Six Not-so-easy Pieces by Richard P. Feynman
24.95 AUD
Category: Science
Originally published by Allen Lane in 1998, a popular science book containing material from the physics lectures of Richard Feynman on the subject of Einstein's relativity theory.
The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty by Peter Singer
34.95 AUD
Category: Science
In The Life You Can Save, philosopher Peter Singer, uses ethical arguments, provocative thought experiments, illuminating examples, and case studies of charitable giving to show that our current response to world poverty is not only insufficient but ethically indefensible.
Hawking by Joel Levy
19.99 AUD
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Category: Science | Series: Amazing Minds Ser.
Hawking explores the life and work, explaining the breakthroughs at the cutting edge of cosmology, from the Big Bang to black holes, and the ups and downs of Stephen Hawking's extraordinary and often turbulent life. The death of Stephen Hawking in March 2018 brought to a close one of the most remarkabl ...Show more
How the Body Works: The Facts Simply Explained
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Category: Science
How the Body Works is a fascinating exploration of the weird and wonderful processes that occur within the human body, often without us knowing. This title helps us understand how our bodies keep us alive and thriving and get to the bottom of such niggling questions as why we get dizzy, why we get butte ...Show more
How Many Moons Does the Earth Have?: The Ultimate Science Quiz Book by Brian Clegg
16.99 AUD
Category: Science
Why did Uuq become Fl? Why is the sky blue? Why is the sky black? What is spaghettification? There's a problem with the typical pub quiz. It always features far too much sport, 1980s pop and celebrity gossip - and not nearly enough science. How Many Moons Does the Earth Have? is the ultimate solution. T ...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
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson
26.95 AUD
Category: Science
# 1 New York Times BestsellerLibraryReads PickSMLWhat is the nature of space and time? How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit within us? Today, few of us have time to contemplate the cosmos. Now Neil deGrasse Tyson brings the universe down to Earth succinctly and clearly, within sp ...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
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 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
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
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