Elemental: How the Periodic Table Can Now Explain (Nearly) Everything by Tim James
32.99 AUD
Category: Science
If you want to understand how our world works, the periodic table holds the answers. When the seventh row of the periodic table of elements was completed in June 2016 with the addition of four final elements--nihonium, moscovium, tennessine, and oganesson--we at last could identify all the ingredients n ...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 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 Code Book - The Secret History of Codes and Code-breaking by Simon Singh
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Category: Science
From the best-selling author of Fermat's Last Theorem, The Code Book is a history of man's urge to uncover the secrets of codes, from Egyptian puzzles to modern day computer encryptions. As in Fermat's Last Theorem, Simon Singh brings life to an anstonishing story of puzzles, codes, languages and riddle ...Show more
Complete Guide to Fossils & Fossil Collections by Steve Parker
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Category: Science
An illustrated reference to ove 400 plant and animal fossils from around the globe and how to identify them, with over 1000 photographos and artworks.
Exactly: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World by Simon Winchester
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Category: Science
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2018 Bestselling author Simon Winchester writes a magnificent history of the pioneering engineers who developed precision machinery to allow us to see as far as the moon and as close as the Higgs boson. Precision is the key to everything. It is an int ...Show more
One River: Explorations and Discoveries in the Amazon Rain Forest by Wade Davis
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Category: Science
From the author of Into The Silence, winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction. In 1941, Richard Evans Schultes took a leave of absence from Harvard University and disappeared into the Northern Amazon of Colombia. The world's leading authority on the hallucinogens and medicinal plants of the re ...Show more
Do Robots Make Love? by Laurent Alexandre; Jean-Michel Besnier
24.99 AUD
Category: Science
Through 12 thought-provoking questions, a philosopher and a scientist explore the real-world ramifications of transhumanism - the tech movement that seeks to improve the human condition through science. Should we enhance the human condition with technology?Does anyone really want to live for a thous ...Show more
The Sacred Balance: Discovering Our Place in Nature by David T. Suzuki
26.95 AUD
Category: Science
This special 10th anniversary edition of the David Suzuki classic, re-examines our place in the natural world in light of sweeping environmental changes and recent advances in scientific knowledge.
Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea and the Deep Origins of Consciousness by Peter Godfrey-Smith
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27.99 (64% off)
Category: Science
A philosopher dons a wet suit and journeys into the depths of consciousness. Peter Godfrey-Smith is a leading philosopher of science. He is also a scuba diver whose underwater videos of warring octopuses have attracted wide notice. In this book, he brings his parallel careers together to tell a bold new ...Show more
Know This - Today's Most Interesting and Important Scientific Ideas and Discoveries by John Brockman
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27.99 (64% off)
Category: Science | Series: Edge Question Ser.
The latest volume in the bestselling series from Edge.org-dubbed "the world's smartest website" by The Guardian-brings together 175 of the world's most innovative and brilliant thinkers to discuss recent scientific breakthroughs that will shape the future. Scientific developments radically alter our und ...Show more
End Game - Tipping Point for Planet Earth? by Anthony D Barnosky and Elizabeth A Hadly
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29.99 (83% off)
Category: Science
overconsumption / population growth / dwindling natural resources / climate change / disease / contamination / storms / thirst / war ...will the struggle to simply stay alive become humanity's future rather than its past? What happens if population pressures finally hit a threshold that tumbles the domi ...Show more