Biology: An Illustrated History of Life Science (Ponderables) by Tom Jackson
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Category: Popular Science | Series: Ponderables
Hardcover with removable fold-out Timeline
Brief Answers to the Big Questions: the final book from Stephen Hawking by Stephen Hawking
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Category: Popular Science | Reading Level: very good
THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. 'A beautiful little book by a brilliant mind'- DAILY TELEGRAPH. 'Effortlessly instructive, absorbing, up to the minute and - where it matters - witty'- GUARDIAN. The world-famous cosmologist and #1 bestselling author of A Brief History of Time leaves us with his final t ...Show more
Cutting-Edge Science by Colin Barras
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Category: Popular Science
How did the atom bomb help save the elephant? Have we found the secret to eternal youth? Could a parasite be manipulating you right now? This dazzling collection of stories reveals the key recent breakthroughs in science, across all fields. Inside you will meet the killers lurking in Earth's ice, the s ...Show more
Dance of the Photons: From Einstein to Quantum Entanglement and Teleportation by Anton Zeilinger
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Category: Popular Science
A Nobel Laureate explains quantum entanglement and teleportation and why Einstein was wrong about the nature of reality. What is the true nature of reality? To find out, Nobel Laureate Anton Zeilinger takes us (along with his fictional students Alice and Bob) on a voyage through a quantum wonderland, e ...Show more
Eddie Woo's Magical Maths 2 by Eddie Woo
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Category: Popular Science
A bumper book of maths fun stuffed with things to draw, puzzle, invent, order, unscramble, code, decode for kids aged 7+ years from Australia's best known maths man. There's magic in maths - if you know where to look...
Ending Plastic Waste: Community Actions Around the World by Britta Denise Hardesty (Editor)
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Category: Environment & Sustainability
Many informal organizations around the world are making a positive impact on the environment and their communities by turning waste into a resource, increasing the social capacity of their community and reducing the amount of pollution in their environment.Ending Plastic Waste: Community Actions Around ...Show more
Everything in Its Place: First Loves and Last Tales by Oliver Sacks
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Category: Popular Science
From the bestselling author of Gratitude and On the Move, a final volume of essays that showcase Sacks's broad range of interests - from his passion for ferns, swimming, and horsetails, to his final case histories exploring schizophrenia, dementia, and Alzheimer's. Oliver Sacks, scientist and storytelle ...Show more
Exactly: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World by Simon Winchester
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Category: Popular Science | Reading Level: very good
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2018 Bestselling author Simon Winchester writes a magnificent history of the pioneering engineers who developed precision machinery to allow us to see as far as the moon and as close as the Higgs boson. Precision is the key to everything. It is an in ...Show more
Firestorm by Greg Mullins
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Category: Environment & Sustainability
Combines thrilling stories of what it's like to be on the front line of Australia's first giga-fire with the hard truths of human-caused climate change, and what we do about it. Greg Mullins followed his father into fighting bushfires - it was in the blood. He fought major fires around Sydney and the Bl ...Show more
Flight by Zack Scott
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Category: Popular Science
Flight is the story of humankind's most ambitious undertaking. From thousand-year-old flying machines and the trailblazing 'birdmen' who risked their lives to test them, to the Wright brothers' legendary first flight and the iconic spacecraft of the modern era, Flight weaves together the extraordinary h ...Show more
Food Rules: An Eater's Manual (Penguin Green Ideas series) by Michael Pollan
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Category: Popular Science | Series: Penguin Green Ideas
Eat food. Mostly plants. Not too much. Using those seven words as his guide, Michael Pollan offers this indispensable handbook for anyone concerned about health and food. Simple, sensible and easy to use, Food Rules is a set of memorable adages or 'personal policies' for eating wisely, gathered from a w ...Show more
Generation Robot - A Century of Science Fiction, Fact, and Speculation by Terri Favro
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Category: Popular Science
For Fans of Mary Roach, a Sweetly Nostalgic and Enlightening Exploration of Futures Past, Present, and Still to Come Generation Robot covers a century of science fiction, fact, and speculation--from the 1950 publication of Isaac Asimov's seminal robot masterpiece, I, Robot, to the 2050 Singularity when ...Show more