Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race (HB) by Walter Isaacson
$49.99 AUD
Category: Science
The bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs returns with a gripping account of how Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues launched a revolution that will allow us to cure diseases, fend off viruses, and have healthier babies. When Jennifer Doudna was in sixth grade, she cam ...Show more
Contagion: Plagues, Pandemics and Cures from the Black Death to Covid-19 and Beyond by Dr. Richard Gunderman
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science
As the outbreak of a new and deadly form of coronavirus dominates headlines and triggers fear and global recession, now is a good time to reflect on the history and science of transmissible diseases. Behind every disease is a story, from the natural history of the disease and its course in the individua ...Show more
DNA;Is You! - The Marvelous Science Behind Your Individually Awesome You-Ness by Katie McKissick
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
Learn all about how your DNA makes you who you are--an awesome, unique individual--in this fun and simple illustrated guide Did you know your sense of purpose is determined by your genes? And that DNA determines your reaction to poison ivy, and maybe even your sex drive? In DNA Is You , the author behi ...Show more
Defeating the Ministers of Death (The compelling story of vaccination) by David Isaacs
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
The compelling history of vaccination. We may fear terrorist attacks but in truth humans have always had far more to fear from infections. In 1950 there were an estimated 50 million cases of smallpox worldwide, which killed 10 million people. At the end of WWI, Spanish flu proved deadlier than the war t ...Show more
Designs for the Pluriverse - Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds by Arturo Escobar
$59.95 AUD
Category: Science | Series: New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century Ser.
In Designs for the Pluriverse Arturo Escobar presents a new vision of design theory and practice aimed at channeling design's world-making capacity toward ways of being and doing that are deeply attuned to justice and the Earth. Noting that most design--from consumer goods and digital technologies to bu ...Show more
Digital Ape How to Live (in Peace) with Smart Machines by Nigel;Hampson Shadbolt
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science
How smart machines are transforming us all - and what we should do about it. The smart machines revolution is re-shaping our lives and our societies. Here, Shadbolt and Hampson - Britain's pre-eminent authorities on AI - dispel terror, confusion, and misconception by demonstrating that we are not about ...Show more
Eight Improbable Possibilities: The Mystery of the Moon, and Other Implausible Scientific Truths by John Gribbin
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science
'Gribbin casts a wide net and displays his breadth of knowledge in packing a lot into each chapter . . . a brief read, but one that may inspire readers to dig deeper.' Giles Sparrow, BBC Sky at Night Magazine A mind-warping excursion into the wildly improbable truths of science. Echoing Sherlock Holme ...Show more
Essential Science: The Only Science Book You Will Ever Need by Brian Clegg
$39.99 AUD
Category: Science
Essential Science aims to be the most detailed, accessible and authoritative book of its kind. Each of the 34 discoveries is broken down into seven essential elements to aid comprehension and inform the reader about what really matters: THE ESSENTIAL IDEA: a concise summary of the idea or discovery that ...Show more
Every Woman's Guide to Saving the Planet by Natalie Isaacs
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science
When it came to climate change, Natalie Isaacs used to think it was someone else's issue. After all, what can one person do to make a difference? Then she cut her electricity bill by 20 per cent and saw how much money and pollution she'd saved.Feeling empowered, she embraced action instead of apathy and ...Show more
Evolution by Daniel Loxton
$27.99 AUD
Category: Science
Evolution is the process that created the terrible teeth of Tyrannosaurus rex and the complex human brain, clever enough to understand the workings of nature. Young readers will learn how a British naturalist named Charles Darwin studied nature and developed his now-famous concepts of natural selection ...Show more
Exponential - How the Next Digital Revolution Will Rewire Life on Earth by Azeem Azhar
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
We are living in the first exponential age. New inventions are created at a dazzling speed; our homes and workplaces are remade by technological forces we barely understand; centuries-old tenets of politics and economics are upturned by new technologies. It all points to a world that is getting faster a ...Show more
Fake Medicine: Exposing the wellness quacks and cons costing us our health by Bradley McKay
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science
We all want to be healthy, live longer and avoid cancer, but too many of us are being scammed by sciencey-sounding crooks and nonsense marketing. Dr Brad McKay, GP and experienced Australian science communicator, has watched how misinformation and 'alternative facts' have come to permeate every facet of ...Show more