Everything You Know about Animals Is Wrong by Matt Brown
$19.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Everything You Know Is Wrong Ser.
All the stories and legends about animals we've heard since childhood are gleefully debunked in this hugely entertaining and informative book. You may think you know the truth about animals, but Matt Brown is here to set you straight. In his inimitable humorous style, Brown takes apart widely held misco ...Show more
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress by Steven Pinker
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science | Reading Level: near fine
One of the world's greatest thinkers tells the heroic story of human progress - and why we neglect it at our peril.Is modernity really failing? Or have we failed to appreciate progress and the ideals that make it possible?If you follow the headlines, the world in the 21st century appears to be sinking i ...Show more
Exactly: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World by Simon Winchester
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science | Reading Level: very good
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 in ...Show more
Darwin Devolves - The New Science about DNA That Challenges Evolution by Michael J. Behe
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
The scientist who has been dubbed the "Father of Intelligent Design" and author of the groundbreaking book Darwin's Black Box contends that recent scientific discoveries further disprove Darwinism and strengthen the case for an intelligent creator.In his controversial bestseller Darwin's Black Box, bioc ...Show more
End of Epidemics by Jonathan D. Quick
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science
AIDS. Ebola. Bird flu. SARS. Year after year we manage new viruses thanks to the tireless work done in labs and hot zones around the world. Now, Jonathan Quick explains how we could end epidemics forever. Somewhere out there, a killer virus is boiling up in the bloodstream of a bird, bat, monkey, or pig ...Show more
Eight Master Lessons of Nature by Gary Ferguson
$27.99 AUD
Category: Science
For too long we have set ourselves apart from nature, seeing ourselves as superior, removed, independent. But in doing so we have lost sight of all that the natural world can teach us. In Eight Master Lessons of Nature, Gary Ferguson reveals the wisdom of the natural world. By keenly observing and admi ...Show more
Budgerigar: How a Brave, Chatty and Colourful Little Aussie Bird Stole the World's Heart by Sarah Harris; Don Baker
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
A curiosity of everything you ever wanted to know (or realised you never knew) about budgies. Beautiful and cheeky, delightful and enchanting, wild or tamed budgerigars are Australia's gift to the bird world.They sing and dance, and yawn as contagiously as humans. They are masters of mimicry. They grasp ...Show more
Dark Matter and Dark Energy by Brian Clegg
$19.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Hot Science Ser.
All the matter and light we can see in the universe makes up a trivial 5per cent of everything. The rest is hidden. This could be the biggest puzzle that science has everfaced. Since the 1970s,astronomers have been aware that galaxies have far too little matter in them toaccount for the way they spin ar ...Show more
Cosmological Koans: A Journey to the Heart of Physical Reality by Anthony Aguirre
$45.00 AUD
Category: Science
Could there be a civilization on a mote of dust? How much of your fate have you made? Who cleans the universe? Through more than fifty Koans -- pleasingly paradoxical vignettes following the ancient Zen tradition -- leading physicist Anthony Aguirre takes the reader across the world from Japan to Italy ...Show more
Brief Answers to the Big Questions: the final book from Stephen Hawking by Stephen Hawking
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science | Reading Level: very good
THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. 'A beautiful little book by a brilliant mind'- DAILY TELEGRAPH. 'Effortlessly instructive, absorbing, up to the minute and - where it matters - witty'- GUARDIAN. The world-famous cosmologist and #1 bestselling author of A Brief History of Time leaves us with his final t ...Show more
Bird Love by Wenfei Tong; Mike Webster (Consultant Editor)
$49.99 AUD
Category: Science
Exploring the sex life of birds and their wide range of mating and parenting habits, Bird Love gives you a detailed insight into bird family life. More than 90 percent of birds appear to be monogamous, but beneath the surface there is a huge variety of mating systems in play, from temporary monogamy an ...Show more
Astronomical - From Quark-Stars to Wormholes, the Weird Science of Our Universe by Tim James
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science
Does the Big Bang prove the existence of God? What's the Universe expanding into? Is Earth the only planet which supports life? Why did the greatest astronomer in history murder his pet moose? Space is the biggest, oldest, hottest, coldest, strangest thing a human can study. It's no surprise then, that ...Show more