Blue Mind by Wallace J. Nichols
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
Blue Mind paints a fascinating picture of our relationship to the planet's most omnipresent resource - water. Grounded in cutting-edge studies in neurobiology, cognitive psychology, economics, and medicine, and made real by stories of innovative scientists, doctors, athletes, artists, environmentalists, ...Show more
Permanent Present Tense: The Man with No Memory, and What He Taught the World by Suzanne Corkin
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science
When he was twenty-seven, Henry Molaison underwent surgery for his epilepsy. He awoke with part of his brain destroyed, and for the rest of his life would be trapped in the moment, unable to remember anything for more than a few seconds. For nearly five decades, distinguished neuroscientist Suzanne Cork ...Show more
Survival of the Nicest: How Altruism Made Us Human and Why it Pays to Get Along by Stefan Klein
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
The phrase ‘survival of the fittest’ conjures an image of the most cutthroat individuals rising to the top. But Stefan Klein, author of the international bestseller The Science of Happiness, makes the startling assertion that the key to achieving lasting personal and societal success lies in helping o ...Show more
The Psychiatric InterviewA Practical Guide by Daniel J. Carlat
$78.00 AUD
Category: Science
With an engaging conversational style, The Psychiatric Interview, focuses on the practical skills psychiatrists need to conduct effective psychiatric interviews. The book begins with the general principles essential to effective interviewing , and guides readers through a range of issues, including the ...Show more
Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan & Ann Druyan
$30.00 AUD
Category: Science
A thousand years from now, our epoch will be remembered as the time when we first left the Earth and saw it from beyond the outermost planet as a pale blue dot, almost lost against the backdrop of the stars. As we complete the preliminary reconnaissance of our Solar System, we hunger for a long-term vis ...Show more
Language Learnability and Language Development, With New Commentary by the Author by PINKER STEVEN
$40.95 AUD
Category: Science
In this influential study, Steven Pinker develops a new approach to the problem of language learning. Now reprinted with new commentary by the author, this classic work continues to be an indispensable resource in developmental psycholinguistics.Reviews of this book: "The contribution of [Pinker's] book ...Show more
Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology by Jim Al-Khalili
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
Description: Life is the most extraordinary phenomenon in the known universe; but how does it work? Even in this age of cloning and synthetic biology, the remarkable truth remains: nobody has ever made anything living entirely out of dead material. Life remains the only way to make life. Are we missing ...Show more
Science for Life: A Manual for Better Living by Brian Clegg
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
In Science for Life acclaimed science writer Brian Clegg cuts through the vested interests and confusing contradictory statements that litter the media and the internet, to give a clear picture of what science is telling us right now about changing our lives for the better. Discover the much-advertised ...Show more
Inflight Science: A Guide to the World from Your Airplane Window by Brian Clegg
$19.99 AUD
Category: Science
The perfect companion to any flight - a guide to the science on view from your window seat. There are few times when science is so immediate as when you're in a plane. Your life is in the hands of the scientists and engineers who enable tons of metal and plastic to hurtle through the sky at hundreds of ...Show more
The Neutrino Hunters: The Chase for the Ghost Particle and the Secrets of the Universe by Ray Jayawardhana
$19.99 AUD
Category: Science
Before the Higgs boson, there was a maddening search for another particle that holds the secrets of the universe - the neutrino. First detected in 1956, it teased the answers to still more mysteries. But the hunt for the neutrino and its meaning has also involved adventures, from Cold War defections and ...Show more
How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
"A model of scientific writing: erudite, witty, and clear." --New York Review of Books In this Pulitzer Prize finalist and national bestseller, one of the world's leading cognitive scientists tackles the workings of the human mind. What makes us rational--and why are we so often irrational? How do we s ...Show more
Professor Stewart's Incredible Numbers by Ian Stewart
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
Ian Stewart explores the astonishing properties of numbers from 1 to10 to zero and infinity, including one figure that, if you wrote it out, would span the universe. He looks at every kind of number you can think of - real, imaginary, rational, irrational, positive and negative - along with several you ...Show more