Maths Squared (100 Concepts You Should Know) by Marianne Freiberger
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Category: Science & Natural History | Series: 100 Concepts You Should Know
For many of us, mathematics is a subject to be feared-a daunting world of schoolroom numbers and equations. Yet we often wish in everyday life that we could remember all those handy mathematical tools and tips that were once explained to us-Maths Squared provides the bite-sized solution. Everybody knows ...Show more
Hidden Nature : A Voyage of Discovery by Alys Fowler
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Category: Science & Natural History
Leaving her garden to the mercy of the slugs, award-winning writer Alys Fowler set out in an inflatable kayak to explore Birmingham's canal network, full of little-used waterways where huge pike skulk and kingfishers dart. Her book is about noticing the wild everywhere and what it means to see beauty wh ...Show more
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
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Category: Science & Natural History
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poorblack tobacco farmer whose cells taken without her knowledge in 1951 became one of the most important tools in medicine, vital for developing the polio vaccine, cloning, gene mapping, and more.Henri ...Show more
The Call of the Primes: Surprising Patterns, Peculiar Puzzles, and Other Marvels of Mathematics by Owen O'Shea
29.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
This sampler of entertaining mathematical diversions reveals the elegance and extraordinary usefulness of mathematics for readers who think they have no aptitude for the subject. If you like any kind of game at all, you ll enjoy the amazing mathematical puzzles and patterns presented here in straightfor ...Show more
The Four-Dimensional Human: Ways of Being in the Digital World by Laurence Scott
24.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
It is short-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction. It is the winner of the Jerwood Prize. It is a constellation of everyday digital phenomena is rewiring our inner lives. We are increasingly coaxed from the three-dimensional containment of our pre-digital selves into a wonderful and eerie ...Show more
Atoms Under the Floorboards: The Surprising Science Hidden in Your Home by Chris Woodford
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Category: Science & Natural History
Science - the hidden power behind your home. It's rock-solid science that holds your house up in a hurricane, floods it with light at night and keeps it toasty on a crisp winter's morning. Surprisingly simple scientific ideas can also explain all those strange, baffling and sometimes downright irritatin ...Show more
Thinking: The New Science of Decision-Making, Problem-Solving, and Prediction by John Brockman
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Category: Science & Natural History | Series: Best of Edge Series | Reading Level: General Adult
Unlock your mind From the bestselling authors of Thinking, Fast and Slow; The Black Swan; and Stumbling on Happiness comes a cutting-edge exploration of the mysteries of rational thought, decision-making, intuition, morality, willpower, problem-solving, prediction, forecasting, unconscious behavior, and ...Show more
The Mind: Leading Scientists Explore the Brain, Memory, Personality, and Happiness by John Brockman
24.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History | Series: Best of Edge Series
"Theway Brockman interlaces essays about research on the frontiers of science withones on artistic vision, education, psychology and economics is sure to buzzany brain." -Chicago Sun-Times on This WillChange Everything Markingthe debut of a hard-hitting new series from Edge.org and Harper Perennial,edit ...Show more
WHY DOES MY BIRD DO THAT A GUIDE TO PARROT BEHAVIOUR
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Category: Science & Natural History
The Tyrannosaur Chronicles: The Biology of the Tyrant Dinosaurs by David Hone
27.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
'Gripping and wonderfully informative' Tom Holland, New Statesman Adored by children and adults alike, Tyrannosaurus is the most famous dinosaur in the world, one that pops up again and again in pop culture, often battling other beasts such as King Kong, Triceratops or velociraptors in Jurassic Park. Bu ...Show more
Why It's Not All Rocket Science by Robert Cave
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Category: Science & Natural History
In Why It's Not All Rocket Science , Robert Cave examines 100 extraordinary projects, theories and experiments that have been conducted in the name of science. Some, including various nuclear tests, have attracted controversy and hostility; others, such as Johann Wilhelm Ritter's erotic self-experiments ...Show more
Remarkable Birds by Mark Avery
55.00 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
Humans share the Earth with more than 10,000 species of birds and have always been enchanted by them. Birds can be a sign of the changing seasons, a symbol of freedom, or simply a breathtaking vision of beauty. Remarkable Birds approaches these fascinating creatures thematically across eight sections c ...Show more