What's it Like to be Chased by a Cassowary? Fascinating answers to perplexing questions: The most informative and entertaining explainers from The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald by Felicity Lewis (ed.)
$32.99 AUD
Category: Sciences & Academia
Ever wondered what happens to us as we die? Or how the Esky became an Aussie cultural icon? Or why we have leap years? Then look no further - and even if you haven't wondered, you'll want to find out. This anthology is a diverse collection of explainers by some of the finest writers from The Age and The ...Show more
The Age of A. I. - And Our Human Future by Henry A. Kissinger; Eric Schmidt; Daniel Huttenlocher
$34.99 AUD
Category: Sciences & Academia
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming human society fundamentally and profoundly. Not since the Enlightenment and the Age of Reason have we changed how we approach knowledge, politics, economics, even warfare. Three of our most accomplished and deep thinkers come together to explore what it means ...Show more
Resurrection Science by Mr O'Connor
$30.00 AUD
Category: Sciences & Academia
In a world dominated by human interference and rapid climate change, species large and small are increasingly vulnerable to extinction. In Resurrection Science, journalist M.R. O'Connor explores the extreme measures that scientists are taking to try and save them, from captive breeding and translocating ...Show more
Astronomy 2020 Australia by Glenn Dawes and Peter Northfield and Ken Wallace
$29.99 AUD
Category: Sciences & Academia
This annual gem (produced each year since 1991) continues to take the Australian stargazer on a wondrous journey of the night sky. This critically acclaimed work, produced by three well known experts in the field, takes a unique approach to explaining and identifying the Sun, Moon, planets and constella ...Show more
What Is Life? Understand Biology in Five Steps by Sir Paul Nurse
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Category: Sciences & Academia
Life is all around us, abundant and diverse. It is truly a marvel. But what does it actually mean to be alive, and how do we decide what is living and what is not? After a lifetime of studying life, Nobel Prize-winner Sir Paul Nurse, one of the world's leading scientists, has taken on the challenge of d ...Show more
Mustn't Grumble: The surprising science of everyday ailments and why we re always a bit ill (HB) by Graham Lawton
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Category: Sciences & Academia
One of the many strange effects of the 2020 pandemic has been to make us much more vigilant about the state of our health in general and about minor symptoms in particular. And this, in turn, has made us more conscious that we all feel slightly out of sorts a great deal of the time; maybe even every day ...Show more
Karl, the Universe and Everything by Karl Kruszelnicki
$19.99 AUD
Category: Sciences & Academia
Grab your towel and hitchhike across the galaxy with Australia's most popular scientist Dr Karl Kruszelnicki. Learn about Dr Karl, the universe and everything, and discover how air-conditioning is sexist, how you can kill a spinning hard drive by shouting at it and how space junk is threatening our futu ...Show more
The Rising Tide: Among the Islands and Atolls of the Pacific Ocean by Tom Bamforth
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Category: Sciences & Academia
Vanuatu. The Cook Islands. Fiji. The names evoke white-sand beaches, swaying palms and lazy holidays. But in reality, these idyllic places are tropical maelstroms of global realpolitik, caught between the world's superpowers and former colonial masters. Collectively the Pacific nations, which form one t ...Show more
4th Rock from the Sun The Story of Mars by Nicky Jenner
$25.00 AUD
Category: Sciences & Academia
Mars, the red planet, is ingrained in our culture, from David Bowie's extra-terrestrial spiders to Captain Scarlet to War of the Worlds. It has inspired hundreds of authors, scientists and science-fiction writers - but why? What is it about this particular planet that makes it so intriguing? Ancient myt ...Show more
Dr Karl's Short Back & Science by Karl Kruszelnicki
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Category: Sciences & Academia
Lean back and settle in for cutting-edge scientific snippets from the trend-setting Dr Karl Kruszelnicki. In Short Back Science, Dr Karl combs through some of the greatest scientific conundrums of our age, such as what is killing half the bacteria on Earth every two days and why don't mole rats get canc ...Show more
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert M Sapolsky
$24.99 AUD
Category: Sciences & Academia
'Awe-inspiring ... the best scientific book written for non-specialists that I have ever read. You will learn more about human nature than in any other book I can think of, and you will be inspired' Henry Marsh, author of Do No HarmA ground-breaking synthesis of the entire science of human behaviour by ...Show more