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Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order by Steven H. Strogatz
$26.95 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Penguin Press Science Ser.
Why do crickets harmonize together in choruses on a summer night? What makes the moon spin precisely in sync with its orbit? Why do audiences clap simultaneously? What made the Millennium Bridge wobble? The answer in sync. The tendency to synchronize is one of the most far-reaching drives in the univers ...Show more
The Blank Slate - The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker
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Category: Science | Series: Penguin Press Science Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In the past century many people have assumed that we are shaped by our environment: a blank slate waiting to be inscribed by our upbringing and culture, with innate abilities playing little part. Steven Pinker's profound and essential book shows that this view denies the heart of our being: human nature ...Show more
The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins
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Category: Science | Series: Penguin Science Ser. | Reading Level: good
Richard Dawkins's brilliant and controversial book has become a landmark account. Here he vividly demonstrates that evolution by natural selection - the unconscious, automatic, blind yet essentially non-random process discovered by Darwin - is the only answer to the biggest question of all: why do we ex ...Show more
The Challenge of Pain by Ronald Melzack; Patrick D. Wall
$35.00 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Science Ser. | Reading Level: very good
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The Character of Physical Law by Richard P. Feynman
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Press Science Ser.
A series of classic lectures, delivered in 1960 and recorded for the BBC. This is Feynman's unique take on the problems and puzzles that lie at the heart of physical theory - with Newton's Law of Gravitation; on whether time can ever go backwards; on maths as the supreme language of nature. This collect ...Show more
The Diversity of Life by Edward O. Wilson
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Press Science Ser.
"Not since Darwin has an author so lifted the science of ecology with insight and delightful imagery" - Richard Dawkins. In this book a master scientist tells the great story of how life on earth evolved. E.O. Wilson eloquently describes how the species of the world became diverse, and why the threat to ...Show more
The Fabric of Reality by David Deutsch
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Science Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A synthesis of unifying ideas arising from quantum theory, the theory of computation, epistemology and the theory of evolution, this book explores the deep connections between the progress of knowledge of the world and the process of change in the world itself.
The Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Press Science Ser. | Reading Level: very good
From Brian Greene, one of the world's leading physicists, comes a grand tour of the universe that makes us look at reality in a completely different way. Space and time form the very fabric of the cosmos. Yet they remain among the most mysterious of concepts. Is space an entity? Why does time have a dir ...Show more
The Mind of God by Paul C.W. Davies
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Press Science Ser.
This sequel to God and the New Physics explores the fascinating questions of modern physics such as why does maths, an abstract system of logic invented by man, prove to be so useful in understanding the laws of nature? And is the existence of intelligent life a random chance or in some sense an inevita ...Show more
The Origins of Virtue by Matt Ridley
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Press Science Ser.
Why are people nice to each other? What are the reasons for altruism? Matt Ridley explains how the human mind has evolved a special instinct for social exchange, offering a lucid and persuasive argument about the paradox of human benevolence.
The Private Life of the Brain by Susan Greenfield
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Press Science Ser. | Reading Level: good-very good
An explanation of the various mysteries of pleasure in the workings of the mind. The book shows how different experiences give rise to similar sensations in the mind - such as sport, raves, or orgasm; explores the workings of recreational drugs; and explains the neurological character of pleasure. Paper ...Show more
The Red Queen by Matt Ridley
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Press Science Ser.
Sex is as fascinating to scientists as it is to the rest of us. A vast pool of knowledge, therefore, has been gleaned from research into the nature of sex, from the contentious problem of why the wasteful reproductive process exists at all, to how individuals choose their mates and what traits they find ...Show more