The Accidental Mind - How brain evolution has given us love, memory, dreams, and God by David J. Linden
$36.95 AUD
Category: Science
You've probably seen it before: a human brain dramatically lit from the side, the camera circling it like a helicopter shot of Stonehenge, and a modulated baritone voice exalting the brain's elegant design in reverent tones. To which this book says: Pure nonsense. In a work at once deeply learned and ...Show more
This is Your Brain on Music by Daniel J. Levitin
$45.00 AUD
Category: Science
This is the first book to offer a comprehensive explanation of how humans experience music and to unravel the mystery of our perennial love affair with it. Using musical examples from Bach to The Beatles, he reveals the role of music in human evolution, shows how our musical preferences begin to form ev ...Show more
The Future Just Happened by Michael Lewis
$20.95 AUD
Category: Science
An investigation of how new technology affects our lives. This book explores how digital technology and the Internet has changed the way we live. It argues that not only do we have the easiest access to more information than ever before, but that this has changed our attitudes to life.
This Is Your Brain on Music by Daniel J Levitin
$45.00 AUD
Category: Science
Levitin (psychology of electronic communication, McGill U., Canada) is a former record producer, sound engineer, and session musician. Here he describes music from the perspective of cognitive neuroscience and examines recent studies that tie it to meaning and pleasure. He first explains the elements of ...Show more
The Decisive Moment: How the Brain Makes Up Its Mind by Jonah Lehrer
$34.95 AUD
Category: Science
Since Plato, philosophers have described the decision-making process as either rational or emotional: we carefully deliberate or we 'blink' and go with our gut. But as scientists break open the mind's black box with the latest tools of neuroscience, they are discovering that this is not how the mind wor ...Show more
Mutants - On the Form, Varieties and Errors of the Human Body by Armand Marie Leroi
$27.99 AUD
Category: Science | Reading Level: very good
On the form, varieties and errors of the human body Full of fascinating and bizarre cases of genetic mutation and irregularity, Mutants is an amazing exploration of the human form in all its beautiful and unique guises. Why are most of us born with one nose, two legs, ten fingers and twenty-four ribs - ...Show more
Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History by Penny Le Couteur & Jay Burreson
$27.95 AUD
Category: Science
Though many factors have been proposed to explain the failure of Napoleon's 1812 Russian campaign, it has also been linked to something as small as a button, a tin button, the kind that fastened everything from the greatcoats of Napoleon's officers to the trousers of his foot soldiers. When temperature ...Show more
Travels in Four Dimensions by Robin Le Poidevin
$29.95 AUD
Category: Science
The Enigmas of Space and Time Does time really flow, or is that simply an illusion? Did time have a beginning? What does it mean to say that time has a direction? Do space and time really exist, or are they simply the constructions of our minds? Robin Le Poidevin provides a clear, witty, and stimul ...Show more
A Different Universe : Reinventing Physics from the Bottom Down by Robert B. Laughlin
$27.00 AUD
Category: Science
Power, Sex, Suicide by Nick Lane
$32.95 AUD
Category: Science
Mitochondria are tiny structures located inside our cells that carry out the essential task of producing energy for the cell. They are found in all complex living things, and in that sense, they are fundamental for driving complex life on the planet. But, there is much more to them than that. Mitochondr ...Show more
The Mould in Dr. Florey's Coat : The remarkable true story of the Penicillin miracle by Eric Lax
$24.95 AUD
Category: Science
Many people know that in 1928 Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin's antibiotic potential while examining a stray mould that had bloomed in a dish of bacteria in his London laboratory. But few realise that Fleming worked only fitfully on penicillin until 1935, and that he is merely one character in t ...Show more