Newton by Peter Ackroyd
$39.95 AUD
Category: Science
Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) is said to have made his greatest contributions to original thought in science in 1665-6 while at his parents' home in Lincolnshire escaping the Great Plague (which had closed the universities), a period of which he wrote: 'I was in the prime of my age for invention'. It was ...Show more
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2006 by Tim Folger (ed.)
$22.95 AUD
Category: Science | Reading Level: good
Weird Science and Bizarre Beliefs by Gregory L. Reece
$32.00 AUD
Category: Science
Does the giant Yeti roam the mountain ranges of Tibet? Does a real-life Shangri-La lie waiting to be discovered in a Himalayan valley? Do transmissions from lost civilizations beam messages of salvation to humankind? What lost creatures lurk in the murky depths of Scotland's brooding Loch Ness? And who ...Show more
Climate Change Begins At Home by REAY Dave
$29.95 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Macmillan Science Ser.
Packed with provocative case studies, calculations and lifestyle comparisons, this entertaining and authoritative book makes the complexities of climatology understandable and challenges readers to rethink their notions of 'doing their bit'. The paperback edition features a new preface from Mark Lynas, ...Show more
Climate Change Begins at Home by Dave Reay
$49.95 AUD
Category: Science
Cut Your Greenhouse Gas Emissions Today This book quantifies how and why every one of us can and must halt climate change by taking action at home, in the garden, on the way to work, in the office, on holiday, at the supermarket, the bank and event the funeral parlour. By 2050 one third of all spec ...Show more
The Emerging Mind by Vilaynur Ramachandran
$21.95 AUD
Category: Science
A scintillating introduction to the latest thinking on the brain and the mind by the world
Warped Passages : Unravelling the Universe's Hidden Dimensions by Lisa Randall
$26.95 AUD
Category: Science
In Warped Passages one of the world's most exciting scientists gives us a glimpse into our future. Incredibly readable - and illustrated throughout - it allows the general reader to understand the questions that scientists are dealing with at the frontiers of research today. Lisa Randall allows the read ...Show more
NATURAL ACTS A SIDELONG VIEW OF SCIENCE AND NATURE by QUAMMEN
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Category: Science
'Lively writing about science and nature depends less on the offering of good answers, I think, than on the offering of good questions,' said David Quammen in the original introduction to "Natural Acts". For more than two decades, he has stuck to that credo. In this updated version of his first essay co ...Show more
The Kiwi's Egg : Charles Darwin & Natural Selection by David Quammen
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Category: Science
Evolution, during the early nineteenth century, was an idea in the air. Other thinkers had suggested it, but no one had proposed a cogent explanation for HOW evolution occurs. Then, in September 1838, a young Englishman named Charles Darwin hit upon the idea that 'natural selection' among competing indi ...Show more
The Kiwi's Egg - Charles Darwin and Natural Selection by David Quammen
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
Evolution, during the early nineteenth century, was an idea in the air. Other thinkers had suggested it, but no one had proposed a cogent explanation for HOW evolution occurs. Then, in September 1838, a young Englishman named Charles Darwin hit upon the idea that 'natural selection' among competing indi ...Show more
In Search of Superstrings: Symmetry, membranes and the theory of everything by John Gribbin
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
Since Einstein's time, a "theory of everything" - one coherent mathematical model that would encompass all the forces and particles of nature - has become the Holy Grail of physics, and its pursuit has resulted in some of the most extraordinary ideas in the history of science. One of the world's foremos ...Show more