Life at the Extremes by Frances Ashcroft
$26.95 AUD
Category: Science
The debut of a female Steve Jones -- likeable, literate, lucid and laconic. A sprightly, lavishly illustrated book on the science of human survival.
The Canon : A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science by Natalie Angier
$32.95 AUD
Category: Science
From the Pulitzer Prize winner and best-selling author of Woman, a playful, passionate guide to the science all around us With the singular intelligence and exuberance that made Woman an international sensation, Natalie Angier takes us on a whirligig tour of the scientific canon. She draws on conversati ...Show more
Genesis Machines : The New Science of Biocomputing by Martyn Amos
$26.95 AUD
Category: Science
Silicon chips are out. Today's scientists are using real, wet, squishy, living biology to build the next generation of computers. Cells, gels and DNA strands are the 'wetware' of the twenty-first century. Much smaller and more intelligent, these organic computers open up revolutionary possibilities. Tra ...Show more
The Canon: The Beautiful Basics of Science by Natalie Angier
$27.95 AUD
Category: Science
With the intelligence and exuberance that made Woman an international sensation, Natalie Angier takes us on a whirligig tour of the scientific canon. Drawing on conversations with hundreds of the world's top scientists, and her own Pulitzer Prize-winning reportage for the New York Times, The Canon is a ...Show more
The Artist and the Mathematician : The Story of Nicolas Bourbaki, the Genius Mathematician Who Never Existed... by Amir D. Azcel
$38.95 AUD
Category: Science
Flatland by Edwin Abbott
$16.95 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'Upward, yet not Northward.' How would a creature limited to two dimensions be able to grasp the possibility of a third? Edwin A. Abbott's droll and delightful 'romance of many dimensions' explores this conundrum in the experiences of his protagonist, A Square, whose linear world is invaded by an emissa ...Show more
Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream : A Day in the Life of Your Body by Jennifer Ackerman
$32.95 AUD
Category: Science
Acclaimed science writer Jennifer Ackerman lends her keen eye and lively voice to this marvellous exploration of the human body. Taking us through a typical day, from the arousal of the senses in the morning to the reverie of sleep and dreams, Ackerman reveals the human form as we have never seen it: bu ...Show more
Newton by Peter Ackroyd
$39.95 AUD
Category: Science
Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) is said to have made his greatest contributions to original thought in science in 1665-6 while at his parents' home in Lincolnshire escaping the Great Plague (which had closed the universities), a period of which he wrote: 'I was in the prime of my age for invention'. It was ...Show more
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2006 by Tim Folger (ed.)
$22.95 AUD
Category: Science | Reading Level: good
Weird Science and Bizarre Beliefs by Gregory L. Reece
$32.00 AUD
Category: Science
Does the giant Yeti roam the mountain ranges of Tibet? Does a real-life Shangri-La lie waiting to be discovered in a Himalayan valley? Do transmissions from lost civilizations beam messages of salvation to humankind? What lost creatures lurk in the murky depths of Scotland's brooding Loch Ness? And who ...Show more
Climate Change Begins At Home by REAY Dave
$29.95 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Macmillan Science Ser.
Packed with provocative case studies, calculations and lifestyle comparisons, this entertaining and authoritative book makes the complexities of climatology understandable and challenges readers to rethink their notions of 'doing their bit'. The paperback edition features a new preface from Mark Lynas, ...Show more