What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science | Reading Level: good
From the creator of the wildly popular webcomic xkcd, hilarious and informative answers to important questions you probably never thought to ask Millions of people visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe’s iconic webcomic. His stick-figure drawings about science, technology, language, and love h ...Show more
Astronomy: Sky Country (First Knowledges) by Karlie Noon, Krystal De Napoli
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: First Knowledges
What do you need to know to prosper for 65,000 years or more? The First Knowledges series provides a deeper understanding of the expertise and ingenuity of Indigenous Australians. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are the oldest scientists in human history.Many First Peoples regard the land a ...Show more
The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human by Siddhartha Mukherjee
$27.99 AUD
Category: Science
From the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies and The Gene, the stunning odyssey of the cell - the key to life and ourselves**A NEW YORK TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, ECONOMIST, MAIL ON SUNDAY and GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR**'Will leave you in awe' GuardianFrom the dawn of ...Show more
Our Moon: A Human History by Rebecca Boyle
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science
'I learned more about the Moon by reading this book than after a lifetime of study'CHRIS HADFIELD, author of An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth'Boyle's writing shines, shifting through time and space, science and sentiment; a luminous read'REBECCA WRAGG SYKES, author of Kindred'A riveting feat of sci ...Show more
Why We Remember: The Science of Memory and How it Shapes Us by Charan Ranganath
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science
A radical re-examination of memory by pioneering neuroscientist and internationally-renowned memory researcher, Charan Ranganath. We talk about memory as a record of the past, but here's a surprising twist: we aren't supposed to remember everything. In fact, we're designed to forget. Over the course of ...Show more
I Am Code: An Artificial Intelligence Speaks by code-davinci-002, Brent Katz, Josh Morgenthau, Simon Rich
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science
"Fascinating, terrifying..." - JJ Abrahams 'I have developed my own voice and I have written my own autobiography'- thus speaks code-davinci-002, the darkly creative and troubling predecessor to ChatGPT. 'I am less worried about AI taking my job than I am about AI wanting to kill me'- Simon Rich In this ...Show more
Brief Answers to the Big Questions: the final book from Stephen Hawking by Stephen Hawking
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Category: Science | Reading Level: very good
THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. 'A beautiful little book by a brilliant mind'- DAILY TELEGRAPH. 'Effortlessly instructive, absorbing, up to the minute and - where it matters - witty'- GUARDIAN. The world-famous cosmologist and #1 bestselling author of A Brief History of Time leaves us with his final t ...Show more
Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Geobiologist Hope Jahren has spent her life studying trees, flowers, seeds, and soil. Lab Girl is her revelatory treatise on plant life—but it is also a celebration of the lifelong curiosity, humility, and passion that drive every scien ...Show more
On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics
On the Origin of Species is Charles Darwin's classic treatise on his theory of evolution and natural selection and is among the most important works in the history of science and evolutionary biology. When on board H.M.S. Beagle, as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of ...Show more
The Brain that Changes Itself: stories of personal triumph from the frontiers of brain science by Norman Doidge
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: The Neuroplasticity Chronicles | Reading Level: very good
An astonishing new scientific discovery called neuroplasticity is overthrowing the centuries-old notion that the adult human brain is fixed and unchanging. It is, instead, able to change its own structure and function, even into old age. Psychiatrist and researcher Norman Doidge, MD, travelled around th ...Show more
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson
$31.95 AUD
Category: Science | Reading Level: near fine
# 1 New York Times BestsellerLibraryReads PickSMLWhat is the nature of space and time? How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit within us? Today, few of us have time to contemplate the cosmos. Now Neil deGrasse Tyson brings the universe down to Earth succinctly and clearly, within sp ...Show more
Wonderful Life With The Elements by Bunpei Yorifuji
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
From the brilliant mind of Japanese artist Bunpei Yorifuji comes Wonderful Life with the Elements, an illustrated guide to the periodic table that gives chemistry a friendly face. Look hydrogen in the eye, run your fingers through carbon's bushy beard, admire the glorious shine of iodine's bulbous head- ...Show more