Chasing the Moon: An Epic Rivalry, A Monumental Challenge, The Race to be First by Robert Stone; Alan Andres (As told to)
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science
This companion to the six-hour "American Experience" documentary airing on PBS goes beyond the series to reveal the stories of the visionaries who helped America complete the 1961 vision of President John F. Kennedy, with the first lunar landing in 1969.
The Complete Guide to Drones Extended 2nd Edition by Adam Juniper
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
If you think you need a boarding pass to fly, you're really missing out... Today, drones are everywhere. From film studios to farms, they're in the hands of photographers, commercial surveyors and racers alike. This fully illustrated book explains how drones developed, where they're going and which on ...Show more
Snooze: The Lost Art of Sleep by Michael McGirr
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
From bestselling author Michael McGirr comes Snooze, a revised edition of the entertaining and enlightening The Lost Art of Sleep (2009). Michael always had trouble sleeping, but the arrival of twins made him realise he''d never known true exhaustion. While he celebrated these small children who brough ...Show more
Inventing Ourselves: The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain by Sarah-Jayne Blakemore
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
WINNER of the 2018 Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize 2018 'Finally, a book about the adolescent brain written by someone who actually does the science! Highly readable, ground-breaking' Professor Laurence Steinberg Why does an easy child become a challenging teenager? Why do teenager ...Show more
Weather: an Illustrated History "From Cloud Atlases to Climate Change" by Andrew Revkin; Lisa Mechaley
$37.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Sterling Illustrated Histories Ser.
"Beautifully illustrated . . . Think of this book like dining on tapas, boasting savory flavors, some unexpected, that constitute a satisfying whole." --Washington Post Andrew Revkin, strategic adviser for environmental and science journalism at the National Geographic Society and former senior climate ...Show more
The Technology Trap - Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation by Carl Benedikt Frey
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
How the history of technological revolutions can help us better understand economic and political polarization in the age of automation The Technology Trap is a sweeping account of the history of technological progress and how it has radically shifted the distribution of economic and political power amo ...Show more
2022 Guide to the Night Sky: Southern Hemisphere by Storm Dunlop
$19.99 AUD
Category: Science
A comprehensive handbook to the planets, stars and constellations visible from the southern hemisphere. 6 pages for each month covering January–December 2022. Diagrams drawn for the latitude of southern Australia, but including events visible from New Zealand and South Africa. Written and illustrated by ...Show more
AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future by Kai-Fu Lee, Chen Qiufan
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
New York Times bestselling non-fiction author joins forces with a celebrated science-fiction novelist to blend imaginative storytelling and scientific forecasting to ask how artificial intelligence will change our world over the next 20 years. In this ground-breaking blend of imaginative storytelling an ...Show more
Galileo: And the Science Deniers by Mario Livio
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
An "intriguing and accessible" (Publishers Weekly) interpretation of the life of Galileo Galilei, one of history's greatest and most fascinating scientists, that sheds new light on his discoveries and how he was challenged by science deniers. "We really need this story now, because we're living through ...Show more
Seeds of Science - Why We Got It So Wrong on GMOs by Mark Lynas
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
'Mark Lynas is a saint' Sunday Times 'Fluent, persuasive and surely right.' Evening Standard Mark Lynas was one of the original GM field wreckers. Back in the 1990s working undercover with his colleagues in the environmental movement he would descend on trial sites of genetically modified crops at night ...Show more
Astronomy 2019 Australia by Glenn Dawes
$29.95 AUD
Category: Science
This annual gem (produced each year since 1991) continues to take the Australian stargazer on a wondrous journey of the night sky. This critically acclaimed work, produced by three well known experts in the field, takes a unique approach to explaining and identifying the Sun, Moon, planets and constella ...Show more
The Best Australian Science Writing 2018 by John Pickrell (Editor)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: The\Best Australian Science Writing Seri Ser.
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