Pathogenesis - How infectious diseases shaped human history by Jonathan Kennedy
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
Humans did not make history - we played host. This book is Guns, Germs and Steel without the guns and steel, Sapiens for the pandemic era. A major new history of the world. This humbling and revelatory book shows how infectious disease has shaped humanity at every stage, from the first success of Homo s ...Show more
The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla and Other Works (Leatherbound Classics) by Nikola Tesla; Thomas Commerford Martin
$49.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Leather-Bound Classics Ser.
Who was Nikola Tesla? Find out in this comprehensive volume that includes Tesla's autobiography and scientific writings, as well as other works that examine his life and career in detail. Nikola Tesla came from a humble upbringing in what is now Croatia and reached the heights of science and technol ...Show more
The Good Virus: The Untold Story of Phages by Tom Ireland
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science
At every moment, within your body and all around you, trillions of microscopic combatants are fighting an invisible war. Countless times per second, 'good' viruses known as phages are infecting and destroying bacteria. These phages are the most abundant life form on the planet and have an incredible pow ...Show more
The Little Book of Exoplanets by Joshua N. Winn
$39.99 AUD
Category: Science
A concise and accessible introduction to exoplanets that explains the cutting-edge science behind recent discoveries For centuries, people have speculated about the possibility of planets orbiting distant stars, but only since the 1990s has technology allowed astronomers to detect them. At this poin ...Show more
The Equations of Life: How Physics Shapes Evolution by Charles Cockell
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
Britain's foremost astrobiologist offers an accessible and game-changing account of why life is like it is.
What Is Life? Understand Biology in Five Steps by Sir Paul Nurse
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
Life is all around us, abundant and diverse. It is truly a marvel. But what does it actually mean to be alive, and how do we decide what is living and what is not? After a lifetime of studying life, Nobel Prize-winner Sir Paul Nurse, one of the world's leading scientists, has taken on the challenge of d ...Show more
Yearbook of Astronomy 2024 by BRIAN JONES
$59.99 AUD
Category: Science
Maintaining its appealing style and presentation, the Yearbook of Astronomy 2024 contains comprehensive jargon-free monthly sky notes and an authoritative set of sky charts to enable backyard astronomers and sky gazers everywhere to plan their viewing of the year's eclipses, comets, meteor showers and m ...Show more
The History of the World in 100 Plants by Simon Barnes
$55.00 AUD
Category: Science
From the author of The History of the World in 100 Animals, a BBC Radio Four Book of the Week, comes an inspirational new book that looks at the 100 plants that have had the greatest impact on humanity, stunningly illustrated throughout. As humans, we hold the planet in the palms of our hands. But we s ...Show more
The Chemistry Book (Big Ideas Simply Explained) by .
$39.99 AUD
Category: Science
An accessible guide to more than 95 of the most important discoveries and theories in the history of chemistryDiscover and understand the key ideas that underpin the core science of chemistry and learn about the great minds who uncovered them Written in plain English, The Chemistry Book is packed with s ...Show more
Fire, Storm And Flood: The Violence Of Climate Change by James Dyke
$49.99 AUD
Category: Science
An unflinching photographic record of the epic effects of a violent climate, from the earliest extinction events to the present. An unflinching photographic record of the epic effects of a violent climate, from the earliest extinction events to the present. Violent geologic events have ravaged the Earth ...Show more
What Is to Be Done: political engagement and saving the planet by Barry Jones
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
A sequel to the prescient bestseller, first published in 1982, that alerted the public to the likely impacts of information technologies and the emergence of a post-industrial society. When Sleepers, Wake!was first released in Australia, it immediately became influential around the world: it was read by ...Show more
The Master Builder: How the New Science of the Cell is Rewriting the Story of Life by Alfonso Martinez Arias
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science
What defines who we are? Until now, the biological answer has been our genes. Leading biologist Alfonso Martinez Arias breaks with popular tradition to make a bold argument: what defines us is our cells. Drawing on groundbreaking research, he reveals that we are composed of a thrillingly complex, cons ...Show more