Atlas of a Changing Climate: Our Evolving Planet Visualized with More Than 100 Maps, Charts and Infographics by BRIAN BUMA
$59.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
This Is Climate Change, Visualized Climate change, shrinking wildlife habitats, rising sea levels, and vanishing species. These are big, important ideas that deserve a proper exploration--just the type of revealing journey you will experience in The Atlas of a Changing Climate. In this design-fo ...Show more
Yearbook of Astronomy 2022 by Brian Jones
$59.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
The Yearbook of Astronomy 2022 is the Diamond Jubilee edition of this iconic publication, the annual appearance of which has been eagerly anticipated by astronomers, both amateur and professional, ever since this invaluable book first appeared in 1962. As the preface to the 1962 edition informed its rea ...Show more
Yearbook of Astronomy 2021 by Brian Jones
$59.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Maintaining its appealing style and presentation, the Yearbook of Astronomy 2021 contains comprehensive jargon-free monthly sky notes and an authoritative set of sky charts to enable backyard astronomers and sky gazers everywhere to plan their viewing of the year's eclipses, comets, meteor showers and m ...Show more
Faking It: Artificial Intelligence in a Human World by Toby Walsh
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Category: Pop Science
A prescient analysis of what makes artificial intelligence so ... artificial Artificially intelligent machines are set to play an increasingly important role in our lives. They will take the dirty tasks of life off our hands, as well as the dull, the difficult and the dangerous - which is a good thing. ...Show more
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
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Category: Pop Science
The God Delusioncaused a sensation when it was published in 2006. Within weeks it became the most hotly debated topic, with Dawkins himself branded as either saint or sinner for presenting his hard-hitting, impassioned rebuttal of religion of all types. His argument could hardly be more topical. While E ...Show more
Man vs Maths: Understanding the Curious Mathematics That Power Our World by Timothy Revell
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Category: Pop Science
Could we solve queuing with an equation? How do algorithms control our news? What is the secret behind encryption codes? Mathematics is inescapable. Wherever you go, whatever you do, however you live your life, mathematics plays a role. From controlling a city's traffic to finding love, spending money o ...Show more
The Glass Universe by Dava Sobel
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Category: Pop Science
#1 New York Times bestselling author Dava Sobel returns with a captivating, little-known true story of women in science In the mid-nineteenth century, the Harvard College Observatory began employing women as calculators, or "human computers," to interpret the observations their male counterparts made vi ...Show more
Herding Hemingway's Cats: Understanding How Our Genes Work by Kat Arney
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Category: Pop Science
The language of genes has become common parlance. We know they make your eyes blue, your hair curly or your nose straight. The media tells us that our genes control the risk of cancer, heart disease, alcoholism or Alzheimer's. The cost of DNA sequencing has plummeted from billions of pounds to a few hun ...Show more
The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty by Peter Singer
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Category: Pop Science
The Life You Can Save is the book that Peter Singer has wanted to write for thirty years. It is his argument about how we should respond to hunger and poverty. We live in a unique moment in history where the rich can genuinely help the poor to escape relentless poverty. But this will only happen if the ...Show more
OriginsThe Scientific Story of Creation by Jim Baggott
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Category: Pop Science
What is life? Where do we come from and how did we evolve? What is the universe and how was it formed? What is the nature of the material world? How does it work? How and why do we think? What does it mean to be human? How do we know? There are many different versions of our creation story. This book te ...Show more
The Future of Everything: Big, Audacious Ideas for a Better World by Tim Dunlop
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Category: Pop Science | Reading Level: very good
We are in the middle of the greatest technological revolution in history. Its epicentre lies in Silicon Valley, but its impacts are felt on all corners of the earth. It could give all of us a better quality of life and new, more cooperative ways of living. Or it could further concentrate the world's wea ...Show more
Eve: How The Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution by Cat Bohannon
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Category: Pop Science
An ambitious, eye-opening, myth-busting and groundbreaking history of the evolution of the female body, by a brilliant new scientist and writer. How did wet nurses drive civilization? Are women always the weaker sex? Is sexism useful for evolution? And are our bodies at war with our babies? In Eve, Ca ...Show more