What's Eating the Universe?: And Other Cosmic Questions by Paul Davies
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
The story of the universe in thirty cosmological conundrumsIn the constellation of Eridanus there lurks a cosmic mystery. It's as if something has taken a huge bite out of the universe, leaving a super-void. What could be the culprit? A super massive black hole? Another, bigger universe? Or an expanding ...Show more
What's Eating the Universe?: And Other Cosmic Questions by Paul Davies
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science
Combining the latest scientific advances with storytelling skills unmatched in the cosmos, an award-winning astrophysicist and popular writer leads us on a tour of some of the greatest mysteries of our universe. In the constellation of Eridanus, there lurks a cosmic mystery: It's as if something has tak ...Show more
When Galaxies Collide by Lisa Harvey-Smith
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
Why is the Milky Way blue? Why isn't a black hole dark? How many stars can you see with your naked eye?* How much hotter are blue stars than red ones?**Humans are the only known astronomers in the universe. When we look up at the night sky, we are linked to our ancestors. Away from city lights, we can s ...Show more
When Galaxies Collide by Lisa Harvey-Smith
$19.99 AUD
Category: Science
In 2018, Lisa Harvey-Smith was appointed as the inaugural Australian Women in STEM Ambassador by the Australian Federal Government. Why is the Milky Way blue? Why isn't a black hole dark? How many stars can you see with your naked eye?* How much hotter are blue stars than red ones?** Humans are the on ...Show more
When the Earth Had Two Moons - Cannibal Planets, Icy Giants, Dirty Comets, Dreadful Orbits, and the Origins of the Night Sky by Erik Asphaug
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science
An astonishing exploration of planet formation and the origins of life by one of the world's most innovative planetary geologists.In 1959, the Soviet probe Luna 3 took the first photos of the far side of the moon. Even in their poor resolution, the images stunned scientists: the far side is an enormous ...Show more
White Holes: Inside the Horizon by Carlo Rovelli
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
A mesmerizing trip to the strange new world of white holes, from Carlo Rovelli, the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics. Let us journey, with beloved physicist Carlo Rovelli, into the heart of a black hole. Let us slip beyond its boundary, the horizon, and tumble - on and on - down thi ...Show more
Who Poisoned Your Bacon? - The Dangerous History of Meat Additives by Guillaume Coudray
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science
'Highly persuasive ... a well-organised and solid dossier that alerts us to legalised chemical trickery.' - The Spectator 'A bombshell book' - Daily Mail 'Eye-opening and important . . . a book full of righteous anger' - Bee Wilson
Why Trust Science? by Edited by Naomi Oreskes
$49.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: The\University Center for Human Values Ser.
Why the social character of scientific knowledge makes it trustworthy Do doctors really know what they are talking about when they tell us vaccines are safe? Should we take climate experts at their word when they warn us about the perils of global warming? Why should we trust science when our own polit ...Show more
Why Trust Science? by Naomi Oreskes
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science
Why the social character of scientific knowledge makes it trustworthy Are doctors right when they tell us vaccines are safe? Should we take climate experts at their word when they warn us about the perils of global warming? Why should we trust science when so many of our political leaders don't? Nao ...Show more
Wildhood by Barbara Natterson-Horowitz, Kathryn Bowers
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
A revelatory investigation of human and animal adolescence and young adulthood from the New York Times bestselling authors of Zoobiquity. Teenagers- behind the banter, the tediously repetitive games and clicks, the shouting and screaming, the fast living, and the strutting and preening lie the rules of ...Show more
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death by Caitlin Doughty
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science
What happens if someone dies on a plane?Can we give Grandma a Viking funeral?Why don't animals dig up all the graves?Will my hair keep growing in my coffin after I'm buried?Every day, funeral director Caitlin Doughty receives dozens of questions about death. In this book she offers factual, hilarious an ...Show more
Women on Nature: 100+ Voices on Place, Landscape & the Natural World
$39.99 AUD
Category: Science
'An entertaining and eclectic anthology of nature writing by women about the ‘east Atlantic archipelago’ or British isles.…For readers in search of a new take on the genre, this is a great place to start.' — Publishers WeeklyNow in paperback — a landmark gathering of writing, by women, about the natural ...Show more