An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us (2023 Royal Science Society Book Prize) by Ed Yong
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science & Technology
**SUNDAY TIMES and NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**A NEW YORK TIMES, GUARDIAN, ECONOMIST, SPECTATOR, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT and NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEARThe Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal is enclosed withi ...Show more
An Intimate History of Evolution: The Story of the Huxley Family by Alison Bashford
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science & Technology
In his early twenties, poor, depressed, stranded in the Coral Sea on the seemingly endless survey mission of HMS Rattlesnake, hopelessly in love with the young Englishwoman Henrietta Heathorn, Thomas Henry Huxley was a nobody. And yet together he and Henrietta would return to London and go on to found o ...Show more
Basic AI: A Human Guide to Artificial Intelligence by David Shrier
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science & Technology
In Basic AI, leading futurist David L. Shrier delves deep into the rapidly advancing world of artificial intelligence, delivering fascinating insights and exploring the impact this powerful technology will have on our lives and world. Artificial intelligence is driving workforce disruption on a scale no ...Show more
Being Human: How Our Biology Shaped World History by Lewis Dartnell
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science & Technology
A unique reframing of human history as shaped by our physical abilities and limitations - by the Sunday Times-bestselling author of Origins Being Human is history made flesh. It will change the way you see the world. We are a wonder of evolution. Powerful yet dextrous, instinctive yet thoughtful, we a ...Show more
Everything Is Predictable: How Bayes' Remarkable Theorem Explains the World by Tom Chivers
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science & Technology
Thomas Bayes was an eighteenth-century Presbyterian minister and amateur mathematician whose obscure life belied the profound impact of his work. Like most research into probability at the time, his theorem was mainly seen as relevant to games of chance, like dice and cards. But its implications soon be ...Show more
Frogs of the World: A Guide to Every Family by Mark O'Shea, Simon Maddock
$49.99 AUD
Category: Science & Technology | Series: A\Guide to Every Family Ser.
A richly illustrated guide to the world’s frogs that includes species from every family.With more than 7,600 known species, frogs exhibit an extraordinary range of forms and behaviours, from those that produce toxins so deadly that they could kill a human many times over to those that can survive being ...Show more
Impossible Monsters: Dinosaurs, Darwin and the Victorian War Between Science and Religion by Michael Taylor
$36.99 AUD
Category: Science & Technology
Impossible Monsters is the captivating story of the discovery of the dinosaurs and how it upended our understanding of the origins of the world - overturning the literal reading of the Bible, liberating science from the shackles of religion, and giving birth to the secular age.In 1811, a twelve-year-old ...Show more
Letters from an Astrophysicist by Neil deGrasse Tyson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science & Technology
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has attracted one of the world's largest online followings with his fascinating, widely accessible insights into science and our universe. Now, Tyson invites us to go behind the scenes of his public fame by unveiling his candid correspondence with people across the glo ...Show more
Moons: The Mysteries and Marvels of our Solar System by Kate Howells
$39.99 AUD
Category: Science & Technology
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 illustr ...Show more
Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilisation by Neil DeGrasse Tyson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science & Technology
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
Stuff Matters - The Strange Stories of the Marvellous Materials that Shape Our Man-made World by Mark A. Miodownik
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science & Technology
Stuff Matters by Mark Miodnownik is a unique and inspiring exploration of human creativity. "Enthralling. A mission to re-acquaint us with the wonders of the fabric that sustains our lives". (Guardian). Everything is made of something...From the everyday objects in our homes to the most extraordinary ne ...Show more
The Cloudspotter's Guide by Gavin Pretor-Pinney
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science & Technology | Reading Level: very good
'The clouds are nature's poetry, and the most egalitarian of her displays, since everyone has an equally fantastic view of them. Clouds are for dreamers, and their contemplation benefits the soul. Yet their beauty is so everyday as to be in danger of being overlooked ...' Gavin Pretor Pinney is the chai ...Show more