The Fellowship: The Story of a Revolution by John Gribbin
$26.95 AUD
Category: Science
From the bestselling author of "Science: A History" comes the enthralling story of a revolution that shook the world. Seventeenth-century England was racked by civil war, plague and fire; a world ruled by superstition and ignorance. A series of meetings of natural philosophers' in Oxford and London saw ...Show more
Eureka! by Andrew Gregory (Department of Science and Technology Studies, University College London)
$18.95 AUD
Category: Science
Science began with the Greeks. Medicine, Anatomy, Astronomy, Mathematics and Cosmology were all invented in their world. Plato, Aristotle, Pythagoras, Archimedes and Hippocrates were amongst its stars, master architects all of the modern as well as the ancient. Today science is a familiar language, and ...Show more
Deep Simplicity: Chaos Complexity and the Emergence of Life by John Gribbin
$24.95 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Penguin Press Science Ser.
In this brilliantly enlightening book John Gribbin, the man who made quantum theory clear with In Search of Schrodinger's Cat shows that complexity is simple, and explains how life has emerged from simple systems. Deep Simplicity is the first book to synthesize all the various ideas about chaos and comp ...Show more
The Fellowship by John Gribbin
$59.95 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Allen Lane Science S.
John Gribbin, bestselling author of In Search of Schrodinger's Cat, explores the defining decades of the seventeenth century's scientific revolution, when the Royal Society established what became the 'scientific method', a way of doing and communicating science that set the tone for the three and a hal ...Show more
ID - The Quest For Identity In the 21st Century by Susan Greenfield
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
Our individuality is under attack as never before. Two huge new forces - technological advances and the rise in fundamentalism - are in their different ways combining to threaten our control of our minds and so the whole way our society functions. We have never more urgently needed to look at what we wa ...Show more
Tomorrow's People by Susan Greenfield
$26.95 AUD
Category: Science
How 21st-century technology is changing the way we think and feel Welcome to the future: a hedonistic paradise of smart drugs and virtual relationships, where computers fulfil our every fantasy, food is perfected and âÂÂhomeâ is a blur of artificial colours, images and sounds. Where synthet ...Show more
The Private Life of the Brain by Susan Greenfield
$24.95 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Penguin Press Science Ser. | Reading Level: good-very good
An explanation of the various mysteries of pleasure in the workings of the mind. The book shows how different experiences give rise to similar sensations in the mind - such as sport, raves, or orgasm; explores the workings of recreational drugs; and explains the neurological character of pleasure. ...Show more
The Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene
$12.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Brian Greene's The Fabric of the Cosmos is an astonishing grand tour of the universe and the best layman's guide to current thinking on 'how everything works'. This rollercoaster ride explores the mysteries of space and time; asks questions about the nature of reality, dark matter, space warps and wiggl ...Show more
Human Brain The by Greenfield Susan
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Science Masters Ser.
Locked away remote from the rest of the body in its own custom-built casing of skull bone, with no intrinsic moving parts, the human brain remains a tantalising mystery. But now, more than ever before, we have the expertise to tackle this mystery - the last 20 years have seen astounding progress in brai ...Show more
The Noble Lie by Gary Greenberg
$34.95 AUD
Category: Science
In 1992, psychologist Charles W. Socarides founded the National Association of Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH), to help gay men and lesbians become straight through counseling and religious-based therapy. Though the organization has avoided taking political stands against homosexuality, it ...Show more
Animals in Translation by Temple Grandin
$24.95 AUD
Category: Science
A startling book that will change the way you think about animals ... and autism Animals in Translation is the culmination of Temple Grandin's extraordinary life's work, drawing upon the latest research, her distinguished career as an animal scientist and her own experience of being autistic. With co-au ...Show more