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Weirdest Maths - At the Frontiers of Reason by David Darling; Agnijo Banerjee
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science
Maths is everywhere, in everything. It's in the finest margins of modern sport. It's in the electrical pulses of our hearts and the flight of every bird. It is our key to secret messages, lost languages and perhaps even the shape of the universe of itself. David Darling and Agnijo Banerjee reveal the ma ...Show more
The Raven's Hat - Fallen Pictures, Rising Sequences, and Other Mathematical Games by Jonas Peters; Nicolai Meinshausen; Malte Meinshausen (Illustrator)
$39.99 AUD
Category: Science
Games that show how mathematics can solve the apparently unsolvable. This book presents a series of engaging games that seem unsolvable--but can be solved when they are translated into mathematical terms. How can players find their ID cards when the cards are distributed randomly among twenty boxes? By ...Show more
The Beauty of Chemistry - Art, Wonder, and Science by Philip Ball; Wenting Zhu (Photographer); Yan Liang (Photographer)
$64.99 AUD
Category: Science
Chemistry is not just about microscopic atoms doing inscrutable things; it is the process that makes flowers and galaxies. We rely on it for bread-baking, vegetable-growing, and producing the materials of daily life. In stunning images and illuminating text, this book captures chemistry as it unfolds. U ...Show more
Space is Cool as Fuck by Kate Howells
$39.99 AUD
Category: Science
Bite-sized chunks of incredible, unbelievable information explaining everything you need to know about our universe from black holes to dark matter, featuring aliens, crazy scientists and incredible worlds! Space is Cool as Fuck features more than 100 wild artworks, photographs and illustrations from 40 ...Show more
Life Finds a Way: What Evolution Teaches Us About Creativity by Andreas Wagner
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science
How the principles of biological innovation can help us overcome creative challenges in art, business, and science In Life Finds a Way, biologist Andreas Wagner reveals the deep symmetry between innovation in biological evolution and human cultural creativity. Rarely is either a linear climb to perfe ...Show more
Something Deeply Hidden - Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime by Sean Carroll
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA Science News favorite science book of 2019As you read these words, copies of you are being created. Sean Carroll, theoretical physicist and one of this world's most celebrated writers on science, rewrites the history of 20th century physics. Already hailed as a master ...Show more
Six Impossible Things by John Gribbin
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science
A short guide to the six theories that try to explain the wild world of the quantum.
Life's Edge - Searching for What It Means to Be Alive by Carl Zimmer
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science
Carl Zimmer investigates one of the biggest questions of all: What is life? The answer seems obvious until you try to seriously answer it. Is the apple sitting on your kitchen counter alive, or is only the apple tree it came from deserving of the word? If we can't answer that question here on earth, how ...Show more
The Sleeping Beauties - And Other Stories of the Social Life of Illness by Suzanne O'Sullivan
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science
'In my view the best science writer around - a true descendant of Oliver Sacks.' Sathnam Sanghera, author of The Boy with the Topknot In Sweden, refugee children fall asleep for months and years at a time. In upstate New York, high school students develop contagious seizures. In the US Embassy in Cuba, ...Show more
Carbon - One Atom's Odyssey by John Barnett; Roald Hoffman (Foreword by)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
A richly illustrated history of a single atom of carbon, tracing its many manifestations from the Big Bang to the present. Carbon: One Atom's Odyssey is an illustrated adaptation of 'Carbon,' a short story from Italian chemist, writer, and Auschwitz survivor Primo Levi. It traces the life story and man ...Show more
Books Do Furnish a Life Reading and Writing Science by Richard Dawkins
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
At a time when science can seem complex and remote, it has a greater impact on our lives, and to the future of our planet, than ever before. It really matters that its discoveries and truths should be clearly and widely communicated. That its enemies, from the malicious to the muddled, the self-deluding ...Show more
The End of Everything - (Astrophysically Speaking) by Katie Mack
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2020 NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY * THE WASHINGTON POST * THE ECONOMIST * NEW SCIENTIST * PUBLISHERS WEEKLY * THE GUARDIAN "A thrilling tour of potential cosmic doomsdays....Mack's infectious enthusiasm for communicating the finer points of cosmological doom elevates ...Show more