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
Longitude by Dava Sobel
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science
The dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest and of one man's forty-year obsession to find a solution to the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day--"the longitude problem." Anyone alive in the eighteenth century would have known that "the longitude problem" was the thorniest scientific dilemma ...Show more
Look Up: Why Space Is for Everyone... and Why It Matters by Sarah Cruddas
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
‘Sarah Cruddas is a gifted writer and Look Up is an inspired book. I am hopeful that we will never stop looking up.' Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins Most of us have never been to space. To date, of the more than 100 billion humans that have ever existed, fewer than 600 humans have ever left Earth. B ...Show more
Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries by Safi Bahcall
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
Washington Post's "10 Leadership Books to Watch for in 2019," Adam Grant's "19 New Leadership Books to Read in 2019," Inc.com's "10 Business Books You Need to Read in 2019""This book has everything: new ideas, bold insights, entertaining history and convincing analysis. Not to be missed by anyone who wa ...Show more
Losing Earth: The Decade We Could Have Stopped Climate Change by Nathaniel Rich
$19.99 AUD
Category: Science
By 1979, we knew all that we know now about the science of climate change - what was happening, why it was happening and how to stop it. Over the next ten years, we had the very real opportunity to stop it. Obviously, we failed. Nathaniel Rich's groundbreaking account of that failure - and how tantalis ...Show more
Love Triangle: The Life-changing Magic of Trigonometry by Matt Parker
$36.99 AUD
Category: Science
Explore the life-changing magic of trigonometry with Matt Parker, stand-up mathematician and No. 1 bestselling author of Humble Pi Why do mobile phones work when you're on a train? What happens when you pull a pop song apart into pure sine waves and play it back on a piano? And what did mathematicians ...Show more
Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality by Edward Frenkel
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science
A New York Times Science Bestseller What if you had to take an art class in which you were only taught how to paint a fence? What if you were never shown the paintings of van Gogh and Picasso, weren't even told they existed? Alas, this is how math is taught, and so for most of us it becomes the intellec ...Show more
Machines Behaving Badly : The Morality of AI by Toby Walsh
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science
Can we build moral machines? Toby Walsh, AI expert, examines the ethical issues we face in a future dominated by artificial intelligence.Artificial intelligence is an essential part of our lives - for better or worse. It can be used to influence what we buy, who gets shortlisted for a job and even how w ...Show more
Magicians: Great Minds and the Central Miracle of Science by M. CHOWN
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
The spellbinding story of the 'magicians': scientists whose eureka breakthroughs in modern physics reveal science's mysterious predictive power.