Mr Darwin's Incredible Shrinking World: Science and Technology in 1859 by Peter Macinnis
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Category: Science
Across a huge range of endeavour, 1859 was the year of mega change. At the beginning of that year Charles Darwin published "The Origin of Species". By year's end, other people, discoveries and inventions had changed the world forever, and society was converging in a global culture. It was a different wo ...Show more
It Takes a Genome by Greg Gibson
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Category: Science
Human beings have astonishing genetic vulnerabilities. More than half of us will die from complex diseases that trace directly to those vulnerabilities, and the modern world we've created places us at unprecedented risk from them. In It Takes a Genome, Greg Gibson posits a revolutionary new hypothesis: ...Show more
The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Science of Everything by STEVE MILLER
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Category: Science | Series: Complete Idiot's Guides (Lifes
Magic Furnace by Chown Marcus
29.95 AUD
Category: Science
Marcus Chown's extraordinary account of how scientists unravelled the mystery of atoms and helped to explain the dawn of life is one of the greatest detective stories in the history of science. In fact, it is two puzzles intertwined: The origin of atoms, and the origin of stars. Neither story could be t ...Show more
The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin
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Category: Science
The definitive edition of Darwin's classic -- and brilliantly entertaining and accessible -- exploration of human and animal behaviour. * Why do we bite people we feel affection towards? Why do dogs wag their tails? Or cats purr? Why do we get embarrassed, and why does embarrassment make us blush? These ...Show more
The Tale of the Duelling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery by Sam Kean
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Category: Science
For centuries, scientists had only one way to study the brain: wait for misfortune to strike - strokes, seizures, infections, lobotomies, horrendous accidents, phantom limbs, Siamese twins - and see how the victims changed afterwards. In many cases their survival was miraculous, and observers marvelled ...Show more
The Memory Illusion: Remembering, Forgetting, and the Science of False Memory by Julia Shaw
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Category: Science
Think you have a good memory? Think again. Memories are our most cherished possessions. We rely on them every day of our lives. They make us who we are. And yet the truth is they are far from being the accurate record of the past we like to think they are. True, we can all admit to having suffered occas ...Show more
The Great Atlas of the Universe by Leopoldo Benacchio
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Category: Science
From the first attempts of Galileo to the advances of new technology, the entire story of space conquest is told here. Double-sized fold-outs and colour photographs make you truly wonder at the spectacle of the universe.
The Reality Frame Relativity and Our Place in the Universe by Brian Clegg
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39.99 (75% off)
Category: Science
Weaving together the great ideas of science, Reality s Frame takes us on a thrilling journey from empty space all the way to the human mind. Acclaimed science writer Brian Clegg builds up reality piece by piece, from space, to time, to matter, movement, the fundamental forces, life, and the massive tran ...Show more
Possessing the Dead: The Artful Science of Anatomy by Helen Patricia MacDonald
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Category: Science
London, 1868: visiting Australian Aboriginal cricketer Charles Rose has died in Guy's Hospital. His body did not go directly to a grave. Possessing the Dead explores the disturbing history of the cadaver trade in Scotland, England and Australia, where laws once gave certain officials possession of the d ...Show more