The Emerging Mind by Vilaynur Ramachandran
$21.95 AUD
Category: Science
A scintillating introduction to the latest thinking on the brain and the mind by the world
Warped Passages : Unravelling the Universe's Hidden Dimensions by Lisa Randall
$26.95 AUD
Category: Science
In Warped Passages one of the world's most exciting scientists gives us a glimpse into our future. Incredibly readable - and illustrated throughout - it allows the general reader to understand the questions that scientists are dealing with at the frontiers of research today. Lisa Randall allows the read ...Show more
NATURAL ACTS A SIDELONG VIEW OF SCIENCE AND NATURE by QUAMMEN
$27.95 AUD
Category: Science
'Lively writing about science and nature depends less on the offering of good answers, I think, than on the offering of good questions,' said David Quammen in the original introduction to "Natural Acts". For more than two decades, he has stuck to that credo. In this updated version of his first essay co ...Show more
The Kiwi's Egg : Charles Darwin & Natural Selection by David Quammen
$49.95 AUD
Category: Science
Evolution, during the early nineteenth century, was an idea in the air. Other thinkers had suggested it, but no one had proposed a cogent explanation for HOW evolution occurs. Then, in September 1838, a young Englishman named Charles Darwin hit upon the idea that 'natural selection' among competing indi ...Show more
The Kiwi's Egg - Charles Darwin and Natural Selection by David Quammen
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
Evolution, during the early nineteenth century, was an idea in the air. Other thinkers had suggested it, but no one had proposed a cogent explanation for HOW evolution occurs. Then, in September 1838, a young Englishman named Charles Darwin hit upon the idea that 'natural selection' among competing indi ...Show more
In Search of Superstrings: Symmetry, membranes and the theory of everything by John Gribbin
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
Since Einstein's time, a "theory of everything" - one coherent mathematical model that would encompass all the forces and particles of nature - has become the Holy Grail of physics, and its pursuit has resulted in some of the most extraordinary ideas in the history of science. One of the world's foremos ...Show more
What is This Thing Called Knowledge? by Duncan Pritchard
$48.00 AUD
Category: Science
What is Knowledge? Where does it come from? Can we know anything at all? This lucid and engaging introduction grapples with these central questions in the theory of knowledge, offering a clear, non-partisan view of the main themes of epistemology including recent developments such as virture epistemolog ...Show more
The Fellowship: The Story of a Revolution by John Gribbin
$26.95 AUD
Category: Science
From the bestselling author of "Science: A History" comes the enthralling story of a revolution that shook the world. Seventeenth-century England was racked by civil war, plague and fire; a world ruled by superstition and ignorance. A series of meetings of natural philosophers' in Oxford and London saw ...Show more
Eureka! by Andrew Gregory (Department of Science and Technology Studies, University College London)
$18.95 AUD
Category: Science
Science began with the Greeks. Medicine, Anatomy, Astronomy, Mathematics and Cosmology were all invented in their world. Plato, Aristotle, Pythagoras, Archimedes and Hippocrates were amongst its stars, master architects all of the modern as well as the ancient. Today science is a familiar language, and ...Show more
Deep Simplicity: Chaos Complexity and the Emergence of Life by John Gribbin
$24.95 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Penguin Press Science Ser.
In this brilliantly enlightening book John Gribbin, the man who made quantum theory clear with In Search of Schrodinger's Cat shows that complexity is simple, and explains how life has emerged from simple systems. Deep Simplicity is the first book to synthesize all the various ideas about chaos and comp ...Show more
The Fellowship by John Gribbin
$59.95 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Allen Lane Science S.
John Gribbin, bestselling author of In Search of Schrodinger's Cat, explores the defining decades of the seventeenth century's scientific revolution, when the Royal Society established what became the 'scientific method', a way of doing and communicating science that set the tone for the three and a hal ...Show more
ID - The Quest For Identity In the 21st Century by Susan Greenfield
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
Our individuality is under attack as never before. Two huge new forces - technological advances and the rise in fundamentalism - are in their different ways combining to threaten our control of our minds and so the whole way our society functions. We have never more urgently needed to look at what we wa ...Show more