Inventions, Researches and Writings of Nikola Tesla (Barnes & Noble Leatherbound Classics) by Nikola Tesla; Thomas Commerford Martin (Editor)
49.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Barnes and Noble Leatherbound Classic Collection
The Inventions, Researches and Writings of Nikola Tesla is the definitive record of the pioneering work of one of the modern world's most groundbreaking inventors. During the early twentieth century, Tesla blazed the trail that electrical technology followed for decades afterward. Although he pioneered ...Show more
The Secret Life of Fungi - Discoveries from a Hidden World by Aliya Whiteley
14.99 AUD
26.99 (44% off)
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
Permaculture Promise, The by Jono Neiger; Toby Hemenway (Foreword by)
24.99 AUD
Category: Science
Permaculture is a sustainability buzzword, but many people wonder what it actually means and why it is relevant. Originally coined by combining the words permanent and agriculture, permaculture has evolved into an optimistic approach connecting all the systems of human life: gardening, housing, transpor ...Show more
Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu (tr from Chinese John H McDonald)
13.00 AUD
Category: Science
An illustrated collector's edition of one of the most influential Chinese books. First published approx 500 BC; this edition 2009.
Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity by Carlo Rovelli
24.99 AUD
Category: Science
What are time and space made of? Where does matter come from? And what exactly is reality? Scientist Carlo Rovelli has spent his life exploring these questions and pushing the boundaries of what we know. Here he explains how our image of the world has changed throughout centuries. From Aristotle to Albe ...Show more
Memory Code by Lynne Kelly
32.99 AUD
Category: Science
In the past, the elders had encyclopaedic memories. They could name all the animals and plants across the landscape, and the stars in the sky too. Yet most of us struggle to memorise more than a short poem. Using traditional Aboriginal Australian songlines as the key, Lynne Kelly has identified the powe ...Show more
The Medicine Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained by DK
39.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Big Ideas Ser.
How are illnesses diagnosed? What is cancer? Why are some pandemics so deadly? This book explores big questions like these, explaining the breakthroughs and discoveries that have shaped our modern-day understanding of medicine and helped us protect and promote our health. Written in plain English, The M ...Show more
The Brain's Way of Healing by Norman Doidge
29.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: The\Neuroplasticity Chronicles Ser.
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2015 GOODREADS CHOICE AWARDS 'BEST SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY BOOK' This book is about the discovery that the human brain has its own unique way of healing. For centuries we believed that the price we paid for our brain's complexity was that, compared to other organs, it was fixed and ...Show more
Anatomy & Physiology For Dummies by Erin Odya, Maggie A. Norris
38.95 AUD
Category: Science
Learn about the human body from the inside out Some people think that knowing about what goes on inside the human body can sap life of its mystery which is too bad for them. Anybody who's ever taken a peak under the hood knows that the human body, and all its various structures and functions, is a realm ...Show more
Gray's Anatomy (Barnes & Noble Collectible Classics: Omnibus Edition) by Henry Gray
49.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Barnes and Noble Leatherbound Classic Collection
Written in the 1850s by a young doctor, Henry Gray, Gray's Anatomy was the most comprehensive and accessible anatomy of its time. This beautifully produced slipcased volume contains the historic text of the second edition and all of Henry Vandyke Carter's masterly drawings. It is essential reading for a ...Show more
Reaching Down the Rabbit Hole: Extraordinary Journeys into the Human Brain by Allan Ropper, Brian David Burrell
24.99 AUD
Category: Science
"What is it like to try to heal the body when the mind is under attack? In this gripping and illuminating book, Dr Allan Ropper reveals the extraordinary stories behind some of the life-altering afflictions that he and his staff are confronted with at the Neurology Unit of Harvard's Brigham and Women's ...Show more
The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human by Siddhartha Mukherjee
35.00 AUD
Category: Science
This book is the story of the cell - past, present and future. Since the discovery of the cell in the 1660s and the discovery in the 1850s that most diseases can be traced back to our cells, human beings have been understood as an ecosystem of units that produce exponentially complex structures and effe ...Show more