Flatland by Edwin Abbott
$16.95 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'Upward, yet not Northward.' How would a creature limited to two dimensions be able to grasp the possibility of a third? Edwin A. Abbott's droll and delightful 'romance of many dimensions' explores this conundrum in the experiences of his protagonist, A Square, whose linear world is invaded by an emissa ...Show more
Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream : A Day in the Life of Your Body by Jennifer Ackerman
$32.95 AUD
Category: Science
Acclaimed science writer Jennifer Ackerman lends her keen eye and lively voice to this marvellous exploration of the human body. Taking us through a typical day, from the arousal of the senses in the morning to the reverie of sleep and dreams, Ackerman reveals the human form as we have never seen it: bu ...Show more
Newton by Peter Ackroyd
$39.95 AUD
Category: Science
Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) is said to have made his greatest contributions to original thought in science in 1665-6 while at his parents' home in Lincolnshire escaping the Great Plague (which had closed the universities), a period of which he wrote: 'I was in the prime of my age for invention'. It was ...Show more
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2006 by Tim Folger (ed.)
$22.95 AUD
Category: Science | Reading Level: good
Weird Science and Bizarre Beliefs by Gregory L. Reece
$32.00 AUD
Category: Science
Does the giant Yeti roam the mountain ranges of Tibet? Does a real-life Shangri-La lie waiting to be discovered in a Himalayan valley? Do transmissions from lost civilizations beam messages of salvation to humankind? What lost creatures lurk in the murky depths of Scotland's brooding Loch Ness? And who ...Show more
Climate Change Begins At Home by REAY Dave
$29.95 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Macmillan Science Ser.
Packed with provocative case studies, calculations and lifestyle comparisons, this entertaining and authoritative book makes the complexities of climatology understandable and challenges readers to rethink their notions of 'doing their bit'. The paperback edition features a new preface from Mark Lynas, ...Show more
Climate Change Begins at Home by Dave Reay
$49.95 AUD
Category: Science
Cut Your Greenhouse Gas Emissions Today This book quantifies how and why every one of us can and must halt climate change by taking action at home, in the garden, on the way to work, in the office, on holiday, at the supermarket, the bank and event the funeral parlour. By 2050 one third of all spec ...Show more
The Emerging Mind by Vilaynur Ramachandran
$21.95 AUD
Category: Science
A scintillating introduction to the latest thinking on the brain and the mind by the world
Warped Passages : Unravelling the Universe's Hidden Dimensions by Lisa Randall
$26.95 AUD
Category: Science
In Warped Passages one of the world's most exciting scientists gives us a glimpse into our future. Incredibly readable - and illustrated throughout - it allows the general reader to understand the questions that scientists are dealing with at the frontiers of research today. Lisa Randall allows the read ...Show more
NATURAL ACTS A SIDELONG VIEW OF SCIENCE AND NATURE by QUAMMEN
$27.95 AUD
Category: Science
'Lively writing about science and nature depends less on the offering of good answers, I think, than on the offering of good questions,' said David Quammen in the original introduction to "Natural Acts". For more than two decades, he has stuck to that credo. In this updated version of his first essay co ...Show more
The Kiwi's Egg : Charles Darwin & Natural Selection by David Quammen
$49.95 AUD
Category: Science
Evolution, during the early nineteenth century, was an idea in the air. Other thinkers had suggested it, but no one had proposed a cogent explanation for HOW evolution occurs. Then, in September 1838, a young Englishman named Charles Darwin hit upon the idea that 'natural selection' among competing indi ...Show more