Deep Water: The World in the Ocean by James Bradley
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Category: Environment & Sustainability
Through history, science, nature writing, and environmentalism, Deep Water invites you to explore the deepest recesses of our natural world. 'Teeming with mysteries, wonders and heartbreaking facts, this beautiful, lucid hymn to the sea is a reminder of what we still have, what we stand to lose, and why ...Show more
Why We Die: The New Science of Ageing and the Quest for Immortality by Venki Ramakrishnan
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Category: Popular Science
The knowledge of death is so terrifying that we live most of our lives in denial of it. Our fear of death has underpinned our religions, inspired our cultures, and also driven our science. Today we are living through a revolution in biology. Giant strides are being made in our understanding of why we a ...Show more
The Forest Wars: The ugly truth about what's happening in our tall forests by David Lindenmayer
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Category: Environment & Sustainability
Lifts the lid on destruction of native forests by government corporations and logging industry that is making bushfires worse, killing wildlife and costing taxpayers millions, for the sake of woodchips for export. Since colonisation, Australia has been frantically logging our native forests as if our l ...Show more
42 Reasons to Hate the Universe (And One Reason Not to) by Chris Ferrie, Wade David Fairclough, Byrne LaGinestra
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Category: Popular Science
From bestselling author Chris Ferrie comes an out of this world pop science space book on how the universe is, indeed, trying to kill us all. If you've always suspected the universe was out to get you... you were right! Yes, the universe we live in is cosmically beautiful and mysterious and all that cr ...Show more
Every Living Thing by Jason Roberts
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Category: Popular Science
"The dramatic, globe-spanning and meticulously-researched story of two scientific rivals and their race to survey all life. In the 18th century, two men dedicated their lives to the same daunting task: identifying and describing all life on Earth. Their approaches could not have been more different. Car ...Show more
Why We Remember: The Science of Memory and How it Shapes Us by Charan Ranganath
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Category: Popular Science
A radical re-examination of memory by pioneering neuroscientist and internationally-renowned memory researcher, Charan Ranganath. We talk about memory as a record of the past, but here's a surprising twist: we aren't supposed to remember everything. In fact, we're designed to forget. Over the course of ...Show more
Impossible Monsters: Dinosaurs, Darwin and the Victorian War Between Science and Religion by Michael Taylor
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Category: Popular Science
Impossible Monsters is the captivating story of the discovery of the dinosaurs and how it upended our understanding of the origins of the world - overturning the literal reading of the Bible, liberating science from the shackles of religion, and giving birth to the secular age.In 1811, a twelve-year-old ...Show more
The Best Australian Science Writing 2023 by Donna Lu (Editor)
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Category: Popular Science | 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
Before the Big Bang: The Origin of Our Universe from the Multiverse by Laura Mersini-Houghton
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Category: Popular Science
One of the world's most celebrated cosmologists presents her breakthrough explanation of our origins in the multiverse. In recent years, Laura Mersini-Houghton's ground-breaking theory, spectacularly vindicated with observational evidence, has turned the multiverse from philosophical speculation to one ...Show more
Beyond Measure - The Hidden History of Measurement by James Vincent
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Category: Popular Science
A revelatory and vibrant story of measurement which will make you look at the world around you anew.'A wildly ambitious book by a formidably talented young writer.'ROBERT MACFARLANE'Vivid, epic, and full of curiosities. This is a book to delight and fascinate.'TIM HARFORD, bestselling author of How to M ...Show more
Biomimetics: How Lessons from Nature can Transform Technology by Brian Clegg
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Category: Popular Science | Series: Hot Science Ser.
An exploration of the transformative ways in which nature has inspired the technological advancement of humankind.
Cave of Bones A True Story of Discovery, Adventure, and Human Origins by Lee Berger, John Hawks
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Category: Popular Science
A true-life scientific adventure story, this thrilling book takes the reader deep into South African caves to discover fossil remains that compel a monumental reframing of the human family tree. In the summer of 2022, Lee Berger lost 50 pounds in order to wriggle though impossibly small openings in the ...Show more