Uncovering Einstein's New Universe: From Wallal to Gravitational Wave Astronomy by David Blair, Ron Burman, Paul Davies
$39.99 AUD
Category: Science and Nature
Einstein gave us a vision of a new universe in which time and space are warped and rippling in response to everything else in the universe. Vast bursts of energy in the form of ripples of pure and empty space are passing through us at light speed, carrying messages about a dying universe and about the p ...Show more
Quantum Supremacy: How Quantum Computers will Unlock the Mysteries of Science - and Address Humanity's Biggest Challenges by Michio Kaku
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science and Nature
"The runaway success of the microchip processor may be nearing its end, with profound implications for our economy, society and way of life, even leaving Silicon Valley as a new Rust Belt, its technology obsolete. Step forward the quantum computer, which harnesses the power and complexity of the atomic ...Show more
How to Prevent the Next Pandemic by Bill Gates
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science and Nature
The COVID-19 pandemic isn't over, but even as governments around the world strive to put it behind us, they're also starting to talk about what happens next. How can we prevent a new pandemic from killing millions of people and devastating the global economy? Can we even hope to accomplish this?Bill Gat ...Show more
Underground Lovers: Encounters with fungi by Alison Pouliot
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science and Nature
'Mists waft gently around me and slowly drizzle water through the fronds of tree ferns. Lichens wrap around twisted blackwood limbs like ornate scarves. In the gloom of the forest floor, fallen branches are sheathed with fungal stripes of yellow and purple. But beneath the colourful surface, the fallen ...Show more
The Social Lives of Animals: How Co-operation Conquered the Natural World by Ashley Ward
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science and Nature
Everything you ever wanted to know about how animals live together, and what that means for us 'Any writer who can evoke the existential sadness of a lonely cockroach, or make krill thrilling, or describe a snorkelling colleague being engulfed in a "gargantuan cetacean bum detonation" is a real gift to ...Show more
The Basis of Everything: Before Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project there was the Cavendish Laboratory by Andrew Ramsey
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science and Nature
Before the Manhattan Project, before nuclear warfare and the horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, there was the twentieth century's great scientific quest to fathom the secrets of the atom.The unlikely story of an Antipodean friendship that changed the world forever. Before the Manhattan Project, before n ...Show more
Grounded: A Journey Through Landscapes, Sanctuaries and Sacred Places by James Canton
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science and Nature
From the author of The Oak Papers, a beautiful meditation on how to foster a profound and healing spiritual communion with the natural worldFor thousands of years, our ancestors held a close connection with the landscapes they lived in. They imbued it with meaning- stone monuments, sacred groves, places ...Show more
Life 3.0 - Being human in the age of Artificial Intelligence by Max Tegmark
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science and Nature
In this authoritative and eye-opening book, Max Tegmark describes and illuminates the recent, path-breaking advances in Artificial Intelligence and how it is poised to overtake human intelligence. How will AI affect crime, war, justice, jobs, society and our very sense of being human? The rise of AI has ...Show more
Ten Women Who Changed Science, and the World by Catherine Whitlock; Rhodri Evans
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science and Nature
Ten Women Who Changed Science tells the moving stories of the physicists, biologists, chemists, astronomers and doctors who helped to shape our world with their extraordinary breakthroughs and inventions, and outlines their remarkable achievements. These scientists overcame significant obstacles, often ...Show more
The Greatest Story Ever Told...So Far by Lawrence Krauss
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science and Nature
In the beginning there was light but more than this, there was gravity. After that, all hell broke loose...This is how the story of the greatest intellectual adventure in history should be introduced - how humanity reached its current understanding of the universe, one that is far removed from the realm ...Show more
The Astronomy Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained by DK
$42.99 AUD
Category: Science and Nature | Series: Big Ideas Simply Explained
Explore the world of astronomy with key quotes and bold graphics to illustrate over 100 of the universe's biggest ideas. The Astronomy Book is an exciting voyage of discovery through the cosmos. Venture from ancient speculations about the nature of the universe, to the mind-boggling theories of recent s ...Show more
Rooted - Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature, and Spirit by Lyanda Lynn Haupt
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science and Nature
NATIONAL BESTSELLER Deepen your connection to the natural world with this inspiring meditation, "a path to the place where science and spirit meet" (Robin Wall Kimmerer). In Rooted, cutting-edge science supports a truth that poets, artists, mystics, and earth-based cultures across the world have procl ...Show more