An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us (2023 Royal Science Society Book Prize) by Ed Yong
$24.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
**SUNDAY TIMES and NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**A NEW YORK TIMES, GUARDIAN, ECONOMIST, SPECTATOR, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT and NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEARThe Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal is enclosed withi ...Show more
Anaesthesia: The Gift of Oblivion and the Mystery of Consciousness by Kate Cole-Adams
$24.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
You know how it is when you go under. The jab, the countdown, the- -and then you wake. This book is about what happens in between. Until a hundred and seventy years ago many people chose death over the ordeal of surgery. Now hundreds of thousands undergo operations every day. Anaesthesia has made it pos ...Show more
Animals Make Us Human by Leah Kaminsky; Meg Keneally
$29.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
Through words and images, writers, photographers and researchers reflect on their connection with animals and nature. They share moments of wonder and revelation from encounters in the natural world- seeing a wild platypus at play, an echidna dawdling across a bush track, or the inexplicable leap of a t ...Show more
Astronomical - From Quark-Stars to Wormholes, the Weird Science of Our Universe by Tim James
$32.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
Does the Big Bang prove the existence of God? What's the Universe expanding into? Is Earth the only planet which supports life? Why did the greatest astronomer in history murder his pet moose? Space is the biggest, oldest, hottest, coldest, strangest thing a human can study. It's no surprise then, that ...Show more
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson
$26.95 AUD
Category: Popular 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
Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence by Kate Crawford
$26.95 AUD
Category: Popular Science
The hidden costs of artificial intelligence--from natural resources and labor to privacy, equality, and freedom"This study argues that [artificial intelligence] is neither artificial nor particularly intelligent. . . . A fascinating history of the data on which machine-learning systems are trained."--Ne ...Show more
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
Beyond the Hype: The Inside Story on Science's Biggest Media Controversies by Fiona Fox
$35.00 AUD
Category: Popular Science
What happens when science hits the headlines - for all the wrong reasons? Do you remember the ‘Climategate’ email leak? Or the ‘Frankenscience’-style headlines about the perils of GM foods? What about the time the government sacked its own science advisor for chal ...Show more
Black Holes: The Key to Understanding the Universe by Professor Brian Cox
$34.99 AUD
Category: Popular 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
Brains Explained: How They Work & Why They Work That Way | STEM Learningabout the Human Brain | Fun and Educational Facts about Human Body by PhD Alison Caldwell
$39.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
Curious about how billions of neurons make up your consciousness? How anxiety hijacks your body? Why Freud was such a weirdo? Whether AI will replace your therapist? This witty, enlightening book, written by a brilliant neuroscientist and clinical therapist duo, uncovers the stunningly-intricate univers ...Show more
Brief Answers to the Big Questions: the final book from Stephen Hawking by Stephen Hawking
$22.99 AUD
Category: Popular 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
Burnham's Celestial Handbook - An Observer's Guide to the Universe Beyond the Solar System by Robert Burnham Jr.; Herbert A. Luft
$42.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science | Series: Dover Books on Astronomy Ser.
Chamaeleon Through OrionWhile there are many books on stars, there is only one Celestial Handbook. Now completely revised through 1977, this unique and necessary reference is available once again to guide amateur and advanced astronomers in their knowledge and enjoyment of the stars. After an extensive ...Show more