Tomorrow's People by Susan Greenfield
$26.95 AUD
Category: Science
How 21st-century technology is changing the way we think and feel Welcome to the future: a hedonistic paradise of smart drugs and virtual relationships, where computers fulfil our every fantasy, food is perfected and âÂÂhomeâ is a blur of artificial colours, images and sounds. Where synthet ...Show more
The Private Life of the Brain by Susan Greenfield
$24.95 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Penguin Press Science Ser. | Reading Level: good-very good
An explanation of the various mysteries of pleasure in the workings of the mind. The book shows how different experiences give rise to similar sensations in the mind - such as sport, raves, or orgasm; explores the workings of recreational drugs; and explains the neurological character of pleasure. ...Show more
Human Brain The by Greenfield Susan
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Science Masters Ser.
Locked away remote from the rest of the body in its own custom-built casing of skull bone, with no intrinsic moving parts, the human brain remains a tantalising mystery. But now, more than ever before, we have the expertise to tackle this mystery - the last 20 years have seen astounding progress in brai ...Show more
The Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene
$12.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Brian Greene's The Fabric of the Cosmos is an astonishing grand tour of the universe and the best layman's guide to current thinking on 'how everything works'. This rollercoaster ride explores the mysteries of space and time; asks questions about the nature of reality, dark matter, space warps and wiggl ...Show more
The Noble Lie by Gary Greenberg
$34.95 AUD
Category: Science
In 1992, psychologist Charles W. Socarides founded the National Association of Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH), to help gay men and lesbians become straight through counseling and religious-based therapy. Though the organization has avoided taking political stands against homosexuality, it ...Show more
Animals in Translation by Temple Grandin
$24.95 AUD
Category: Science
A startling book that will change the way you think about animals ... and autism Animals in Translation is the culmination of Temple Grandin's extraordinary life's work, drawing upon the latest research, her distinguished career as an animal scientist and her own experience of being autistic. With co-au ...Show more
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History by Stephen Jay Gould
$24.50 AUD
Category: Science
High in the Canadian Rockies is a small limestone quarry formed 530 million years ago called the Burgess Shale. It hold the remains of an ancient sea where dozens of strange creatures lived a forgotten corner of evolution preserved in awesome detail. In this book Stephen Jay Gould explores what the Burg ...Show more
Richard Dawkins by Alan Grafen
$26.95 AUD
Category: Science
This sparkling collection explores the impact of Richard Dawkins as scientist, rationalist, and one of the most important thinkers alive today. Specially commissioned pieces by leading figures in science, philosophy, literature, and the media, such as Daniel C. Dennett, Matt Ridley, Steven Pinker, Phili ...Show more
Punctuated Equilibrium by Stephen Jay Gould
$37.95 AUD
Category: Science
In 1972, Stephen Jay Gould took the scientific world by storm with his paper on punctuated equilibrium, written with Niles Eldredge. Challenging a core assumption of Darwin's theory of evolution, it launched the career of one of the most influential evolutionary biologists of our time - perhaps the best ...Show more
Faust In Copenhagen : A Struggle for the Soul of Physics by Gino Segre
$39.95 AUD
Category: Science
In April 1932, about forty mostly young scientists attended Niels Bohr's Copenhagen Institute for their week-long once-a-year freewheeling physics conference. For many, it would come to represent the last gathering where they were able to conduct such discussions in the spirit of camaraderie and in a mi ...Show more
Guns, Germs and Steel: A short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years by Jared Diamond
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science | Reading Level: very good
**WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE** Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe? Jared Diamond puts the case that geography and biogeography, not race, moulded the contrasting fates of Europeans, Asians, Native Americans, sub-Saharan Africans, and aboriginal Australians. An ambitious syn ...Show more