Professor Stewart's Incredible Numbers by Ian Stewart
$17.99 AUD
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Category: General Non Fiction
Ian Stewart explores the astonishing properties of numbers from 1 to10 to zero and infinity, including one figure that, if you wrote it out, would span the universe. He looks at every kind of number you can think of -- real, imaginary, rational, irrational, positive and negative -- along with several yo ...Show more
Gender - Antiquity and Its Legacy by Brooke Holmes
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Category: General Non Fiction | Series: Ancients and Moderns Ser.
Gender has now become a pervasive topic in the humanities and social sciences. Yet despite its familiarity within universities and colleges, some have argued that the radical debates which first characterized gender studies have become ghettoized or marginalized -- so that gender no longer makes the imp ...Show more
New Scientist: The Origin of (Almost) Everything: From the Big Bang to Belly-Button Fluff (HB) by New Scientist Magazine Staff; Stephen Hawking; Jennifer Daniel (Illustrator); Graham Lawton
$45.00 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
From what actually happened in the Big Bang to the accidental discovery of post-it notes, the history of science is packed with surprising discoveries. Did you know, for instance, that if you were to get too close to a black hole it would suck you up like a noodle (it's called spaghettification), why yo ...Show more
Neuro-linguistic Programming For Dummies by Romilla Ready, Kate Burton
$33.95 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
Turn thoughts into positive action with neuro-linguistic programming Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) has taken the psychology world by storm. So much more than just another quick-fix or a run-of-the-mill self-help technique, NLP shows real people how to evaluate the ways in which they think, strategi ...Show more
Pacific: The Ocean of the Future by Simon Winchester
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
Travelling the circumference of the truly gigantic Pacific, Simon Winchester tells the story of the world's largest body of water, and - in matters economic, political and military - the ocean of the future. The Pacific is a world of tsunamis and Magellan, of the Bounty mutiny and the Boeing Company. It ...Show more
The Health Gap: The Challenge of an Unequal World by Michael Marmot
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
There are dramatic differences in health between countries and within countries. But this is not a simple matter of rich and poor. A poor man in Glasgow is rich compared to the average Indian, but the Glaswegian's life expectancy is 8 years shorter. The Indian is dying of infectious disease linked to hi ...Show more
Order, Order!: The Rise and Fall of Political Drinking by Ben Wright
$39.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
What do Tony Blair, Richard Nixon, William Pitt the Younger, Joseph Stalin, Nigel Farage and most voters have in common? Booze. Experience of the pleasures and pitfalls of drink. Britain's first Prime Minister, Robert Walpole, smuggled wine up the Thames with the help of the Navy. Three centuries later ...Show more
Theodore Gray's Completely Mad Science: Experiments You Can Do at Home, but Probably Shouldn't (Complete and Updated HB Edition) by Theodore Gray
$49.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
Bestselling author Theodore Gray has spent more than a decade dreaming up, executing, photographing, and writing about extreme scientific experiments, which he then published between 2009 and 2014 in his monthly Popular Science column "Gray Matter." Previously published in book form by Black Dog in two ...Show more
50 Quantum Physics Ideas You Really Need to Know by Joanne Baker
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction | Series: 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know Series
Following on from the highly successful 50 Physics Ideas You Really Need to Know, author Joanne Baker consolidates the foundation concepts of physics and moves on to present clear explanations of the most cutting-edge area of science: quantum physics. With 50 concise chapters covering complex theories a ...Show more
The Best Australian Science Writing 2016 by Jo Chandler
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
The annual collection celebrating the finest voices in Australian science writing. From the furthest reaches of the universe to the microscopic world of our genes, science offers writers the kind of scope other subjects simply can't match. Good writing about science can be moving, funny, exhilarating or ...Show more
The Universe: Leading Scientists Explore the Origin, Mysteries, and Future of the Cosmos by John Brockman
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Category: General Non Fiction | Series: Best of Edge Series
John Brockman brings together the world's best-known physicists and science writers-including Brian Greene, Walter Isaacson, Nobel Prize-winner Frank Wilczek, Benoit Mandelbrot, and Martin Rees-to explain the universe in all wondrous splendor. In The Universe, today's most influential science writers e ...Show more
Life: The Leading Edge of Evolutionary Biology, Genetics, Anthropology, and Environmental Science by John Brockman
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction | Series: Best of Edge Ser.
The newest addition to John Brockman's Edge.org series explores life itself, bringing together the world's leading biologists, geneticists, and evolutionary theorists-including Richard Dawkins, Edward O. Wilson, J. Craig Venter, and Freeman Dyson. Scientists' understanding of life is progressing more ra ...Show more