The Philosophy Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained by DK
$42.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science | Series: Big Ideas Simply Explained
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Gentle Giants by Isabelle Groc
$59.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
A volume of photographs that invites you to discover cetaceans, this book provides a surprisingly intense portrait of dolphin and whale life, and a fascinating journey through images (which does justice to these amazing animals, who are a symbol of the struggle involved in the preservation of the marine ...Show more
Sex at Dawn : The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality by Christopher Ryan; Cacilda Jethá
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Category: Pop Science
Since Darwin's day, we've been told that sexual monogamy comes naturally to our species. Mainstream science - as well as religious and cultural institutions - has maintained that men and women evolved in families in which a man's possessions and protection were exchanged for a woman's fertility and fide ...Show more
Duels and Duets: Why Men and Women Talk So Differently by John L. Locke
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Category: Pop Science
Why do men and women talk so differently? And how do these differences interfere with communication between the sexes? In search of an answer to these and other questions, John Locke takes the reader on a fascinating journey, from human evolution through ancient history to the present, revealing why me ...Show more
Build Your Own Time Machine: The Real Science of Time Travel by Brian Clegg
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Category: Pop Science
There is no physical law to prevent time travel - nothing in physics to say that it is not possible. So surely the invention of a time machine is just a matter of ... time? In Build Your Own Time Machine, acclaimed science author Brian Clegg takes inspiration from his childhood heroes Doctor Who and H. ...Show more
Claude Levi-Strauss: The Poet in the Laboratory by Patrick Wilcken
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Claude Levi-Strauss, the 'father of modern anthropology' and author of the classic Tristes tropiques, was one of the most influential intellectuals of the second half of the twentieth century. Dislodging Sartre, Camus and de Beauvoir from the pinnacle of French intellectual life in the 1950s, he brought ...Show more
Woman Who Changed Her Brain by Barbara Arrowsmith-Young
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Category: Pop Science
Barbara Arrowsmith-Young was born with severe learning disabilities that caused teachers to label her slow, stubborn - or worse. As a child, she read and wrote everything backward, struggled to process concepts in language, continually got lost, and was physically uncoordinated. She could make no sense ...Show more
The Universe in Zero Words : The Story of Mathematics by Dana Mackenzie
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Category: Pop Science
In this fascinating and richly illustrated book, Dana MacKenzie brings to life the 4,000-year history of mathematics through the lives and work of its greatest practitioners. Discover the world's simplest equation and what it means Find out how Newton's Laws of Motion help us do everything from building ...Show more
Mushroom by Nicholas P. Money
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Category: Pop Science
The overnight appearance of mushrooms in a meadow or on a suburban lawn is a marvelous sight. It is one of many awe-inspiring, magical processes that have evolved among the fungi, yet this group remains the least studied and most poorly understood kingdom of organisms. In Mushroom, Nicholas Money offers ...Show more
The Curious History of Love by Jean-Claude Kaufmann
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Category: Pop Science
* A best-selling sociologist presents a concise and very readable history of love * Kaufmann focuses on the question of why so many people are searching for love, hoping to find in love a kind of happiness that they cannot find in their work or by surrounding themselves with material goods.
Clouds That Look Like Things: From the Cloud Appreciation Society by GAVIN PRETOR-PINNEY
$27.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science | Reading Level: very good
Clouds in the shape of dolphins, elephants, UFOs, even Alfred Hitchcock and Andy Murray...they're all here in this beautiful and hilarious collection of clouds photographed around the world by members of The Cloud Appreciation Society, selected and wittily captioned by Gavin Pretor-Pinney, winner of the ...Show more
Content and Consciousness by Daniel C. Dennett
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Category: Pop Science | Series: Routledge Classics
Content and Consciousnessis an original and ground-breaking attempt to elucidate a problem integral to the history of Western philosophical thought: the relationship of the mind and body. In this formative work, Dennett sought to develop a theory of the human mind and consciousness based on new and chal ...Show more