The Case Against Fluoride: How Hazardous Waste Ended Up in Our Drinking Water and the Bad Science and Powerful Politics That Keep it There by Paul Connett
$45.95 AUD
Category: Pop Science
When the US Public Health Service endorsed water fluoridation in 1959, there was little evidence of its safety. Now, siz decades later and after most countries have rejected the practice, more than 70 per cent of Americans, as well as 200 million people worldwide, are drinking fluoridated water. The C ...Show more
The New Cosmos: Answering Astronomy's Big Questions by Eicher, David J
$57.95 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Over the past decade, astronomers, planetary scientists, and cosmologists have answered - or are closing in on the answers to - some of the biggest questions about the universe. David J. Eicher presents a spectacular exploration of the cosmos that provides a balanced and precise view of the latest disco ...Show more
Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay by William W. Warner
$29.95 AUD
Category: Pop Science
William Warner exhibits his skill as a naturalist and as a writer in this Pulitzer Prize-winning study of the pugnacious Atlantic blue crab and of its Chesapeake Bay territory. Penguin Nature Library.
Fun Science : A Guide to Life, the Universe and Why Science is so Awesome by Charlie McDonnell
$24.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Welcome, fellow humans (and others), to the the world of FUN SCIENCE! I'm Charlie, also known across the internet as charlieissocoollike.In my book, I'll be taking you on an awesome journey through the cosmos, beginning with the Big Bang through to the Solar System and the origins of life on Earth, all ...Show more
Time Travel by James Gleick
$29.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
From the acclaimed author of The Information and Chaos, a mind-bending exploration of time travel: its subversive origins, its evolution in literature and science, and its influence on our understanding of time itself. Gleick's story begins at the turn of the twentieth century with the young H. G. Wells ...Show more
Life on Earth by Mike Dooley
$24.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
In his best-selling books and hugely popular "Notes from the Universe" daily e-mails, Mike Dooley teaches that the first step in changing our lives is to understand the nature of our very presence here on earth--the truth about who we are, how we got here, and the power we wield. Ultimately, Mike teache ...Show more
The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest To Understand, Enhance and Empower the Mind by Michio Kaku
$24.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Mind reading, recording memories, downloading dreams, telekinesis- no longer are these the province of science fiction. In some laboratories, they already exist. Michio Kaku takes us on a thrilling tour of the latest advances in brain science - in this life, and beyond. 'A mind-bending study of the poss ...Show more
What Is Mathematics? by Richard Courant
$39.95 AUD
Category: Pop Science | Series: Oxford Paperbacks Ser.
For more than two thousand years a familiarity with mathematics has been regarded as an indispensable part of the intellectual equipment of every cultured person. Today, unfortunately, the traditional place of mathematics in education is in grave danger. The teaching and learning of mathematics has dege ...Show more
Electrified Sheep: Bizarre Experiments from the Bestselling Author of Elephants on Acid by Alex Boese
$17.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Benjamin Franklin was a pioneering scientist, leader of the Enlightenment and founding father of the USA. But perhaps less well known is that he was also the first person to use artificial respiration to revive an electric shock victim. Odder still, it was actually mouth-to-beak resuscitation on a hen t ...Show more
A Cabinet of Ancient Medical Curiosities: Strange Tales and Surprising Facts from the Healing Arts of Greece and Rome by J. C. McKeown
$23.95 AUD
Category: Pop Science | Reading Level: near fine
There are few disciplines as exciting and forward-looking as medicine. Unfortunately, however, many modern practitioners have rather lost sight of the origins of their discipline. A Cabinet of Ancient Medical Curiosities aspires to make good this lapse by taking readers back to the early days of Western ...Show more
The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century by George Friedman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
A fascinating, eye-opening and often shocking look at what lies ahead for the U.S. and the world from one of our most incisive futurists. In his thought-provoking new book, George Friedman, founder of STRATFOR--the preeminent private intelligence and forecasting firm--focuses on what he knows best, the ...Show more