Women in Science Now - Stories and Strategies for Achieving Equity by Lisa M. P. Munoz
40.95 AUD
Category: Science
Women working in the sciences face obstacles at virtually every step along their career paths. From subtle slights to blatant biases, deep systemic problems block women from advancing or push them out of science and technology entirely. Women in Science Now examines solutions to this persistent gender ...Show more
Diamonds Everywhere - Awe-Inspiring Astronomy Discoveries by Tom Kerss; Royal Observatory Greenwich; Collins Astronomy
37.99 AUD
Category: Science
Answers to the mysteries of the cosmos for inquiring minds. Explore the entire cosmos in 101 fascinating topics - from mind-blowing numbers, astonishing sights, to strange-but-true discoveries and everything in between. Feed your cosmic curiosity with this comprehensive guide to the Universe, featuring ...Show more
What We Owe The Future: A Million-Year View by William MacAskill
22.99 AUD
Category: Science
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Unapologetically optimistic and bracingly realistic, this is the most inspiring book on 'ethical living' I've ever read.' Oliver Burkeman, Guardian 'A monumental event.' Rutger Bregman, author of Humankind 'A book of great daring, clarity, insight and imagination. To be simu ...Show more
A Book of Noises: Notes on the Auraculous by Caspar Henderson
36.99 AUD
Category: Science
A wide-ranging exploration of the sounds that shape our world in invisible yet significant ways.The crackling of a campfire. The scratch, hiss, and pop of a vinyl record. The first glug of wine as it is poured from a bottle. These are just a few of writer Caspar Henderson's favorite sounds. In A Book of ...Show more
Moonshot: A NASA Astronaut's Guide to Achieving the Impossible by Mike Massimino
32.99 AUD
Category: Science
When you think of a NASA astronaut, the image that probably comes to mind is one of the charismatic, athletic hero, ready to take on the stars. But former NASA astronaut turned business speaker and bestselling author Mike Massimino was pretty much the opposite. He was the underdog throughout NASA traini ...Show more
The Best Australian Science Writing 2023 by Donna Lu (Editor)
32.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: The\Best Australian Science Ser.
The annual collection — now in its thirteenth year — celebrating the finest voices in Australian science writing.Should we alter animals’ DNA to save them from extinction? What secrets will old ice reveal to us about the Earth’s deep past? How is the world’s most expensive — and explosive — substance ma ...Show more
The Secret Lives of Molecules by Kathryn Harkup
45.00 AUD
Category: Science
What happens when you really get under the skin of the world around you? Everything that surrounds us - and we ourselves - are made of molecules, constructed from a limited set of elements that can combine to form an almost limitless kaleidoscope of possibilities.Dr Kathryn Harkup reveals the inner live ...Show more
Machines Behaving Badly : The Morality of AI by Toby Walsh
36.99 AUD
Category: Science
Can we build moral machines? Toby Walsh, AI expert, examines the ethical issues we face in a future dominated by artificial intelligence.Artificial intelligence is an essential part of our lives - for better or worse. It can be used to influence what we buy, who gets shortlisted for a job and even how w ...Show more
Life As Told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal by Juan José Millás, Juan Luis Arsuaga
29.99 AUD
Category: Science
Prehistory is all around us. We just need to know where to look. Juan Jose Millas has always felt like he doesn't quite fit into human society. Sometimes he wonders if he is even a Homo sapiens at all, or something simpler. Perhaps he is a Neanderthal who somehow survived? So he turns to Juan Luis Arsua ...Show more
Dr Karl's Little Book of Climate Change Science by Dr. Karl Kruszelnicki
17.99 AUD
Category: Science
Australia's favourite science guru explains the facts about climate change - and how we can fix it How do Greenhouse Gas molecules shimmy and shake to trap 400,000 Hiroshima atom bombs' worth of the Sun's heat each day? Who did the early research into Climate Change and then spent billions trying to ...Show more
When the Heavens Went on Sale - The misfits and geniuses racing to put space within reach by Ashlee Vance
35.00 AUD
Category: Science
Acid-dropping NASA renegades and the new the space race no one knows is coming. When the Heavens Went on Sale is a fast-paced, exclusive, behind-the-scenes narrative about the race for space that's happening under our noses and over our heads. While the billionaire battles of Bezos vs Branson vs Musk do ...Show more
Timelines of Science by DK
55.00 AUD
Category: Science
This highly accessible history of science brings key milestones and events to life in visual timelinesDiscover the world of science as never before in this richly illustrated guide. The history of humankind has been driven by scientific discovery. From our distant ancestors learning to use tools and fir ...Show more