New Theories of Everything by John D. Barrow
$28.95 AUD
Category: Science
Will we ever discover a single scientific theory that tells us everything that has happened, and everything that will happen, on every level in the Universe? The quest for the theory of everything - a single key that unlocks all the secrets of the Universe - is no longer a pipe-dream, but the focus of s ...Show more
The Calculus Wars by Jason Bardi
$36.95 AUD
Category: Science
Now regarded as the bane of many college students' existence, calculus was one of the most important mathematical innovations of the seventeenth century. But a dispute over its discovery sewed the seeds of discontent between two of the greatest scientific giants of all time - Sir Isaac Newton and Gott ...Show more
Bright Earth: The Invention of Colour by Philip Ball
$32.95 AUD
Category: Science
Colour in art - as in life - is both inspiring and uplifting, but where does it come from? How have artists found new hues, and how have these influenced their work? Beginning with the ancients - when just a handful of pigments made up the artist's palette - and charting the discoveries and developments ...Show more
Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another by Philip Ball
$32.95 AUD
Category: Science
Is there a 'physics of society'? Ranging from Hobbes and Adam Smith to modern work on traffic flow and market trading, and across economics, sociology and psychology, Philip Ball shows how much we can understand of human behaviour when we cease to try to predict and analyse the behaviour of individuals ...Show more
The Devil's Doctor by Philip Ball
$65.00 AUD
Category: Science
Who was Paracelsus and what did he believe and practice? This book presents Paracelsus as a more complex man - who used his eyes and ears to learn from nature how to heal, and who wrote influential books on medicine, surgery, alchemy and theology while living a drunken, combative, vagabond life.
VERY SPECIAL RELATIVITY by BAIS SANDER
$36.95 AUD
Category: Science
Einstein's 'Special Theory of Relativity' radically changed our understanding of the world when it was published in 1905. In this book Sander Bais describes an original and uniquely effective way to convey the fundamental ideas of Einstein's theory.
50 Physics Ideas You Really Need to Know by Joanne Baker
$24.95 AUD
Category: Science | Series: 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know Ser.
In this, the second volume in an important new series presenting core concepts across a range of critical areas of human knowledge, author Joanne Baker unravels the complexities of 20th-century scientific theory for a general readership. She explains ideas at the cutting-edge of scientific enquiry, maki ...Show more
Strange Curves, Counting Rabbits, and Other Mathematical Explorations by Keith Ball
$34.95 AUD
Category: Science
How does mathematics enable us to send pictures from space back to Earth? Where does the bell-shaped curve come from? Why do you need only 23 people in a room for a 50/50 chance of two of them sharing the same birthday? In "Strange Curves, Counting Rabbits, and Other Mathematical Explorations", Keith Ba ...Show more
The Transit of Venus: The Brief, Brilliant Life of Jeremiah Horrocks, Father of British Astronomy by Peter Aughton
$26.95 AUD
Category: Science
There is a missing chapter in the history of astronomy, between the work of Galileo and Newton, and it is a chapter that belongs to England. Most people would name Newton and Edmund Halley as the greatest British astronomers, but both men drew heavily on the works of Jeremiah Horrocks. Like John Harr ...Show more
Four Laws That Drive the Universe by Peter Atkins
$32.95 AUD
Category: Science
The laws of thermodynamics drive everything that happens in the universe. From the sudden expansion of a cloud of gas to the cooling of hot metal, and from the unfurling of a leaf to the course of life itself - everything is directed and constrained by four simple laws. They establish fundamental concep ...Show more
The Equations : Icons of Knowledge by Sander Bais
$39.95 AUD
Category: Science
The mysteries of the physical world speak to us through equations - compact statements about the way nature works, expressed in nature's language, mathematics. In this book by the renowned Dutch physicist Sander Bais, the equations that govern our world unfold in all their formal grace - and their dee ...Show more