The Scientists: Pioneers of Discovery by Andrew Robinson (Editor)
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Category: Science
Forty articles expertly curated by biographer Andrew Robinson provide an unrivalled account of the lives and personalities behind the greatest scientific breakthroughs of all time.Who made us see the atom, our minds, our planet and the universe afresh? How did we uncover the mysteries of life on earth? ...Show more
The Good Virus: The Untold Story of Phages by Tom Ireland
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Category: Science
At every moment, within your body and all around you, trillions of microscopic combatants are fighting an invisible war. Countless times per second, 'good' viruses known as phages are infecting and destroying bacteria. These phages are the most abundant life form on the planet and have an incredible pow ...Show more
System Error - Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot by Jeremy Weinstein; Rob Reich; Mehran Sahami
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Category: Science
Read this if you want to understand how to shape our technological future and reinvigorate democracy along the way. -- Reed Hastings, co-founder and CEO of Netflix__________A forward-thinking manifesto from three Stanford professors which reveals how big tech's obsession with optimization and efficiency ...Show more
Fantastic Numbers and Where to Find Them: A Journey to the Edge of Physics by Antonio Padilla
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Category: Science
A dazzling exploration of the strange and extreme numbers that illuminate the ultimate nature of realityFor particularly brilliant theoretical physicists like James Clerk Maxwell, Paul Dirac or Albert Einstein, the search for mathematical truths - via ever more mind-boggling numbers - led to strange new ...Show more
The Secret Lives of Molecules by Kathryn Harkup
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Category: Science
What happens when you really get under the skin of the world around you? Everything that surrounds us - and we ourselves - are made of molecules, constructed from a limited set of elements that can combine to form an almost limitless kaleidoscope of possibilities.Dr Kathryn Harkup reveals the inner live ...Show more
The Brain: Everything You Need to Know by New Scientist
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Category: Science
CAN YOU BOOST YOUR IQ? WHAT IF YOU COULDN'T FORGET ANYTHING? WHAT HAPPENS IN YOUR BRAIN WHEN YOU GET AN IDEA? COULD YOU BE A PSYCHOPATH? . . . NEW SCIENTIST HAS ALL THE ANSWERSFrom the strange ways to distort what we think of as 'reality' to the brain hacks that can improve memory, The Brain takes you o ...Show more
Why Do Birds Do That?: Over fifty answers to the most often asked questions by Grainne Cleary
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science
An entrancing, informative book filled with answers to many of the common questions we ask about birds and their lives. For thousands of years birds have fascinated us. We've observed what they do - their behaviours, their characteristics, their survival skills, the food they eat and their habitats - an ...Show more
Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees by Jared Farmer
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Category: Science
The epic story of the planet's oldest trees and the making of the modern world. Humans have always revered long-lived trees. But as historian Jared Farmer reveals in Elderflora, our veneration took a modern turn in the eighteenth century, when naturalists embarked on a quest to locate and precisely dat ...Show more
Otherlands: A World in the Making by Thomas Halliday
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Category: Science
A SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERShortlisted for the Wainright Prize'The best book on the history of life on Earth I have ever read' Tom Holland'Epically cinematic... A book of almost unimaginable riches' Sunday TimesThis is the past as we've never seen it before.Otherlands is an epic, exhilarating jour ...Show more
Tasmanian Devil: A deadly tale of survival by David Owen, David Pemberton
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Category: Science
The remarkable story of the world's largest marsupial carnivore, including its rescue from near extinction through an innovative breeding program. This second edition has been fully updated.
A Book of Noises: Notes on the Auraculous by Caspar Henderson
$36.99 AUD
Category: Science
A wide-ranging exploration of the sounds that shape our world in invisible yet significant ways.The crackling of a campfire. The scratch, hiss, and pop of a vinyl record. The first glug of wine as it is poured from a bottle. These are just a few of writer Caspar Henderson's favorite sounds. In A Book of ...Show more
What the Trees See: A wander through millennia of natural history in Australia by Dave Witty
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Category: Science
The trees around us - some we may walk past every day - tell a story. The mallee box by the twelfth hole of North Adelaide Golf Course evokes a time when Adelaide was clothed in mallee scrub and desert senna. Brisbane' s remnant blue gum, growing by the botanic gardens, indicates a time when the city wa ...Show more