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Showcasing selections from the work of renowned communicators such as Tim Flannery, Germaine Greer, Anna Funder and Paul Davies, this book is an inspiring exploration of the most exciting, elegant, powerful, and important writing about science and nature published in Australia and by Australians.

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Good writing about science can be moving, funny, exhilarating or poetic, but it will always be honest and rigorous about the research that underlies it. Editor Elizabeth Finkel showcases the nation's best science writing, drawn from some of this country's best publications.

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Now in its fourth year, this popular and acclaimed anthology steps inside the nation's laboratories and its finest scientific and literary minds. Featuring prominent authors, it covers topics as diverse and wondrous as our 'lumpy' universe, the creation of dragons and the frontiers of climate science.

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Now in its sixth year, The Best Australian Science Writing 2016 brings together knowledge and insight from Australias brightest thinkers as they explore the intricacies of the world around us. This lively collection of essays covers a wide range of subjects, and challenges our persceptions of the world and how we exist within it.

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An anthology featuring the year's finest writing on mathematics from around the world. It helps readers discover why Freeman Dyson thinks some mathematicians are birds while others are frogs; why Keith Devlin believes there's more to mathematics than proof; and what Samuel Arbesman can tell us about the epidemiology of the undead in zombie flicks.

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Offers surprising insights into the nature, meaning, and practice of mathematics. This book explains mathematical aspects of origami foldings; discusses the frequency and distribution of the prime numbers; ponders whether mathematics is invented or discovered; and describes what is special about a ball in five dimensions.

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How an ordinary mammal manipulated nature to become technologically sophisticated city-dwellers-and why our history points to an optimistic future in the face of environmental crisis

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From the rain forests of Borneo to the tenements of Manhattan, winged insects are a feature of life on earth. Here, Robert Dudley presents an explanation of how insects fly. The author relates the biomechanics of light to insect ecology and evolution in a major new work of synthesis.

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An insightful look into the essence of creativity and the connections between the human imagination and the origins of the universe

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Reprint of: The Continuum companion to the philosophy of science. -- New York: Continuum, A2011.

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First in-depth overview of milie Du Chtelet's philosophy by leading scholars covering her ideas on metaphysics, philosophy of science, the good life, happiness, freedom, and mathematics.

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In this remarkable book Jonathan Miller considers the functioning of the body as a subject of private experience.

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This book examines the facts and myths about the first human arrival in Australia and its region; what modern DNA tells us about the origin of Australian Aborigines; theories on the Indonesian hobbits; and who or what killed off Australia's giant marsupials. It explains the science behind the latest techniques in an accessible way.

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A sweeping account of humanity's evolving vision of the universe, as viewed through the writings of the most exceptional thinkers in history

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This is a book about universes. It tells a story that revolves around a single extraordinary fact: that Albert Einstein's famous theory of relativity describes a series of entire universes.

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The things we think we know about energy are mostly myths. A better understanding will radically change our views and policies on a number of very controversial issues.

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An invaluable introduction to the major ideas, discoveries, and personalities in the history of our quest for the origins of life, with an introduction by leading geneticist Steve Jones.

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In the digital age, bullies are no longer confined to the playground. They lurk in our pockets, hiding behind screens, ready to attack at any moment through our devices. 'The Bully in Your Pocket' offers a practical, comprehensive guide to understanding, managing, and overcoming online bullying.

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From the author of The Prehistory of Sex a coruscating, insightful history of the human soul.

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The description for this book, The Calculi of Lambda Conversion. (AM-6), will be forthcoming.

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*John L Casti has created a fascinating, genre-bending book an accessible novel of ideas which explores the fundamental nature of mind and machine.

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JBS Haldane (1892-1964), one of the founders of the science of population genetics, was also one of the greatest practitioners of the art of explaining science to the layperson. This title provides accessible introduction to the genetical basis of evolution by natural selection.