Rationality - What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters by Steven Pinker
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science | Reading Level: very good
A user's guide to rationality acts as a follow-up to the bestselling Enlightenment Now Humans today are often portrayed as cavemen out of time, poised to react to a lion in the grass with a suite of biases, blind spots, and illusions. But cognitive scientist and rational optimist Steven Pinker argues th ...Show more
Thirty Trillion Cells: How Your Body Really Works (HB) by Isabel Thomas
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
An illustrated in-depth look at the intricate machine that is the human body. Covers all the body's major systems, and looks at the human body as a microbiome, host to trillions of 'good' microbes that help us function.
Black Holes: The Key to Understanding the Universe by Professor Brian Cox
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science
A brilliant exploration of the most exotic objects in the universe by Professor Brian Cox and Professor Jeff Forshaw. Lying at the centre of every galaxy are the strangest objects in the Universe: black holes. Of extraordinary density and huge gravitational pull, no matter or even light can escape their ...Show more
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress by Steven Pinker
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science | Reading Level: near fine
One of the world's greatest thinkers tells the heroic story of human progress - and why we neglect it at our peril.Is modernity really failing? Or have we failed to appreciate progress and the ideals that make it possible?If you follow the headlines, the world in the 21st century appears to be sinking i ...Show more
Remember: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting by Lisa Genova
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
A fascinating exploration of the intricacies of how we remember, why we forget, and what we can do to protect our memories, from the Harvard-trained neuroscientist and bestselling author of Still Alice. Have you ever felt a crushing wave of panic when you can't for the life of you remember the name of t ...Show more
The Brain's Way of Healing by Norman Doidge
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: The\Neuroplasticity Chronicles Ser.
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2015 GOODREADS CHOICE AWARDS 'BEST SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY BOOK' This book is about the discovery that the human brain has its own unique way of healing. For centuries we believed that the price we paid for our brain's complexity was that, compared to other organs, it was fixed and ...Show more
In Plain Sight: A fascinating investigation into UFOs and alien encounters from an award-winning journalist, fully updated and revised new edition for 2023 by Ross Coulthart
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
An award-winning journalist investigates a story largely ignored by mainstream media but right there, in front of our eyes ... Are we not alone? The moment we have an answer might have arrived. Award-winning investigative journalist Ross Coulthart has been intrigued by UFOs since mysterious glowing ...Show more
White Holes: Inside the Horizon by Carlo Rovelli
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
A mesmerizing trip to the strange new world of white holes, from Carlo Rovelli, the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics. Let us journey, with beloved physicist Carlo Rovelli, into the heart of a black hole. Let us slip beyond its boundary, the horizon, and tumble - on and on - down thi ...Show more
Mindsight: Change Your Brain and Your Life by Daniel J. Siegel
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
The groundbreaking bestseller on how your capacity for insight and empathy allows you to make positive changes in your brain -- and in your life Daniel J. Siegel, widely recognised as a pioneer in the field of mental health, coined the term 'mindsight' to describe the innovative integration of brain sc ...Show more
Origin of Species: (Patterns of Life) by Charles Darwin
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Category: Science | Series: Patterns of Life Ser.
A series of special editions of the best popular science books to explore the patterns of our planet. Designed by Patternity, the award-winning creative studio and pattern consultancy. Discover this beautiful special edition of Charles Darwin's groundbreaking theory on human evolution. When the eminent ...Show more
Origin Story: A Big History Of Everything by David Christian
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Australian
How did we get from the Big Bang to today's staggering complexity, in which seven billion humans are connected into networks powerful enough to transform the planet? And why, in comparison, are our closest primate relatives reduced to near-extinction?Big History creator David Christian gives the answers ...Show more
The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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Category: Science | Series: Biog of Cancer | Reading Level: very good
A magnificent, beautifully written biography of cancer -- from its first documented appearances thousands of years ago through the epic battles to cure, control and conquer it, to a radical new understanding of its essence. In The Emperor of All Maladies, Siddhartha Mukherjee, doctor, researcher and awa ...Show more