2023 Lunar and Seasonal Diary Southern Hemisphere by Demarco Stacey
$32.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
A beautifully produced diary with full-colour pages and spiral binding that allows the pages to lay flat, and with extra space for recording notes. The diary includes lunar timings and explanations of the moon phases and their impact on humans, with practical magical suggestions to get the most out of t ...Show more
At Sixes and Sevens: How to Understand Numbers and Make Maths Easy by Rachel Riley
$29.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
An engaging, accessible introduction into how numbers work and why we shouldn’t be afraid of them, from maths expert Rachel Riley. Do you know your fractions from your percentages? Your adjacent to your hypotenuse? And who really knows how to do long division, anyway? Puzzled already? Don’t blame you… ...Show more
Imperfect by Lee Kofman
$32.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
By the time she was eleven and living in Russia, Lee Kofman had undergone several major operations on both a defective heart and injuries sustained in a bus accident. Her body harbours a constellation of disfiguring scars that have shaped her sense of self and her view of the world. But it wasn't until ...Show more
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything by Joshua Foer
$24.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science | Series: Memory Improvement | Reading Level: near fine
"Joshua Foer invents a new genre of nonfiction. This is a work of science journalism wrapped around an adventure story, a bildungsroman fused to a vivid investigation of human memory."--Jonah Lehrer, author of How We Decide and Proust Was a Neuroscientist On average, people squander forty days annuall ...Show more
The Brain's Way of Healing by Norman Doidge
$32.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science | Series: The\Neuroplasticity Chronicles Ser.
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2015 GOODREADS CHOICE AWARDS 'BEST SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY BOOK' This book is about the discovery that the human brain has its own unique way of healing. For centuries we believed that the price we paid for our brain's complexity was that, compared to other organs, it was fixed and ...Show more
The Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs by Gregory S. Paul
$69.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science | Series: Princeton Field Guides
A fully updated and expanded edition of the acclaimed, bestselling dinosaur field guide.The bestselling Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs remains the must-have book for anyone who loves dinosaurs, from amateur enthusiasts to professional paleontologists. Now extensively revised and expanded, this dazzl ...Show more
Electric Universe : How electricity switched on the modern world by David Bodanis
$26.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
For centuries, electricity was viewed as little more than a curious property of certain substances that sparked when rubbed. Then, in the 1790s, Alessandro Volta began the scientific investigation that ignited an explosion of knowledge and invention, transforming our world. The force that once seemed in ...Show more
Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor
$24.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
There is nothing more essential to our health and wellbeing than breathing- take air in, let it out, repeat 25,000 times a day. Yet, as a species, humans have lost the ability to breathe correctly, with grave consequences. Journalist James Nestor travels the world to figure out what went wrong and how t ...Show more
Dinosaurs - Profiles from a Lost World by Riley Black; Riccardo Frapicinni (Illustrator)
$49.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
Who isn’t fascinated by dinosaurs?These strange reptiles have awed us ever since their fossils were first identified as the bones of creatures from the distant past.For millions of years, dinosaurs ruled the prehistoric world. And now, millions of years after their mass extinction, they continue to rule ...Show more
The Book of Minds by Philip Ball
$24.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
Understanding the human mind and how it relates to the world that we experience has challenged philosophers for centuries. How then do we even begin to think about 'minds' that are not human? Science now has plenty to say about the properties of mind. In recent decades, the mind - both human and otherwi ...Show more
How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology by Philip Ball
$36.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
A cutting-edge new vision of biology that will revise our concept of what life itself is, how to enhance it, and what possibilities it offers. Biology is undergoing a quiet but profound transformation. Several aspects of the standard picture of how life works—the idea of the genome as a blueprint, of g ...Show more
The Best Australian Science Writing 2020 by Sara Phillips (Editor)
$32.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
The annual collection – now in its tenth year – celebrating the finest voices in Australian science writing.Can fish feel pain? Does it matter if a dingo is different from a dog? Is there life in a glob of subterranean snot? Science tackles some unexpected questions. At a time when the world is buffeted ...Show more