Physics Essentials for Dummies by Steven Holzner
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Category: Science | Series: For Dummies
Physics Essentials For Dummies (9781119590286) was previously published as Physics Essentials For Dummies (9780470618417). While this version features a new Dummies cover and design, the content is the same as the prior release and should not be considered a new or updated product. For students who jus ...Show more
The Magic of Reality: How we know what's really true by Richard Dawkins
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Category: Science
An inspiring introduction to science and a fascinating exploration of the natural world. Magic takes many forms. The ancient Egyptians explained the night by suggesting that the goddess Nut swallowed the sun. The Vikings believed a rainbow was the gods' bridge to earth. The Japanese used to explain ea ...Show more
Nuts and Bolts: Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World (in a Big Way) by Roma Agrawal
34.99 AUD
Category: Science
Smartphones, skyscrapers, spacecraft. Modern technology seems mind-bogglingly complex. But beneath the surface, it can be beautifully simple. In Nuts and Bolts, award-winning engineer and broadcaster Roma Agrawal deconstructs our most complex feats of engineering into seven fundamental inventions: the n ...Show more
Powering Up: Unleashing the Clean Energy Supply Chain by Alan Finkel
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Category: Science
Former chief scientist Alan Finkel shares his compelling insights and expertise and makes the case for Australia leading the way in the global transition to clean energy. The clean energy transition is humanity's biggest ever economic challenge. In Powering Up, former Australian chief scientist Alan F ...Show more
Brief Answers to the Big Questions: the final book from Stephen Hawking by Stephen Hawking
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Category: Science
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
The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green
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Category: Science | Series: GREEN JOHN
A deeply moving and mind-expanding collection of personal essays in the first ever work of non-fiction from #1 internationally bestselling author John GreenThe Anthropocene is the current geological age, in which human activity has profoundly shaped the planet and its biodiversity. In this remarkable sy ...Show more
The First Astronomers: How Indigenous Elders read the stars by Duane Hamacher
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Category: Science
The First Astronomers is the first book to reveal the rich knowledge of the stars and the planets held by First Peoples around the world. Our eyes have been drawn away from the skies to our screens. We no longer look to the stars to forecast the weather, predict the seasons or plant our gardens. Most of ...Show more
Finding Resilience ... by Brian Walker
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Category: Science
Floods, fires, famines, epidemics and disasters of all kinds are on the increase, and as their frequency rises so does the call for greater resilience. But what does that mean? The word is used differently in psychology, ecology, economics and engineering and runs the risk of becoming meaningless ja ...Show more
Death By Black Hole and Other Cosmic Quandaries by Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Category: Science
Neil deGrasse Tyson has a talent for guiding readers through the mysteries of outer space with stunning clarity and almost childlike enthusiasm. Here, Tyson compiles his favorite essays that he wrote for Natural History magazine across a myriad of cosmic topics, from astral life at the frontiers of astr ...Show more
Superior: The Return of Race Science by Angela Saini
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Category: Science
Financial Times Book of the Year Telegraph Top 50 Books of the Year Guardian Book of the Year New Statesman Book of the Year ''Roundly debunks racism''s core lie - that inequality is to do with genetics, rather than political power'' Reni Eddo-Lodge For millennia, dominant societies have had the habit o ...Show more
Extinctions: How Life Survives, Adapts and Evolves by Michael J. Benton
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Category: Science
This timely and original book lays out the latest scientific understanding of mass extinction on our planet. Cutting-edge techniques across biology, chemistry, physics, and geology have transformed our understanding of the deep past, including the discovery of a previously unknown mass extinction. This ...Show more
The Songs of Trees: Stories from Nature's Great Connectors by David George Haskell
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Category: Science
The acclaimed author of Pulitzer Prize finalist The Forest Unseen visits with nature's most magnificent networkers - trees.In The Songs of Trees, David George Haskell brings his acute powers of observation to the biological networks that surround all species, including humans. He visits a dozen trees ar ...Show more