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Number Freak
Price: AUD 26.99 Author: Derrick Niederman

If you have a favourite number (and most of us do) look it up in this book and discover everything there is to know about it, and we do mean, everything. Derrick Niederman takes every number, from one, to two hundred, and explains its "hidden language".

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What's Next?
Price: AUD 34.95 Author: Max Brockman (ed)

Looking to the future, this compilation of essays tries to predict what scientific advances await. Interestingly, the essayists are all young scientists who presumably will be able to look back one day to see how accurately they predicted what was next in

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Professor Stewart's Hoard of Mathematical Treasures
Price: AUD 29.99 Author: Ian Stewart

Just as you may have closed the last drawer in Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities, you are presented with a treasure trove of yet more puzzles and games.

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The Math Book
Price: AUD 49.99 Author: Clifford A. Pickover

Mathematician Don Zagier is quoted in one of the 250 entries in this book as follows: "upon looking at these numbers one has the feeling of being in the presence of one of the inexplicable secrets of creation." Although referring to prime numbers, he coul

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The Fallen Sky
Price: AUD 39.95 Author: Christopher Cokinos

We go out hunting me-teorites, and some of us find ourselves as well. Subtitled An Intimate History of Shooting Stars, this is one man's quest to explain how science, and the characters who have populated this area of academia, have come to understand met

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Cheating Death
Price: AUD 32.95 Author: Sanjay Gupta

A cover review by Oliver Sacks lends veritas to this book by the chief medical correspondent for CNN. It is a book about those moments when people have hovered between life and death and medical science has intervened; it is also about the way science is

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Rocket Men
Price: AUD 35.00 Author: Craig Nelson

Now that the 40th anniversary of the moon landing has just been celebrated, many of us will have relived or experienced for the first time the feeling as we watched men walk on the moon. This book takes us back before the landing to when space travel was first conceived and how the reality of it came to be. It also sets our sights on the new frontiers before us as science continues to develop.

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The Lightness of Being
Price: AUD 39.95 Author: Frank Wilczek

This Nobel Prize winning physicist offers an accessible and thoroughly engrossing path into physics for all readers. The only prerequisite is a sense of wonder about the universe.

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The Greatest Show on Earth
Price: AUD 35.00 Author: Richard Dawkins

As cited in one review of this book, “Dawkins doesn’t do dispassionate” and it might also be suggested that he doesn’t usually acknowledge that holding views contrary to his own might at least be acceptable as a democratic right. However, it cannot be denied that when it comes to evolution and the contribution of his hero, Charles Darwin, he is an expert. Subtitled “the evidence for evolution” Dawkins is very much in control of his subject matter.

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How we Live and Why we Die
Price: AUD 39.99 Author: Lewis Wolpert

Biologist Lewis Wolpert successfully helps us lay people to understand the singularly vital role the cell plays in our very existence. Everything we do and experience can be traced to the basic cell structure from which we are derived.

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Don`t Swallow Your Gum
Price: AUD 24.95 Author: Aaron E. Carroll and Rachel C. Vreeman

These two medicos challenge us with the premise that in this age of ever-increasing access to medical information, many of us insist on holding on to myths and tales that are obviously dubious in their veracity. Rather than admonish us for this failing, they educate us in a humorous and lively fashion.

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Freaks of Nature
Price: AUD 37.95 Author: Mark S. Blumberg

Through his study of the odd, unusual, and malformed, Mark Blumberg identifies the cultural imperatives at work that demand there is such a thing as normal, and highlights the evolutionary fact that every living thing is an exercise in belief and perception of normality.

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Smallpox, Syphilis and Salvation
Price: AUD 34.99 Author: Sheryl Persson

The author points to the irony in the fact that whilst the modern world is preoccupied with threats of terrorism and global warming and the like, the oldest threat to our species – that of disease – remains real. She looks at the history of medical research and invention that has had such a profound effect on our survival.

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Atomic
Price: AUD 49.99 Author: Jim Baggott

The pursuit of atomic power is the subject of this book, chronicling the history of the atom bomb from 1939 to 1949. A particularly interesting aspect of this book is the exploration of brilliant scientists and physicists were co-opted into military service under the guise of science. It highlights the way one thing can lead to completely unexpected consequences and how it can be hard to indentify and isolate political agendas.

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Plutonium
Price: AUD 34.95 Author: Jeremy Bernstein

Once a laboratory novelty, plutonium would of course go on to be a highly devastating and controversial man-made element. Both physicist and journalist, Jeremy Bernstein offers a detailed and accessible history of the reality of plutonium.

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The Bone Readers
Price: AUD 35.00 Author: Claudio Tuniz et al

The assumptions, learned facts, and radical theories that have moulded how we understand our origins have been systematically refuted or confirmed as science has evolved. The Bone Readers is specific to Australia, utilising the most up-to-date sophisticated techniques and sciences to identify the very beginnings of human life on this continent.

