Books do Furnish a Life by Richard Dawkins
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science
A SPECTATOR BEST BOOK OF 2021'Richard Dawkins is a thunderously gifted science writer.' Sunday Times'It may be a collection of shorter parts, but the book is in no sense Dawkins made simple. It amounts to a substantive whole which offers a unitary panoramic view across his entire intellectual life.' Spe ...Show more
Stargazing for Beginners: Explore the Wonders of the Night Sky by DK
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science
Discover the wonders of the Universe with this complete introduction to observing and understanding the night sky. This practical guide explains and demystifies stargazing, teaching you to recognize different kinds of objects and showing you how they move through the sky over the course of the night an ...Show more
One Medicine: How understanding animals can save our lives by Matt Morgan
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science
It all started with a Hob Nob. As Dr Matt Morgan, an intensive care consultant, examined a patient who had suffered a cardiac arrest after inhaling some biscuit crumbs, he saw a flock of birds fly past the window. They must inhale objects all the time when flying, how do they survive? he thought to hims ...Show more
The Biology Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained by .
$39.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Big Ideas Simply Explained
An accessible guide to the most important discoveries and theories in the history of biology. What is life? Why do bees dance? How do animals know their mothers? Who discovered germs? Biology is the story of our quest to understand the living world and explain how its organisms work and interact - wheth ...Show more
A Brief History of Black Holes: And Why Nearly Everything You Know About Them Is Wrong by Dr Becky Smethurst
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science
The Moon goes around the Earth, the Earth goes around the Sun, the Sun goes around the centre of the Milky Way: a supermassive black hole. As you read this you are currently orbiting a black hole. Money might make the world go round, but black holes make the universe go round. Black holes are not just a ...Show more
Seven Pillars of Science: The Incredible Lightness of Ice, and Other Scientific Surprises by John Gribbin
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Category: Science
The seven fundamental - and surprising - scientific truths of our existence.
Ten Tantalising Truths: Why the Sky is Blue, and other Big Answers to Simple Questions by JOHN GRIBBIN
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science
Obvious questions do not always have obvious answers. John Gribbin is known for giving us simple explanations of big concepts in science. But there is another way to probe the mysteries of the Universe and our place in it. Faced with persistent enquiries from his grandchildren, Gribbin realised that sim ...Show more
The Secret Life of Stars: Astrophysics for Everyone by Lisa Harvey-Smith
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science
The Secret Life of Stars takes us on a cosmic journey to meet some of the weirdest, most extreme and enigmatic stars in the universe.‘Astrophysics made fun!’Pam Melroy, former astronaut and space shuttle commander‘The most enjoyable stroll through the cosmos’Gerry Griffin, former flight director, Apollo ...Show more
Everything You Need to Ace Biology in One Big Fat Notebook by Workman Publishing, Matthew Brown
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Big Fat Notebooks Ser.
The Big Fat Notebooks’ big step up to high school continues! Announcing Biology, the third in the high school series. With over 5 million copies in print worldwide since 2016, and sales escalating every year, the Big Fat Notebooks series is revolutionising the middle and high school study guide. And Bio ...Show more
Machines Behaving Badly : The Morality of AI by Toby Walsh
$36.99 AUD
Category: Science
Can we build moral machines? Toby Walsh, AI expert, examines the ethical issues we face in a future dominated by artificial intelligence.Artificial intelligence is an essential part of our lives - for better or worse. It can be used to influence what we buy, who gets shortlisted for a job and even how w ...Show more
Breaking Boundaries by Owen Gaffney; Johan Rockström
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
On the brink of a critical moment in human history, this book presents a vision of "planetary stewardship" - a rethinking of our relationship with our planet - and plots a new course for our future. The authors reveal the full scale of the planetary emergency we face - but also how we can stabilize Eart ...Show more
Southern Nights - The story of New Zealand's night sky by Naomi Arnold
$59.99 AUD
Category: Science
Meet the night sky, down under Aotearoa New Zealand was founded on stargazing. It was celestial navigation that brought the first people here, and it was tatai arorangi, Maori astronomy, that helped people survive once they arrived. There is no better place on Earth to view the brilliance of other world ...Show more