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 worl ...Show more
Flight by Zack Scott
$49.99 AUD
Category: Science
Flight is the story of humankind's most ambitious undertaking. From thousand-year-old flying machines and the trailblazing 'birdmen' who risked their lives to test them, to the Wright brothers' legendary first flight and the iconic spacecraft of the modern era, Flight weaves together the extraordinary h ...Show more
Life Lessons from a Brain Surgeon: The New Science and Stories of the Brain by Rahul Jandial
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science
A Latina English teacher must choose between losing her mother tongue or her profession. A former TV exec, now homeless, discovers that his life-altering despondency comes from a tumour. A fainting teen learns that deep breathing could be the difference between life and death. Is recovery possible? In a ...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
The Secret Lives of Colour by Kassia St Clair
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science
'A mind-expanding tour of the world without leaving your paintbox. Every colour has a story, and here are some of the most alluring, alarming, and thought-provoking. Very hard painting the hallway magnolia after this inspiring primer.'Simon GarfieldThe Secret Lives of Colour tells the unusual stories of ...Show more
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress by Steven Pinker
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
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
Gemstones of the World: Newly Revised Fifth Edition by Walter Schumann
$37.99 AUD
$39.99 (5% off)
Category: Science
This is truly the ultimate one-volume book every hobbyist, jeweler, jewelry maker, and rockhound will ever need. Following the spectacular success of the first four editions of Gemstones of the World, the revised fifth edition exhibits important updates and a beautiful new cover. All the gemstones eve ...Show more
What's the Use? The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics by Ian Stewart
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
A bestselling author tries to rehabillitate a much-maligned field.
Adam Spencer's Maths 101: The Curly Questions Your Primary School Kids Will Ask You (With the Answers!) by Adam Spencer
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
Adam Spencer’s Maths 101 is the reassuring maths book companion for parents and their children tackling primary school level maths. If you’ve ever been challenged mathematically (and who hasn't?), then Adam Spencer is here with this crucial refresher to help you confidently assist your kids learning mat ...Show more
The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups by Daniel Coyle
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'A marvel of insight and practicality? Charles Duhigg, author of The Power of Habit____________________________How do you build and sustain a great team?The Culture Code reveals the secrets of some of the best teams in the world - from Pixar to Google to US Navy SEALs - expl ...Show more
Space is Cool as Fuck by Kate Howells
$39.99 AUD
Category: Science
Bite-sized chunks of incredible, unbelievable information explaining everything you need to know about our universe from black holes to dark matter, featuring aliens, crazy scientists and incredible worlds!Space is Cool as Fuck features more than 100 wild artworks, photographs and illustrations from 40 ...Show more
Helgoland by Carlo Rovelli
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
The instant Sunday Times bestseller -- a dazzling story of rebellion and science. In June 1925, twenty-three-year-old Werner Heisenberg, suffering from hay fever, had retreated to the treeless, wind-battered island of Helgoland in the North Sea in order to think. Walking all night, by dawn he had wrest ...Show more