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The Decisive Moment
Price: AUD 34.95 Author: Jonah Lehrer

We make decisions every day if not every hour, every minute. And, we don’t ever consider the processes at work in our brain which enable us to make those decisions. Jonah Lehrer metaphorically opens our minds and allows us to see our brain in action, detailing for us what is physically happening when we think about the choices we have and, then, the conclusion we reach and decision we make.

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The Strangest Man
Price: AUD 59.95 Author: Graham Farmelo

Colleague, Kurt Hofer, once said of Paul Dirac that he was comparable to Charles Darwin in that they were both English, both reticent to embrace fame or recognition, and both responsible for changing the way scientists think about our universe. Dirac, a Nobel prize winner for Physics, was a brilliant physicist and a very strange man. In this study, the author sets out Dirac’s life and contribution to science.

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Boringology
Price: AUD 19.95 Author: Roger Dobson

Roger Dobson has collated 77 of the more unusual research topics under the microscope at the present time. He points out that whilst most of us would never even consider why some things are the way they are, it is such researchers’ work that can literally change our lives.

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Darwin’s Armada
Price: AUD 49.95 Author: Iain McCalman

Whilst there are many books celebrating both Charles Darwin’s life and his famous work, On the Origin of Species, this is possibly the only one that will tell the story of four men. Charles Darwin was ably served by three other voyagers – Joseph Hooker, Thomas Huxley, and Alfred Wallace. The author builds a picture of all four men and how their individual work collectively made Darwin’s theories harder to refute.

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Lewis Carroll in Numberland
Price: AUD 35.00 Author: Robin Wilson

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, aka Lewis Carroll, was the winner of a Mathematical Lectureship at Oxford, the author of works on geometry, logic, and algebra, and a prolific creator of numerical puzzles. It is these achievements that are the subject of this book by Wilson. With due reverence for his expertise, the author celebrates Dodgson’s intelligence and fields of endeavour and presents a fascinating account of this man.

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Mr Darwin's Incredible Shrinking World
Price: AUD 29.95 Author: Peter Macinnis

Darwin's On The Origins of the Species was published in November 1859 and it, and its author, remain to this day relevant to the discussion on how life evolved. Peter Macinnis, in this entertaining book, sets Darwin against the backdrop of the world as it was in that year. He surmises that as the world was notionally shrinking with the advances in communication and travel, it was in fact growing far beyond anything that people from earlier times could recognise. Drawing on all fields of endeavour - science, medicine, the arts - he introduces the reader to a time in history where rapid change was the order of the day

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Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream
Price: AUD 32.95 Author: Jennifer Ackerman

Open this book as if you were pulling back the covers as you awake of a morning and, with the aid of medical and scientific knowledge, begin to understand how the machine that is the human body gets you through each day.

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The Speed Of Nearly Everything
Price: AUD 24.95 Author: Peter Macinnis

This is an amusing and informative look at the notion of speed in all environments and across all species. It is about the fastest of things and the slowest, and how speed affects every aspect of life. Perfectly pitched for the young mind wanting to absorb facts and figures about their world, it is also genuinely useful for those older who are still curious.

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Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities
Price: AUD 29.95 Author: Ian Stewart

Professor Stewart has hoarded mathematical puzzles, stored gems of logic, and generally catalogued all that is interesting to the mathematically curious. Now he gives you a peek into his collection.

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Do Polar Bears Get Lonely?
Price: AUD 19.95 Author: Mick O'Hare

The third of its kind, taken from The Last Word column in New Scientist, this answers more of those questions that intrigue, humour, and fascinate.

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Small Wonders
Price: AUD 26.95 Author: Idan Ben-Barak

Bacteria, viruses, genes, and proteins have never been so captivating. The author introduces us to all the characters in the world of microbiology and explains how every microbe plays its part in our health and survival. The information is couched in accessible language that guides the novice through this wonderland of human helpers.

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ID Quest For Identity
Price: AUD 35.00 Author: Susan Greenfield

In her introduction to this personal look at the twenty-first century, Susan Greenfield identifies the need for balancing the necessary technical detail with the need to make the subject matter accessible. If ever anyone could make neuroscience interesting and understood, it is surely this author. She gives the reader the roadmap for defining individuality in an ever more complex world.

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The Little Book Of Maths
Price: AUD 19.95 Author: Surendra Verma

Mathematical theorems, theories, puzzles, paradoxes, conjectures, and fallacies are explained in a straightforward and simple style, with the overriding intent being to make maths fun and engaging. The Kingdom Of Infinite Space Raymond Tallis

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Taming The Infinite
Price: AUD 45.00 Author: Ian Stewart

This is an illustrated history of mathematics aimed at demystifying the world of numbers and formulae. Ian Stewart is Professor of Mathematics at Warwick University who has penned this book with the general reader in mind, going back to the beginning of maths in the ancient world.

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