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The Demon in the Machine by Paul Davies
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
How does life create order from chaos? And just what is life, anyway? Leading physicist Paul Davies argues that to find the answers, we must first answer a deeper question- 'What is information?' To understand the origins and nature of life, Davies proposes a radical vision of biology which sees the un ...Show more
The Demon in the Machine: How Hidden Webs of Information Are Finally Solving the Mystery of Life by Paul Davies
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science
When Darwin set out to explain the origin of species, he made no attempt to answer the deeper question: what is life? For generations, scientists have struggled to make sense of this fundamental question. Life really does look like magic: even a humble bacterium accomplishes things so dazzling that no ...Show more
The Eerie Silence - Are We Alone in the Universe? by Paul Davies
$49.95 AUD
Category: Science | Reading Level: very good
On April 8, 1960, a young American astronomer, Frank Drake, turned a radio telescope toward the star Tau Ceti and listened for several hours to see if he could detect any artificial radio signals. With this modest start began a worldwide project of potentially momentous significance. Known as SETI - Sea ...Show more
The Eerie Silence : Searching for Ourselves in the Universe by Paul Davies
$24.95 AUD
Category: Science
If aliens ever contact us, it will be perhaps the single most significant event in human history. And Paul Davies will be responsible for saying something back. For fifty years, the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence has been scanning the skies. Now Davies, head of SETI's Post Detection Task Grou ...Show more
The Goldilocks Enigma: Why is the Universe Just Right for Life? by Paul Davies
$26.95 AUD
Category: Science
Aims to tackle various questions and introduces discoveries that have allowed scientists to piece together story of universe.
The Goldilocks Enigma : Why is the Universe Just Right for Life? by Paul Davies
$55.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
"The Goldilocks Enigma" is Paul Davies spectacular and eagerly awaited return to cosmology. Here he tackles all the 'big questions' and introduces the latest discoveries that have allowed scientists to piece together the story of the universe in unprecedented detail. And he explains why, despite all thi ...Show more
The Mind of God by Paul C.W. Davies
$22.95 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Penguin Press Science Ser.
This sequel to God and the New Physics explores the fascinating questions of modern physics such as why does maths, an abstract system of logic invented by man, prove to be so useful in understanding the laws of nature? And is the existence of intelligent life a random chance or in some sense an inevita ...Show more
The Mind of God: Popular Penguins by Paul Davies
$9.95 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Paul Davies' The Mind of God is a scientific search for the meaning of the universe. Ranging across the cosmos, Davies explores the origin of the universe, the laws of nature, mathematics, the beginning and end of everything. Ultimately, he seeks to provide a glimpse the meaning of it all. This is a boo ...Show more
Twice Lost by Phyllis Paul; Davies (Foreword by)
$37.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Who could have been so cruel as to do away with poor Vivian Lambert? And why oh why couldn't she just stay dead? In a rustic, idyllic English village, on a summer's day, in the midst of a carefree tennis party, a fragile, needy child, left too much on her own, vanishes from her family's front garden ...Show more
Uncovering Einstein's New Universe: From Wallal to Gravitational Wave Astronomy by David Blair, Ron Burman, Paul Davies
$39.99 AUD
Category: Science
Einstein gave us a vision of a new universe in which time and space are warped and rippling in response to everything else in the universe. Vast bursts of energy in the form of ripples of pure and empty space are passing through us at light speed, carrying messages about a dying universe and about the p ...Show more
What's Eating the Universe?: And Other Cosmic Questions by Paul Davies
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
The story of the universe in thirty cosmological conundrumsIn the constellation of Eridanus there lurks a cosmic mystery. It's as if something has taken a huge bite out of the universe, leaving a super-void. What could be the culprit? A super massive black hole? Another, bigger universe? Or an expanding ...Show more
What's Eating the Universe?: And Other Cosmic Questions by Paul Davies
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science
Combining the latest scientific advances with storytelling skills unmatched in the cosmos, an award-winning astrophysicist and popular writer leads us on a tour of some of the greatest mysteries of our universe. In the constellation of Eridanus, there lurks a cosmic mystery: It's as if something has tak ...Show more
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