Trace It: Tap in Brainpower to be Happy and Healthy by Selena Bartlett

$14.95 AUD

Category: Brain Science

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Eddie Woo's Magical Maths by Eddie Woo

$19.99 AUD

Category: Mathematics

Maths is all around us. It's in the leaves on the tree and our DNA. It's in the patterns on our footpaths and the shape of the stars. Draw, doodle, colour in, code, decode, make a snowflake, count the stars, meet an octagon, map out a mystery, discover why a cyclone and a nautilus are alike ....Be a-maz ed by maths. Eddie Woo is the author of Woo's Wonderful World of Maths.   ...Show more

Mind Blown by Dan Marshall

$29.99 AUD

Category: Science

Did you know space is only an hour's drive away? Did you know there is a jellyfish that is biologically immortal? Or that of all life that has ever existed on Earth, 99.9% of it is extinct? Dan Marshall's slick new book is packed to the brim with facts that will BLOW YOUR MIND. Delightful illustrations and beautiful design bring to life some of the hardest to believe and awesomely real facts you'll ever see. Prepare to have your mind blown. ...Show more

Smashing Mindset: Train Your Brain to Reboot Recharge and Reinvent Your Life by Selena Bartlett

$31.95 AUD

Category: Brain Science

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The Best Australian Science Writing 2019 by Bianca Nogrady (Editor); Lisa Harvey-Smith (Foreword by)

$29.99 AUD

Category: Science | Series: The\Best Australian Science Writing Seri Ser. | Reading Level: 4 Science

Good science writing makes us feel. It makes us delight in the discovery of a black hole munching on a star, laugh at the image of aliens puzzling over golf balls on the Moon, wonder at the mystery of the Spanish influenza's deadly rampage, grieve for baby shearwater chicks dying with plastic-filled sto machs, rage at the loss of the Great Barrier Reef and cheer for the clitoris' long-overdue scientific debut.This ninth edition of The Best Australian Science Writing showcases the most powerful, insightful and brilliant essays and poetry from Australian writers and scientists. It roams the length and breadth of science, revealing how a ceramic artist is helping to save the handfish, what is so dangerous about the hype around artificial intelligence and whether too much exercise is bad for the heart. It makes us think, feel and hopefully act. ...Show more

A Guide to our Solar System

$59.95 AUD

Category: Astronomy

Brief Answers to the Big Questions: Puzzle Edition by Stephen Hawking

$32.99 AUD

Category: Science

'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 thoughts on the universe's biggest questions in this brilliant posthumous work. This limited edition features the 'Big Questions Puzzle' devised by Josh Kirklin, a PhD student in Stephen Hawking's department at the University of Cambridge, and is inspired by the ten big questions in the book: Is there a God? How did it all begin? Is there other intelligent life in the universe? Can we predict the future? What is inside a black hole? Is time travel possible? Will we survive on Earth? Should we colonise space? Will artificial intelligence outsmart us? How do we shape the future? Throughout his extraordinary career, Stephen Hawking expanded our understanding of the universe and unravelled some of its greatest mysteries. But even as his theoretical work on black holes, imaginary time and multiple histories took his mind to the furthest reaches of space, Hawking always believed that science could also be used to fix the problems on our planet. And now, as we face potentially catastrophic changes here on Earth - from climate change to dwindling natural resources to the threat of artificial super-intelligence - Stephen Hawking turns his attention to the most urgent issues for humankind. Wide-ranging, intellectually stimulating, passionately argued, and infused with his characteristic humour, BRIEF ANSWERS TO THE BIG QUESTIONS, the final book from one of the greatest minds in history, is a personal view on the challenges we face as a human race, and where we, as a planet, are heading next. ...Show more

Chemistry in 100 Numbers: A Numerical Guide to Facts, Formulas and Theories by Joel Levy

$14.99 AUD

Category: Science

Mathematics is the language of science, and numbers are at the heart of all chemical sciences-understand the numbers, and you'll have a better understanding of the science. Chemistry in 100 Numbers explores the most important and interesting numbers in chemistry, starting with the lowest number (-92.4, which is the 'negative' enthalpy of the Haber process measured in kilojoules and moles) and working in numerical order up to the very largest (6.0221367 x 1023, which is Avogadro's number of particles in exactly 12 grams of carbon-12). ...Show more

Dark Matter and Dark Energy - The Hidden 95% of the Universe by Brian Clegg

$19.99 AUD

Category: Astronomy | Series: Hot Science Ser.

