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Light in the Darkness: Unveiling the Secrets of Black Holes and the Nature of the Human Spirit by PROFESSOR HEINO. ROEMER FALCKE (JOERG.)
$33.00 AUD
Category: Science
For readers of Stephen Hawking, a fascinating account of the universe from the perspective of world-leading astrophysicist Heino Falcke, who took the first ever picture of a black hole. 10th April 2019: a global sensation. Heino Falcke, a man "working at the boundaries of his discipline and therefore a ...Show more
The Idea of the Brain: A History by Matthew Cobb
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
A monumental, sweeping journey from the ancient roots of neurology to the most astonishing recent research, which Henry Marsh (Admissions) called an 'intellectual tour de force' Longlisted for the 2020 Baillie Gifford Prize This is the story of our quest to understand the most mysterious object in the ...Show more
On Happiness by Wellcome Collection
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
From joy, euphoria and exhilaration to serenity, contentment and fulfilment - where do happy feelings come from, and how do they affect us? Bringing together 45 carefully selected historic and contemporary objects and artworks, On Happiness reflects on the diverse approaches to happiness throughout hist ...Show more
The Rules of Contagion: Why Things Spread - and Why They Stop by Adam Kucharski
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Wellcome Collection
The bestselling - and hugely timely - guide to the science of contagion, revised and updated to address Covid-19. 'Astonishingly bold' - Daily Mail 'It is hard to imagine a more timely book...much of the modern world will make more sense having read it.' - The Times We live in a world that's more inte ...Show more
What Do You Think You Are?: The Science of What Makes You You by Brian Clegg
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science
The popular science equivalent of Who Do You Think You Are? Popular science master Brian Clegg's new book is an entertaining tour through the science of what makes you you. From the atomic level, through life and energy to genetics and personality, it explores how the billions of particles which make up ...Show more
Into the Abyss - A Neuropsychiatrist's Notes on Troubled Minds by Anthony David
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science
We cannot know how to fix a problem until we understand its causes. But even for some of the most common mental health problems, three specialists might offer you three completely different treatments.As a cognitive neuropsychiatrist, Professor Anthony David brings together many fields of study, from so ...Show more
Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality by Frank Wilczek
$39.99 AUD
Category: Science
One of our great contemporary scientists reveals the ten profound insights that illuminate what everyone should know about the physical world In Fundamentals, Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek offers the reader a simple yet profound exploration of reality based on the deep revelations of modern science. Wit ...Show more
The God Equation by Michio Kaku
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
This is the story of a quest: to find a Theory of Everything. Einstein dedicated his life to seeking this elusive Holy Grail, a single, revolutionary 'god equation' which would tie all the forces in the universe together, yet never found it. Some of the greatest minds in physics took up the search, from ...Show more
A Most Interesting Problem: What Darwin's Descent of Man Got Right and Wrong about Human Evolution by Browne, E. Janet
$39.99 AUD
Category: Science
Leading scholars take stock of Darwin's ideas about human evolution in the light of modern science In 1871, Charles Darwin published The Descent of Man, a companion to Origin of Species in which he attempted to explain human evolution, a topic he called 'the highest and most interesting problem for the ...Show more
Making Evil - The Science Behind Humanity's Dark Side by Julia Shaw
$24.33 AUD
Category: Science
How to understand the deviance that lies in ourselves and others - an original and rigorous exploration of the darkest recesses of the human mind, from the co-host of Bad People.
Flesh Made New: The Unnatural History and Broken Promises of Stem Cell Research by Carl Power; John Rasko
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science
The dazzling promise of stem-cell treatment: does it work and will it save us? Two experts look at the hype For decades, we've been anticipating the dawn of regenerative medicine. Again and again, we've been promised that stem cells will soon cure just about every ill imaginable. If not tomorrow, then t ...Show more
The Mission: a True Story by David W. Brown
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science
A masterful, genre-defying narrative of the most ambitious science project ever conceived: NASA's deep-space mission to Europa--the Jovian moon where might swim the first known alien life in our solar system--powered by a motley team of obsessives and eccentrics.When scientists discovered the first ocea ...Show more