Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks
24.99 AUD
Category: Science
'A humane discourse on the fragility of our minds, of the bodies that give rise to them, and of the world they create for us. This book is filled with wonders' Daily Telegraph Oliver Sacks' compassionate tales of people struggling to adapt to different neurological conditions have fundamentally changed ...Show more
The Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene
26.95 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Penguin Press Science Ser.
From Brian Greene, one of the world's leading physicists, comes a grand tour of the universe that makes us look at reality in a completely different way. Space and time form the very fabric of the cosmos. Yet they remain among the most mysterious of concepts. Is space an entity? Why does time have a dir ...Show more
How We Learn: The Surprising Truth About When, Where and Why it Happens by Benedict Carey
19.99 AUD
Category: Science
This book will help you to learn Spanish - or the Spanish guitar - faster.This book will give an athlete the edge to turn Silver into Gold.This book will give any child the chance to perform better in exams. Full stop.How We Learn is a landmark book that shakes up everything we thought we knew about how ...Show more
Einstein's Masterwork: 1915 and the General Theory of Relativity by John Gribbin
22.99 AUD
Category: Science
In 1915, Albert Einstein presented his masterwork to the Prussian Academy of Sciences - a theory of gravity, matter, space and time: the General Theory of Relativity. Einstein himself said it was 'the most valuable theory of my life', and 'of incomparable beauty'. It describes the evolution of the Unive ...Show more
30-Second Theories by Paul Parsons
19.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: 30-Second
The primary ideas of science, presented in one easy-to-understand volume.
30-Second Evolution by Nicholas Battey
19.99 AUD
Category: Science
The 50 most significant ideas and events, each explained in half a minute.
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language by Steven Pinker
24.99 AUD
Category: Science
How do babies learn to speak? Why are there so many languages? Do we think in our mother tongue? Who decides what's correct English? How did language evolve? In this landmark book, Pinker explains the mysteries of language within a coherent theory- that language is an adaptation for communication.'Dazzl ...Show more
How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker
29.99 AUD
Category: Science
"A model of scientific writing: erudite, witty, and clear." --New York Review of Books In this Pulitzer Prize finalist and national bestseller, one of the world's leading cognitive scientists tackles the workings of the human mind. What makes us rational--and why are we so often irrational? How do we s ...Show more
The Engineering Book: From the Catapult to the Curiosity Rover, 250 Milestones in the History of Engineering by Marshall Brain
44.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Sterling Milestones
This is the latest in the bestselling Sterling Milestones series. It provides a detailed look at 250 milestones in the discipline of Engineering. It is written by the creator of the How Stuff Works series. Engineering is where human knowledge meets real-world problems and solves them. It's the source of ...Show more
The Homing Instinct: The Story and Science of Migration by Bernd Heinrich
22.99 AUD
Category: Science
The story and science of how animals find their way home. Home is the place we long for most, when we feel we have travelled too far, for too long. Since boyhood, acclaimed scientist and author Bernd Heinrich has returned every year to a beloved patch of woods in his native western Maine. But while it's ...Show more
This Idea Must Die - Scientific Theories That Are Blocking Progress by John Brockman (ed.)
24.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Edge Question Series
The bestselling editor of This Explains Everything brings together 175 of the world’s most brilliant minds to tackle Edge.org’s 2014 question: What scientific idea has become a relic blocking human progress? Each year, John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org—”The world’s smartest website” (The Guardian)—c ...Show more
Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy by Kip S. Thorne
23.95 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Commonwealth Fund Book Program
Which of these bizarre phenomena, if any, can really exist in our universe? Black holes, down which anything can fall but from which nothing can return; wormholes, short spacewarps connecting regions of the cosmos; singularities, where space and time are so violently warped that time ceases to exist and ...Show more