Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History by Stephen Jay Gould
$24.50 AUD
Category: Science
High in the Canadian Rockies is a small limestone quarry formed 530 million years ago called the Burgess Shale. It hold the remains of an ancient sea where dozens of strange creatures lived a forgotten corner of evolution preserved in awesome detail. In this book Stephen Jay Gould explores what the Burg ...Show more
Richard Dawkins by Alan Grafen
$26.95 AUD
Category: Science
This sparkling collection explores the impact of Richard Dawkins as scientist, rationalist, and one of the most important thinkers alive today. Specially commissioned pieces by leading figures in science, philosophy, literature, and the media, such as Daniel C. Dennett, Matt Ridley, Steven Pinker, Phili ...Show more
Punctuated Equilibrium by Stephen Jay Gould
$37.95 AUD
Category: Science
In 1972, Stephen Jay Gould took the scientific world by storm with his paper on punctuated equilibrium, written with Niles Eldredge. Challenging a core assumption of Darwin's theory of evolution, it launched the career of one of the most influential evolutionary biologists of our time - perhaps the best ...Show more
Faust In Copenhagen : A Struggle for the Soul of Physics by Gino Segre
$39.95 AUD
Category: Science
In April 1932, about forty mostly young scientists attended Niels Bohr's Copenhagen Institute for their week-long once-a-year freewheeling physics conference. For many, it would come to represent the last gathering where they were able to conduct such discussions in the spirit of camaraderie and in a mi ...Show more
Guns, Germs and Steel: A short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years by Jared Diamond
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science | Reading Level: very good
**WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE** Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe? Jared Diamond puts the case that geography and biogeography, not race, moulded the contrasting fates of Europeans, Asians, Native Americans, sub-Saharan Africans, and aboriginal Australians. An ambitious syn ...Show more
Complications : A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science by Atul Gawande
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science
This is a stunningly well-written account of the life of a surgeon: what it is like to cut into people's bodies and the terrifying - literally life and death - decisions that have to be made. There are accounts of operations that go wrong; of doctors who go to the bad; why autopsies are necessary; what ...Show more
Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance by Atul Gawande
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Category: Science | Reading Level: General Adult
The struggle to perform well is universal, but nowhere is this drive to do better more important than in medicine. In his new book, Atul Gawande explores how doctors strive to close the gap between best intentions and best performance in the face of obstacles that sometimes seem insurmountable. His vivi ...Show more
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
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Category: Science | Reading Level: good
Bill Bryson describes himself as a reluctant traveller: but even when he stays safely in his own study at home, he can't contain his curiosity about the world around him. A Short History of Nearly Everything is his quest to find out everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilizat ...Show more
Evolutionary Writings (Including the Autobiographies) by Charles Darwin & James A. Secord (ed.)
$39.95 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Oxford World's Classics Hardbacks Ser.
On topics ranging from intelligent design and climate change to the politics of gender and race, the evolutionary writings of Charles Darwin occupy a pivotal position in contemporary public debate. This volume brings together the key chapters of his most important and accessible books, including the Jou ...Show more
The Sacred Balance: Discovering Our Place in Nature by David T. Suzuki
$26.99 AUD
Category: Science
This special 10th anniversary edition of the David Suzuki classic, re-examines our place in the natural world in light of sweeping environmental changes and recent advances in scientific knowledge.
On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
$25.95 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'can we doubt ...that individuals having any advantage, however slight, over others, would have the best chance of surviving and of procreating their kind?' In the Origin of Species (1859) Darwin challenged many of the most deeply held beliefs of the Western world. His insistence on the immense length o ...Show more