Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
$24.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
Called the work of "a mesmerizing storyteller with deep compassion and memorable prose" (Publishers Weekly) and the book that, "anyone interested in natural history, botany, protecting nature, or Native American culture will love," by Library Journal, Braiding Sweetgrass is poised to be a classic of nat ...Show more
Human Universe by Andrew Cohen; Brian Cox
$22.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
Where are we? Are we alone? Who are we? Why are we here? What is our future? Human Universe tackles some of the greatest questions that humans have asked to try and understand the very nature of ourselves and the Universe in which we live. Through the endless leaps of human minds, it explores the extr ...Show more
Embracing Hope: On Freedom, Responsibility & the Meaning of Life
$36.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
Never before published collection on finding fulfilment and purpose from the multi-million-copy bestselling author Viktor Frankl. 'Viktor Frankl gives us the gift of looking at everything in life as an opportunity' - Edith Eger, bestselling author of The Choice An inspirational new collection on turni ...Show more
Inheritance: The Evolutionary Origins of the Modern World
$36.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
Every human being is endowed with an inheritance. A set of ancient biases - forged by natural selection and fine-tuned by millennia of culture - that shape every facet of our behaviour.For countless generations, this inheritance has been taking us to ever greater heights- driving the rise of more sophis ...Show more
Love Triangle: The Life-changing Magic of Trigonometry by Matt Parker
$36.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
Explore the life-changing magic of trigonometry with Matt Parker, stand-up mathematician and No. 1 bestselling author of Humble Pi Why do mobile phones work when you're on a train? What happens when you pull a pop song apart into pure sine waves and play it back on a piano? And what did mathematicians h ...Show more
White Holes: Inside the Horizon by Carlo Rovelli
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Category: Popular Science
A mesmerizing trip to the strange new world of white holes from the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics Let us journey, with beloved physicist Carlo Rovelli, into the heart of a black hole. Let us slip beyond its boundary, the horizon, and tumble - on and on - down this crack in the un ...Show more
Sing Like Fish: How sound rules life under water by Amorina Kingdon
$36.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
A captivating exploration of how underwater animals tap into sound to survive, and a clarion call for humans to address the ways we invade these critical soundscapes - from an award-winning science writer. For centuries humans ignored sound in the 'silent world' of the ocean, assuming that what we could ...Show more
One Medicine: How understanding animals can save our lives by Matt Morgan
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Category: Popular Science
It all started with a Hob Nob. As Dr Matt Morgan, an intensive care consultant, examined a patient who had suffered a cardiac arrest after inhaling some biscuit crumbs, he saw a flock of birds fly past the window. They must inhale objects all the time when flying, how do they survive? he thought to hims ...Show more
Viral Justice by Ruha Benjamin
$34.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
An inspiring vision of how we can build a more just world - one small change at a time 'A book as urgent as the moment that produced it.' - Jelani Cobb, Columbia Journalism School Long before the pandemic, Ruha Benjamin was doing groundbreaking research on race, technology, and justice, focusing on bi ...Show more
Gamblers, Fraudsters, Dreamers and Spies - The Outsiders Who Shaped Modern Japan by Robert Whiting
$32.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
"Bob Whiting came to the city as a stranger in a strange land in 1962 and stayed for five decades--he knows the dark alleys, the good whisky bars, the crooked politicians and the crooks, the baseball players, the bookies...better than anyone alive." --Jake Adelstein, author of Tokyo Vice Critically acc ...Show more
The Algorithm - How AI Can Hijack Your Career and Steal Your Future by Hilke Schellmann
$49.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
Artificial intelligence is being used, on a massive scale, to decide who gets hired, fired and promoted. Through whistleblower exclusives, leaked internal documents and astonishing real-world practices, journalist Hilke Schellmann reveals the secret rise of AI in the world of work. Testing them herself, ...Show more
Techno: Humans and Technology by Marcus Smith
$34.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
Technology is changing the world. How will the opportunities and risks affect you? In the midst of a technology revolution and the rise of artificial intelligence (AI), we all need to understand the relationship between humans and technology. Social media, data surveillance, biometrics, genomics and cr ...Show more