Deep Water: The World in the Ocean by James Bradley
$36.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Through history, science, nature writing, and environmentalism, Deep Water invites you to explore the deepest recesses of our natural world. 'Teeming with mysteries, wonders and heartbreaking facts, this beautiful, lucid hymn to the sea is a reminder of what we still have, what we stand to lose, and why ...Show more
The Art of Science by Fornasiero
$39.95 AUD
Category: Pop Science
It was one of the most lavishly equipped scientific expeditions ever to leave Europe. At the dawn of the nineteenth century, French navigator Nicolas Baudin led two ships carrying 22 scientists and more than 230 officers and crew on a three-and-a-half-year voyage to the 'Southern Lands', charting coasts ...Show more
Why Quark Rhymes with Pork: And Other Scientific Diversions by N. David Mermin
$59.95 AUD
Category: Pop Science
A collection of offbeat, entertaining and primarily nontechnical essays on physics and those who practice it, from eminent theoretical physicist N. David Mermin. Bringing together for the first time all thirty of his columns published in Physics Today's Reference Frame series from 1988 to 2009, with upd ...Show more
The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis
$45.00 AUD
Category: Pop Science | Reading Level: very good
"Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky met in war-torn 1960s Israel. Both were gifted young psychology professors: Kahneman a rootless son of holocaust survivors who saw the world as a problem to be solved; Tversky a voluble, instinctual blur of energy. In this breathtaking new book, Michael Lewis tells the ...Show more
Microcosm: E. Coli and the New Science of Life by Carl Zimmer
$27.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
A Best Book of the Year"Seed Magazine " "Granta Magazine " "The Plain-Dealer"In this fascinating and utterly engaging book, Carl Zimmer traces "E. coli"'s pivotal role in the history of biology, from the discovery of DNA to the latest advances in biotechnology. He reveals the many surprising and alarmin ...Show more
Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence by Timothy Morton
$53.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science | Series: The Wellek Library Lectures
Timothy Morton argues that ecological awareness in the present Anthropocene era takes the form of a strange loop or M bius strip, twisted to have only one side. Deckard travels this Oedipal path in Blade Runner (1982) when he learns that he might be the enemy he has been ordered to pursue. Ecological aw ...Show more
Careful! by Steve Casner
$32.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
The modern world can be a dangerous place, filled with fast cars, smart phones, drugs and extreme sports. Meanwhile, we humans are as fragile as ever. In fact, after a century of decline in injuries and accidental deaths they are on the rise again. The question is - why? Steve Casner has devoted his car ...Show more
Psychology of Trust by Ken J. Rotenberg (University of Keele, UK)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science | Series: The Psychology of Everything
Western societies today are facing a crisis of trust. Politicians, journalists, police officers, church officials, CEOs: all are increasingly distrusted. But what explains this lack of trust? and how is trust developed and maintained? Drawing on a wide range of psychological theories, The Psychology of ...Show more
Psychology of Grief by Richard Gross
$19.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science | Series: The\Psychology of Everything Ser.
What is happening emotionally when we grieve for a loved one? Is there a ¿right¿ way to grieve? What effect does grief have on how we see ourselves? The Psychology of Grief is a humane and intelligent account that highlights the wide range of responses we have to losing a loved one and explores how psy ...Show more
Deep Time by David Darling
$39.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
What would it be like to see the whole history of the universe, from the moment of creation to the farthest future? Deep Time shows us – through the eyes of a single particle that emerges from the fires of genesis then journeys across countless billions of years to glimpse the ultimate fate of the cosmo ...Show more
Dinosaurs - How They Lived and Evolved by Darren Naish; Paul M. Barrett
$29.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Fully illustrated and immersive guide to the latest research in these incredible animals. Discover the groundbreaking developments in dinosaur research with this state-of-the-art guide to dinosaur biology. Written by experts from a leading dinosaur research centre, this book begins by tracing the evolut ...Show more