Pluses and Minuses: How Maths Solves Our Problems by Stefan Buijsman
$32.99 AUD
Category: New Science | Reading Level: very good
You look up from your phone for a moment to order an espresso. It's made with one of those large stainless-steel coffee makers that heats the water until it's precisely the right temperature. It keeps track of how fast the water warms up and uses that to calculate whether it needs to apply more or less ...Show more
The Disappearing Spoon (Young Readers Edition) by Sam Kean
$14.99 AUD
Category: New Science
Why did Gandhi hate iodine (I, 53)? Why did the Japanese kill Godzilla with missiles made of cadmium (Cd, 48)? How did radium (Ra, 88) nearly ruin Marie Curie's reputation? And why did tellurium (Te, 52) lead to the most bizarre gold rush in history? The periodic table is a crowning scientific achievem ...Show more
The Weather Obsession by Lawrie Zion
$29.99 AUD
Category: New Science
We have come a long way since the days when weather information could only be found in the back pages of newspapers. The Weather Obsession takes the temperature of modern weather media and investigates how it has fuelled our fascination with all things climatic. Weather information now pervades everythi ...Show more
Magnificent Minds: 16 Pioneering Women in Science and Medicine by NOYCE PENDRED
$39.99 AUD
Category: New Science | Series: Magnificent Minds Ser.
Winner of: National Science Teachers Foundation/Children's Book Council, Outstanding Science Trade Book Award Against all odds...the paths forged by these 16 pioneering women in science are astonishing examples of unparalleled achievement and resilience that wove compelling tales of the women in history ...Show more
Night School : Wake Up to the Power of Sleep by Richard Wiseman
$19.99 AUD
Category: New Science
Almost a third of your whole life is spent asleep. 'Night School' uncovers the scientific truth about the sleeping brain and gives powerful tips on how those hours of apparently dead time in the dark can transform your waking life.
Organics in the Global Food Chain by Bruno Mascitelli (Editor); Antonio Lobo (Editor)
$29.95 AUD
Category: New Science
This new book "Organics in the global food chain" is a long overdue scholarly treatment of organic food in its many derivations. It provides a multifaceted view of the obscure but growing concept of organic food in our food chain. Today's society has a greater appreciation of quality in what we eat and ...Show more
Crashing Through: A True Story of Risk, Adventure, and the Man Who Dared to See by Robert Kurson
$32.95 AUD
Category: New Science
In this beautifully written and thrillingly told true story of one man's heroic odyssey from blindness into sight, critically acclaimed author Robert Kurson takes us on a journey of suspense, daring, romance, and insight into the mysteries of vision and the brain.
From Buddha to Bono - Seeking Susta by HUNDLOE Tor
$34.95 AUD
Category: New Science
Today we desperately seek solutions to climate change, water scarcity, pollution and Third World poverty. But in order to go forward, first we must go back. From Buddha to Bono: Seeking Sustainability traces the development of the three key disciplines underpinning modern environmental decision-making, ...Show more
Faith and Wisdom in Science by Tom McLeish
$38.95 AUD
Category: New Science
"Do you have wisdom to count the clouds?" asks the voice of God from the whirlwind in the stunningly beautiful catalogue of nature-questions from the Old Testament Book of Job. Tom McLeish takes a scientist's reading of this ancient text as a centrepiece to make the case for science as a deeply human an ...Show more
Fueling Our Future by Robert L. Evans
$59.95 AUD
Category: New Science
One of the most important issues facing humanity today is the prospect of global climate change, brought about primarily by our prolific energy use and heavy dependence on fossil fuels. Fueling Our Future: An Introduction to Sustainable Energy provides a concise overview of current energy demand and sup ...Show more
An Australian Birding Year by R. BRUCE. RICHARDSON
$39.99 AUD
Category: New Science
A highly personal account of a phenomenal, once-in-a-lifetime adventure that saw Bruce and his wife, Lynn, embark on a year of travel and birding across the entire continent of Australia in a camper van. Their aim was to see as many birds as possible together in the year. It began with a fly-past of two ...Show more
Atlas of AI by Kate Crawford
$41.95 AUD
Category: New Science
The hidden costs of artificial intelligence, from natural resources and labor to privacy and freedomWhat happens when artificial intelligence saturates political life and depletes the planet? How is AI shaping our understanding of ourselves and our societies? In this book Kate Crawford reveals how this ...Show more