The Best Australian Science Writing 2023 by Donna Lu (Editor)
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Category: The Sciences | Series: The\Best Australian Science Ser.
The annual collection — now in its thirteenth year — celebrating the finest voices in Australian science writing.Should we alter animals’ DNA to save them from extinction? What secrets will old ice reveal to us about the Earth’s deep past? How is the world’s most expensive — and explosive — substance ma ...Show more
Benny the Blue Whale - A Descent into Story, Language and the Madness of ChatGPT by Andy Stanton
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Category: The Sciences
A bestselling author and AI team up to write a novel. Chaos ensues.AI is changing the world at frightening speed. A bestselling author decides to find out more...Is ChatGPT the end of creative industries as we know them? An ethical quagmire from which there is no return? A threat to all our jobs, as we ...Show more
The Climate Action Handbook - A Visual Guide to 100 Climate Solutions for Everyone by Heidi Roop
$39.99 AUD
Category: The Sciences
This must-have book shows us WHY we need to take action now to combat climate change and then, critically, HOW, through easy-to-understand language and stunning infographics that offer each of us varied and doable solutions to the overwhelming challenges facing our planet. As more focus is put on clima ...Show more
The Power of Trees: How Ancient Forests Can Save Us If We Let Them by Peter Wohlleben
$36.99 AUD
Category: The Sciences
The follow-up to the international bestseller The Hidden Life of Trees, offering compelling insights into the lungs of our planet and the fragility of our intertwined futures. Trees can survive without humans, but we can't live without trees. Even if human-caused climate change devastates our plant, tr ...Show more
Biology For Dummies by Rene Fester Kratz
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Category: The Sciences | Series: For Dummies
The ultimate guide to understanding biology Have you ever wondered how the food you eat becomes the energy your body needs to keep going? The theory of evolution says that humans and chimps descended from a common ancestor, but does it tell us how and why? We humans are insatiably curious creatures who ...Show more
Anatomy & Physiology For Dummies by Erin Odya, Maggie A. Norris
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Category: The Sciences
Learn about the human body from the inside out Some people think that knowing about what goes on inside the human body can sap life of its mystery which is too bad for them. Anybody who's ever taken a peak under the hood knows that the human body, and all its various structures and functions, is a realm ...Show more
Chemistry For Dummies by John T. Moore
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Category: The Sciences | Series: For Dummies
This is the hardcover format of Chemistry For Dummies, 2nd EditionSee how chemistry works in everything from soaps to medicines to petroleum We're all natural born chemists. Every time we cook, clean, take a shower, drive a car, use a solvent (such as nail polish remover), or perform any of the countle ...Show more
Physics I For Dummies by Steven Holzner
$41.95 AUD
Category: The Sciences | Series: For Dummies
An easy-to-follow guide to introductory physics, from the Big Bang to relativity All science, technology, engineering, and math majors in college and university require some familiarity with physics. Other career paths, like medicine, are also only open to students who understand this fundamental scienc ...Show more
A Map of the Invisible: Journeys into Particle Physics by Jon Butterworth
$35.00 AUD
Category: The Sciences
'A magnificent, compelling and insightful voyage to the frontier of knowledge from a great writer with a deep understanding.' Brian Cox What is the universe really made of? How do we know? Follow the map of the invisible to find out... Over the last sixty years, scientists around the world have worked ...Show more
Einstein's Fridge: The Science of Fire, Ice and the Universe by Paul Sen
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Category: The Sciences
‘Hugely readable and entertaining’ JIM AL-KHALILI ‘an accessible and crystal-clear portrait of this discipline’s breadth, largely told through its history’ PHIL BALL, PHYSICS WORLD Einstein’s Fridge tells the story of how scientists uncovered the least known and yet most consequential of all the science ...Show more
Truth, Lies and O-Rings - Inside the Space Shuttle 'Challenger' Disaster by Allan J. McDonald; James R. Hansen
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Category: The Sciences
On a cold January morning in 1986, NASA launched the Space Shuttle Challenger, despite warnings against doing so by many individuals including Allan McDonald. The fiery destruction of Challenger on live television moments after launch remains an indelible image in the nation's collective memory. In Tru ...Show more
After - A Doctor Explores What near-Death Experiences Reveal about Life and Beyond by Bruce Greyson
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Category: The Sciences
'This long-awaited and amazing book is a major contribution to the study of what happens when we die, and will quickly prove to be a classic in near-death studies.' - Raymond Moody, author of Life After Life What happens when we die? Ten per cent of people whose hearts stop, and then restart, report n ...Show more