The Powerhouse: Inside the Invention of a Battery to Save the World by Steve LeVine
$29.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE
A worldwide race is on to perfect the next engine of economic growth, the advanced lithium-ion battery. It will power the electric car, relieve global warming, and catapult the winner into a new era of economic and political mastery. Can the United States win? Steve LeVine was granted unprecedented acce ...Show more
The Best Australian Science Writing 2018 by John Pickrell (Editor)
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Category: SCIENCE | Series: The\Best Australian Science Writing Seri Ser. | Reading Level: 4 Science
This popular yearly anthology gives a snapshot of the very best science writing Australia has to offer, including everything from the most esoteric philosophical questions about ourselves and the universe, through to practical questions about the environment in which we live.Now in its eighth year, The ...Show more
30-Second Mythology by Robert A. Segal
$19.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE | Series: 30 Second
The perfect introduction to the study of mythology, covering essential facts and details in one handy volume.
Mad Science 2: Experiments You Can Do at Home, But Still Probably Shouldn't by Theodore Gray
$29.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE | Series: Theo Gray's Mad Science
Best-selling author Theodore Gray is back with all-new, spectacular experiments that demonstrate basic principles of chemistry and physics in thrilling, and memorable ways. For nearly a decade, Theodore Gray has been demonstrating basic principles of chemistry and physics through exciting, sometime ...Show more
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
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Category: SCIENCE | Series: Picador Classic Ser. | Reading Level: very good
'Oliver Sacks has become the world's best-known neurologist. His case studies of broken minds offer brilliant insight into the mysteries of consciousness' Guardian In his most extraordinary book, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks recounts the stories of patients lost in the bizarre, a ...Show more
Magnitude : The Scale of the Universe by Kimberly Megan; Arcand Watzke
$39.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE
In Magnitude, Kimberly Arcand and Megan Watzke take us on an expansive journey to the limits of size, mass, distance, time, and temperature in our universe, from the tiniest particle within the structure of an atom to the most massive galaxy in the universe; from the speed at which grass grows (about 2 ...Show more
Four Fish - The Future of the Last Wild Food by Paul Greenberg
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Category: SCIENCE | Reading Level: good-very good
"A necessary book for anyone truly interested in what we take from the sea to eat, and how, and why." --Sam Sifton, The New York Times Book Review. Acclaimed author of American Catch and The Omega Princple and life-long fisherman, Paul Greenberg takes us on a journey, examining the four fish that domin ...Show more
Natural Histories - Extraordinary Rare Book Selections from the American Museum Of Natural History Library by Tom Baione
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Category: SCIENCE | Series: Natural Histories | Reading Level: very good
Inside the American Museum of Natural History is an eight-story library--one of the largest natural-science libraries in the Western Hemisphere--that contains over 450,000 volumes of monographs, pamphlets, reprints, and original rare books. Natural Histories allows readers a privileged glimpse of these ...Show more
The Universe by Andrew Cohen, Professor Brian Cox
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Category: SCIENCE | Series: Professor Brian Cox
THE UNIVERSE The biggest character of them all…the universe itself. Infinite in scale, and eternal, we tackle it’s biggest mysteries – where did it all come from and how did it begin? The answers lie at the Big Bang. STARS There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on every planet in the s ...Show more
Helgoland by Carlo Rovelli
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Category: SCIENCE
In June 1925, twenty-three-year-old Werner Heisenberg, suffering from hay fever, retreated to a small, treeless island in the North Sea called Helgoland. It was there that he came up with one of the most transformative scientific concepts- quantum theory. Almost a century later, quantum physics has giv ...Show more
The Science of the Ocean: The Secrets of the Seas Revealed by DK
$65.00 AUD
Category: SCIENCE
Dive into this uniquely elegant visual exploration of the sea An aesthetic look at marine life and the ocean environment, this book uses astounding photography and clear diagrams to make marine biology and oceanography accessible and an enjoyable visual experience. The Science of the Ocean offers up ric ...Show more
The New Climate War: The fight to take back our planet by Michael E Mann
$35.00 AUD
Category: SCIENCE
A world-leading expert exposes how fossil-fuel companies have waged a thirty-year campaign to blame individuals for climate change while taking no responsibility themselves, and offers guidance on what we must do now to reverse global warming. Recycle. Fly less. Eat less meat. These are some of the way ...Show more