Europe: The First 100 Million Years by Tim Flannery
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
It is hard to overstate just how unusual Europe was towards the end of the age of the dinosaurs. It was a dynamic island arc whose individual landmasses were made up of diverse geological types, including ancient continental fragments, raised segments of oceanic crust, and land newly minted by volcanic ...Show more
Maths Tricks to Blow Your Mind by Kyle D. Evans
$19.99 AUD
Category: Science
What is 4% of 75?Can you calculate 60 + 60 x 0 + 1?Which is bigger, an 18-inch pizza or two 12-inch pizzas?
Frogs of the World: A Guide to Every Family by Mark O'Shea, Simon Maddock
$49.99 AUD
Category: Science | 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
The Little Book of Spiders by Simon Pollard
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Little Books of Nature Ser.
A charming, richly illustrated, pocket-size exploration of the world’s spiders.Packed with surprising facts, this delightful and gorgeously designed book will beguile any nature lover. Expertly written and beautifully illustrated throughout with colour photographs and original colour artwork, The Little ...Show more
The Little Book of Beetles by Arthur V. Evans
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Little Books of Nature Ser.
A charming, richly illustrated, pocket-size exploration of the world’s beetles.Packed with surprising facts, this delightful and gorgeously designed book will beguile any nature lover. Expertly written and beautifully illustrated throughout with color photographs and original color artwork, The Little B ...Show more
The Little Book of Trees by Herman Shugart, Peter White
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
A charming, richly illustrated, pocket-size exploration of the world’s trees.Packed with surprising facts, this delightful and gorgeously designed book will beguile any nature lover. Expertly written and beautifully illustrated throughout with colour photographs and original color artwork, The Little Bo ...Show more
Faking It: Artificial Intelligence in a Human World by Toby Walsh
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science
A prescient analysis of what makes artificial intelligence so ... artificial Artificially intelligent machines are set to play an increasingly important role in our lives. They will take the dirty tasks of life off our hands, as well as the dull, the difficult and the dangerous - which is a good thing. ...Show more
What a Mushroom Lives For - Matsutake and the Worlds They Make by Michael J. Hathaway
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
What a Mushroom Lives For pushes today's mushroom renaissance in compelling new directions. For centuries, Western science has promoted a human- and animal-centric framework of what counts as action, agency, movement, and behavior. But, as Michael Hathaway shows, the world-making capacities of mushrooms ...Show more
The Woman Who Changed Her Brain: Revised Edition by Barbara Arrowsmith-Young
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
The incredible story and miraculous work of a remarkable woman. Though she began life severely learning disabled, built herself a better brain and a brain training program that has helped thousands of others do the same. Barbara Arrowsmith-Young was born with severe learning disabilities that caused ...Show more
Rage Inside the Machine: The Prejudice of Algorithms, and How to Stop the Internet Making Bigots of Us All by Robert E. Smith
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
We live in a world increasingly ruled by technology; we seem as governed by technology as we do by laws and regulations. Frighteningly often, the influence of technology in and on our lives goes completely unchallenged by citizens and governments. We comfort ourselves with the soothing refrain that tech ...Show more
Eight Improbable Possibilities: The Mystery of the Moon, and Other Implausible Scientific Truths by John Gribbin
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science
'Gribbin casts a wide net and displays his breadth of knowledge in packing a lot into each chapter . . . a brief read, but one that may inspire readers to dig deeper.' Giles Sparrow, BBC Sky at Night Magazine A mind-warping excursion into the wildly improbable truths of science. Echoing Sherlock Holme ...Show more
Game Theory: Understanding the Mathematics of Life by Brian Clegg
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science
Brian Clegg was always fascinated by Isaac Asimov's classic Foundation series of books, in which the future is predicted using sophisticated mathematical modelling of human psychology and behaviour. Only much later did he realise that Asimov's 'psychohistory' had a real-world equivalent: game theory. Or ...Show more