Electrify: An Optimist's Playbook for Our Clean Energy Future by Saul Griffith
$39.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
An optimistic--but realistic and feasible--action plan for fighting climate change while creating new jobs and a healthier environment- electrify everything. Climate change is a planetary emergency. We have to do something now-but what? Saul Griffith has a plan. In Electrify, Griffith lays out a detail ...Show more
Drought, Flood, Fire - How Climate Change Contributes to Catastrophes by Chris C. Funk
$37.95 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Every year, droughts, floods, and fires impact hundreds of millions of people and cause massive economic losses. Climate change is making these catastrophes more dangerous. Now. Not in the future: NOW. This book describes how and why climate change is already fomenting dire consequences, and will certai ...Show more
At Sixes and Sevens: How to Understand Numbers and Make Maths Easy by Rachel Riley
$29.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
An engaging, accessible introduction into how numbers work and why we shouldn’t be afraid of them, from maths expert Rachel Riley. Do you know your fractions from your percentages? Your adjacent to your hypotenuse? And who really knows how to do long division, anyway? Puzzled already? Don’t blame you… ...Show more
Automation and the Future of Work by Aaron Benanav
$19.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
A consensus-shattering account of automation technologies and their effect on workplaces and the labor market Silicon Valley titans, politicians, techno-futurists and social critics have united in arguing that we are living on the cusp of an era of rapid technological automation, heralding the end o ...Show more
The Parrot in the Mirror by Antone Martinho-Truswell
$41.95 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Humans are not like other mammals. In fact, this book argues, across the animal kingdom we demonstrate unusual behaviour, rarely found except in one other group: birds. Exploring the pressures that influenced our evolution alongside that of birds can lead us to a greater understanding of both avian inte ...Show more
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen
$27.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
First, a horse in Brisbane falls ill: fever, swelling, bloody froth. Then thirteen others drop dead. The foreman at the stables becomes ill and the trainer dies. What is going on? As globalization spreads and as we destroy the ancient ecosystems, we encounter strange and dangerous infections that origin ...Show more
Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape by Cal Flyn
$27.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
‘Meticulous research, lyrical writing … A book that goes to the eeriest, most desolate places on Earth and finds hope' LOUISE GRAY This is a book about abandoned places: exclusion zones, no man's lands, ghost towns and post-industrial hinterlands – and what nature does when we're not there to see it. ...Show more
The Monster's Bones - The Discovery of T. Rex and How It Shook Our World by David K. Randall
$54.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
In the dust of the Gilded Age Bone Wars, two vastly different men emerge with a mission to fill the empty halls of New York's struggling American Museum of Natural History: Henry Fairfield Osborn, a privileged socialite whose reputation rests on the museum's success, and intrepid Kansas-born fossil hunt ...Show more
On the Origin of Evolution - Tracing 'Darwin's Dangerous Idea' from Aristotle to DNA by John Gribbin; Mary Gribbin
$24.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
The theory of evolution by natural selection did not spring fully formed and unprecedented from the brain of Charles Darwin. Rather it has been examined and debated by philosophers the world over for thousands of years. This lively history traces the evolution of the idea of evolution, showing how it h ...Show more
Horridus: Journey of a Triceratops by Chris Flynn
$64.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
What can a set of ancient bones tell us about the wonder and fragility of our world?Can a relic from the past give us a unique insight into how to approach the future?An exploration of the far-reaching cultural impact of Horridus, gathering together considered musings from celebrated cultural figures an ...Show more
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies by Nick Bostrom
$32.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science | Reading Level: near fine
The human brain has some capabilities that the brains of other animals lack. It is to these distinctive capabilities that our species owes its dominant position. Other animals have stronger muscles or sharper claws, but we have cleverer brains. If machine brains one day come to surpass human brains in g ...Show more
Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos by M.M. Waldrop
$32.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
In a rented convent in Santa Fe, a revolution has been brewing. The activists are not anarchists, but rather Nobel Laureates in physics and economics such as Murray Gell-Mann and Kenneth Arrow, and pony-tailed graduate students, mathematicians, and computer scientists down from Los Alamos. They've forme ...Show more