The World's Greatest Idea by John Farndon
19.99 AUD
Category: Science
What do you think is the greatest idea ever? Where would humanity be now without fire, poetry, music, rationalism, God...or scaffolding? Weaving has provided us historical tapestries and clothes; electric light enables us to illuminate our cities, but then sewers allowed those cities to grow...Justice, ...Show more
The Gene - An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee
35.00 AUD
Category: Science
The Gene is the story of one of the most powerful and dangerous ideas in our history, from bestselling, prize-winning author Siddhartha Mukherjee. Spanning the globe and several centuries, The Gene is the story of the quest to decipher the master-code that makes and defines humans, that governs our form ...Show more
Adapt How Nature's Strangest Inventions Are Helping Design Our Future by Amina Khan
9.99 AUD
Category: Science
Nature's creations are more sophisticated and elegant than anything humans have created. Geckos can run upside down along ceilings. Termite mounds can stay cool in the desert without air conditioning. Adapt explores how we can harness such ideas through the ground-breaking new science of biomimicry - wh ...Show more
The Vaccine Race: How Scientists Used Human Cells to Combat Killer Viruses by Meredith Wadman
24.99 AUD
Category: Science
**SHORTLISTED FOR THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE 2018 ** ** A GUARDIAN SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 ** 'Riveting ... invites comparison to Rebecca Skloot's The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks'Nature The epic and controversial story of a major breakthrough in cell biology that led to the conquest of rubell ...Show more
30-Second Biology: The 50 Most Thought-Provoking Theories of Life, Each Explained in Half a Minute by Nick Battey; Mark Fellowes
19.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: 30 Second
The 50 most thought-provoking theories of life, each explained in half a minute. 30-Second Biology tackles the vital science of life, dissecting the 50 most thought-provoking theories of our ecosystem and ourselves. At a time when discoveries in DNA allow us to feel more connected than ever to the natur ...Show more
Man vs Maths: Understanding the Curious Mathematics That Power Our World by Timothy Revell
29.99 AUD
Category: Science
Could we solve queuing with an equation? How do algorithms control our news? What is the secret behind encryption codes? Mathematics is inescapable. Wherever you go, whatever you do, however you live your life, mathematics plays a role. From controlling a city's traffic to finding love, spending money o ...Show more
Tree - A Life Story: Gift edition by David Suzuki; Wayne Grady; Peter Wohlleben (Foreword by)
24.99 AUD
Category: Science
"""Only God can make a tree,"" wrote Joyce Kilmer in one of the most celebrated of poems. In Tree: A Life Story, authors David Suzuki and Wayne Grady extend that celebration in a ""biography"" of this extraordinary -- and extraordinarily important -- organism. A story that spans a millennium and include ...Show more
Australia Reimagined: Towards a More Compassionate, Less Anxious Society by Hugh Mackay
32.99 AUD
Category: Science
'When it comes to our future, misplaced optimism is as dangerous as blind faith. What is needed is the courage to face the way things are, and the wisdom and imagination to work out how to make things better.'Australia's unprecedented run of economic growth has failed to deliver a more stable or harmoni ...Show more
Dammit Science, Where's My Hoverboard? by Liam Ryan
4.99 AUD
Category: Science
Dammit Science, Where's My Hoverboard? is a humorous collection of quotes from famous faces over the last few centuries. Ranging from scorn for the lightbulb - 'Everyone acquainted with the subject will recognize it as a conspicuous failure' - to ideas on how life would be lived in the year 2000 - 'By t ...Show more
Cosmic Chronicles - A user's guide to the Universe by Fred Watson
32.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Users Guide to the Universe - Australian
Are we alone in the universe? Where didthe moon come from? How do we know what stars are made of? Could there reallybe a future in asteroid mining? In CosmicChronicles, Fred Watson - Australia'sAstronomer-at-Large and bestselling author - explores the hottest topics inspace science and astronomy. Watso ...Show more
Science of Superheroes and Space Warriors by Howstuffworks Com
16.98 AUD
Category: Science
Packed with quizzes, sidebars, trivia, and more, this sensational book reveals the science behind your favorite superheroes and supervillains and their ultracool devices and weapons, as well as other awesome technologies from the science fiction realm. Prepare to do battle with the world's masterminds! ...Show more
Darwin's Island: The Galapagos in the Garden of England by Steve Jones
12.95 AUD
35.00 (63% off)
Category: Science
The Origin of Species is the most famous book in science but its stature tends to obscure the genius of Charles Darwin's other works. The Beagle voyage, too, occupied only five of the fifty years of his career. He spent only five weeks on the Galapagos and on his return never left Britain again. Darwin ...Show more