Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo by Nicholas De Monchaux
49.95 AUD
Category: Science | Series: The MIT Press
How the twenty-one-layer Apollo spacesuit, made by Playtex, was a triumph of intimacy over engineering.
Capturing the Universe by Rhodri Evans; Steven Young (Foreword by)
39.99 AUD
Category: Science
The very best images captured by the new generation of terrestrial telescopes, orbiting telescopes and deep-space probes and landers have been collected in this magnificent volume. Detailed captions explain the equipment and technicalities of producing such images, which are not only mesmerising but als ...Show more
Gene Machine - The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome by Venki Ramakrishnan
22.99 AUD
Category: Science
From Nobel Prize winner Venki Ramakrishnan 'Beyond superb' Bill Bryson 'A wonderful book' Ian McEwan Everyone knows about DNA, the essence of our being, the molecule where our genes reside. But DNA by itself is useless without a machine to decode the genetic information it contains. The ribosome is t ...Show more
How the Brain Lost its Mind by Allan Ropper, Brian David Burrell
29.99 AUD
Category: Science
In 1882, Jean-Martin Charcot was the premiere physician in Paris, having just established a neurology clinic at the infamous Salpetriere Hospital, a place that was called a 'grand asylum of huma misery'. Assessing the dismal conditions, he quickly set up to upgrade the facilities, and in doing so, revo ...Show more
Star Stories: Constellations and People by Anthony Aveni
44.99 AUD
Category: Science
Follow an epic animal race, a quest for a disembodied hand, and an emu egg hunt in constellation stories from diverse culturesWe can see love, betrayal, and friendship in the heavens, if we know where to look. A world expert on cultural understandings of cosmology, Anthony Aveni provides an unconvention ...Show more
Falling Felines and Fundamental Physics by Gregory J. Gbur
44.99 AUD
Category: Science
How do cats land on their feet? Discover how this question stumped brilliant minds and how its answer helped solve other seemingly impossible puzzles The question of how falling cats land on their feet has long intrigued humans. In this playful and eye-opening history, physicist and cat parent Gregory ...Show more
Chariots of the Gods? by Erich von Daniken
19.99 AUD
Category: Science
All over the world there are fantastic ruins and objects which cannot yet be explained by conventional theories. Erich von Daniken's book, which has sold 11 million English language copies, comes up with some controversial explanations.
Botanical Revelation: European Encounters with Australian Plants Before Darwin by David J. Mabberley
89.99 AUD
Category: Science
Combining science, horticulture, art and economics, this lavishly illustrated book - with many never-before-published images - reveals the motives and complex networks that led to the international spread of knowledge and cultivation of hundreds of Australian plants in Europe in the late eighteenth and ...Show more
Rebel Star - Our Quest to Solve the Great Mysteries of the Sun by Colin Stuart
29.99 AUD
Category: Science
A fascinating and comprehensive guide to the sun - our home star - which remains the greatest mystery in the solar system, and why understanding it is pivotal to our future existence here on Earth.In 1869, a great mystery was born. As astronomers observed a total solar eclipse, for the first time they s ...Show more
10 Voyages Through the Human Mind - Christmas Lectures from the Royal Institution by Catherine de Lange
26.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: The\RI Lectures
Following on from the success of 13 Journeys Through Space and Time and 11 Explorations into Life on Earth, this third book in the series takes a look at the staggering capabilities of the human brain through ten of the most revealing Christmas Lectures on the subject given at the RI over the last two c ...Show more
Mars - A Journey of Discovery by Rod Pyle; Jim Green (Foreword by)
39.99 AUD
Category: Science
All eyes are on Mars. NASA's new lander, InSight, has touched down on the red planet, and in two years Mars 2020 rover will depart Cape Canaveral bound for the red planet. The ultimate challenge is to enable crewed missions to Mars by the 2030s - the next giant leap for mankind. In Mars, NASA historian ...Show more
The Apollo Missions - In the Astronauts' Own Words by Rod Pyle
33.99 AUD
Category: Science
The Apollo Missions tells the significant, spectacular and intriguing story of the Apollo space programme through first-person accounts by the astronauts themselves, explained and put into context with expert commentary by Rod Pyle. Travelling to the most forbidding environment known to man, twelve cou ...Show more