Wildhood by Barbara Natterson-Horowitz, Kathryn Bowers
$35.00 AUD
Category: Popular Science
A revelatory investigation of human and animal adolescence and young adulthood from the New York Times bestselling authors of Zoobiquity. Teenagers- behind the banter, the tediously repetitive games and clicks, the shouting and screaming, the fast living, and the strutting and preening lie the rules of ...Show more
Atlas of the Southern Sky - 5th edition by Steve Massey; Steve Quirk
$42.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
If you ever needed a book to help you explore the wonderful nightskies from down under, be it Australia, South America, South Africaor New Zealand, this is it!. With hundreds of full colour star chartsand maps of the Moon and planets of our Solar System, this bookwill ensure you get the most out of a pa ...Show more
Brilliance and Fire - A Biography of Diamonds by Rachelle Bergstein
$19.99 AUD
$54.99 (63% off)
Category: Popular Science
"A diamond is forever." Who among us doesn't recognize this slogan and, with it, the fascination that diamonds hold in our collective imagination as emblems of royalty, glamor, and eternal love? Rachelle Bergstein's cultural biography illuminates the enticing, often surprising story of our society's end ...Show more
Introducing Stephen Hawking: A Graphic Guide by J.P. McEvoy
$16.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science | Series: Introducing... S.
Stephen Hawking is the world-famous physicist with a cameo in "The Simpsons on his CV", but outside his academic field his work is little understood. To the public he is a tragic figure - a brilliant scientist and author of the 9 million-copy-selling "A Brief History of Time", and yet confined to a whee ...Show more
Adam Spencer's Numberland by Adam Spencer
$34.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
Australia's funniest mathematician returns in 2019 with more rollicking romps through the world of science, technology, numbers and all things nerdy. This terrific new fully illustrated title follows on from Adam's bestselling Big Book of Numbers (2014); World of Numbers (2015), Time Machine (2016), The ...Show more
Astronomy 2020 Australia by Glenn Dawes and Peter Northfield and Ken Wallace
$29.95 AUD
Category: Popular Science
This annual gem (produced each year since 1991) continues to take the Australian stargazer on a wondrous journey of the night sky. This critically acclaimed work, produced by three well known experts in the field, takes a unique approach to explaining and identifying the Sun, Moon, planets and constella ...Show more
Dr Karl's Random Road Trip Through Science by Karl Kruszelnicki
$35.00 AUD
Category: Popular Science | Reading Level: 4 Science
In this, his 45th book, Dr Karl goes full kolour, with brilliant and funny illustrations to match his dress sense. So take a technikolour trip through science with the intrepid Dr Karl, Australia's favourite science guru. Q: HOW MANY DR KARL BOOKS ARE THERE IN THE UNIVERSE?A: MORE THAN A MILLION! Dr Kar ...Show more
Introducing Artificial Intelligence: A Graphic Guide by Henry Brighton; Howard Selina (Illustrator)
$16.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science | Series: Introducing... Ser.
Half a century of research has resulted in machines capable of beating the best human chess players, and humanoid robots that can interact. But can machines really think? Is the mind just a complicated computer program? Introducing Artificial Intelligence focuses on the issues behind one of science's ...Show more
Introducing Particle Physics: A Graphic Guide by Tom Whyntie, Oliver Pugh
$16.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science | Series: Introducing...
What really happens at the most fundamental levels of nature? Introducing Particle Physics explores the very frontiers of our knowledge, even showing how particle physicists are now using theory and experiment to probe our very concept of what is real. From the earliest history of the atomic theory thro ...Show more
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson
$31.95 AUD
Category: Popular Science | Reading Level: near fine
# 1 New York Times BestsellerLibraryReads PickSMLWhat is the nature of space and time? How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit within us? Today, few of us have time to contemplate the cosmos. Now Neil deGrasse Tyson brings the universe down to Earth succinctly and clearly, within sp ...Show more
Radio Astronomer: John Bolton and a New Window on the Universe by Peter Robertson
$39.99 AUD
$59.99 (33% off)
Category: Popular Science
The leading Australian astronomer of his generation, John Bolton (1922-93), was born in Sheffield and educated at Cambridge University. After wartime service in the Royal Navy, he arrived in Sydney and joined the CSIRO Radiophysics Laboratory. In the late 1940s he discovered and identified the first dis ...Show more
Vital Science by Karl Kruszelnicki
$19.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science | Reading Level: 4 Science
Get your pulse racing with Australia's most popular scientist, Dr Karl Kruszelnicki.Discover why people tell lies, why some planets are hotter than stars and how humans are terraforming the Earth. Is cockroach milk really the next Superfood? Why are birds so smart? Why do trees need each other to grow a ...Show more