The First Cell - And the Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer to the Last by Azra Raza
54.99 AUD
Category: Science
A world-class oncologist delivers a devastating and deeply personal examination of cancer, offering a searing account of how both medicine and society (mis)treats cancer, how people can do better, and why they must.
Cracking Anatomy by Kenneth Okona-Mensah
26.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Cracking Ser.
From your dividing cells to your beating heart, this book takes a comprehensive look at the human body and reveals the extraordinary way your anatomy and physiology intertwine. In 13 illustrated chapters, Cracking Anatomy makes sense of all the body's systems, explains medical terminology and explor ...Show more
Brief Answers to the Big Questions: the final book from Stephen Hawking by Stephen Hawking
22.99 AUD
Category: Science
THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. 'A beautiful little book by a brilliant mind'- DAILY TELEGRAPH. 'Effortlessly instructive, absorbing, up to the minute and - where it matters - witty'- GUARDIAN. The world-famous cosmologist and #1 bestselling author of A Brief History of Time leaves us with his final t ...Show more
The Brain: Everything You Need to Know by New Scientist
34.99 AUD
Category: Science
Congratulations! You're the proud owner of the most complex information processing device in the known universe. The human brain comes equipped with all sorts of useful design features, but also many bugs and weaknesses. Problem is you don't get an owner's manual. You have to just plug and play. As a r ...Show more
Medicine: An Imperfect Science by MCENROE NATASHA
90.00 AUD
Category: Science
- An accessible, illuminating handbook exploring the eclectic history of medical collecting - Richly illustrated in full color throughout, drawing on treasures from Henry Wellcome's collection and the Science Museum's own medical holdings - Official companion to a set of galleries opening at the Science ...Show more
The Alchemy of Air by Thomas Hager
26.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Tragic genius, cutting-edge science, and the discovery that changed billions of lives-including your own. At the dawn of the twentieth century, humanity was facing global disaster: Mass starvation was about to become a reality. A call went out to the world's scientists to find a solution. This is the st ...Show more
Hidden Lives of Dreams by Melinda Powell
29.99 AUD
Category: Science
We spend a third of our lives sleeping and, as new research would suggest, almost all of that is spent dreaming. Despite this, very few of us try to explore the messages that our brain is projecting, or try to use this knowledge in our everyday lives. In The Magic of Dreams, psychoanalyst and Director o ...Show more
30-Second Numbers by Niamh Nic Daéid; Christian Cole
27.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: 30 Second
The successful 30-Second series tackles numbers, with experts on maths and data demystifying the essential numerical topics. We know that we use numbers pretty often, some of us confidently, others reluctantly. But are we aware of just how essential they are to almost every decision we make? Counting ...Show more
Wayfinding: How We Find – and Lose – our Way by Michael Bond
32.99 AUD
Category: Science
The physical world is infinitely complex, yet most of us are able to find our way around it. We can walk through unfamiliar streets while maintaining a sense of direction, take shortcuts along paths we have never used and remember for many years places we have visited only once. These are remarkable ach ...Show more
The Frog with Self-Cleaning Feet - And Other Extraordinary Tales from the Animal World by Michael Bright
19.99 AUD
Category: Science
Wild animals do the most extraordinary things. Some are exceptionally bright, use tools and solve complex problems. Others are devious: they cheat, steal and run protection rackets. There are animals with enormous appetites and those that self-medicate. In this fascinating collection author and film-mak ...Show more
The Shark That Walks on Land - ... and Other Strange but True Tales of Mysterious Sea Creatures by Michael Bright
19.99 AUD
Category: Science
The Shark that Walks on Land uncovers tales of ancient and modern mariners, with stories of sea serpents, mermaids and mermen, sea dragons, and the true identity of the legendary Kraken. But this book contains more than just a medley of maritime myths and mysteries for marine biologists; it celebrates w ...Show more
Footprints: In Search of Future Fossils by David Farrier
32.99 AUD
Category: Science
A profound meditation on climate change and the Anthropocene and an urgent search for the fossils--industrial, chemical, geological--that humans are leaving behind What will the world look like ten thousand or ten million years from now? In Footprints, David Farrier explores what traces we will leave f ...Show more