All the matter and light we can see in the universe makes up a trivial 5per cent of everything. The rest is hidden. This could be the biggest puzzle that science has everfaced. Since the 1970s,astronomers have been aware that galaxies have far too little matter in them toaccount for the way they s pin around: they should fly apart, but somethingconcealed holds them together. That 'something' is dark matter - invisiblematerial in five times the quantity of the familiar stuff of stars and planets. By the 1990s wealso knew that the expansion of the universe was accelerating. Something, nameddark energy, is pushing it to expand faster and faster. Across the universe,this requires enough energy that the equivalent mass would be nearly fourteentimes greater than all the visible material in existence. Brian Clegg explainsthis major conundrum in modern scienceand looks at how scientists are beginning to find solutions to it.   ...Show more

Dr Space Junk vs the Universe - Archaeology and the Future by Alice Gorman

$29.99 AUD

Category: Astronomy

Going boldly forth as a pioneer in the fledgling fieldof space archaeology, Dr Alice Gorman (aka Dr Space Junk) turns the commonperception of archaeology as an exploration of the ancient on its head. Hercaptivating inquiry into the most modern and daring of technologies spanningsome 60 years -- a mere s peck in cosmic terms -- takes the reader on a journeywhich captures the relics of space forays and uncovers the cultural value ofdetritus all too readily dismissed as junk. In this book, she takes a physical journey through thesolar system and beyond, and a conceptual journey into human interactions withspace. Her tools are artefacts, historical explorations, the occasionalcocktail recipe, and the archaeologist's eye applied not only to the past, butthe present and future as well. Erudite and playful, DrSpace Junk reveals that space is not as empty as we might think. And that bylooking up and studying space artefacts, we learn an awful lot about our ownculture on earth. She makes us realise that objects from the past -- thematerial culture produced by the Space Age and beyond -- are so significant tous now because they remind us of what we might want to hold onto into thefuture. 'As charming as it is expert, as gripping as it is surprising, Dr Space Junk vs The Universe deftly threads together the cosmic and the personal, the stupendousness of space with the lived experience of human beings down here.' -- Adam Roberts, author of Gradisil ...Show more

Memory-Wise: How Memory Works and What to Do When It Doesn't by Anne Unkenstein

$29.99 AUD

Category: Brain Science

Informs, reassures and gives practical guidance to people who worry they are losing their memory.

Miggi Matters: How to Train Your Brain to Manage Stress and Trim Your Body by Selena Bartlett

$22.95 AUD

Category: Brain Science

Get to know your brain to manage stress and trim the body. "Like most people, I was not dealing well with the low levels of continuous stress in my life. Stress had me turning to comfort foods, which tend to be high in fat and sugar, and sometimes to alcohol. It was stress-induced overeating and under- exercising that was wreaking havoc on my body. And my brain was driving it all." This book is not about dieting, as we know, diets may make us fatter and more stressed. Because it is not about WILLPOWER. It is about BRAINPOWER. When neuroscientist Dr Selena Bartlett had this light-bulb moment, she was doing research on alcohol and sugar addiction at the University of California San Francisco. She sat at her desk for hours each day, ate poorly, rarely exercised, and unthinkingly reached for candy and cookies far too often. Then her lab discovered that sugar has exactly the same effect on the brain as alcohol and nicotine--one of the most addictive substances in the world. Then with breakthroughs in brain-imaging technology and neuroplasticity, that is our ability to see how the synapses inbrains fired differently during exercise and over-eating. Selena realized that if your brain can changed by unhealthy habits, so to can you change the brain to get healthy habits. This book is the result of research from her own lab and from the labs of many scientists and her own hard work at recognizing her bad habits, managing stress, losing weight and keeping it off, and exercising each day. In clear, accessible prose, she explains how the more primitive parts of the brain can overwhelm the rational part--what Selena calls having a MiGGi (for the emotional part of the brain) moment. She shows you how to become aware of those moments and how to respond instead of react to them. She tells you how to manage your stress through better eating and through movement--the why as well as the what to do. Selena Bartlett, Ph.D., is a group leader in neuroscience and obesity and a Professor at the Queensland University of Technology. Dr Bartlett has delivered many lectures, seminars, and workshops on the stress and its effects on the brain. She has written more than eighty scientific papers in neuroscience and therapeutics. This book aims to help people understand the brain's plasticity and how you can apply practical neuroscience tools to manage stress and trim the body. ...Show more