Us & Our Planet: This is How We Live by Maisie Skidmore
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Category: Science
In collaboration with IKEA, this inspirational study explores how to live more sustainably and well based on the experience of both ordinary and extraordinary lives, showing how small changes at home will work positively towards sustainability for our planet. Ever since the 1950s, IKEA retailers have v ...Show more
The Heart Healers by James Forrester
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
One Australian dies from heart disease every twelve minutes. But hundreds of thousands have lived thanks to the greatest medical breakthrough of our lives. World-renowned cardiologist Dr James Forrester tells the dramatic story of the misfits, mavericks and rebels who defied the accumulated scientific w ...Show more
Taste of Home by Diane Fresquez
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
Do men and women experience taste and smell differently? What do apple trees have in common with humans? And what happens when you eat a meal in complete darkness? Moved by a death in the family to recreate the dishes her mother prepared in her childhood home, former Wall Street Journal reporter Diane F ...Show more
A Mind of Its Own : How Your Brain Distorts and Deceives by Cordelia Fine
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Category: Science
THE DAZZLING FIRST BOOK FROM THE WINNER OF THE 2017 ROYAL SOCIETY INSIGHT INVESTMENT SCIENCE BOOKS PRIZE'A fascinating, funny, disconcerting and lucid book.' Helen Dunmore 'Fine sets out to demonstrate that the human brain is vainglorious and stubborn. She succeeds brilliantly.' Mail on Sunday 'Fine i ...Show more
Adapt How Nature's Strangest Inventions Are Helping Design Our Future by Amina Khan
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Category: Science
Nature's creations are more sophisticated and elegant than anything humans have created. Geckos can run upside down along ceilings. Termite mounds can stay cool in the desert without air conditioning. Adapt explores how we can harness such ideas through the ground-breaking new science of biomimicry - wh ...Show more
Mega Tech by Daniel Franklin
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science | Reading Level: Scholarly/Undergraduate
What will the world of technology look like in 2050? And how will it affect the way we live? These are the big questions explored in Megatech: Technology in 2050, a collection of thought-provoking insights which imagine how big developments in technology might shape the future. The book invites us on a ...Show more
And Then You're Dead by Cody Cassidy
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
What would happen if you stuck your head into a nuclear particle accelerator? What if you jumped into an interstellar black hole, or slipped out of a deep-sea submarine wearing only a pair of Speedos? In And Then You're Dead: The world's most interesting ways to die, we'll give serious answers to these ...Show more
How We Got to Now : Six Innovations That Made the Modern World by Steven Johnson
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Category: Science | Reading Level: General Adult
The Laws of Medicine: Field Notes from an Uncertain Science by Siddhartha Mukherjee
$19.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: TED | Reading Level: near fine
The Laws of Medicine follows Pulitzer-Prize-winning author, Dr Mukherjee as he investigates some of the most perplexing and illuminating cases of his career - the cases that ultimately led him to identify the three key principles that govern medicine. As a young medical student, Mukherjee discovered The ...Show more
101 Problems for the Armchair Scientist by Joel Levy
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Category: Science
Is running always faster than walking? If you froze your hand in liquid nitrogen and hit it with a hammer, would it shatter? Could you survive in a falling elevator by jumping as it hit the ground? Why can't a fly get out of the toilet? This fascinating foray into the world of science tackles some pe ...Show more
Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge by Edward O. Wilson
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Category: Science
An enormous intellectual adventure. In this groundbreaking new book, the American biologist Edward O. Wilson, considered to be one of the world's greatest living scientists, argues for the fundamental unity of all knowledge and the need to search for consilience--the proof that everything in our world i ...Show more
Our Robots Ourselves Robotics and the Myths of Autonomy by MINDELL DAVID A
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Category: Science