The World as 100 People: A Visual Guide to 7 Billion Humans by Aileen Lord
19.98 AUD
Category: Science
What would the world look like if the 7 billion people on this planet were presented as 100 individuals? This beautifully illustrated and informative infographics book re-examines the world's population with fascinating and often sobering results. Covering diverse subjects such as demography, education, ...Show more
Everything You Need to Know About - Inventions by Michael Heatley & Colin Salter
14.99 AUD
Category: Science
From the invention of the wheel to the World Wide Web, this book lives up to its promise. In these pages you'll find everything you need to know (and more) about this fascinating subject. Offering a comprehensive overview of man's greatest achievements, this book covers all of the major breakthroughs in ...Show more
Mr Darwin's Incredible Shrinking World: Science and Technology in 1859 by Peter Macinnis
9.95 AUD
Category: Science
Across a huge range of endeavour, 1859 was the year of mega change. At the beginning of that year Charles Darwin published "The Origin of Species". By year's end, other people, discoveries and inventions had changed the world forever, and society was converging in a global culture. It was a different wo ...Show more
100 Things to See in the Southern Night Sky - From Planets and Satellites to Meteors and Constellations, Your Guide to Stargazing by Dean Regas
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24.99 (40% off)
Category: Science | Series: 100 Things to See Ser.
The night sky is full of amazing things, but how do you know what you're looking at or how to get the best perspective to enhance your viewing experience? 100 Things to See in the Southern Night Sky gives you a clear picture of what you can see using a small telescope-or just your naked eye! Inside, you ...Show more
The Industries of the Future by Alec Ross
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19.99 (50% off)
Category: Science
This book answers the question: 'What's next?' The Internet had a world-changing impact on businesses and the global community over the twenty years from 1994 to 2014. In the next ten years, change will happen even faster. As Hillary Clinton's Senior Advisor for Innovation, Alec Ross travelled nearly a ...Show more
Electrified Sheep by Alex Boese
19.98 AUD
Category: Science
Benjamin Franklin was a pioneering scientist, leader of the Enlightenment and founding father of the USA. But perhaps less well known is that he was also the first person to use artificial respiration to revive an electric shock victim. Odder still, it was actually mouth-to-beak resuscitation on a hen t ...Show more
Slow Death by Rubber Duck: How the Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Life Affects Our Health by Rick Smith
26.95 AUD
Category: Science
When environmentalists Rick Smith and Bruce Lourie decided to tell the story of pollution in our modern world by using their own bodies as laboratories, they could not have known what they were about to discover. They ingested and inhaled a host of things that surround us all the time, from mercury-lade ...Show more
The Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life by Helen Czerski
34.99 AUD
Category: Science
This book links the little things - the unexpected pinkness of blueberry jam or the way the air smells before it rains - with the big in a book that will alter the way you see the world. Helen Czerski shows how the familiar, from coffee stains to ketchup bottles, can shed light on Antarctic winds, medic ...Show more
Teaching Mathematics Foundations to Middle Years by Dianne Siemon; Kim Beswick; Kathy Brady; Julie Clark; Rhonda Faragher; Elizabeth Warren
106.95 AUD
Category: Science
"I was never any good at maths. I dropped it as soon as I could" How many times have you heard your students make a similar statement when asked to study mathematics? Teaching Mathematics counters this with a rich set of practical pedagogy that will connect students to the bigger picture of mathematics ...Show more
Know This - Today's Most Interesting and Important Scientific Ideas and Discoveries by John Brockman
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27.99 (64% off)
Category: Science | Series: Edge Question Ser.
The latest volume in the bestselling series from Edge.org-dubbed "the world's smartest website" by The Guardian-brings together 175 of the world's most innovative and brilliant thinkers to discuss recent scientific breakthroughs that will shape the future. Scientific developments radically alter our und ...Show more
This Idea Must Die: Scientific Theories That Are Blocking Progress by John Brockman
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24.99 (60% off)
Category: Science | Series: Edge Question Series
The bestselling editor of This Explains Everything brings together 175 of the world’s most brilliant minds to tackle Edge.org’s 2014 question: What scientific idea has become a relic blocking human progress? Each year, John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org—”The world’s smartest website” (The Guardian)—c ...Show more
Smithsonian Ocean : Our water, our world by Deborah Cramer
39.95 AUD
64.99 (38% off)
Category: Science
"Smithsonian Ocean" was commissioned especially for the Museum but it is much more than a companion volume. Deborah Cramer, one of the country's most celebrated science writers (frequently compared to Rachel Carson) has written an engaging and perspective-changing history of the ocean. Her text is gorge ...Show more