Stand up Straight!: A History of Posture by Sander L. Gilman
$49.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Our bodies are not fixed. They expand and contract with variations in diet, exercise, and illness. They also alter as we age, changing over time to be markedly different at the end of our lives from what they were at birth. In a similar way, our attitudes to bodies, and especially posture--how people ho ...Show more
General Chemistry by Linus Pauling
$45.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Extensive revised and updated 3rd edition of classic first-year text by Nobel Laureate. Atomic and molecular structure, quantum mechanics, statistical mechanics, thermodynamics correlated with descriptive chemistry. Problems. 75 pages of appendixes. "An excellent text, highly recommended." - Ch
What Shape is Space? by Giles Sparrow
$24.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science | Series: The\Big Idea Ser.
What Shape Is Space? is a question with far-reaching implications for our understanding of the very nature of reality and our place within it. The concepts involved may be sophisticated, but Giles Sparrow's effortless prose style renders them understandable, allowing readers to come to grips with the ov ...Show more
Unwell - What Makes a Disease a Disease by Mike McRae
$29.95 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Nostalgia used to be a killer nervous condition. Emotional women were once treated with a good orgasm, left-handed folk were beaten to be turned 'right', and rotten teeth pulled to cure the mentally unwell. Just who made these diseases 'diseases' anyway? And what makes us think we understand any better ...Show more
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About The World - And Why Things Are Better Than You Think by Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling, Anna Rosling Ronnlund
$26.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
'A hopeful book about the potential for human progress when we work off facts rather than our inherent biases'. BARACK OBAMA *the #1 Sunday Times bestseller * instant New York Times bestseller * an Observer 'best brainy book of the decade' * #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller * Irish Times bestseller * ...Show more
Traveller's Guide - Mars by Collin Stuart
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Category: Pop Science | Series: Traveller's Guides
Learn everything you need to know about a trip to the red planet. From essential preparations for your journey, through the local climate and landscape, things to do, places to visit, and the background, culture, and natural history of the latest "must-visit" destination for mankind. Activities for your ...Show more
Sloths : A Celebration of the World's Most Maligned Animal by William Roland Hartston
$29.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Outnumbered - Exploring the Algorithms That Control Our Lives by David Sumpter
$29.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Our increasing reliance on technology and the Internet has opened a window for mathematicians and data researchers to gaze through into our lives. Using the data they are constantly collecting about where we travel, where we shop, what we buy, what interests us, they can begin to predict our daily habit ...Show more
The Fruit Hunters - A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession by Adam Leith Gollner
$39.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Tasty, lethal, hallucinogenic, and medicinal - fruits have led nations into wars, fueled dictatorships, and even lured us into new worlds. Adam Leith Gollner weaves business, science, and travel into a riveting narrative about one of earth's most desired foods. Readers will discover why even though ...Show more
On the Future: Prospects for Humanity by Martin Rees
$36.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
A provocative and inspiring look at the future of humanity and science from world-renowned scientist and bestselling author Martin Rees Humanity has reached a critical moment. Our world is unsettled and rapidly changing, and we face existential risks over the next century. Various outcomes--good and ba ...Show more
Honeysuckle Creek: The Story of Tom Reid, a Little Dish, and Neil Armstrong's First Step by Andrew Tink
$34.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Honeysuckle Creek reveals the pivotal role that the tracking station at Honeysuckle Creek, near Canberra, played in the first moon landing. Andrew Tink gives a gripping account of the role of its director Tom Reid and his colleagues in transmitting some of the most-watched images in human history as Nei ...Show more
Celestial Atlas: A Journey in the Sky Through Maps by ELENA PERCIVALDI
$79.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Travel across the celestial skies courtesy of the most stunning star atlases ever created during three centuries of mapmaking. Featuring splendid illustrations of the most famous, rare, and impressive star atlases ever realized from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, this gorgeous book leads yo ...Show more