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StarTalk: Everything You Ever Need to Know About Space Travel, Sci-Fi, the Human Race, the Universe, and Beyond – Neil deGrasse Tyson
R305.00This illustrated companion to the popular podcast and National Geographic Channel show is an eye-opening journey for anyone curious about our universe, space, astronomy and the complexities of the cosmos.
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Sum: Forty Tales of the Afterlives’ – David Eagleman
R250.00At once funny, wistful and unsettling, Sum is a dazzling exploration of unexpected afterlives—each presented as a vignette that offers a stunning lens through which to see ourselves in the here and now. In one afterlife, you may find that God is the size of a microbe and unaware of your existence. In another version, you work as a background character in other people’s dreams.
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The Butchering Art : Joseph Lister’s Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine – Lindsey Fitzharris
R385.00The story of a visionary British surgeon whose quest to unite science and medicine delivered us into the modern world – the safest time to be alive in human historyIn The Butchering Art, historian Lindsey Fitzharris recreates a critical turning point in the history of medicine, when Joseph Lister transformed surgery from a brutal, harrowing practice to the safe, vaunted profession we know today.
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The Extended Selfish Gene – Richard Dawkins
R300.00The Selfish Gene is a classic exposition of evolutionary thought. In it Professor Dawkins articulates a gene’s eye view of evolution – a view giving centre stage to these persistent units of information, and in which organisms can be seen as vehicles for the replication of genes.
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The Infinite Monkey Cage – How to Build a Universe – Brian Cox
R370.00Christmas Choice 2017
From the hosts of the legendary BBC Radio 4 programme comes this irreverent celebration of scientific marvels – a hectic leap through the grand and bizarre ideas conjured up by human imagination, from dark matter to consciousness via neutrinos and earthworms.
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The New York Times Book of Science: More than 150 Years of Groundbreaking Scientific Coverage
R475.00For more than 150 years, The New York Times has been in the forefront of science news reporting. These 125 articles from its archives are the very best, covering more than a century of scientific breakthroughs, setbacks, and mysteries.
