The Matter of Everything: Twelve Experiments that Changed Our World by Suzie Sheehy
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Category: Science
The astonishing story of twentieth-century physics, told through the twelve experiments that changed our world*SELECTED AS ONE OF WATERSTONES' BEST POPULAR SCIENCE BOOKS OF 2022*'A splendid idea, vividly carried out- I enjoyed this book enormously' PHILIP PULLMAN'A rich history of beautiful discoveries' ...Show more
The Matter of Everything: Twelve Experiments that Changed Our World by Suzie Sheehy
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
The astonishing story of twentieth-century physics, told through the twelve experiments that changed our world.How did a piece a gold foil completely change our understanding of atoms? What part did a hot air balloon play in the discovery of cosmic rays?How did the experiments in the run-up to the Large ...Show more
The Matter of the Heart by Thomas Morris
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Category: Science
For thousands of years the human heart remained the deepest of mysteries; both home to the soul and an organ too complex to touch, let alone operate on.Then, in the late nineteenth century, medics began going where no one had dared go before. The following decades saw the mysteries of the heart exposed, ...Show more
The Mission: a True Story by David W. Brown
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science
A masterful, genre-defying narrative of the most ambitious science project ever conceived: NASA's deep-space mission to Europa--the Jovian moon where might swim the first known alien life in our solar system--powered by a motley team of obsessives and eccentrics.When scientists discovered the first ocea ...Show more
The Moon: A History for the Future by Oliver Morton
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Category: Science
An intimate portrait of the Earth's closest neighbor--the Moon--that explores the history and future of humankind's relationship with it Every generation has looked towards the heavens and wondered at the beauty of the Moon. Fifty years ago, a few Americans became the first to do the reverse--and sh ...Show more
The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator by Timothy C. Winegard
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: History of our Deadliest Predator
What was George Washington's secret weapon during the American Revolution, and how did it lead to Britain colonising Australia? What protected Popes for centuries? And what does Starbucks have to thank for its global domination? The answer to these questions and many more is: the mosquito. The mosquito ...Show more
The Mutant Project - Inside the Global Race to Genetically Modify Humans by Eben Kirksey
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Category: Science
An anthropologist visits the frontiers of the next scientific revolution to ask- whose values are guiding gene editing experiments, and what are the implications for humanity? At a conference in Hong Kong in November 2018, Dr He Jiankui announced that he had created the first genetically modified babies ...Show more
The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth and Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine by Thomas Morris
$19.99 AUD
Category: Science | Reading Level: very good
"Delightfully horrifying."--Popular Science One of Mental Floss's Best Books of 2018 One of Science Friday's Best Science Books of 2018 A mysterious epidemic of dental explosions... A teenage boy who got his wick stuck in a candlestick... A remarkable woman who, like a human fountain, spurted urine from ...Show more
The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative by Florence Williams
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Category: Science
For centuries, poets and philosophers extolled the benefits of a walk in the woods: Beethoven drew inspiration from rocks and trees; Wordsworth composed while tromping over the heath; Nikola Tesla conceived the electric motor while visiting a park. Intrigued by our storied renewal in the natural world, ...Show more
The NeuroGeneration by Tan Le
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science
A highly engaging guided tour through the frontiers of what science knows about how the brain works, how to extend its power and how to fix it when it's broken.' - David Gillespie, author of Sweet Poison and Teen Brain'Tan Le writes with optimism and compassion about the extraordinary evolution of brain ...Show more
The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind: A Memoir of Madness and Recovery by Barbara K.Lipska
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Category: Science
'Oliver Sacks-meets-When Breath Becomes Air ... Barbara Lipska's remarkable story illuminates the many mysteries of our fragile yet resilient brains.' LISA GENOVA, bestselling author of Still Alice and Every Note PlayedIn January 2015 renowned neuroscientist Barbara Lipska's melanoma spread to her brain ...Show more
The New Book of Optical Illusions by Georg Ruschemeyer
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Category: Science
The New Book of Optical Illusions is a mind-bending collection of 150 of the most significant optical phenomena, loosely grouped into 33 chapters according to particular visual effect. An optical illusion has two elements. One is the perceived illusion, what you see. It may be merging lines, moving shap ...Show more