Build Your Own Time Machine: The Real Science of Time Travel by Brian Clegg
$32.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
There is no physical law to prevent time travel - nothing in physics to say that it is not possible. So surely the invention of a time machine is just a matter of ... time? In Build Your Own Time Machine, acclaimed science author Brian Clegg takes inspiration from his childhood heroes Doctor Who and H. ...Show more
Claude Levi-Strauss: The Poet in the Laboratory by Patrick Wilcken
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$21.99 (31% off)
Category: Pop Science
Claude Levi-Strauss, the 'father of modern anthropology' and author of the classic Tristes tropiques, was one of the most influential intellectuals of the second half of the twentieth century. Dislodging Sartre, Camus and de Beauvoir from the pinnacle of French intellectual life in the 1950s, he brought ...Show more
Woman Who Changed Her Brain by Barbara Arrowsmith-Young
$29.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Barbara Arrowsmith-Young was born with severe learning disabilities that caused teachers to label her slow, stubborn - or worse. As a child, she read and wrote everything backward, struggled to process concepts in language, continually got lost, and was physically uncoordinated. She could make no sense ...Show more
The Universe in Zero Words : The Story of Mathematics by Dana Mackenzie
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Category: Pop Science
In this fascinating and richly illustrated book, Dana MacKenzie brings to life the 4,000-year history of mathematics through the lives and work of its greatest practitioners. Discover the world's simplest equation and what it means Find out how Newton's Laws of Motion help us do everything from building ...Show more
Mushroom by Nicholas P. Money
$29.95 AUD
Category: Pop Science
The overnight appearance of mushrooms in a meadow or on a suburban lawn is a marvelous sight. It is one of many awe-inspiring, magical processes that have evolved among the fungi, yet this group remains the least studied and most poorly understood kingdom of organisms. In Mushroom, Nicholas Money offers ...Show more
The Curious History of Love by Jean-Claude Kaufmann
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Category: Pop Science
* A best-selling sociologist presents a concise and very readable history of love * Kaufmann focuses on the question of why so many people are searching for love, hoping to find in love a kind of happiness that they cannot find in their work or by surrounding themselves with material goods.
Clouds That Look Like Things: From the Cloud Appreciation Society by GAVIN PRETOR-PINNEY
$27.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science | Reading Level: very good
Clouds in the shape of dolphins, elephants, UFOs, even Alfred Hitchcock and Andy Murray...they're all here in this beautiful and hilarious collection of clouds photographed around the world by members of The Cloud Appreciation Society, selected and wittily captioned by Gavin Pretor-Pinney, winner of the ...Show more
Content and Consciousness by Daniel C. Dennett
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Category: Pop Science | Series: Routledge Classics
Content and Consciousnessis an original and ground-breaking attempt to elucidate a problem integral to the history of Western philosophical thought: the relationship of the mind and body. In this formative work, Dennett sought to develop a theory of the human mind and consciousness based on new and chal ...Show more
How to Thrive in the Digital Age (The School of Life series) by Tom Chatfield
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Category: Pop Science | Series: The School of Life | Reading Level: 16
Our world is, increasingly, a digital one. Over half of the planet's adult population now spend more of their waking hours 'plugged in' than not, whether to the internet, mobile telephony, or other digital media. To email, text, tweet and blog our way through our careers, relationships and even our fami ...Show more
How to Find Fulfilling Work - The School of Life by Roman Krznaric
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Category: Pop Science | Series: The School of Life | Reading Level: 16
This is a book about how to take working life in new directions how to negotiate the labyrinth of choices, how to think about personal ambitions and motivations, and ultimately how to take concrete steps to finding a fulfilling career. It is a self-help book with a difference. Standard career guides are ...Show more
Atlas of the Southern Night Sky (3rd ed) by Steve Massey
$45.00 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Released to coincide with the transit of Venus on June 5-6 2012, "Atlas of the Southern Night Sky" allows you to unlock the wonder of the cosmos with all the maps and photographs needed to guide you. This new and revised edition is packed with useful information, including information on telescopes and ...Show more
Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations by David R. Montgomery
$40.95 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Dirt, soil, call it what you want--it's everywhere we go. It is the root of our existence, supporting our feet, our farms, our cities. This fascinating yet disquieting book finds, however, that we are running out of dirt, and it's no laughing matter. An engaging natural and cultural history of soil that ...Show more