Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari
$39.99 AUD
Category: Science
From renowned historian and #1 Sunday Times bestselling author Yuval Noah Harari comes the story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world. For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discoveries, inventions and conquests, we now find ...Show more
Sing Like Fish by Amorina Kingdon
$36.99 AUD
Category: Science
Sing Like Fish: how sound rules life under water. A captivating exploration of how underwater animals tap into sound to survive, and a clarion call for humans to address the ways we invade these critical soundscapes - from an award-winning science writer. For centuries humans ignored sound in the 'sile ...Show more
Women of Science: 100 Inspirational Lives by Professor John S. Croucher
$34.95 AUD
Category: Science
Women have played a vital role in scientific discovery, although at times their participation has gone unrecognised. Their scholarly research and discoveries have provided a rich tapestry to add to the scientific endeavours of the world. It is important that these women be viewed through the lens of the ...Show more
The Universe: The Book of the BBC TV Series Presented by Professor Brian Cox by Andrew Cohen, Professor Brian Cox
$24.99 AUD
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
Good Nature: The New Science of How Nature Improves Our Health by Kathy Willis
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science
A revolutionary, science-based look at the ways nature can improve our lives that will do for the natural world what Tim Spector's Food for Life did for food.Fifteen years ago, University of Oxford Professor Kathy Willis read a study that radically changed her view of our relationship to the natural wor ...Show more
On the Origin of Time by Thomas Hertog
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
A new theory of the universe, twenty years in the making, by Stephen Hawking and his close collaborator Thomas Hertog. Perhaps the biggest question Stephen Hawking tried to answer in his extraordinary life was how the universe could have created conditions so perfectly hospitable to life. Pondering this ...Show more
Voyagers: Our Journey into the Anthropocene by Lauren Fuge
$36.99 AUD
Category: Science
From the beginning, humans have been wanderers. Our feet carried us out of Africa and propelled us to far-flung corners of the world, often through incredible feats of innovation and imagination. These explorations yielded great rewards: land and resources, food and knowledge. But in every landscape we ...Show more
Trippy: The Peril and Promise of Medicinal Psychedelics by Ernesto Londono
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science
A moving, tender and thoughtful exploration of a complicated subject. Johann Hari, Sunday Times bestselling author of Stolen Focus and Lost ConnectionsA compulsively readable romp through a burgeoning scene that has immense potential for both harm and healing.Dan Harris, New York Times bestselling autho ...Show more
Third Millennium Thinking by Saul Perlmutter
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science
Based on a wildly popular UC Berkeley course, a primer on how to think critically, make sound decisions, and solve problems--individually and collectively--using scientists' tricks of the trade. In our deluge of information, it's getting harder and harder to distinguish the revelatory from the contradic ...Show more
White Holes: Inside the Horizon by Carlo Rovelli
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
A mesmerizing trip to the strange new world of white holes, from Carlo Rovelli, the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics. Let us journey, with beloved physicist Carlo Rovelli, into the heart of a black hole. Let us slip beyond its boundary, the horizon, and tumble - on and on - down thi ...Show more
Under Alien Skies: A Sightseer's Guide to the Universe by Philip Plait
$31.95 AUD
Category: Science
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to travel the universe? How would Saturn's rings look from a spaceship sailing just above them? If you were falling into a black hole, what's the last thing you'd see before getting spaghettified? While traveling in person to most of these amazing worlds may ...Show more
Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life by Peter Godfrey-Smith
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science
'Brilliant' GuardianWaterstones Non-Fiction Book of the Month (March) SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE What if intelligent life on Earth evolved not once, but twice? The octopus is the closest we will come to meeting an intelligent alien. What can we learn from the encounter? ...Show more