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About Time: Einstein's Unfinished Revolution by P.C.W. Davies
$24.95 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Penguin Science Ser.
Looks at the highly challenging, scientific problems currently surrounding the question of time - the age of the universe, the relative nature of time and faster-than-light communication.
Consciousness Explained by Daniel Dennett
$25.00 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Science Ser.
In "Consciousness Explained", Daniel C. Dennett reveals the secrets of one of the last remaining mysteries of the universe: the human brain. Daniel C. Dennett's now-classic book blends philosophy, psychology and neuroscience - with the aid of numerous examples and thought-experiments - to explore how co ...Show more
Deep Simplicity: Chaos Complexity and the Emergence of Life by John Gribbin
$24.95 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Penguin Press Science Ser.
In this brilliantly enlightening book John Gribbin, the man who made quantum theory clear with In Search of Schrodinger's Cat shows that complexity is simple, and explains how life has emerged from simple systems. Deep Simplicity is the first book to synthesize all the various ideas about chaos and comp ...Show more
Euclid's Window by Leonard Mlodinow
$24.95 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Penguin Press Science Ser.
This text leads us on a journey through five revolutions in geometry, via biographical stories, from the Greek concept of parallel lines to contemporary notions of hyperspace. It reveals simple questions that have been the hidden engines of major achievements in science and technology.
God and the New Physics by P.C.W. Davies
$22.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Science Ser.
In "God and the New Physics", Paul Davies explains how science has come of age, and can now offer a surer path to divinity than religion. Science is now on the verge of answering our most profound questions about the nature of existence. Here Paul Davies explains how the far-reaching discoveries of rece ...Show more
Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter
$45.00 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Science Ser. | Reading Level: very good
'What is a self, and how can a self come out of inaminate matter?' This book examines this riddle. Linking together the music of J S Bach, the graphic art of Escher and the mathematical theorems of Godel, as well as ideas drawn from logic, biology, psychology, physics and linguistics, it reveals the mys ...Show more
How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker
$26.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Press Science Ser. | Reading Level: very good
"Presented with extraordinary lucidity, cogency and panache...Powerful and gripping...To have read [the book] is to have consulted a first draft of the structural plan of the human psyche...a glittering tour de force" - "Spectator". "Why do memories fade? Why do we lose our tempers? Why do fools fall in ...Show more
NEW SCIENCE OF STRONG MATERIALS by GORDON JAMES EDWARD
$19.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Science Ser.
Why isn't wood weaker that it is? Why isn't steel stronger? Why does glass sometimes shatter and sometimes bend like spring? Why do ships break in half? What is a liquid and is treacle one? All these are questions about the nature of materials. All of them are vital to engineers but also fascinating as ...Show more
Q.E.D.: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter by Richard P. Feynman
$24.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Press Science Ser.
Quantum electrodynamics - or QED, for short - is the revolutionary theory that explains how light and electrons interact. Thanks to richard Feynman and his colleagues, who won the Nobel Prize for their ground-breaking work in this area, it is also one of the rare parts of physics that is known for sure, ...Show more
Six Easy Pieces: TheFundamentals of Physics Explained by Richard P. Feynman
$24.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Press Science Ser.
An outstanding communicator, Richard P. Feynman inspired a generation of students with his energetic, unorthodox style of teaching. Drawn from his celebrated and landmark text Lectures on Physics, "Six Easy Pieces" reveals Feynman's distinctive style while introducing the essentials of physics to the ge ...Show more
Stardust by John Gribbin
$26.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Press Science Ser.
Life begins with the process of star formation. Except for hydrogen, every single atom of every single element in our bodies has been manufactured inside stars and then scattered across the universe in great stellar explosions known as supernovas, only then to be recycled as part of us. The hydrogen is ...Show more
Structures:or Why Things Don't Fall Down by J. E. Gordon
$26.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Science Ser.
In "The New Science of Strong Materials" the author made plain the secrets of materials science. In this volume he explains the importance and properties of different structures.