Helgoland by Carlo Rovelli
$39.99 AUD
Category: Science
In June 1925, twenty-three-year-old Werner Heisenberg, suffering from hay fever, retreated to a small, treeless island in the North Sea called Helgoland. It was there that he came up with one of the most transformative scientific concepts- quantum theory. Almost a century later, quantum physics has giv ...Show more
Helgoland by Carlo Rovelli
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
The instant Sunday Times bestseller -- a dazzling story of rebellion and science. In June 1925, twenty-three-year-old Werner Heisenberg, suffering from hay fever, had retreated to the treeless, wind-battered island of Helgoland in the North Sea in order to think. Walking all night, by dawn he had wrest ...Show more
Hello World by Hannah Fry
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
You are accused of a crime? Who would you rather decides your future - an algorithm or a human?Before making your decision, bear in mind that the algorithm will always be more consistent, and far less prone to an error of judgement. Then again, at least the human will be able to look you in the eye befo ...Show more
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER Sapiens shows us where we came from. Homo Deus shows us where we're going. Yuval Noah Harari envisions a near future in which we face a new set of challenges. Homo Deus explores the projects, dreams and nightmares that will shape the twenty-first century and beyond - from ove ...Show more
Horizons: A Global History of Science by James Poskett
$26.99 AUD
Category: Science
A radical retelling of the history of science that foregrounds the scientists erased from historyIn this major retelling of the history of science from 1450 to the present day, James Poskett explodes the myth that science began in Europe.The blinkered Western gaze focusing on individual 'genius' - Coper ...Show more
Horizons: A Global History of Science by James Poskett
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science
A radical retelling of the history of science - The Silk Roads for science We are told that modern science was invented in Europe, the product of great minds like Nicolaus Copernicus, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein. But this is wrong. The history of science is not, and has never been, ...Show more
House of Open Wounds by Adrian Tchaikovsky
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: The\Tyrant Philosophers Ser.
FROM THE BSFA AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF CITY OF LAST CHANCES City-by-city, kingdom-by-kingdom, the Palleseen have sworn to bring Perfection and Correctness to an imperfect world. As their legions scour the world of superstition with the bright flame of reason, so they deliver a mountain of ragged, holed ...Show more
How Contagion Works: Science, Awareness and Community in a Globalised World in Crisis by Paolo Giordano
$6.99 AUD
Category: Science
'Sublimely elegant, provocatively simple, deeply troubling. In one short hour, in the midst of this difficult moment, Giordano reinforced my sense of hope in humanity, in the one and the many' Philippe Sands, author of East West Street The Covid-19 pandemic is the most significant health emergency of ou ...Show more
How Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon by Joshua Mezrich
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science
Gripping and evocative, How Death Becomes Life takes us inside the operating room and presents the stark dilemmas that transplant surgeons must face daily: How much risk should a healthy person be allowed to take to save someone she loves? Should a patient suffering from alcoholism receive a healthy liv ...Show more
How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology by Philip Ball
$36.99 AUD
Category: 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
How Space Works: The Facts Visually Explained by DK
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
The clearest, most visual guide to space and the Universe for complete beginners to astronomy. Have you ever asked yourself how big the Universe is, how far it is to the nearest star, or what came before the Big Bang? Then this is the book for you. How Space Works shows you the different types of object ...Show more
How We Became Human by Tim Dean
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science
Over thousands of years, humans have developed mechanisms to help us live together in ever-larger social groups. We developed a set of 'moral emotions' such as empathy, guilt and outrage, as well as a tendency to favour people in our in-groups and a propensity to punish perceived wrongdoers. Our cultur ...Show more