Hybrid Humans: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Man and Machine by Harry Parker
$29.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
Our ever-increasing intimacy with technology is changing our bodies and our brains. What can those at the frontiers tell us about what it means to be in a body now? From the critically-acclaimed author of Anatomy of a Soldier Harry Parker's life changed overnight, when he lost his legs to an IED in Afgh ...Show more
Sentient: What Animals Reveal About Our Senses by Jackie Higgins
$22.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
<b>'Spellbinding . . . More than any other book, [Sentient] has made me think differently about the world this year.' </b><b>– <i>Financial Times</i> Best Books of the Year</b> <b>'Lyrical and lucid . . . </b><b>Higgins makes popular science accessib ...Show more
Interstellar - The Search for Extraterrestrial Life and Our Future Beyond Earth by Avi Loeb
$34.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
'LOEB IS AN ASTRONOMICAL SHERLOCK HOLMES' Washington Post'A JOY IN CONJECTURE AND AN OMNIVOROUS SPIRIT OF INQUIRY. . . CARL SAGAN WOULD HAVE LIKED THIS BOOK' The TimesIn 2017, Avi Loeb, Chair of Harvard's Astronomy Department, went public with a theory that shook the scientific community - our solar sys ...Show more
The Biggest Ideas in the Universe 1: Space, Time and Motion by Sean Carroll
$22.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
A landmark new series from the prize-winning scientist and communicator In this major trilogy, Sean Carroll opens up the world of physics and shows that you don't necessarily need a science degree to gain a deeper insight into the workings of the universe. Starting with the ideas that revolutionised our ...Show more
The Curious World of Science: A visual miscelllany of stories, theories, discoveries & curiosities by Simon Flynn
$39.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
To some, science is simply a means to an end; to others it is an almost spiritual meditation on theories and formulae. The Curious World of Science embraces both views and much more besides. Focusing onthe human endeavours at the heart of science, it presents a miscellany of essentialclassifications, in ...Show more
Everything in Its Place: First Loves and Last Tales by Oliver Sacks
$15.00 AUD
Category: Popular Science
From the bestselling author of Gratitude and On the Move, a final volume of essays that showcase Sacks's broad range of interests - from his passion for ferns, swimming, and horsetails, to his final case histories exploring schizophrenia, dementia, and Alzheimer's. Oliver Sacks, scientist and storytelle ...Show more
Lost Animals - The Story of Extinct, Endangered and Rediscovered Species by John Whitfield
$49.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
Documenting the species that have emerged, disappeared and been reborn over the millennia since the Cambrian Explosion, Lost Animals is the story of life on Earth.
Moon: AHistory for the Future by Oliver Morton; The Economist
$39.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science | Series: Economist Bks.
An intimate portrait of the Earth's closest neighbor--the Moon--that explores the history and future of humankind's relationship with it Every generation has looked towards the heavens and wondered at the beauty of the Moon. Fifty years ago, a few Americans became the first to do the reverse--and sh ...Show more
Influenza: The Hundred Year Hunt to Cure the Deadliest Disease in History by Jeremy Brown
$32.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
Jeremy Brown, a veteran ER doctor, explores the troubling, terrifying, and complex history of the flu, from the origins and lessons of the Great Flu that killed millions to vexing questions like: are we prepared for the next epidemic, should you get a flu shot, and are we close to finding a cure?
BANG!! The Complete History of the Universe by Patrick Moore; Brian May; Chris Lintott
$39.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
In 2006, rock legend and experienced amateur astronomer Brian May joined the legendary expert Sir Patrick Moore and astrophysicist Professor Chris Lintott to tell the story of the universe from the moment time and space came into existence at the Big Bang, through to the infinite future and the ultimate ...Show more
The Zoologist's Guide to the Galaxy - What Animals on Earth Reveal about Aliens - and Ourselves by Arik Kershenbaum
$22.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
We are unprepared for the greatest discovery of modern science. Scientists are confident that there is alien life across the universe yet we have not moved beyond our perception of 'aliens' as Hollywood stereotypes. The time has come to abandon our fixation on alien monsters and place our expectations o ...Show more
The Invisible Universe: Why There's More to Reality than Meets the Eye by Matthew Bothwell
$22.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
A guide to the 99% of the Universe our eyes can't see from a dazzling new voice in popular science From the discovery of entirely new kinds of galaxies to a window into cosmic 'prehistory', Bothwell shows us the Universe as we've never seen it before - literally. Since the dawn of our species, p ...Show more