Einstein in Time and Space - A Life in 99 Particles by Samuel Graydon
24.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
Walter Isaacson's Einstein meets Craig Brown's 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret, in this engaging and innovative biography of the famous physicist told in ninety-nine dazzling vignettes. Most of us would agree that Albert Einstein's name is synonymous with "genius" and that his likeness is often used as ...Show more
Life As No One Knows It - The Physics of Life's Emergence by Sara Imari Walker
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Category: Science & Natural History
What is life? This is among the most difficult open problems in science, right up there with the nature of consciousness and the existence of matter. All the definitions we have fall short. None help us understand how life originates or the full range of possibilities for what life on other planets migh ...Show more
Unseen Universe - Space As You've Never Seen It Before from the James Webb Space Telescope by Caroline Harper
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Category: Science & Natural History
This is the universe as you've never seen it before. Discover how the awe-inspiring images from Webb are rapidly changing our understanding of our solar system and beyond. From the towering dust cliffs of the Carina Nebula to Jupiter glowing like an iridescent disco ball in the sky, these stunning new ...Show more
Turning to Stone by Marcia. Bjornerud
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Category: Science & Natural History
Rocks are the record of our creative planet reinventing itself for four billion years. Nothing is ever lost, just transformed.Marcia Bjornerud's life as a geologist has coincided with an extraordinary period of discovery. From an insular girlhood in rural Wisconsin, she found her way to an unlikely care ...Show more
The Asteroid Hunter - A Scientist's Journey to the Dawn of Our Solar System by Dante Lauretta
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Category: Science & Natural History
FEATURED IN THE NEW YORK TIMES, NPR'S SCIENCE FRIDAY, THE WASHINGTON POST, AND SCIENCE MAGAZINE A "brilliant account of a 21st century real-life fantasy" (Sir Brian May) of space exploration and a lesson in fragility in the quest to return an asteroid sample and unlock the mystery of formation of life o ...Show more
The Human Mind - A Brief Tour of Everything We Know by Paul Bloom
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Category: Science & Natural History
Are you a human? Do you have a mind? Then this book is for you: a wonderfully entertaining overview of all of psychology by one of its greatest experts. 'Like having the mind's complexities untangled by a witty, eloquent and deeply knowledgeable friend' OLIVER BURKEMAN 'Really wonderful, hugely readabl ...Show more
Blue Machine - How the Ocean Shapes Our World by Helen Czerski
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Category: Science & Natural History
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 qu ...Show more
Governing Forests by Arpitha Kodiveri
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Category: Science & Natural History
The nations of the Global North are responding to the climate change emergency with emissions trading schemes and alternative sources of energy. Meanwhile, nations of the Global South, still emerging from historical exploitation under colonialism, face decisions about natural resource use that are, for ...Show more
Unsettled (Updated and Expanded Edition) - What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn't, and Why It Matters by Steven E. Koonin
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Category: Science & Natural History
"Greenland's ice loss is accelerating." "Extreme temperatures are causing more fatalities." "Rapid 'climate action' is essential to avoid a future climate disaster." You've heard all this presented as fact. But according to science, all of these statements are profoundly misleading. With the new editi ...Show more
The Underworld - Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean by Susan Casey
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Category: Science & Natural History
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An awe-inspiring portrait of the mysterious world beneath the waves, and the men and women who seek to uncover its secrets. ______________________________________________ 'Fantastical and forbidding' Washington Post A fascinating history' Time 'Entralling' Boston G ...Show more
Budgerigars The Colour Revolution: The Colour Revolution by Don Burke
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Category: Animals
Budgerigars, affectionately known as Budgies, are the world’s most popular pet bird, and the third most popular pet overall after dogs and cats. They are kept as pets in countless homes in the vast majority of countries, but they are also bred in magnificent colours for exhibiting and there is very keen ...Show more
The Atomic Human - Understanding Ourselves in the Age of AI by Neil D. Lawrence
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Category: Science & Natural History
'The clarity, authority, wit and insight Lawrence brings to bear are like torches shining into the turbulent darkness of a subject we all wonder at, but which we mostly feel unable to even to think or talk about with any confidence. Hugely recommended' Stephen Fry What does Artificial Intelligence mean ...Show more