Bang by Brian May
$14.95 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Bang! Space, time, matter...the Universe was born 13.7 billion years ago. Infinitely small at first, it expanded more rapidly than anyone can contemplate. Brian May, Patrick Moore and Chris Lintott explain how all this came about, from the moment when time and space came into existence, to the formation ...Show more
Bad Choices: How Algorithms Can Help You Think Smarter and Live Happier by Ali Almossawi
$29.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Award Winning Bush Verse & Stories 2013 by David Campbell
$23.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Following the success of the 2012 edition of Award Winning Bush Verse and Stories (AWBV), which won the Collected Verse Book of the Year award at the Australian Bush Laureate Awards, Melbourne Books proudly presents the second edition of AWBV. AWBV is the first nationally distributed anthology wholly de ...Show more
At the Edge of Uncertainty: 11 Discoveries Taking Science by Surprise by Michael Brooks
$21.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
The atom. The Big Bang. DNA. Natural selection. All ideas that have revolutionised science - and that were dismissed out of hand when they first appeared. The surprises haven't stopped: here, Michael Brooks, bestselling author of 13 Things that Don't Make Sense, investigates the new wave of unexpected i ...Show more
Australian Poetry Since 1788 by Lehmann, Geoffrey
$69.95 AUD
Category: Pop Science
A good poem is one that the world can't forget or is delighted to rediscover. This landmark anthology of Australian poetry, edited by two of Australia's foremost poets, Geoffrey Lehmann and Robert Gray, contains such poems. It is the first of its kind for Australia and promises to become a classic. Incl ...Show more
The Astronomy Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained by DK
$39.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science | Series: Big Ideas Simply Explained
Explore the world of astronomy with key quotes and bold graphics to illustrate over 100 of the universe's biggest ideas. The Astronomy Book is an exciting voyage of discovery through the cosmos. Venture from ancient speculations about the nature of the universe, to the mind-boggling theories of recent s ...Show more
ASAP Science by Mitchell Moffit
$32.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
From the creators of the wildly popular YouTube channel AsapSCIENCE comes a book about the science that people actually want to learn, presented in a quirky and accessible way. And in the spirit of science, no subject is taboo. Why do we get hungover? Which actually came first, the chicken or the egg? ...Show more
Are Numbers Real? The Uncanny Relationships Between Maths and the Physical World by Brian Clegg
$32.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Have you ever wondered what humans did before numbers existed? How they organized their lives, traded goods, or kept track of their treasures? What would your life be like without them? Numbers began as simple representations of everyday things, but mathematics rapidly took on a life of its own, occupyi ...Show more
Are You Smarter Than a Chimpanzee? A Mind-Bending Menagerie of Animal Psychology by Ben Ambridge
$29.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
What makes humans special? What makes us different from animals? Psy-Q author Ben Ambridge's entertaining, illuminating new book has a surprising answer: less than you might think. Really, we're all just animals. But all animals - us included - are pretty special. Are You Smarter Than a Chimpanzee? is a ...Show more
Animal Madness: How Anxious Dogs, Compulsive Parrots, and Elephants in Recovery Help us to Understand Ourselves by Laurel Braitman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
For the first time, a historian of science draws evidence from across the world to show how humans and other animals are astonishingly similar when it comes to their feelings and the ways in which they lose their minds. Charles Darwin developed his evolutionary theories by looking at physical difference ...Show more
And Then You're Dead by Cody Cassidy
$29.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
What would happen if you stuck your head into a nuclear particle accelerator? What if you jumped into an interstellar black hole, or slipped out of a deep-sea submarine wearing only a pair of Speedos? In And Then You're Dead: The world's most interesting ways to die, we'll give serious answers to these ...Show more
Anatomy & Physiology For Dummies by Maggie Norris
$35.95 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Learn about the human body from the inside out Every year, more than 100,000 degrees are completed in biology or biomedical sciences. Anatomy and physiology classes are required for these majors and others such as life sciences and chemistry, and also for students on a pre-med track. These classes also ...Show more