Vaxxers: The Inside Story of the Oxford AstraZeneca Vaccine and the Race Against the Virus by Sarah Gilbert, Catherine Green
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science
Our future hangs on the success of the Oxford vaccine.This is the story of its creation, its makers and how science will ultimately beat the virus.On 1 January 2020, Sarah Gilbert, Professor of Vaccinology at Oxford University, read an article about four people in China with a strange pneumonia. Within ...Show more
Waters of the World: The Story of the Scientists Who Unravelled the Mysteries of Our Seas, Glaciers, and Atmosphere - and Made the Planet Whole by Sarah Dry
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
How is the climate where you are? And how did it get that way? How does the great complex global interaction of ice, ocean, and atmosphere combine to generate the rain that sustains us? And who figured all its secret processes out?From the glaciers of the Alps to the towering cumulonimbus clouds of the ...Show more
Ways of Being: Beyond Human Intelligence by James Bridle
$45.00 AUD
Category: Science
A mind-bending exploration of non-human intelligence, and how it holds the keys to our continuing life on earth. What does it mean to be intelligent? Is it something unique to humans - or do we share it with other beings? Recent years have seen rapid advances in 'artificial' intelligence, which increas ...Show more
We, Hominids: An anthropological detective story by Frank Westerman
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science
A roving philosophical journey into what makes us human. In We, Hominids, one of Holland's greatest non-fiction writers hunts down answers to humanity's most fundamental questions- Who are we? What makes us different from animals? With an ancient skull as his starting point, he travels the globe, traci ...Show more
We: Robot: The Robots That Already Rule Our World by David Hambling
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science
"For someone interested in practical present day robotics it's a treasure trove. A book-sized Top Trumps rove across the technical domain, with each section containing a photo of the precise robot, an overview of its main components and some context for its aims and purposes." - Electronics Weekly Robot ...Show more
Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O'Neil
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
We live in the age of the algorithm. Increasingly, the decisions that affect our lives - whether we get a job or a loan, how much we pay for insurance - are being made by mathematical models. In theory, this should lead to greater fairness- everyone is judged according to the same rules, and bias is eli ...Show more
Welcome to the Universe in 3D: A Visual Tour by Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michael A. Strauss, J. Richard Gott, Robert J. Vanderbei
$39.99 AUD
Category: Science
Journey into the vast depths of the observable universe by visualising the most spectacular images in astronomy in stereoscopic 3D.Welcome to the Universe in 3D takes you on a grand tour of the observable universe, guiding you through the most spectacular sights in the cosmos — in breathtaking 3D. Prese ...Show more
What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science
WHAT IF... one man decided to answer all the unanswerable questions, using science. The Sunday Times-bestselling author and xkcd creator, Randall Munroe is here to provide the best answers yet to the important questions you probably never thought to ask. The millions of people around the world who rea ...Show more
What Is Life? Understand Biology in Five Steps by Sir Paul Nurse
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
Life is all around us, abundant and diverse. It is truly a marvel. But what does it actually mean to be alive, and how do we decide what is living and what is not? After a lifetime of studying life, Nobel Prize-winner Sir Paul Nurse, one of the world's leading scientists, has taken on the challenge of d ...Show more
What Is Time? - An Enquiry by Truls Wyller; Kerri Pierce (Translator)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
We refer to time constantly, and we compulsively measure its passing--but do we know what it actually is? In What Is Time?, Truls Wyller enquires into time's complex nature, juxtaposing the latest scientific theories with our personal experience of chronology. The book examines the notion of time in phy ...Show more
What It Takes to Be a Doctor: An Insider's Guide by Ranjana Srivastava
$19.99 AUD
Category: Science
An essential guide for anyone contemplating a career as a doctor, by one of Australia's finest practitioners - and writers 2018 finalist book for The Australian Career Book Award - supported by the Royal Society of Arts in Australia and New Zealand What is the life of a doctor really like? Is there an ...Show more
What It's Like To Be a Dog by Gregory Berns
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science
What is it like to be a dog' A bat' Or a dolphin' To find out, neuroscientist Gregory Berns and his team began with a radical step- they taught dogs to go into an MRI scanner-completely awake. They discovered what makes dogs individuals with varying capacities for self-control, different value systems, ...Show more