There is so much confusing and conflicting information about the world in which we live that the truth can be impossible to find. The rise of modern scepticism against fake news ' is to be celebrated, but this cultural shift has led to a world where opinion is as valuable as fact. The exi... read more
| Author: | Jan Wertheim |
| Category: |
Science |
| Series: | Usborne Illustrated Dictionaries |
This is a new edition of this popular title, which provides a fantastic reference point for students studying for their SATs and GCSE's. Split into 6 colour coded sections covering all aspects of the curriculum, such as radioactivity, heat, sound and elect... read more
| Author: | Juli Berwald |
| Category: |
Science |
"Witty, insightful. . . .The story of jellyfish. . . is a significant part of the environmental story. Berwald's engaging account of these delicate, often ignored creatures shows how much they matter to our oceans' future." ... read more
| Author: | Karl Kruszelnicki |
| Category: |
Science |
Grab your towel and hitchhike across the galaxy with Australia's most popular scientist Dr Karl Kruszelnicki. Learn about Dr Karl, the universe and everything, and discover how air-conditioning is sexist, how you can kill a spinning hard drive by shouting at it and... read more
| Author: | Norm Darwin; Warren Turnbull (Foreword by) |
| Category: |
Science |
The latest book from renowned Holden historian Norm Darwin covers Monaro models from 1968 to 2006 including Pontiac GTO, HSV and HQ SS. The history is crammed full of details on models, their design, colours, stripes, Id information, options and production numbers. Printed on good quality... read more
| Author: | Norm Darwin |
| Category: |
Science |
A history of Early Australian car design 1895-1953 covers early inventors and tinkerers, designer and builders of early cars and motor bodies. Development of the motor body building industry, establishment of Holden design office, the first desi... read more
| Author: | Susan Casey |
| Category: |
Science |
| Awards: | A New York Times Notable Book A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year |
In her astonishing new book Susan Casey captures colossal, ship-swallowing waves, and the surfers and scientists who seek them out.
For legendary surfer Laird Hamilton, hundred foot waves represent the ultimate challenge. As Sus... read more
| Author: | Cody Cassidy |
| Category: |
Science |
What would happen if you stuck your head into a nuclear particle accelerator? What if you jumped into an interstellar black hole, or slipped out of a deep-sea submarine wearing only a pair of Speedos? In And Then You're Dead: The world's most interesting ways to die, we'll give... read more
| Author: | Ashlee Vance |
| Category: |
Science |
"South African born Elon Musk is the renowned entrepreneur and innovator behind PayPal, SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity. Musk wants to save our planet; he wants to send citizens into space, to form a colony on Mars; he wants t... read more
| Author: | Karl Kruszelnicki |
| Category: |
Science |
Grab your towel and hitchhike across the galaxy with Australia's most popular scientist Dr Karl Kruszelnicki. Learn about Dr Karl, the universe and everything, and discover how air-conditioning is sexist, how you can kill a spinning hard drive by shouting at it and ... read more
| Author: | Dava Sobel |
| Category: |
Science |
The dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest and of one man's forty-year obsession to find a solution to the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day--"the longitude problem." Anyone alive in the... read more
| Author: | Simon Singh |
| Category: |
Science |
'I have a truly marvellous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.' It was with these words, written in the 1630s, that Pierre de Fermat intrigued and infuriated the mathematics community. For over 350 years, proving Fermat's Last Theorem ... read more
