The First Shots: The Epic Rivalries and Heroic Science Behind the Race to the Coronavirus Vaccine by Brendan Borrell
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Category: Popular Science
An enthralling real-life thriller that tells the full inside story of the high-stakes race for a lifesaving vaccine to end the COVID-19 pandemicThe global race to find a coronavirus vaccine is the defining story of our times. In The First Shots, award-winning journalist Brendan Borrell brings this high- ...Show more
Explain That: 31 intriguing reasons why from The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald by Felicity Lewis (ed.)
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Category: Popular Science
From the nation's most trusted news outlets comes an entertaining and authoritative look at the world around us. Have you ever wondered if time travel is actually possible? Or where the Australian accent came from? Or what it feels like to have dementia? If you're an inquisitive person who likes to und ...Show more
The Number Bias: How numbers dominate our world and why that's a problem we need to fix by Sanne Blauw
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Category: Popular Science
'The Number Bias combines vivid storytelling with authoritative analysis to deliver a warning about the way numbers can lead us astray - if we let them.' TIM HARFORDEven if you don't consider yourself a numbers person, you are a numbers person. The time has come to put numbers in their place. Not high u ...Show more
Do Not Erase: Mathematicians and Their Chalkboards by Jessica Wynne
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Category: Popular Science
A photographic exploration of mathematicians' chalkboards "A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns," wrote the British mathematician G. H. Hardy. In Do Not Erase, photographer Jessica Wynne presents remarkable examples of this idea through images of mathematicians' chalkboards. ...Show more
How Your Brain Works - Inside the Most Complicated Object in the Known Universe by New Scientist
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Category: Popular Science | Series: New Scientist Instant Ex Ser.
How Your Brain Works explores the amazing world inside your head. Ever wondered what's going on inside your head? The brain has long been a source of fascination. In 1819, the radical thinker and surgeon William Lawrence put it like this: It is strongly suspected that a Newton or Shakespeare ex ...Show more
Where the Universe Came From - How Einstein's Relativity Unlocks the Past, Present and Future of the Cosmos by New Scientist
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How did it all begin? Where is it all going?WHY GENERAL RELATIVITY LEAVES UNFINISHED BUSINESS WITH THE COSMOS A little over a century ago, a young Albert Einstein presented his general theory of relativity to the world and utterly transformed our understanding of the universe. He overturned centurie ...Show more
The Dawn of Language: How We Came to Talk by Sverker Johansson
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Category: Popular Science
Who was "the first speaker" and what was their first message? Drawing on evidence from many fields, including archaeology, anthropology, neurology and linguistics, Sverker Johansson weaves these disparate threads together to show how our human ancestors evolved into language users. The Dawn of Language ...Show more
Elon Musk: A Mission to Save the World by Anna Crowley Redding
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Category: Popular Science
A riveting and beautifully designed YA biography that shows how a once-bullied school boy became an iconic visionary who the New York Times described as arguably the most important and successful entrepreneur in the world. Elon Musk is the visionary behind SpaceX and CEO of the electric car company Tesl ...Show more
Mortals: How the fear of death shaped human society by Rachel Menzies, Ross Menzies
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Human society is shaped by many things, but underlying them all is one fundamental force - our fear of death. This is the ground-breaking theory explored in Mortals.Mortals is a ground-breaking book uncovering the fear of death as the hidden driver of most of our species' endeavours over millennia. The ...Show more
Instant Physics: Key Thinkers, Theories, Discoveries and Concepts by Giles Sparrow
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Category: Popular Science | Series: Instant Ser.
Instant Physics pulls together all the pivotal physics knowledge and thought into one concise volume.
Half Lives - The Unlikely History of Radium (PB) by Lucy Jane Santos
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Category: Popular Science
Lucy Jane Santos presents the surprising history of radium in everyday life.
Worlds in Shadow: Submerged Lands in Science, Memory and Myth by Patrick Nunn
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The traces of much of human history and that which preceded it lie beneath the ocean surface; broken up, dispersed, often buried and always mysterious. This is fertile ground for speculation, even myth-making, but also a topic on which geologists and climatologists have increasingly focused in recent de ...Show more