Backyard Ballistics: Build Potato Cannons, Paper Match Rockets, Cincinnati Fire Kites, Tennis Ball Mortars, & More Dynamite Devices by William Gurstelle
$33.95 AUD
Category: Popular Science
This bestselling DIY handbook now features new and expanded projects, enabling ordinary folks to construct 16 awesome ballistic devices in their garage or basement workshops using inexpensive household or hardware store materials and this step-by-step guide. Clear instructions, diagrams, and photographs ...Show more
Bad Science by Ben Goldacre
$19.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
Ben Goldacre's wise and witty bestseller, shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize, lifts the lid on quack doctors, flaky statistics, scaremongering journalists and evil pharmaceutical corporations. Since 2003 Dr Ben Goldacre has been exposing dodgy medical data in his popular Guardian column. In this e ...Show more
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-ravaged Hospital by Sheri Fink
$21.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
"In the tradition of the best writing on human behaviour and moral choices in the face of disaster, physician and reporter Sheri Fink reconstructs five days at New Orleans' Memorial Medical Center during Hurricane Katrina and draws the reader into the lives of those who struggled mightily to survive and ...Show more
Award Winning Australian Writing 2012 by Adolfo Aranjuez
$29.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
Now in its fifth edition, Award Winning Australian Writing (AWAW) continues its commitment to showcasing the best short stories and poems that have won competitions around the country. This year, Melbourne Books is again expanding the project, increasing the number of featured pieces to over fifty. AWAW ...Show more
Armour by John Kinsella
$21.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
With Armour, the great Australian poet John Kinsella has written his most spiritual work to date -- and his most politically engaged. The world in which these poems unfold is strangely poised between the material and the immaterial, and everything which enters it -- kestrel and fox, moth and almond -- d ...Show more
Adapt How Nature's Strangest Inventions Are Helping Design Our Future by Amina Khan
$29.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
Nature's creations are more sophisticated and elegant than anything humans have created. Geckos can run upside down along ceilings. Termite mounds can stay cool in the desert without air conditioning. Adapt explores how we can harness such ideas through the ground-breaking new science of biomimicry - wh ...Show more
All About Love by Bell Hooks
$24.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science | Series: Love Song to the Nation
THE ACCLAIMED FIRST VOLUME IN HER "LOVE SONG TO THE NATION" "The word 'love' is most often defined as a noun, yet . . . we would all love better if we used it as a verb," writes bell hooks as she comes out fighting and on fire in All About Love. Here, at her most provocative and intensely personal, the ...Show more
A Is for Arsenic: The Poisons of Agatha Christie by Kathryn Harkup
$29.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
Agatha Christie's detailed plotting is what makes her books so compelling. Christie used poison to kill her characters more often than any other murder method, with the poison itself being a central part of the novel, and her choice of deadly substances was far from random; the chemical and physiologica ...Show more
100 Australian Poems of Love and Loss by Jamie Grant
$39.95 AUD
Category: Popular Science
Poetry, we are often told these days, is obsolete. Yet there are two situations in particular that awaken the dormant yearning for 'memorable speech', as one popular definition of poetry describes it. One is a wedding and the other is a funeral. This collection, edited by acclaimed poet Jamie Grant, pro ...Show more
147 Things: My User's Guide to the Universe, from Black Holes to Bellybuttons by Jim Chapman
$32.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
From YouTube superstar, TV presenter, model and fact-obsessive over-sharer Jim Chapman comes a hilarious user's guide to the universe. In 147 Things, Jim takes us on a whistle-stop tour of the best bits of everything, from the mind-blowing to the ridiculous. As with his videos, no subject is off-limits ...Show more
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks
$24.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
'A humane discourse on the fragility of our minds, of the bodies that give rise to them, and of the world they create for us. This book is filled with wonders' Daily Telegraph Oliver Sacks' compassionate tales of people struggling to adapt to different neurological conditions have fundamentally changed ...Show more
How Not to be Wrong: The Hidden Maths of Everyday Life by Jordan Ellenberg
$24.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
The maths we learn in school often seems like a mysterious and impenetrable set of rules, laid down by the ancients and not to be questioned. In How Not to Be Wrong, acclaimed mathematician Jordan Ellenberg shows us just how wrong this view is- in fact, maths touches everything we do, allowing us to see ...Show more