Foolproof by Greg Ip
$35.00 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Over the past century, we have learned a staggering amount about human nature and how to deal with disaster - yet we keep having car crashes, floods and financial crises. Why is this so? The answer is partly that our desire to make life safer inevitably comes into conflict with the equally irrepressible ...Show more
Generation Less: How Australia is Cheating the Young by Jennifer Rayner
$22.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
A country that makes no room for the young is a country that will forfeit a fair future. This must not become Australia. Today's young Australians are the first generation since the Great Depression to be worse off than their parents. And so, just as we have seen the gap between rich and poor widen ...Show more
Isaac Newton (Pocket Giants) by Andrew May
$17.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Isaac Newton believed everything in the physical universe could be described using mathematical relationships. His law of gravity explained why objects fall downwards, how the moon causes the tides, and why planets and comets orbit the sun. While his work has been added to over the years, his basic appr ...Show more
The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution by Professor Lansdowne Chair in Humanities David Wootton (University of Victoria)
$52.95 AUD
Category: Pop Science
We live in a world made by science. How and when did this happen? The Invention of Science tells the story of the extraordinary intellectual and cultural revolution that gave birth to modern science, and mounts a major challenge to the prevailing orthodoxy of its history.Before 1492, all significant kno ...Show more
Adam's Curse by Bryan Sykes
$24.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Genetically speaking, the only difference between men and women is that where women have two X chromosomes, men have one X and one Y. It is surprising that one chromosome difference out of our total of forty-six can have such an important consequence, but it does. Is this relatively small genetic varian ...Show more
Australian Backyard Astronomy by Ragbir Bhathal; Jenny Bhathal
$24.95 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Written by award-winning writer and astrophysicist Dr Ragbir Bhathal and his daughter Jenny Bhathal, this book reveals Australia's Aboriginal and European night-sky heritage to children from their own backyards, recommended for ages 10-14 years. Discover the stories of the heavens and our understanding ...Show more
The Wisdom of Frugality: Why Less is More - More or Less by Emrys Westacott
$58.95 AUD
Category: Pop Science
From Socrates to Thoreau, most philosophers, moralists, and religious leaders have seen frugality as a virtue and have associated simple living with wisdom, integrity, and happiness. But why? And are they right? Is a taste for luxury fundamentally misguided? If one has the means to be a spendthrift, is ...Show more
The Patient Will See You Now: The Future of Medicine is in Your Hands by Eric Topol, M.D.
$24.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
A trip to the doctor is almost a guarantee of misery. You'll make an appointment months in advance. You'll probably wait for several hours until you hear "the doctor will see you now"--but only for fifteen minutes! Then you'll wait even longer for lab tests, the results of which you'll likely never see, ...Show more
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
$34.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Matsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world--and a weed that grows in human-disturbed forests across the northern hemisphere. Through its ability to nurture trees, matsutake helps forests to grow in daunting places. It is also an edible delicacy in Japan, where it sometimes commands astronomica ...Show more
Blueprint for a Battlestar: Serious Scientific Explanations for Sci-Fis Greatest Inventions by Rod Pyle
$39.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
This beautifully illustrated pop science book which answers the enduring questions raised by science fiction, such as “ Do hoverboards really exist?” , “ How can you bring a dinosaur back to life?” and “ Can we really travel in time and space?” Packed with stunning images, including 75 illustrations ...Show more
Finding Fibonacci: The Quest to Rediscover the Forgotten Mathematical Genius Who Changed the World by Keith Devlin
$64.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
In 2000, Keith Devlin set out to research the life and legacy of the medieval mathematician Leonardo of Pisa, popularly known as Fibonacci, whose book Liber abbaci has quite literally affected the lives of everyone alive today. Although he is most famous for the Fibonacci numbers--which, it so happens, ...Show more