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
Science Delusion by Rupert Sheldrake
$22.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Freeing the Spirit of Enquiry The Science Delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality. The fundamental questions are answered, leaving only the details to be filled in. In this book (published in the US as Science Set Free), Dr Rupert Sheldrake, one of the world's most ...Show more
My Stroke of Insight by Jill Bolte Taylor
$22.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
A New York Times Bestseller -- Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor was chosen as one of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World for 2008. Jill Bolte Taylor was a 37-year-old Harvard-trained and published brain scientist when a blood vessel exploded in her brain. Through the eyes of a curious neuroana ...Show more
Never Mind the Bullocks, Here's the Science by Karl Kruszelnicki
$27.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Dr Karl has taken on Santa Claus, atom bombs, 'friendly' dolphins and 'killer' whales, meteors, black holes, string theory and camel's humps. In his 27 mega-selling books, he demolishes myths, tells readers how to spot bogus science and advises readers to be wise, sceptical and to always challenge autho ...Show more
Hair of the Alien: DNA and Other Forensic Evidence of Alien Abductions by Bill Chalker
$25.95 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Shocking. Controversial. Unprecedented. A case unlike any other in the annals of UFO investigation, DNA research, or alien abduction. Sydney, Australia. July 23, 1992. Twenty-eight-year-old Peter Khoury was awoken by what appeared to be two females - both striking and unearthly - kneeling on his bed. Wh ...Show more
Prehistoric Giants: The Megafauna of Australia by Danielle Clode
$24.95 AUD
Category: Pop Science | Series: Museum Victoria Nature Ser.
Prehistoric Giants, the second in the Museum Victoria Nature series, introduces the reader to the amazing world of Australian megafauna in the Pleistoceine era. Imagine an Australian landscape in which Diprotodon optatum roamed - this rhinoceros-sized diprotodon was probably the largest marsupial ever t ...Show more
Introducing Chaos: A Graphic Guide by Ziauddin Sardar, Iwona Abrams
$18.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science | Series: Introducing...
"Introducing Chaos" explains how chaos makes its presence felt in many varieties of event, from the fluctuation of animal populations to the ups and downs of the stock market. It also examines the roots of chaos in modern mathematics and physics, and explores the relationship between chaos and complexit ...Show more
Life in the Tall Eucalypt Forest by David Lindenmayer
$29.95 AUD
Category: Pop Science
This text is divided into eight chapters which follow the life of the Central Highlands eucalypt forest in Australia, from high up in the tree canopy right down to the leaf matter on the forest floor. Photographs of animals and plants are accompanied by captions that tell the community's story.