Lost in Transit: The Strange Story of the Philip K Dick Android by David Dufty
$34.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science/Environment
In 2004, a group of men built the Philip K Dick Android. Then, en route to a presentation at Google, the android head was left on a plane. It has never been found. Meet the Philip K Dick Android. It wears the famous science-fiction author's clothes, thinks his thoughts and speaks his mind. All the while ...Show more
The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
$32.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science/Environment | Reading Level: good-very good
The million copy international bestseller, critically acclaimed and translated into over 25 languages. This 30th anniversary edition includes a new introduction from the author as well as the original prefaces and foreword, and extracts from early reviews. As relevant and influential today as when it wa ...Show more
The Man of Numbers - Fibonacci's Arithmetic Revolution by Keith Devlin
$29.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science/Environment | Reading Level: very good
Pieces of Mind: 21 Short Walks Around the Human Brain by Michael Corballis
$19.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science/Environment
The human mind is arguably the most complex organ in the universe. Modern computers might be faster, and whales might have larger brains, but neither can match the sheer intellect or capacity for creativity that we humans enjoy. In this book, Michael Corballis introduces us to what we've learned about t ...Show more
A Light History Of Hot Air by Peter Doherty
$32.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science/Environment | Reading Level: very good
Peter Doherty's A Light History of Hot Air is a wide-ranging meditation on the theme of heat and heating. An atmospheric pleasure of a book about the world we live in.
Inflight Science - A Guide to the World from Your Airplane Window by Brian Clegg
$24.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science/Environment | Reading Level: good-very good
On Extinction: How We Became Estranged from Nature by Melanie Challenger
$32.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science/Environment
An award-winning poet and stunning new voice in nature writing journeys in search of a greater understanding of extinctions and how we can use our knowledge and experience to reconnect with nature. How do we think about the things we have lost? How can we use what we know about extinctions - cultural ...Show more
About the Size of it: The Common Sense Approach to Measuring Things by Warwick Cairns
$35.00 AUD
Category: Popular Science/Environment
A serious, but seriously funny book about measuring things. Readers will find out: - Why an old Wellington boot is as important an instrument of spacial awareness as was ever invented? - Why the size of a space shuttle's fuel tanks has more to do with the proportions of a horse's rump than rocket scienc ...Show more
At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science/Environment
With his signature wit, charm, and seemingly limitless knowledge, Bill Bryson takes us on a room-by-room tour through his own house, using each room as a jumping off point into the vast history of the domestic artifacts we take for granted. As he takes us through the history of our modern comforts, Brys ...Show more
The Quantum Universe - Everything That Can Happen Does Happen by Brian Cox; Jeff Forshaw
$35.00 AUD
Category: Popular Science/Environment | Reading Level: very good
"The Quantum Universe" brings together two authors on a brilliantly ambitious mission to show that everyone can understand the deepest questions of science. But just what is quantum physics? How does it help us understand the world? Where does it leave Newton and Einstein? And why, above all, can we be ...Show more
The Ascent of Man by Jacob Bronowski
$24.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science/Environment
Dr Jacob Bronowksi's "The Ascent of Man" traces the development of human society through our understanding of science. First published in 1973 to accompany the groundbreaking BBC television series, it is considered one of the first works of 'popular science', illuminating the historical and social conte ...Show more
The Meme Machine by Susan J. Blackmore
$49.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science/Environment | Series: Popular Science Ser.
Humans have the ability to imitate and copy behaviours, or memes, from one another. This is an investigation of whether genes and memes can lead to discoveries about the nature of the inner self and whether the inner self is only an illusion created by the memes for the sake of replication.