A Human's Guide to Machine Intelligence - How Algorithms Are Shaping Our Lives and How We Can Stay in Control by Kartik Hosanagar
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
A Wharton professor and tech entrepreneur examines how algorithms and artificial intelligence are starting to run every aspect of our lives, and how we can shape the way they impact us Through the technology embedded in almost every major tech platform and every web-enabled device, algorithms and th ...Show more
A New History of the Future in 100 Objects - A Fiction by Adrian Hon
$37.99 AUD
Category: Science
In the year 2082, a curator looks back at the twenty-first century, offering a history of the era through a series of objects and artifacts. He reminisces about the power of connectivity, which was reinforced by such technologies as silent messaging--wearable computers that relay subvocal communication; ...Show more
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Bryson
Bill Bryson describes himself as a reluctant traveller, but even when he stays safely at home he can't contain his curiosity about the world around him.A Short History of Nearly Everything is his quest to understand everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization - how we got ...Show more
A Shot to Save the World: The Remarkable Race and Ground-Breaking Science Behind the Coronavirus Vaccines by Greg Zuckerman
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
In the eyes of the world, efforts to develop an AIDS vaccine were a failure, as there is still no cure today. The companies involved saw their fortunes fall as quickly as they had risen. Under the radar, however, infectious disease scientists were learning how to isolate neutralising antibodies, how to ...Show more
A Stroke of the Pen: The Lost Stories (PB) by Terry Pratchett
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science
A beautifully packaged, illustrated collection of twenty rediscovered early short stories by award-winning and bestselling author, Sir Terry Pratchett. A truly unmissable, beautifully illustrated collection of unearthed stories from the pen of Sir Terry Pratchett- award-winning and bestselling author, a ...Show more
Adventures in Human Being by Gavin Francis
$5.75 AUD
$22.99 (74% off)
Category: Science | Series: Wellcome Ser.
Sunday Times bestsellerWe have a lifetime's association with our bodies, but for many of us they remain uncharted territory. In Adventures in Human Being, Gavin Francis leads the reader on a journey through health and illness, offering insights on everything from the ribbed surface of the brain to the s ...Show more
Aesop's Animals - The Science Behind the Fables by Jo Wimpenny
$34.99 AUD
Category: Kids Classics
Despite originating over than two-and-a-half thousand years ago, Aesop's Fables are still passed on from parent to child, and are embedded in our collective consciousness. The morals we have learned from these tales continue to inform our judgements, but have the stories also informed how we regard thei ...Show more
Algorithms by Panos Louridas
$27.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: The\MIT Press Essential Knowledge Ser.
Digital technology runs on algorithms, sets of instructions that describe how to do something efficiently. Application areas range from search engines to tournament scheduling, DNA sequencing, and machine learning. Arguing that every educated person today needs to have some understanding of algorithms a ...Show more
An Intimate History of Evolution: The Story of the Huxley Family by Alison Bashford
$59.99 AUD
Category: Science
'This is history with the engaging intimacy of a novel. Bashford brilliantly marries intellectual history with the story of four generations in a literary tour de force' Professor Jim Secord, author of Visions of Science 'Packed with insights ... tells a magnificent story about the huge personalities a ...Show more
Anaesthesia: The Gift of Oblivion and the Mystery of Consciousness by Kate Cole-Adams
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
You know how it is when you go under. The jab, the countdown, the- -and then you wake. This book is about what happens in between. Until a hundred and seventy years ago many people chose death over the ordeal of surgery. Now hundreds of thousands undergo operations every day. Anaesthesia has made it pos ...Show more
Anaesthesia: The Gift of Oblivion, the Mystery of Consciousness by Kate Cole-Adams
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science
Winner, 2017 Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Award You know how it is when you go under. The jab, the countdown, the----and then you wake.This book is about what happens in between. Until a hundred and seventy years ago many people chose death over the ordeal of surgery. Now hundreds of thousands u ...Show more
Analog by Robert Hassan
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
Why, surrounded by screens and smart devices, we feel a deep connection to the analog-vinyl records, fountain pens, Kodak film, and other nondigital tools.We're surrounded by screens; our music comes in the form of digital files; we tap words into a notes app. Why do we still crave the "realness" of ana ...Show more