The Age of Everything: How Science Explores the Past by Matthew Hedman
$31.95 AUD
Category: Science
Taking advantage of recent advances throughout the sciences, Matthew Hedman brings the distant past closer to us than it has ever been. Here, he shows how scientists have determined the age of everything from the colonization of the New World over 13,000 years ago to the origin of the universe nearly fo ...Show more
Great Feuds in Mathematics: Ten of the Liveliest Disputes Ever by Hal Hellman
$34.95 AUD
Category: Science | Reading Level: very good
Presents various debates and the history of ten mathematical disputes.
God Created the Integers: The mathematical breakthroughs that changed history by Stephen Hawking
$39.95 AUD
Category: Science
God Created The Integers is Stephen Hawking's personal choice of the greatest mathematical works in history. He allows the reader to peer into the mind of genius by providing us with excerpts from original mathematical proofs and results. He also helps us understand the progression of mathematical thoug ...Show more
The Essential Einstein : His greatest works by Albert Einstein
$28.00 AUD
Category: Science
Albert Einstein changed the way physicists view the universe - and transformed the way we all see the world. Just over one hundred years ago, his Theory of Relativity stunned scientists, but today it is integral to modern thought as the most important scientific discovery of the twentieth century. In th ...Show more
A Briefer History of Time by Stephen Hawking, Leonard Mlodinow
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science | Reading Level: very good
"Stephen Hawking s worldwide bestseller, A Brief History of Time, has been a landmark volume in scientific writing. Its author s engaging voice is one reason, and the compelling subjects he addresses is another- the nature of space and time, the role of God in creation, the history and future of the uni ...Show more
No Two Alike - Human Nature and Human Individuality by Judith Rich Harris
$25.95 AUD
Category: Science
Harris turns out to be well suited for the role of detective--it isn't easy to pull the wool over her eyes. She rounds up the usual suspects and shows why none of the currently popular explanations for human differences--birth order effects, for example, or interactions between genes and environment--ca ...Show more
Einstein: Stubbornly Persistent Illusion by Albert Einstein
$49.95 AUD
Category: Science
From the work that "made" modern scientific thought and his important discoveries, to his later musings on his landmark findings and his philosophical essays on Zionism and other important issues of the 20th Century, "Einstein" is the most extensive anthology of the scientist, and the only one to provid ...Show more
A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
$25.95 AUD
Category: Science | Reading Level: very good
In the ten years since its publication in 1988, Stephen Hawking's classic work has become a landmark volume in scientific writing, with more than nine million copies in forty languages sold worldwide. That edition was on the cutting edge of what was then known about the origins and nature of the univers ...Show more
The Natural Advantage of Nations (Volume I) by Karlson
$49.95 AUD
Category: Science
Business Opportunities, Innovation and Governance in the 21st Century This book is about innovation, solutions, competitiveness and profitability. It is also about building environmental integrity and sustainability now and for future generations. The Natural Advantage of Nations pulls together for the ...Show more
The Jewel House
$46.99 AUD
Category: Science
This book explores the streets, shops, back alleys, and gardens of Elizabethan London where a boisterous and diverse group of men and women shared a keen interest in the study of nature. These assorted merchants, gardeners, barber-surgeons, midwives, instrument makers, mathematics teachers, engineers, a ...Show more
ETERNITY by Hanlon Michael
$49.95 AUD
Category: Science
Received wisdom says that our world is doomed, that we live in the End of Days. Our greed and profligacy will be the end of us, and of our planet, in very short order indeed. If not global warming, then supervolcanoes, meteoric impacts or nuclear war, bioterrorism or some natural plague will spell Armag ...Show more
Built by Animals : the natural history of animal architecture by Mike Hansell
$26.95 AUD
Category: Science
From termite mounds that in relative terms are three times as tall as a skyscraper, to the elaborate nests of social birds and the deadly traps of spiders, the constructions of the animal world can amaze and at times humble our own engineering and technology. But how do creatures with such small brains ...Show more