Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari
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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
Voyagers: Our Journey into the Anthropocene by Lauren Fuge
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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
Good Nature: The New Science of How Nature Improves Our Health by Kathy Willis
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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
Sing Like Fish by Amorina Kingdon
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Category: Science
Sing Like Fish: how sound rules life under water. 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 'sile ...Show more
Third Millennium Thinking by Saul Perlmutter
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Category: Science
Based on a wildly popular UC Berkeley course, a primer on how to think critically, make sound decisions, and solve problems--individually and collectively--using scientists' tricks of the trade. In our deluge of information, it's getting harder and harder to distinguish the revelatory from the contradic ...Show more
Why Size Matters - From Bacteria to Blue Whales by John Tyler Bonner
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Category: Science | Series: Princeton Science Library
John Tyler Bonner, one of our most distinguished and creative biologists, here offers a completely new perspective on the role of size in biology. In his hallmark friendly style, he explores the universal impact of being the right size. By examining stories ranging from Alice in Wonderland to Gulliver's ...Show more
The Economy of Algorithms: AI and the Rise of the Digital Minions by Marek Kowalkiewicz
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Category: Science
An insider's guide to the invisible new economy that is reshaping our lives. Welcome to the economy of algorithms. It's here and it's growing. In the past few years, we have been flooded with examples of impressive technology. Algorithms have been around for hundreds of years, but they have only recent ...Show more
The Universal History of Us: A 13.8 Billion Year Tale from the Big Bang to You by Tim Coulson
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Category: Science
PRE-ORDER THE UNIVERSAL HISTORY OF US NOW AND UNCOVER THE SCIENCE OF HOW WE CAME TO EXIST''Most scientists know only their own field. Tim Coulson is at home with science as an integrated whole. A pleasure to read, and a lasting accomplishment'' Richard Dawkins''Step aside Star Wars - ours is the most as ...Show more
Zero to Birth - How the Human Brain Is Built by William A. Harris
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Category: Science
A revelatory tale of how the human brain develops, from conception to birth and beyond By the time a baby is born, its brain is equipped with billions of intricately crafted neurons wired together through trillions of interconnections to form a compact and breathtakingly efficient supercomputer. Zero to ...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
The Mathematical Radio - Inside the Magic of AM, FM, and Single-Sideband by Paul J. Nahin; Andrew Simoson (Foreword by)
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Category: Science
How a modern radio works, told through mathematics, history, and selected puzzles The modern radio is a wonder, and behind that magic is mathematics. In The Mathematical Radio, Paul Nahin explains how radios work, deploying mathematics and historical discussion, accompanied by a steady stream of intrigu ...Show more
Metamorphosis: How insects are changing our world by Erica McAlister
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Category: Science
Insects are incredibly weird. Their morphology is about as alien to us as you can get without leaving this planet. They outnumber us 200 million to one. Before humans stamped their mark on this planet, insects had shaped it into the colourful and extraordinary world we all share today.Whether it’s the a ...Show more