Reality is Not What it Seems by Carlo Rovelli
$39.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
From the best-selling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics comes a new book about the mind-bending nature of the universe What are time and space made of? Where does matter come from? And what exactly is reality? Scientist Carlo Rovelli has spent his whole life exploring these questions and pushing ...Show more
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes by Adam Rutherford
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Category: General Non Fiction
This is a story about you. It is the history of who you are and how you came to be. It is unique to you, as it is to each of the 100 billion modern humans who have ever drawn breath. But it is also our collective story, because in every one of our genomes we each carry the history of our species - birth ...Show more
Shackleton's Epic by Tim Jarvis
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Category: General Non Fiction
A new edition to mark the centenary Ernest Shackleton's epic 1916 journey across 1300 kms of hostile ocean in a tiny, leaking boat and unmapped ice and snow to reach a rescue station by British-Australian explorer Tim Jarvis, who recreated 'Shackleton's Epic' in 2012 Sir Edmund Hilary called it the grea ...Show more
Social by Lieberman, Matthew D.
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Category: General Non Fiction
Why are we influenced by the behaviour of complete strangers? Why does the brain register similar pleasure when I perceive something as 'fair' or when I eat chocolate? Why can we be so profoundly hurt by bereavement? What are the evolutionary benefits of these traits? The young discipline of 'social cog ...Show more
The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene
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Category: General Non Fiction
"In a rare blend of scientific insight and writing as elegant as the theories it explains, Brian Greene, one of the world's leading string theorists, peels away the layers of mystery surrounding string theory to reveal a universe that consists of eleven dimensions, where all matter is generated by the v ...Show more
Beyond: Our Future in Space by Chris Impey
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Category: General Non Fiction
With plans to launch hotels into orbit and experiments in suspending and reanimating life for ultra-long-distance travel, private companies and entrepreneurs have outpaced NASA as the leaders in the new space race. With accessible prose and relentless curiosity, Chris Impey reports on China's plan to la ...Show more
Making the Future: Occupations, Interventions, Empire and Resistance by Noam Chomsky
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Category: General Non Fiction
"Making the Future" is the latest collection of essays from Noam Chomsky, one of our most vital and provocative voices of political dissent. Taking up the thread from 2007's "Interventions", these penetrating and compelling articles examine numerous topics, including the financial crisis, Obama's presid ...Show more
Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World's Most Wanted Man by Luke Harding
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Category: General Non Fiction
Edward Snowden, a young computer genius working for America's National Security Agency, blew the whistle on the way this frighteningly powerful organisation uses new technology to spy on the entire planet. The consequences have shaken the leaders of nations worldwide. This is the inside story of Snowden ...Show more
Plants of the Gods by Richard Evans Schultes
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Category: General Non Fiction
World-renowned anthropologist and ethnopharmacologist Christian Ratsch provides the latest scientific updates to this classic work on psychoactive flora by two eminent researchers. - Numerous new and rare color photographs complement the completely revised and updated text. - Explores the uses o ...Show more
Psych Experiments: From Pavlov's Dogs to Rorschach's Inkblots, Put Psychology's Most Fascinating Studies to the Test by Michael A Britt, PH.D
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Category: General Non Fiction
Psychology's most famous theories--played out in real life! Forget the labs and lecture halls. You can conduct your very own psych experiments at home! Famous psychological experiments--from Freud's ego to the Skinner box--have changed the way science views human behavior. But how do these tests really ...Show more
37th Parallel - Secret Truth UFO Highway by Ben Mezrich
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Category: General Non Fiction
Like "Agent Mulder" of The X-Files, computer programmer and sheriff's deputy Zukowski is obsessed with tracking down UFO reprints in Colorado. He would take the family with him on weekend trips to look for evidence of aliens. But this innocent hobby takes on a sinister urgency when Zukowski learns of mu ...Show more
The Magic of Maths by Arthur Benjamin
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Category: General Non Fiction
The Magic of Maths is the maths book you wish you had in school. Using a delightful assortment of examples, from ice cream scoops and poker hands that teach you factorials to mnemonics that help you memorize pi, this book empowers you to see the beauty, simplicity, and fun behind those formulas and equa ...Show more