Life's Edge - Searching for What It Means to Be Alive by Carl Zimmer
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science
Carl Zimmer investigates one of the biggest questions of all: What is life? The answer seems obvious until you try to seriously answer it. Is the apple sitting on your kitchen counter alive, or is only the apple tree it came from deserving of the word? If we can't answer that question here on earth, how ...Show more
Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX by Eric Berger
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science
The dramatic inside story of the first four historic flights that launched SpaceX-and Elon Musk-from a shaky startup into the world's leading edge rocket company. In 2006, SpaceX-a brand-new venture with fewer than 200 employees-rolled its first, single-engine rocket onto a launch pad at Kwajalein Atoll ...Show more
Light in the Darkness: Unveiling the Secrets of Black Holes and the Nature of the Human Spirit by PROFESSOR HEINO. ROEMER FALCKE (JOERG.)
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science
For readers of Stephen Hawking, a fascinating account of the universe from the perspective of world-leading astrophysicist Heino Falcke, who took the first ever picture of a black hole. 10th April 2019: a global sensation. Heino Falcke, a man "working at the boundaries of his discipline and therefore a ...Show more
Lightning Often Strikes Twice: The 50 Biggest Misconceptions in Science by Brian Clegg
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
You may well be familiar with the fact that lightning, contrary to the popular saying, often strikes the same place twice. But this is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to what many of us wrongly believe about the way the world works. Whether it's word of mouth, myths you've read about online, ...Show more
Limitless Mind - The New Science of Learning, Mindset and Human Potential by Jo Boaler
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science
When we learn, we change what we believe and how we interact with the world. This changes who we are as people and what we can achieve. Many people grow up being told they are 'not a maths person' or perhaps 'not smart'. They come to believe their potential is limited. Now, however, the latest science h ...Show more
Liquid: the Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives by Mark Miodownik
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science
A series of glasses of transparent liquids is in front of you- but which will quench your thirst and which will kill you? And why? Why does one liquid make us drunk, and another power a jumbo jet? From the bestselling author of Stuff Matters comes a fascinating tour of the world of these surprising or ...Show more
Little Species, Big Mystery: The Story of Homo Floresiensis by Debbie Argue
$39.99 AUD
Category: Science
A thrilling tale of discovery and the history of Homo floresiensisThere is only one kind of human on earth today- us. But we are only one of a number of human species - primates of the Hominini tribe - that have existed on our planet across the millennia. In 2004 the world was astounded by the discovery ...Show more
Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain by David Eagleman
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science
How can a blind person learn to see with her tongue or a deaf person learn to hear with his skin? What does a baby born without a nose tell us about our sensory machinery? Might we someday control a robot with our thoughts? And what does any of this have to do with why we dream?The answers to these ques ...Show more
Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain by David Eagleman
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science
Drawing on cutting-edge research this book demonstrates the brain's ability to change, rewire and heal, from the internationally bestselling author.
Living with the Anthropocene: Love, Loss and Hope in the Face of Environmental Crisis by Cameron Muir (Editor); Jennifer Newell (Editor); Kirsten Wehner (Editor)
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science
Australia — and the world — is changing. On the Great Barrier Reef corals bleach white, across the inland farmers struggle with declining rainfall, birds and insects disappear from our gardens and plastic waste chokes our shores. The 2019–20 summer saw bushfires ravage the country like never before and ...Show more
London of the Future by THE LONDON SOCIETY
$120.00 AUD
Category: Science
What will London be like in a hundred years' time? A century ago, having asked this question, the London Society published London of the Future, a bold, visionary work that predicted city-centre airports and Channel tunnels, and addressed such prescient concerns as pollution, housing and access to publi ...Show more
Long Half-Life: The Nuclear Industry in Australia by Ian Lowe
$34.95 AUD
Category: Science
Australia has been directly involved in the nuclear industry for more than a century, but our involvement has never been comprehensively documented. Long Half-life tells the social and political history of Australia’s role, from the first discovery of radioactive ores in 1906 to contemporary contentious ...Show more