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The New Geography of Innovation: The global contest for breakthrough

The New Geography of Innovation: The global contest for breakthrough

$34.99 AUD$29.74 AUD
The US is the source of just about all the technologies that define modern life: personal computers, operating systems, smartphones, e-commerce, web browsers, email, search engines, social networks, electric cars...
Inventors and Inventions

Inventors and Inventions

$49.99 AUD$42.49 AUD
Inventors and Inventions takes a refreshing look into the fascinating history of inventors and inventions. With encyclopaedic breadth, the book follows a diverse list of inventions from their earliest manifestations...
The Knowledge Machine: How an Unreasonable Idea Created Modern Science

The Knowledge Machine: How an Unreasonable Idea Created Modern Science

$49.99 AUD$42.49 AUD
Rich with tales of discovery from Galileo to general relativity, a stimulating and timely analysis of how science works and why we need it It is only in the last...
The Light Ages: A Medieval Journey of Discovery

The Light Ages: A Medieval Journey of Discovery

$26.99 AUD
A spellbinding journey through the life of an English monk, an age of discovery and the mysteries of the medieval mind The Middle Ages were a time of wonder. They...
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

$32.99 AUD$28.04 AUD
***NOW A MAJOR HOLLYWOOD FILM DIRECTED BY CHRISTOPHER NOLAN*** WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NONFICTION 'Reads like a thriller, gripping and terrifying' - Sunday Times Physicist and polymath, as...
An Ancient Air

An Ancient Air

$29.95 AUD$15.00 AUD
Examines the life of John Stringfellow of Chard, the first man to demonstrate that engine-powered winged flight was practicable. It reveals his lifelong obsession with aviation and seeks to shed...
Lives of Boulton and Watt

Lives of Boulton and Watt

$42.99 AUD$34.39 AUD
James Watt transformed steam engine technology by inventing the condensing engine. He collaborated with Matthew Boulton to form a engineering firm in 1773, which went on to monopolise production of...
The Everything Blueprint: The Microchip Design that Changed the World

The Everything Blueprint: The Microchip Design that Changed the World

$59.99 AUD$30.00 AUD
**A Financial Times Best Summer Book 2023**Out now: a gripping look at the rise of the microchip and the British tech company behind the blueprint to it all.'A gripping and...
Pioneering Places of British Aviation: The Early Adventures of Powered Flight in the UK

Pioneering Places of British Aviation: The Early Adventures of Powered

$59.99 AUD$47.99 AUD
From as early as the beginning of the nineteenth century, Britain was at the forefront of powered flight. Across the country many places became centres of innovation and experimentation, as...
The First of Everything: A History of Human Invention, Innovation and Discovery

The First of Everything: A History of Human Invention, Innovation and

$15.00 AUD
A lively and highly readable account of the origins, invention and discovery of just about everything on the planet, the truly global coverage of The First of Everything ranges from...
Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era

Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human

$24.99 AUD$19.99 AUD
'I wish it was science fiction, but I know it's not' Jaan Tallinn, co-founder of Skype'If you read just one book that makes you confront scary high-tech realities that we'll...
Nuts and Bolts: How Tiny Inventions Make Our World Work

Nuts and Bolts: How Tiny Inventions Make Our World Work

$55.00 AUD$44.00 AUD
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2023**AS HEARD ON RADIO 4 START THE WEEK, OFF AIR WITH FI AND JANE AND 99% INVISIBLE*'Delightful' TIM HARFORD, FINANCIAL TIMES'Appeals to...
Inventor Confidential: The Honest Guide to Profitable Inventing

Inventor Confidential: The Honest Guide to Profitable Inventing

$44.99 AUD$20.00 AUD
Author: Warren Tuttle Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 The road to licensing a profitable, innovative product or technology is riddled with curves, holes, and rocky cliffs. The President of...
The Life Scientific: Inventors

The Life Scientific: Inventors

$26.99 AUD$20.24 AUD
Author: Anna Buckley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 What does it take to be an inventor? Judging by the ingenious individuals who have come into The Life Scientific studio...
The Life Scientific: Inventors

The Life Scientific: Inventors

$49.99 AUD$37.49 AUD
Author: Anna Buckley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 What does it take to be an inventor? Judging by the ingenious individuals who have come into The Life Scientific studio...
LEGO Heroes: LEGO (R) Builders Changing Our World-One Brick at a Time

LEGO Heroes: LEGO (R) Builders Changing Our World-One Brick at a Time

$39.99 AUD$32.00 AUD
Author: Graham Hancock Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 112 LEGO (R) Heroes is a collection of twelve remarkable stories about everyday heroes using the LEGO (R) system in unique ways...