| Author: | Professor Brian Cox; Andrew Cohen |
| Category: |
Science and Discovery |
| Reading Level: | 4 Science |
Jupiter: The Ruthless One - Mars: The Doomed One - Sun: The Fiery One - Saturn: The Beautiful One - Pluto: The Mysterious One Professor Brian Cox is back with another insightful and mind-blowing exploration of space.
This time he shows us our solar system as we've never see... read more
| Author: | Andrew Nahum |
| Category: |
Science and Discovery |
Frank Whittle always maintained that he was held back by a lack of government support. At the very moment in 1943 when his invention was unveiled to the world, his company, Power Jets, was forcibly nationalised. Yet, as Andrew Nahum shows in this brilli... read more
| Author: | Joel Levy |
| Category: |
Science and Discovery |
| Series: | Amazing Minds Ser. |
Hawking explores the life and work, explaining the breakthroughs at the cutting edge of cosmology, from the Big Bang to black holes, and the ups and downs of Stephen Hawking's extraordinary and often turbulent life. The death of Stephen Hawking in March 2018 brought to a clos... read more
| Author: | Stephen Hawking |
| Category: |
Science and Discovery |
'A beautiful little book by a brilliant mind' Steven Poole, DAILY TELEGRAPH
The world-famous cosmologist and #1 bestselling author of A Brief History of Time leaves us with his final thoughts on the universe's biggest questions ... read more
| Author: | Karl Kruszelnicki |
| Category: |
Science and Discovery |
Get your pulse racing with Australia's most popular scientist, Dr Karl Kruszelnicki.Discover why people tell lies, why some planets are hotter than stars and how humans are terraforming the Earth. Is cockroach milk really the next Superfood? Why are birds so smart? Why do t... read more
| Author: | Sarah-Jayne Blakemore |
| Category: |
Science and Discovery |
Winner of the Royal Society Insight Investment Science Prize 2018. Up to the minute brain science from a world class scientist. Sarah-Jayne Blakemore explains how the adolescent brain transforms as it develops and shapes the adults... read more
| Author: | Gina Rippon |
| Category: |
Science and Discovery |
Gendered brains- a sexist myth, or a fact of life?Reading maps or reading emotions? Barbie or Lego? We live in a gendered world where we are bombarded with messages about sex and gender. On a daily basis w... read more
| Author: | Editors of Life |
| Category: |
Science and Discovery |
One hundred years ago, a ship thought to be indestructible suffered the ill fate to strike an iceberg during its maiden voyage across the North Atlantic. The unthinkable occurred, and the Titanic went to the ... read more
| Author: | Anthony Warner |
| Category: |
Science and Discovery |
Who or what is to blame for us getting fat and ill in increasing numbers?
Sugar or fat? Gut microbes or genes? Laziness or poverty? Whatever it is, it's placing a devastating burden on our healthcare system, and scientists in every field are desperate to explain... read more
| Author: | Adam Spencer |
| Category: |
Science and Discovery |
Australia's funniest mathematician is back in 2019 with a small format edition of 2018's bestseller. Which number terrifies Ogdokontaheptaphobes? Why would you watch the same clock for 14 years? And have you met the 23-million-digit prime? The answers to all of the... read more
| Author: | Adrian Owen |
| Category: |
Science and Discovery |
In 2006 Dr Adrian Owen and his team made medical history. They discovered a new realm of consciousness, a twilight zone somewhere between life and death. They called this the Grey Zone.The people who inhabit t... read more
| Author: | Nick & Caroline Robertson-Brown |
| Category: |
Science and Discovery |
The world's oceans are filled with an array of venomous and toxic marine critters, not to mention a whole host of apex carnivores. Join ace divers and photographers Nick and Caroline Robertson-Brown as they tour the world in search of the 50 deadliest sea creatures. Animals... read more
