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Sub-Categories of Mathematics & Sciences
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Clouds That Look Like Things: From the Cloud Appreciation Society
Gavin Pretor-Pinney
Mathematics & Sciences; Weather
Hardback
Clouds in the shape of dolphins, elephants, UFOs, even Alfred Hitchcock and Andy Murray...they're all here in this beautiful... [more]
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How To Get Expelled From School: A Guide to Climate Change for Pupils, Parents...
Ian Plimer
Mathematics & Sciences; The environment; Social issues (Children's&YA)
Paperback
Are pupils, parents and the public being fed political propaganda on climate change? Now is your chance to find out. Professor... [more]
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The Book of Time: The Secrets of Time, How it Works and How We Measure it...
Adam Hart-Davis
Mathematics & Sciences; Popular science; Time (chronology), time systems & standards
Hardback
In The Book of Time we see how philosophers, religions and scientists have tried to explain time as everything from a perfect... [more]
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The Force: Living Safely in a World of Electromagnetic Pollution
Lyn McLean
Mathematics & Sciences; Popular medicine & health
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Over the past three decades, technology has infiltrated our lives so rapidly that few of us have stopped to consider the potential... [more]
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Hobbit Trap: Commercial Pressures and Academic Standards
John Schofield, Maciej Henneberg
Archaeology; Mathematics & Sciences
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The Hobbit Trap describes how the case against the 'new species' theory developed, and examines modern pressures which have... [more]
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1493: How the Ecological Collision of Europe and the Americas Gave Rise...
Charles Mann
History; Early history: c 500 to c 1450&1500; Biology, life sciences
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Two hundred million years ago the earth consisted of a single vast continent, Pangea, surrounded by a great planetary sea.... [more]
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The Best Australian Science Writing 2011
Stephen Pincock
Mathematics & Sciences; Popular science
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From the elemental forces that drive our expanding universe to the delicate hairs on the back of your neck, science offers... [more]
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The Better Angels of Our Nature: The Decline of Violence in History and...
Steven Pinker
History; General & world history; Psychology; Science: general issues
Paperback
Do we really care about each other less than we did in the past? This myth-destroying book shows that, contrary to popular... [more]
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The Spotter's Guide to Urban Engineering: Infrastructure and Technology...
Claire Barratt, Ian Whitelaw
Architecture; Impact of science & technology on society; Engineering: general; Civil engineering, surveying & building
Paperback
The Spotter's Guide to Urban Engineering is an exciting guide to the technology that underpins modern life. Richly illustrated,... [more]
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Extreme Cosmos
Bryan Gaensler
Mathematics & Sciences; Popular astronomy & space
Paperback
The universe is all about extremes. Space has a temperature 270C below freezing. Stars die in catastrophic supernova explosions... [more]
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Australia's Wild Weather
Mark Tredinnick
Photography & photographs; Mathematics & Sciences; Weather
Hardback
Weather is the oldest story in the worldone we want to keep on telling each other when we meet, as though it were part of... [more]
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The Dreams That Stuff is Made of: The Most Astounding Papers of Quantum...
Stephen Hawking
Mathematics & Sciences; Quantum physics (quantum mechanics & quantum field theory)
Hardback
Bestselling author and physicist Stephen Hawking now guides the lay-reader through the fascinating world of quantum physics.... [more]
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Reactions: The Private Life of Atoms
Peter Atkins
Mathematics & Sciences; Popular science; Chemistry
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Through an innovative, closely integrated design of images and text, and his characteristically clear, precise, and economical... [more]
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The Chemical History of a Candle
Michael Faraday
Mathematics & Sciences; History of science; Popular science; Chemistry
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Michael Faraday's celebrated series of lectures,The Chemical History of a Candle, turned into one of the most successful science... [more]
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Transit of Venus: 1631 to the Present
Nick Lomb
Mathematics & Sciences; History of science; Solar system: the Sun & planets
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In his new book, Transit of Venus, 1631 to the Present, Dr Nick Lomb an astronomer at the Sydney Observatpry and the author... [more]
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A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionised the Cosmos
Dava Sobel
Mathematics & Sciences; History of science; Popular science; Astronomy, space & time
Hardback
During the 1530s, rumours of a potentially revolutionary theory of how the heavens worked emanating from a small city in Poland... [more]
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The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True
Richard Dawkins
Mathematics & Sciences; Popular science; The natural world, country life & pets
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What are things made of? What is the sun? Why is there night and day, winter and summer? Why do bad things happen? Are we... [more]
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The Physics Book: From the Big Bang to Quantum Resurrection, 250 Milestones...
Clifford A. Pickover
Mathematics & Sciences; Popular science; Physics
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Professor Brian Cox's BBC programmes have helped make physics a very popular topic. Following the hugely successful The Math... [more]
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Burke & Wills: the Scientific Legacy of the Victorian Exploring Expedition...
D. A. McCann, E. B. Joyce
Australasian & Pacific history; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900; Mathematics & Sciences; Geographical discovery & exploration
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This book challenges the common assumption that little or nothing of scientific value was achieved during the Burke and Wills... [more]
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The Garnaut Review 2011: Australia in the Global Response to Climate Change...
Ross Garnaut
Mathematics & Sciences; Meteorology & climatology; Global warming
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In this update to the 2008 Garnaut Climate Change Review, Ross Garnaut re-examines the case for action in the aftermath of... [more]
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Brain Bugs: How the Brain's Flaws Shape Our Lives
Dean Buonomano
Mathematics & Sciences; Popular science; Neurosciences
Hardback
The human brain is more beautiful and complex than anything we could ever build but it's far from perfect. Our memory is unreliable;... [more]
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Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily...
Michio Kaku
Mathematics & Sciences; Impact of science & technology on society; Popular science
Hardback
Based on interviews with over three hundred of the world's top scientists, who are already inventing the future in their labs,... [more]
The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos
Brian Greene
Mathematics & Sciences; Cosmology & the universe; Physics
Paperback
There was a time when 'universe' meant all there is. Everything. Yet, as Brian Greene's extraordinary book shows, ours may... [more]
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Connectome: How the Brain's Wiring Makes Us Who We Are
Sebastian Seung
Neurology & clinical neurophysiology; Mathematics & Sciences; Neurosciences
Paperback
This is the bold and thrilling quest to finally understand the brain - and along with it our mental afflictions, from depression... [more]
$29.95
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Quantum Man: Richard Feynman's Life in Science
Lawrence M. Krauss
Mathematics & Sciences; Science: general issues; Physics
Paperback
Perhaps the greatest physicist of the second half of the twentieth century, Richard Feynman changed the way we think about... [more]
$19.95
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