Women in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine by Olivia Campbell
$34.99 AUD
Category: Sciences & Academia
For fans of Hidden Figures and Radium Girls comes the remarkable story of three Victorian women who broke down barriers in the medical field to become the first women doctors, revolutionising the way women receive health care.
Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution by Neil deGrasse Tyson, Donald Goldsmith
$32.95 AUD
Category: Sciences & Academia
Our true origins are not only human, or even terrestrial, but in fact cosmic. Drawing on recent scientific breakthroughs and cross-pollination among geology, biology, astrophysics, and cosmology, Origins illuminates the soul-stirring leaps in our understanding of the cosmos. This newly revised and updat ...Show more
Beyond: The Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our Planet and Journey into Space by Stephen Walker
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Category: Sciences & Academia
'Thrilling ... High-definition history: tight, thrilling and beautifully researched' SUNDAY TIMES'This book is a triumph' DAN SNOW9.07 a.m., April 12, 1961. A top-secret rocket site in the USSR. A young Russian sits inside a tiny capsule on top of the Soviet Union's most powerful intercontinental ballis ...Show more
How the Brain Works: The Facts Visually Explained by DK
$37.99 AUD
Category: Sciences & Academia
Have you ever asked yourself why you can't remember anything from before the age of three, why we experience dej vu, or indeed how a bundle of cells in our heads can produce the remarkable phenomenon that is human consciousness? Drawing on the latest neuroscience research, this visual guide makes the hi ...Show more
Magicians of the Gods: Evidence for an Ancient Apocalypse by Graham Hancock
$24.99 AUD
Category: Sciences & Academia
Graham Hancock's multi-million bestseller Fingerprints of the Gods remains an astonishing, deeply controversial, wide-ranging investigation of the mysteries of our past and the evidence for Earth's lost civilization. Twenty years on, Hancock returned with the sequel to his seminal work filled with compl ...Show more
The Brain's Way of Healing by Norman Doidge
$32.99 AUD
Category: Sciences & Academia | Series: The\Neuroplasticity Chronicles Ser.
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2015 GOODREADS CHOICE AWARDS 'BEST SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY BOOK' This book is about the discovery that the human brain has its own unique way of healing. For centuries we believed that the price we paid for our brain's complexity was that, compared to other organs, it was fixed and ...Show more
Being You: A New Science of Consciousness by Anil Seth
$32.99 AUD
Category: Sciences & Academia
Anil Seth's radical new theory of consciousness challenges our understanding of perception and reality, doing for brain science what Dawkins did for evolutionary biology.
Fingerprints Of The Gods: The International Bestseller From the Creator of Netflix's 'Ancient Apocalypse'. by Graham Hancock
$52.99 AUD
Category: Sciences & Academia
Fingerprints of the Gods is the revolutionary rewrite of history that has persuaded millions of readers throughout the world to change their preconceptions about the history behind modern society. An intellectual detective story, this unique history book directs probing questions at orthodox history, pr ...Show more
Pathogenesis - How infectious diseases shaped human history by Jonathan Kennedy
$35.00 AUD
Category: Sciences & Academia
Humans did not make history - we played host. This book is Guns, Germs and Steel without the guns and steel, Sapiens for the pandemic era. A major new history of the world. This humbling and revelatory book shows how infectious disease has shaped humanity at every stage, from the first success of Homo s ...Show more
The Skeptics' Guide to the Future by Steven Novella
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Category: Sciences & Academia
OUT NOW: the new book from the bestselling authors and hosts of the wildy popular 'The Skeptics Guide to the Universe'__________Our predictions of the future are a wild fantasy, inextricably linked to our present hopes and fears, biases and ignorance. Whether they be the outlandish leaps predicted in th ...Show more
The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking, Leonard Mlodinow
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Category: Sciences & Academia
"In the last thirty years of his life Albert Einstein searched for a unified theory - a theory which could describe all the forces of nature in a single framework. But the time was not right for such a discovery in Einstein's day. Neither was the time right when, in 1988, Professor Stephen Hawking wrote ...Show more
Future Superhuman: Our Transhuman Lives in a Make-or-Break Century by Elise Bohan
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Category: Sciences & Academia
In breathtakingly original prose, Elise Bohan argues that we’re hurtling towards a superhuman future – or, if we blunder, extinction. The only way out of our existential crises, from global warming to the risks posed by nuclear weapons, novel and bioengineered pathogens and unaligned AI, is up. We’ll ne ...Show more