A Brief History of Black Holes: And why nearly everything you know about them is wrong by Dr Becky Smethurst
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
In A Brief History of Black Holes, the award-winning University of Oxford researcher Dr Becky Smethurst charts five hundred years of scientific breakthroughs in astronomy and astrophysics.Right now, you are orbiting a black hole.The Earth orbits the Sun, and the Sun orbits the centre of the Milky Way: a ...Show more
Stars and Planets by DK
$19.99 AUD
Category: Science
A compact, comprehensive guide to looking at stars and planets for readers from around the worldThe clearest, most accessible guide to observing the night sky. Authoritative text, crystal-clear charts, and a systematic approach make the DK Handbook of Star and Planets the perfect beginner's guide to the ...Show more
Faking It: Artificial Intelligence in a Human World by Toby Walsh
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science
A prescient analysis of what makes artificial intelligence so ... artificial Artificially intelligent machines are set to play an increasingly important role in our lives. They will take the dirty tasks of life off our hands, as well as the dull, the difficult and the dangerous - which is a good thing. ...Show more
The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human by Siddhartha Mukherjee
$27.99 AUD
Category: Science
From the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies and The Gene, the stunning odyssey of the cell - the key to life and ourselves**A NEW YORK TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, ECONOMIST, MAIL ON SUNDAY and GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR**'Will leave you in awe' GuardianFrom the dawn of ...Show more
Earth: Over 4 Billion Years in the Making by Chris Packham
$55.00 AUD
Category: Science
‘Combines the natural history of programmes such as David Attenborough’s Planet Earth with the planetary focus of Brian Cox’s Universe’ Guardian A beautiful, full colour book to accompany the 5 part BBC TV series telling the most important story of all, the deep history of our own planet. With the trade ...Show more
How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology by Philip Ball
$36.99 AUD
Category: Science
A cutting-edge new vision of biology that will revise our concept of what life itself is, how to enhance it, and what possibilities it offers. Biology is undergoing a quiet but profound transformation. Several aspects of the standard picture of how life works—the idea of the genome as a blueprint, of g ...Show more
Four Ways of Thinking: Statistical, Interactive, Chaotic and Complex by David Sumpter
$39.99 AUD
Category: Science
How can we see through the chaos and complexity of our lives?Beyond all the facts and figures, there is just one question at the heart of science- what is the best way to think about the world? Yet in our everyday lives, this is something we rarely consider. How often do we wonder about our own thinking ...Show more
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
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Category: Science | Series: Picador Collection
CELEBRATING FIFTY YEARS OF PICADOR BOOKSIf a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self - himself - he cannot know it, because he is no longer there to know it.In this extraordinary book, Dr. Oliver Sacks recounts the stories of patients struggling to a ...Show more
The Universe: The Book of the BBC TV Series Presented by Professor Brian Cox by Andrew Cohen, Professor Brian Cox
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
Every night, above our heads, a drama of epic proportions is playing out. Diamond planets, zombie stars, black holes heavier than a billion Suns. The cast of characters is extraordinary, and each one has its own incredible story to tell. We once thought of our Earth as unique, but we have now discovere ...Show more
Scary Smart: The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our World by Mo Gawdat
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science
'Technology is putting our humanity at risk to an unprecedented degree. This book is not for engineers who write the code or the policy makers who claim they can regulate it. This is a book for you. Because, believe it or not, you are the only one that can fix it.' Mo Gawdat Artificial intelligence is s ...Show more
The World Before Us: How Science is Revealing a New Story of Our Human Origins by Tom Higham
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Category: Science
The story of us, told for the first time with its full cast of characters. 50,000 years ago, we were not the only species of human in the world. There were at least four others, including the Neanderthals, Homo floresiensis, Homo luzonesis and the Denisovans. At the forefront of the latter's ground-bre ...Show more
How to Be Good at Science, Technology & Engineering by .
$39.99 AUD
Category: Science
Little scientists will understand science in seconds with this essential homework-helping guide. Learn about everything from molecules and magnetism to rockets and radio waves and find out how a hot-air balloon rises, how erosion flattens mountains, how light waves zip through space, and how the human e ...Show more