Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari
$39.99 AUD
Category: Popular 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
Good Nature: The New Science of How Nature Improves Our Health by Kathy Willis
$34.99 AUD
Category: Popular 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
Brief Answers to the Big Questions: 'A beautiful little book by a brilliant mind' DAILY TELEGRAPH by Stephen Hawking
$24.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science | Reading Level: very good
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
2025 Guide To The Night Sky Southern Hemisphere: A Month-by-month Guide To Exploring The Skies Above Australia, New Zealand And South Africa by Storm Dunlop, Wil Tirion, Radmila Topalovic, Royal Observatory Greenwich, Collins Astronomy
$19.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
The ideal gift for all amateur and seasoned astronomers.A comprehensive handbook to the planets, stars and constellations visible from the southern hemisphere. 6 pages for each month covering January-December 2025.Diagrams drawn for the latitude of southern Australia, but including events visible from N ...Show more
AI Needs You: How We Can Change AI's Future and Save Our Own by Verity Harding
$39.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
A humanist manifesto for the age of AI Artificial intelligence may be the most transformative technology of our time. As AI’s power grows, so does the need to figure out what—and who—this technology is really for. AI Needs You argues that it is critical for society to take the lead in answering this urg ...Show more
Is My Phone Reading My Mind? The Real Facts About Artificial Intelligence by Matt Agnew
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Category: Popular Science
Let Dr Matt explain everything you and your kids need to know about Artificial Intelligence and why you don't need to be afraid! When you think of AI, you might imagine a walking, talking robot or you might think of a giant computer that wants to take over the world, but the reality is that AI is a bril ...Show more
A Brief History Of Time: From Big Bang To Black Holes by Stephen Hawking
$22.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science | Reading Level: very good
From the Big Bang to the theory of relativity, Stephen W. Hawking will challenge your imagination and expand your grasp of the cosmos. This is the classic revelatory science book of the last century. Here is a landmark book written for those of us who prefer words to equations. Told by an extraordinary ...Show more
Voyagers: Our Journey into the Anthropocene by Lauren Fuge
$36.99 AUD
Category: Popular 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
On Extinction - Beginning Again at the End by Ben Ware
$32.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
"This path-breaking book by one of the sharpest minds in contemporary philosophy will live on for a very long time."--Dany Nobus, author of Critique of Psychoanalytic Reason Philosophy at the end of the world On Extinction takes us on a breathtaking philosophical journey through desperate territory. A ...Show more
The Knowledge Gene: The Incredible Story of the Supergene That Gives Us Human Creativity by Lynne Kelly
$36.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
Drawing on a major discovery with tremendous implications, an Australian researcher has uncovered the source of human creativity and learning in the functioning of a supergene she calls the knowledge gene. Over 500,000 years ago, a single gene mutated. It spread over time, becoming critical in the jour ...Show more
The Best Australian Science Writing 2023 by Donna Lu (Editor)
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Category: Popular 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
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake
$24.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
When we think of fungi, we likely think of mushrooms. But mushrooms are only fruiting bodies, analogous to apples on a tree. Most fungi live out of sight, yet make up a massively diverse kingdom of organisms that supports and sustains nearly all living systems. Fungi provide a key to understanding the p ...Show more