Astronomy Photographer of the Year: Collection 6 by Royal Observatory, Greenwich
52.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
All the winning and shortlisted images from the 2017 Insight Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition, hosted by the Royal Observatory, Greenwich. The images are submitted in one of the following categories: Image Categories* Earth and Space* Our Solar System* Deep Space* Young Astronomy Photograp ...Show more
Handbook to Aust Seashells: On Seashores East to West and North to South by Wilson Barry
29.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
A Handbook to Australian Seashells will help you to identify most of the shells you find, no matter where you are on the Australian coast. It includes over 375 species of the most common seashells found along our seashores. Each one is illustrated with a beautiful colour photograph showing its colours, ...Show more
Cronin's Key Guide to Australian Mammals by Leonard Cronin
35.00 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History | Series: Key guide series
An indispensable guide to Australia's fascinating monotremes, marsupials, and placental mammals. This book, the third in the Cronin's Key Guide series, is packed with information about the behavior, development, food, and habitat of Australia's remarkable mammals. Each entry fully describes a species an ...Show more
The Gene - An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee
35.00 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History | Reading Level: very good
The Gene is the story of one of the most powerful and dangerous ideas in our history, from bestselling, prize-winning author Siddhartha Mukherjee. Spanning the globe and several centuries, The Gene is the story of the quest to decipher the master-code that makes and defines humans, that governs our form ...Show more
Forbidden Universe by Lynn Picknett
24.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
Were the first scientists hermetic philosophers? What do these occult origins of modern science tell us about the universe today? The Forbidden Universe reveals the secret brotherhood that defined the world, and perhaps discovered the mind of God. All the pioneers of science, from Copernicus to Newton ...Show more
How Science Works (The Facts Visually Explained) by Nicholas Dawidoff
35.00 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
Answering all your burning scientific questions, from what it means to be alive to why things explode, How Science Works explains science facts throughout amazing diagrams and infographics. Unlock the secrets of the universe, such as whether a robot takeover is possible, and marvel at the surprising sim ...Show more
The Secret Life of Sleep by Kat Duff
29.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
What makes us cross the line from waking to slumber? According to Harvard scientists it's our 'sleep switch' - a cluster of neurons in the hypothalamus. For the ancient Greeks it was the god Hypnos, caressing you with his wings. For the Blackfeet Indians, a butterfly. And in European children's tales, t ...Show more
Bug Music: How Insects Gave Us Rhythm and Noise by David Rothenberg
19.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
In the spring of 2013 the cicadas in the North Eastern United States emerged from their seventeen year cycle - the longest gestation period of any animal. In listening to cicadas, as well as other humming, clicking, and thrumming insects, Bug Music is the first book to consider the radical notion that w ...Show more
Sex, Drugs & Rock n Roll - The Science of Hedonism and the Hedonism of Science by Zoe Cormier
29.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
How can wordless collections of sounds send shivers down our spines and tickle ancient parts of our brains we share with reptiles? How did a chemist's quest to create a drug to ease the pain of childbirth result in the creation of LSD? Why do goats partake in oral sex, and how can a horse (or even a tab ...Show more
Life: The Leading Edge of Evolutionary Biology, Genetics, Anthropology, and Environmental Science by John Brockman
24.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History | Series: Best of Edge Ser.
The newest addition to John Brockman's Edge.org series explores life itself, bringing together the world's leading biologists, geneticists, and evolutionary theorists-including Richard Dawkins, Edward O. Wilson, J. Craig Venter, and Freeman Dyson. Scientists' understanding of life is progressing more ra ...Show more
Eureka! Infographic Guide to Science by Tom Cabot
44.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
Discover how the world really works in this spectacular journey through space and time that shows the fundamentals of science in groundbreaking visuals, from the Big Bang to Artificial Intelligence. Following each stage of the development of the material Universe, from the first cataclysmic moments to ...Show more
Calculating the Cosmos: How Mathematics Unveils the Universe by Ian Stewart
32.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
Ian Stewart's up-to-the-minute guide to the cosmos moves from the earth and the planets to the galaxy and the universe. He describes how galaxies, stars and planets form, why stars implode, how everything began, and how it's going to end. He considers parallel universes, fine-tuning of the cosmos, wheth ...Show more