Sort by:
We Are Electric: The New Science of Our Body's Electrome
Author: Sally Adee Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 You may be familiar with the idea of our body's biome - the bacterial fauna that populates our gut and can...
Control: Now the major BBC Radio 4 series BAD BLOOD
Author: Adam Rutherford Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 * FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF HOW TO ARGUE WITH A RACIST * Throughout history, people have sought to...
The Four-Dimensional Human: Ways of Being in the Digital World
Author: Laurence Scott Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 You are a four-dimensional human. A constellation of everyday digital phenomena is rewiring your inner life, increasingly coaxing you...
The Whole Truth: A Cosmologist's Reflections on the Search for Objective Reality
Author: P. J. E. Peebles Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 264 A century ago, thoughtful people questioned how reality could agree with physical theories that keep changing, from a mechanical...
Proving Einstein Right: The Daring Expeditions that Changed How We Look at the Universe
Author: Cathie Pelletier Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 In 1916, a nearly unknown German-born theoretical physicist named Albert Einstein had developed his theory of relativity, but hadn't yet been...
The Hope Circuit: A Psychologist's Journey from Helplessness to Optimism
$20.00 AUD
Author: Martin E. P. Seligman (University of Pennsylvania) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 One of the most influential living psychologists looks at the history of his life and discipline,...
Every Life Is On Fire: How Thermodynamics Explains the Origins of Living Things
$7.50 AUD
Author: Jeremy England Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Why are we alive? Most things in the universe aren't. And if you trace the evolutionary history of plants and animals...
All Hell Breaking Loose: The Pentagon's Perspective on Climate Change
Author: Michael Klare Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 The Pentagon, unsentimental and politically conservative, might not seem likely to be worried about climate change-still linked, for many people, with...
A Mind Unraveled: A Memoir
$7.50 AUD
Author: Kurt Eichenwald Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 The compelling story of an acclaimed journalist and New York Times bestselling author's ongoing struggle with epilepsy--how, through personal resilience and...
Cosmos Possible Worlds
Author: Ann Druyan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Based on National Geographic s internationally-renowned television series, this groundbreaking and visually stunning book explores how science and civilization grew up...
Crossing into Medicine Country: A Journey in Native American Healing
Author: David Carson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Here is David Carson's personal story of his initiation into the healing rites of the Choctaw with medicine woman Mary Gardener....
The General Rule A Guide to Customary Weights and Measures
$5.00 AUD
Author: Vivian T. Linacre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 168 An essential collection of articles, tables and notes, to define and explain the modern uses and relationships -...
Diamonds Everywhere: Awe-inspiring astronomy discoveries
Author: Tom Kerss Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Answers to the mysteries of the cosmos for inquiring minds. Explore the entire cosmos in 101 fascinating topics - from mind-blowing...
Rivers of Power: How a Natural Force Raised Kingdoms, Destroyed Civilizations, and Shapes Our World
$7.50 AUD
Author: Laurence C Smith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 An eye-opening, sometimes alarming, and ultimately inspiring natural history of rivers and their complex and ancient relationship with human civilization...
The Science of the Oven
Author: Herve This (AgroParisTech) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 216 Mayonnaise "takes" when a series of liquids form a semisolid consistency. Eggs, a liquid, become solid as they are heated,...
Extended Heredity: A New Understanding of Inheritance and Evolution
Author: Russell Bonduriansky Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 There is much more to heredity than genes For much of the twentieth century it was assumed that genes alone mediate...
Bedeviled: A Shadow History of Demons in Science
Author: Jimena Canales Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 How scientists through the ages have conducted thought experiments using imaginary entities - demons - to test the laws of nature...
Million Dollar Maths: The Secret Maths of Becoming Rich (or Poor)
Author: Hugh Barker Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 How can you turn $1000 into $1 million? What is the best way to beat the lottery odds? When is the...
Honey Bee Pests and Diseases: A complete guide to prevention and management
Author: Jean-Pierre Y. Scheerlinck Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Honey Bee Pests and Diseases provides up-to-date information on the management of honey bee diseases found globally, not just in...
The Science of Fate: The New Science of Who We Are - And How to Shape our Best Future
Author: Hannah Critchlow Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 'A truly fascinating - if unnerving - read' The Telegraph 'Acute, mind-opening, highly accessible - this book doesn't just...
Life Is Simple: How Occam's Razor Set Science Free and Shapes the Universe
$10.00 AUD
Author: Johnjoe McFadden Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 "In short, Life Is Simple is enthralling."--Michael Blastland, Prospect A biologist argues that simplicity is the guiding principle of the universe...
Jungle: How Tropical Forests Shaped the World--And Us
$10.00 AUD
Author: Patrick Roberts Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 "A bold, ambitious and truly wonderful history of the world"--Peter Wohlleben, author of The Hidden Life of Trees From the age...
Einstein And Culture
Author: Gerhard Sonnert Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 427 Popular images of Albert Einstein often depict him as either an almost superhuman solitary genius or as a counter-cultural rebel. In...
Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military
Author: Neil deGrasse Tyson (American Museum of Natural History) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 An exploration of the age-old complicity between skywatchers and warfighters, from the best-selling author of...
The World of All Creatures Great & Small: Welcome to Skeldale House
Author: All Creatures Great and Small Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Welcome to the wonderful world of Skeldale House: the veterinary surgery and bustling waiting room for the locals...
The World at Night: Spectacular photographs of the night sky
Author: Babak Tafreshi Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 See the full beauty of our night sky revealed as never before in over 200 photographs from around the world. Bringing...
Underbug: An Obsessive Tale of Termites and Technology
Author: Lisa Margonelli Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The award-winning journalist Lisa Margonelli, national bestselling author of Oil on the Brain: Petroleum's Long, Strange Trip to Your Tank, investigates...
On Task: How Our Brain Gets Things Done
Author: David Badre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 312 A look at the extraordinary ways the brain turns thoughts into actions-and how this shapes our everyday lives. Why...
Hot Carbon: Carbon-14 and a Revolution in Science
Author: Professor John Marra Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 280 There are few fields of science that carbon-14 has not touched. A radioactive isotope of carbon, it stands out for...
Human Origins: 7 Million Years and Counting
$10.00 AUD
Author: New Scientist Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Where did we come from? Where are we going? Homo sapiens is the most successful, the most widespread and...
Casanova's Guide to Medicine: 18th Century Medical Practice
Author: Lisetta Lovett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Giacomo Casanova's (1725-1798) reputation as libertine has sadly eclipsed his talents as scholar, linguist, prolific writer and manque doctor. Fortunately for...
A Natural History of the Future: What the Laws of Biology Tell Us about the Destiny of the Human Species
$10.00 AUD
Author: Rob Dunn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 "An arresting vision of this relentless natural world"--New York Times Book Review A leading ecologist argues that if humankind is to...
Zero to Birth: How the Human Brain Is Built
Author: William A. Harris Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 By the time a baby is born, its brain is equipped with billions of intricately crafted neurons wired together through...
The Sky Is for Everyone: Women Astronomers in Their Own Words
Author: Virginia Trimble Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 504 The Sky Is for Everyone is an internationally diverse collection of autobiographical essays by women who broke down barriers and changed...
Diary of an Apprentice Astronaut
$15.00 AUD
Author: Samantha Cristoforetti Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti's intimate account of her first journey to the International Space Station, to which she returns in 2022, as...
Opium: How an Ancient Flower Shaped and Poisoned Our World
Author: David Blistein Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 In 2017 over 60,000 Americans died as the result of opioid overdoses, more than died annually in this country during the...
How to Argue With a Racist: History, Science, Race and Reality
Author: Adam Rutherford Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK 'The ultimate anti-racism guide' Caroline Criado Perez...
No Shadow of a Doubt: The 1919 Eclipse That Confirmed Einstein's Theory of Relativity
Author: Daniel Kennefick Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 'One of Nature's Top Ten Books of 2019' 'Finalist for the PROSE Award in History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, Association...
The Human Swarm
$22.50 AUD
Author: Mark W. Moffett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 The epic story, ultimate big history, and "remarkable intellectual achievement" (Quarterly Review of Biology) describing how human society evolved from...
On the Trail of Stardust: The Guide to Finding Micrometeorites: Tools, Techniques, and Identification
Author: Jon Larsen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Stardust-also known as micrometeorites-is the oldest matter anywhere. Nothing has traveled farther to reach Earth. For a century, scientists...
Fast Asleep: How to get a really good night's rest
$10.00 AUD
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...
How Your Brain Works: Inside the Most Complicated Object in the Known Universe
$12.00 AUD
Author: New Scientist Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 How Your Brain Works explores the amazing world inside your head. Ever wondered what's going on inside your head? The brain...
Ingenium: Five Machines That Changed the World
Author: Mark Denny Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 200 Ingenium is medieval English vernacular for "an ingenious contrivance." In this fascinating book, physicist Mark Denny considers five such contrivances-the bow...
Trouble with Gravity: Solving the Mystery Beneath Our Feet
Author: Richard Panek Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 An award-winning science writer plumbs the depths of the greatest mystery in physics, showing how gravity has shaped our universe, minds,...
Harmless Naturalism: The Limits of Science and the Nature of Philosophy
Author: Robert Almeder Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 235 In seeking to defend a form of naturalism that avoids both scientism and the reduction of philosophy to science,...
Designing Reality How to Survive and Thrive in the Third Digital Revolution
Author: Neil Gershenfeld Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 The 20th century witnessed two digital revolutions. Computing power has revolutionized every industry, from finance to agriculture to pharmaceuticals. We've got...
Spark: The Life of Electricity and the Electricity of Life
Author: Timothy J. Jorgensen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 440 When we think of electricity, we likely imagine the energy humming inside our home appliances or lighting up our electronic...
Human Frontiers : The Future of Big Ideas in an Age of Small Thinking
Author: Michael Bhaskar Format: Paperback Number of Pages: Where next for humanity? Is our future one of endless improvement in all areas of life, from technology and travel to medicine,...