Mission to Pluto - The First Visit to an Ice Dwarf and the Kuiper Belt by Mary Kay Carson; Tom Uhlman (By (photographer))
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Scientists in the Field Ser.
In July of 2015, a robotic spacecraft reached Pluto after a nine-and-a-half-year journey. Explore with New Horizons in this new-to-paperback book about the first mission to Pluto, which revealed the ice dwarf and its five moons as they had never been seen before. Images from the mission show a reddish s ...Show more
Nikola Tesla and the Electrical Future by Iwan Rhys Morus
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science
A new biography of electrical pioneer Nikola Tesla, one of the most enigmatic and influential figures in the history of science.
Letters from an Astrophysicist by Neil deGrasse Tyson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Astronomy | Reading Level: very good
Join the galactic conversation on the biggest issues in the universe 'Don't fear change. Don't fear failure. The only thing to fear is loss of ambition. But if you've got plenty of that, then you have nothing to fear at all' - Neil deGrasse Tyson Neil deGrasse Tyson is arguably the most influential, acc ...Show more
Flesh Made New: The Unnatural History and Broken Promises of Stem Cell Research by Carl Power; John Rasko
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Category: Science
The dazzling promise of stem-cell treatment: does it work and will it save us? Two experts look at the hype For decades, we've been anticipating the dawn of regenerative medicine. Again and again, we've been promised that stem cells will soon cure just about every ill imaginable. If not tomorrow, then t ...Show more
The Road to Gondwana - In search of the lost supercontinent by Bill Morris
$39.99 AUD
Category: Science | Reading Level: near fine
The Road to Gondwana traces the steps science took to find Gondwana, and the journey Gondwana itself took through 500 million years of Earth history. The road to Gondwana took western science many hundreds of years to travel. And like Scott's epic haul across the ice of Antarctica, it was a journey jagg ...Show more
The Fourth Dimension - Sacred Geometry, Alchemy and Mathematics by Rudolf Steiner; Catherine Creeger (translation) and David Booth (introduction)
$44.99 AUD
Category: Science
6 lectures, Berlin, March - June 19052 lectures, November 7, 1905 & October 22, 1908 (CW 324) The point, line, plane and solid objects represent the first three dimensions, but a kind of reversal of space is involved in the ascent to a fourth dimension. Steiner leads us to the brink of this new per ...Show more
How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems by Randall Munroe
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Category: Science | Series: Useless Self Help Guide | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
The world's most entertaining and useless self-help guide, from the brilliant mind behind the wildly popular webcomic xkcd and the million-selling What If? and Thing Explainer For any task you might want to do, there's a right way, a wrong way, and a way so monumentally bad that no one would ever try i ...Show more
As Far As the Eye Can See - A History of Seeing by S. Denham Wade
$49.99 AUD
Category: Science
From the mastery of fire a million years ago, humans repeatedly invented new ways to see their surroundings, each other and themselves. Artificial light, early art, mirrors, writing, lenses, printing, photography, film, television, the smart phone. These tools shaped Western culture and made us who we a ...Show more
Frozen Planet II by Mark Brownlow,Elizabeth White
$59.99 AUD
Category: Science
Accompanying the landmark BBC series narrated by David Attenborough, an unforgettable exploration of our most fragile worlds of beauty and brutalityFind a world of wonder beneath the ice. One quarter of our planet is frozen, locked in ice and blanketed with snow. These are the last true wildernesses - s ...Show more
Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature by Sarah Hart
$37.99 AUD
Category: Science
"An exuberant enthusiasm for mathematics (and life in general) shines through Dr. Hart." --The New York Times "An absolute joy to read!" --Steven Levitt, New York Times bestselling author of Freakonomics For fans of Seven Brief Lessons in Physics, an exploration of the many ways mathematics can tran ...Show more
The Plant Thieves: Secrets of the herbarium by Prudence Gibson
$39.99 AUD
Category: Science
The Plant Thieves reveals remarkable stories from the National Herbarium of New South Wales — its people, its archives and its most guarded specimens.Who gets to collect plants, name them, propagate them, extract their chemicals, sell them and use them? Whose knowledge is it? And what can the people tha ...Show more
The Deadly Rise of Anti-science: A Scientist's Warning by Peter J. Hotez
$56.99 AUD
Category: Science
Dr. Peter Hotez discusses how an antivaccine movement became a dangerous political campaign promoted by elected officials and amplified by news media, causing thousands of American deaths. During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, one renowned scientist, in his famous bowtie, appeared daily on major n ...Show more