Cosmos: The Story of Cosmic Evolution, Science and Civilisation by Carl Sagan
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Abacus Science Greats Ser.
Narrado con la proverbial habilidad que tenía Sagan para conseguir que las ideas científicas fuesen comprensibles y apasionantes, Cosmos trata de la ciencia en su contexto humano más amplio y explica cómo la ciencia y la civilización se desarrollan conjuntamente. La obra aborda también el tema de las mi ...Show more
Sodding Sums: The 10% of maths you actually need by Hywel Carver
$14.99 AUD
Category: Science
Maths is a part of everyday life and there's no denying it. For anyone who has blocked distant memories of complicated algebraic formulae or incomprehensible trigonometry, numbers can strike fear at your very core. It is, however, an unavoidable part of life, so why struggle through without a clue? Hywe ...Show more
Do Humankind's Best Days Lie Ahead? by Steven Pinker Malcolm Gladwell Alain De Botton Matt Ridley
$16.99 AUD
Category: Science
From the Enlightenment onwards, the West has had an enduring belief that through the evolution of institutions, innovations, and ideas, the human condition is improving. This process is supposedly accelerating as new technologies, individual freedoms, and the spread of global norms empower individuals a ...Show more
Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze?: And 114 Other Questions by New Scientist
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Category: Science
Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze? is the latest compilation of readers' answers to the questions in the 'Last Word' column of New Scientist, the world's best-selling science weekly. Following the phenomenal success of Does Anything Eat Wasps? - the Christmas 2005 surprise bestseller - this new collection ...Show more
Visual Aid Stuff You've Forgotten Things You Never Thought You Knew and Lessons You Didn't Quite Get Around to Learning by Draught Associates
$19.98 AUD
Category: Science
"Visual Aid" provides the answers to the little questions in life in a simple, colorful, and engaging way. This eclectic collection of illustrations and diagrams will get you up to speed on life's basics, without the need for extensive reading - or even your utmost attention. In a small, handy format th ...Show more
How We Learn: The Surprising Truth About When, Where and Why it Happens by Benedict Carey
$19.99 AUD
Category: Science
This book will help you to learn Spanish - or the Spanish guitar - faster.This book will give an athlete the edge to turn Silver into Gold.This book will give any child the chance to perform better in exams. Full stop.How We Learn is a landmark book that shakes up everything we thought we knew about how ...Show more
Convergence: The Idea at the Heart of Science by Peter Watson
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Category: Science
Convergence is a history of modern science with an original and significant twist. Various scientific disciplines, despite their very different beginnings, and disparate areas of interest have been coming together over the past 150 years, converging and coalescing, to identify one extraordinary master n ...Show more
Everything You Know About Space is Wrong by Matt Brown
$19.98 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Everything You Know About...
Indulge your curiosity with this humorous and fascinating book that demystifies the surprising myths about space. In the latest book from the Everything You Know is Wrong series, Matt Brown brings you a compendium of amazing facts about our planet, the universe, and everything in between! Thanks to popu ...Show more
Why Dinosaurs Matter by Kenneth Lacovara
$19.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: TED 2
What can long-dead dinosaurs teach us about our future? Plenty, according to world-renowned paleontologist Dr Kenneth Lacovara, who has discovered some of the largest creatures to ever walk the Earth, including the super-massive Dreadnoughtus. By tapping into the wonder that dinosaurs inspire, Dr Lacova ...Show more
The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
$22.95 AUD
Category: Science
The million copy international bestseller, critically acclaimed and translated into over 25 languages. This 30th anniversary edition includes a new introduction from the author as well as the original prefaces and foreword, and extracts from early reviews. As relevant and influential today as when it wa ...Show more
Can You Solve My Problems?: A casebook of ingenious, perplexing and totally satisfying puzzles by Alex Bellos
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science
Are you smarter than a Singaporean ten-year-old? Can you beat Sherlock Holmes? If you think the answer is yes - I challenge you to solve my problems. Here are 125 of the world's best brainteasers from the last two millennia, taking us from ancient China to medieval Europe, Victorian England to modern-da ...Show more
The Water Book by Alok Jha
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science
Water is the most every day of substances. It pours from our taps and falls from the sky. We drink it, wash with it, and couldn't live without it. Yet, on closer examination it is also a very strange substance (it is one of only a very small number of molecules which expand when cooled). Look closer aga ...Show more