The Coming Wave: The instant Sunday Times bestseller from the ultimate AI insider by Mustafa Suleyman
$36.99 AUD
Category: Science
Cofounder of the pioneering AI company DeepMind sounds the alarm on the unprecedented risks to global order posed by a wave of fast-developing technologies like artificial intelligence and genetic engineeringA stark and urgent warning on the unprecedented risks that a wave of fast-developing technologie ...Show more
Planet Earth III
$85.00 AUD
Category: Science
"There are over 100 billion planets in our galaxy. Only one is home to life. Ranging across seven dramatic habitats, from the depths of the ocean, to the scorching desert and into the to the darkest jungle, Planet Earth III showcases places and animals from all corners of our amazing, unique, planet. Fo ...Show more
Lithium: The Global Race for Battery Dominance and the New Energy Revolution by Lukasz Bednarski
$49.99 AUD
Category: Science
A global energy revolution is unfolding before our eyes: ever-growing numbers of electric vehicles on our roads, laptops that last all day on a single charge and solar panels on our roofs, all reliant on lithium-ion batteries. This revolution is happening at breath-taking speed, with the potential to co ...Show more
What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science | Reading Level: good
From the creator of the wildly popular webcomic xkcd, hilarious and informative answers to important questions you probably never thought to ask Millions of people visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe’s iconic webcomic. His stick-figure drawings about science, technology, language, and love h ...Show more
Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words (PB) by Randall Munroe
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science
From the No. 1 bestselling author of What If? - the man who created xkcd and explained the laws of science with cartoons - comes a series of brilliantly simple diagrams ('blueprints' if you want to be complicated about it) that show how important things work: from the nuclear bomb to the biro.It's good ...Show more
A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future by David Attenborough
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
*Goodreads Choice Award Winner for Best Science & Technology Book of the Year* In this scientifically informed account of the changes occurring in the world over the last century, award-winning broadcaster and natural historian shares a lifetime of wisdom and a hopeful vision for the future. See the ...Show more
Death As Told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal by Juan José Millás, Juan Luis Arsuaga
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science
A dazzling follow-up to Life As Told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal. 'We would love to discover that each species has a biological clock in its cells, because, if that clock existed and if we were able to find it, perhaps we could stop it and thus become eternal,' Arsuaga tells Millás in this book, in wh ...Show more
Pitfall: The Race to Mine the World's Most Vulnerable Places by Christopher Pollon
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science
A fascinating investigation into a wild industry and the global race to exploit our world's dwindling natural resources. The stakes couldn't be higher- How can we mine the metals we need without replicating the environmental and human rights abuses of the past? A global race is on to exploit the last bo ...Show more
Data Grab: The new Colonialism of Big Tech and how to fight back by Ulises A. Mejias, Nick Couldry
$36.99 AUD
Category: Science
If you're not paying for the product, then you are the product. In the past, colonialism was a landgrab of natural resources, exploitative labour and private property from developing countries. It made shiny promises to modernise and civilise, but actually sought to control. It made native populations s ...Show more
The Intuition Toolkit: The New Science of Knowing What without Knowing Why by Joel Pearson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
Five easy rules for developing intuition, based on trailblazing research by a top Australian neuroscientist. Learn when it’s safe to rely on intuition in decision-making and when it’s not. Intuition has saved lives and averted disasters, and it also lies behind countless innovative decisions. Steve Jobs ...Show more
Why Am I Like This?: The Science Behind Your Weirdest Thoughts & Habits by Jen Martin
$27.99 AUD
Category: Science
Why can’t I stop taking photos? Why do I always feel like I’m missing out? Why can’t I remember why I walked into this room? In Why Am I Like This?, Dr. Jen Martin delves into the science behind our strangest thoughts and habits, from why smells make us homesick to why we stick our tongues out when we’r ...Show more
When Animals Dream: The Hidden World of Animal Consciousness by David M. Peña-Guzmán
$27.99 AUD
Category: Science
Arc humans the only dreamers on Earth? What goes on in the minds of animals when they sleep? David Peña-Guzmán brings together the latest behavioral and neuroscientific research on animal sleep with philosophical theories of dreaming, showing how dreams provide an invaluable window into the cognitive a ...Show more