Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari
$39.99 AUD
Category: Science
From renowned historian and #1 Sunday Times bestselling author Yuval Noah Harari comes the story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world. For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discoveries, inventions and conquests, we now find ...Show more
The Knowledge Gene: The Incredible Story of the Supergene That Gives Us Human Creativity by Lynne Kelly
$36.99 AUD
Category: Science
Drawing on a major discovery with tremendous implications, an Australian researcher has uncovered the source of human creativity and learning in the functioning of a supergene she calls the knowledge gene. Over 500,000 years ago, a single gene mutated. It spread over time, becoming critical in the jour ...Show more
Cloudspotting For Beginners by Gavin Pretor-Pinney
$55.00 AUD
Category: Science
An introduction to the wondrous world of clouds, by the internationally bestselling founder of the Cloud Appreciation Society and a prize-winning children's book author and illustratorHave you ever watched a cloud being born?Clouds come in all manner of shapes and sizes, from low-lying Stratus to ...Show more
Good Nature: The New Science of How Nature Improves Our Health by Kathy Willis
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science
A revolutionary, science-based look at the ways nature can improve our lives that will do for the natural world what Tim Spector's Food for Life did for food.Fifteen years ago, University of Oxford Professor Kathy Willis read a study that radically changed her view of our relationship to the natural wor ...Show more
Voyagers: Our Journey into the Anthropocene by Lauren Fuge
$36.99 AUD
Category: Science
From the beginning, humans have been wanderers. Our feet carried us out of Africa and propelled us to far-flung corners of the world, often through incredible feats of innovation and imagination. These explorations yielded great rewards: land and resources, food and knowledge. But in every landscape we ...Show more
My Efficient Electric Home Handbook: How To Slash Your Energy Bills, Protect Your Health & Save the Planet by Tim Forcey
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
Everything you need to know to transform your home - old, new or rented - for an efficient, comfortable, cheaper electric future. Do you want to ... Make your home healthier and more comfortable in all seasons? Shrink your home's total energy costs? Make your gas bill disappear completely? Reduce your c ...Show more
Blue Machine - How the Ocean Shapes Our World by Helen Czerski
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
FINANCIAL TIMES 2023 HIGHLIGHT'Helen Czerski weaves together physics and biology, history and science, in a beautifully poetic way.'Professor Alice Roberts'In Helen Czerski's hands, the mechanical becomes magical. An instant classic.'Tristan Gooley, author of How to Read Water'Blue Machine is quite simp ...Show more
Counting: Humans, History and the Infinite Lives of Numbers by Benjamin Wardhaugh
$36.99 AUD
Category: Science
What has counting meant to different cultures and different individuals?In this book, historian and mathematician Benjamin Wardhaugh explores stories from all over the world and from every period of human history, from the African Stone Age to cyberspace; from Assyrian kings to Chinese peasants.Weaving ...Show more
Feathered Freaks: A compendium of the world's weirdest birds by Declan Peckman
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
A photographic collection of glorious avian oddities.A visual guide to the most eccentric creatures of the skies, Feathered Freaks captures the most bizarre and beautiful feathered friends from across the globe.From the jaw-dropping red throat of the magnificent frigatebird to the peculiar plumage of th ...Show more
Much Ado About Numbers by Rob Eastaway
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science
A fascinating new take on the world of Shakespeare. What's the connection between Shakespeare and maths? A lot, as it turns out! Shakespeare grew up in a time of remarkable mathematical innovation. From astronomy to probability, music to multiplication, new mathematical ideas were taking off - and much ...Show more
Techno: Humans and Technology by Marcus Smith
$34.99 AUD
Category: 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
The Known Unknowns: The Unsolved Mysteries of the Cosmos by Lawrence M. Krauss
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science
Our understanding of ourselves and the cosmos has advanced immeasurably over the last five hundred years of modern science, yet many fundamental mysteries of existence persist. How did our Universe begin, if it even had a beginning? How big is it? What's at the bottom of a black hole? How did life on Ea ...Show more