Exactly: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World by Simon Winchester
$24.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science | Reading Level: very good
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2018 Bestselling author Simon Winchester writes a magnificent history of the pioneering engineers who developed precision machinery to allow us to see as far as the moon and as close as the Higgs boson. Precision is the key to everything. It is an in ...Show more
Quiet: The power of introverts in a world that can't stop talking by Susan Cain
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Category: Popular Science | Reading Level: very good
The little book with a very big idea that has everyone talking Quiet, the Sunday Times and New York Times Bestseller by Susan Cain, will permanently change how we see introverts - and how you see yourself. Our lives are driven by a fact most of us can't name and don't understand- whether we're an introv ...Show more
The Hidden Life of Trees - What They Feel, How They Communicate - Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben
$29.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science | Reading Level: good
Are trees social beings? In this international bestseller, forester and author Peter Wohlleben convincingly makes the case that, yes, the forest is a social network. He draws on groundbreaking scientific discoveries to describe how trees are like human families: tree parents live together with their chi ...Show more
Rewording the Brain by David Astle
$29.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
Master wordsmith and crossword king David Astle scientifically proves how cryptic crosswords can ward off dementia.
Memory Code by Lynne Kelly
$32.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
In the past, the elders had encyclopaedic memories. They could name all the animals and plants across the landscape, and the stars in the sky too. Yet most of us struggle to memorise more than a short poem. Using traditional Aboriginal Australian songlines as the key, Lynne Kelly has identified the powe ...Show more
Moonshots: 50 Years of NASA Space Exploration Seen through Hasselblad Cameras by Piers Bizony
$49.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
Available in paperback to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, Moonshots presents stunning photos of space and Earth from NASA's archives--taken by Gemini, Apollo, Space Shuttle, and ISS astronauts using high resolution Hasselblad cameras. In December 1968, the crew of Apollo ...Show more
Political Tribes - Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations by Amy Chua
$22.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
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Dark Matter and Dark Energy by Brian Clegg
$19.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science | Series: Hot Science Ser.
All the matter and light we can see in the universe makes up a trivial 5per cent of everything. The rest is hidden. This could be the biggest puzzle that science has everfaced. Since the 1970s,astronomers have been aware that galaxies have far too little matter in them toaccount for the way they spin ar ...Show more
Atlas of the Unexpected - Haphazard Discoveries, Chance Places and Unimaginable Destinations by Travis Elborough
$39.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
In 45 beautiful, unique maps and with evocative photography, Atlas of the Unexpected is a journey to far-off lands, obscure discoveries and unimaginable locations. From the fortuitous discovery of the Dead Sea scrolls by a stray goat, to the wonderfully bizarre beginnings that led to the aptly named Jus ...Show more
The Maths Book (Big Ideas Simply Explained) by .
$39.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science | Series: Big Ideas
Take a journey through the fascinating story of fractions, numbers, patterns, and shapes in order to better understand the complex world we live in. Continuing the "Big Ideas" series' trademark combination of authoritative, clear text and bold graphics to chart the development of maths through history, ...Show more
Brief Answers to the Big Questions by Stephen Hawking
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Category: Popular Science | Reading Level: very good
'A beautiful little book by a brilliant mind' Steven Poole, DAILY TELEGRAPH The world-famous cosmologist and #1 bestselling author of A Brief History of Time leaves us with his final thoughts on the universe's biggest questions in this brilliant posthumous work. Is there a God? How did it all begin? C ...Show more
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change by Charles Duhigg
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Category: Popular Science | Reading Level: near fine
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - This instant classic explores how we can change our lives by changing our habits. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Wall Street Journal - Financial Times In The Power of Habit, award-winning business reporterCharles Duhigg takes us to the thrilling edge of sc ...Show more