimistic - but realistic and feasible - action plan for fighting climate change while creating new jobs and a healthier environment- electrify everything. Climate change is a plane ...Show more
Biomimetics: How Lessons from Nature can Transform Technology by Brian Clegg
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Category: Science | Series: Hot Science Ser.
An exploration of the transformative ways in which nature has inspired the technological advancement of humankind.
Size - How It Explains the World by Vaclav Smil
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Category: Science
From the New York Times bestselling author of How the World Really Works, a wide-ranging look at the most fundamental governing principle of our world: size, whose laws, limits, and peculiarities offer the key to understanding health, wealth, and even happiness"No one writes about the great issues of ou ...Show more
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari
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Category: Science
THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER Sapiens shows us where we came from. Homo Deus shows us where we're going. Yuval Noah Harari envisions a near future in which we face a new set of challenges. Homo Deus explores the projects, dreams and nightmares that will shape the twenty-first century and beyond - from ove ...Show more
A Year in Numbers by Kyle D. Evans
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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
Nomad Century by Gaia Vince
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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
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
To Boldly Go Where No Book Has Gone Before: A Joyous Journey Through All of Science by Luke O'Neill
$45.00 AUD
Category: Science
A spellbinding and often hilarious history of (almost) the entirety of science from world-renowned immunologist Luke O'Neill *The Irish Times Top 10 Bestseller* Scientists have been participants in the best reality show of all time, with all the highs, lows, bust-ups, and strange personalities of any sh ...Show more
The Universe: The Book of the BBC TV Series Presented by Professor Brian Cox by Andrew Cohen, Professor Brian Cox
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Category: Science
Every night, above our heads, a drama of epic proportions is playing out. Diamond planets, zombie stars, black holes heavier than a billion Suns. The cast of characters is extraordinary, and each one has its own incredible story to tell. We once thought of our Earth as unique, but we have now discovere ...Show more
Every Brain Needs Music - The Neuroscience of Making and Listening to Music by Lawrence Sherman; Dennis Plies; Susi Davis (Illustrator)
$52.95 AUD
Category: Science
Larry S. Sherman, a neuroscientist and lifelong musician, and Dennis Plies, a professional musician and teacher, collaborate to show how our brains and music work in harmony. Written for both musical and nonmusical people, including newcomers to brain science, this book is a lively and easy-to-read expl ...Show more
Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman: Adventures of a Curious Character as told to Ralph Leighton by Richard P. Feynman
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Category: Science
Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1965, Richard Feynman was one of the world's greatest theoretical physicists, but he was also a man who fell, often jumped, into adventure. An artist, safecracker, practical joker and storyteller, Feynman's life was a series of combustoble combinations made possi ...Show more