The Case Against Reality: How Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes by Donald D. Hoffman
$23.00 AUD
Category: Science
SHORTLISTED FOR THE PHYSICS WORLD BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019 'One of the deepest and most original thinkers of his generation of cognitive scientists. His startling argument has implications for philosophy, science and how we understand the world around us' Steven Pinker 'Is reality virtual? It's a questio ...Show more
Love Triangle: The Life-changing Magic of Trigonometry by Matt Parker
$36.99 AUD
Category: Science
Explore the life-changing magic of trigonometry with Matt Parker, stand-up mathematician and No. 1 bestselling author of Humble Pi Why do mobile phones work when you're on a train? What happens when you pull a pop song apart into pure sine waves and play it back on a piano? And what did mathematicians ...Show more
White Holes by Carlo Rovelli
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
A mesmerizing trip to the strange new world of white holes from the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics Let us journey, with beloved physicist Carlo Rovelli, into the heart of a black hole. Let us slip beyond its boundary, the horizon, and tumble - on and on - down this crack in the un ...Show more
Inheritance - The Evolutionary Origins of the Modern World by Harvey Whitehouse
$36.99 AUD
Category: Science
Every human being is endowed with an inheritance. A set of ancient biases - forged by natural selection and fine-tuned by millennia of culture - that shape every facet of our behaviour. For countless generations, this inheritance has been taking us to ever greater heights- driving the rise of more soph ...Show more
Why Size Matters - From Bacteria to Blue Whales by John Tyler Bonner
$27.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Princeton Science Library
John Tyler Bonner, one of our most distinguished and creative biologists, here offers a completely new perspective on the role of size in biology. In his hallmark friendly style, he explores the universal impact of being the right size. By examining stories ranging from Alice in Wonderland to Gulliver's ...Show more
The Odd Quantum by Sam Treiman; Helen Quinn (Foreword by)
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Princeton Science Library
An acclaimed physicist's accessible yet rigorous introduction to quantum mechanics for nonspecialists This is a rare and much-needed book: a concise but comprehensive account of quantum mechanics for popular science readers written by a respected physicist. Sam Treiman--who was internationally renowned ...Show more
Moons: The Mysteries and Marvels of our Solar System by Kate Howells
$45.00 AUD
Category: Science
ALMOST EVERY PLANET IN OUR SOLAR SYSTEM HAS ONE, SO WHY DO WE KNOW SO LITTLE ABOUT MOONS? Join astronomer Kate Howells on an interplanetary voyage to explore the mind-boggling moons of our solar system, from the volcanic hellscape of Io to the ice mountains and methane seas of Titan. Beautifully ...Show more
General Relativity - The Theoretical Minimum by Leonard Susskind; Andre Cabannes
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
He taught us classical mechanics, quantum mechanics and special relativity. Now, physicist Leonard Susskind, assisted by a new collaborator, Andre Cabannes, returns to tackle Einstein's general theory of relativity. Starting from the equivalence principle and covering the necessary mathematics of Rieman ...Show more
Starry Messenger - Cosmic Perspectives on Civilisation by Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Category: Science
Bringing his cosmic perspective to civilization on Earth, Neil deGrasse Tyson, bestselling author of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, shines new light on the crucial fault lines of our time-war, politics, religion, truth, beauty, gender, race, and tribalism-in a way that stimulates a deeper sense of ...Show more
As Far As the Eye Can See - A History of Seeing by S. Denham Wade
$49.99 AUD
Category: Science
From the mastery of fire a million years ago, humans repeatedly invented new ways to see their surroundings, each other and themselves. Artificial light, early art, mirrors, writing, lenses, printing, photography, film, television, the smart phone. These tools shaped Western culture and made us who we a ...Show more
Accidental: The Greatest (Unintentional) Science Breakthroughs and How They Changed The World by Tim James
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science
We may imagine that science is a process of breakthroughs and light bulb moments. But in reality, science goes wrong 99% of the time.Almost every idea a scientist comes up with is quickly disproved by a failed experiment or rival research. Science moves at a rate of inches per decade and we like it that ...Show more