One Medicine: How understanding animals can save our lives by Matt Morgan
$24.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
It all started with a Hob Nob. As Dr Matt Morgan, an intensive care consultant, examined a patient who had suffered a cardiac arrest after inhaling some biscuit crumbs, he saw a flock of birds fly past the window. They must inhale objects all the time when flying, how do they survive? he thought to hims ...Show more
Viral Justice by Ruha Benjamin
$34.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
An inspiring vision of how we can build a more just world - one small change at a time 'A book as urgent as the moment that produced it.' - Jelani Cobb, Columbia Journalism School Long before the pandemic, Ruha Benjamin was doing groundbreaking research on race, technology, and justice, focusing on bi ...Show more
Gamblers, Fraudsters, Dreamers and Spies - The Outsiders Who Shaped Modern Japan by Robert Whiting
$32.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
"Bob Whiting came to the city as a stranger in a strange land in 1962 and stayed for five decades--he knows the dark alleys, the good whisky bars, the crooked politicians and the crooks, the baseball players, the bookies...better than anyone alive." --Jake Adelstein, author of Tokyo Vice Critically acc ...Show more
The Algorithm - How AI Can Hijack Your Career and Steal Your Future by Hilke Schellmann
$49.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
Artificial intelligence is being used, on a massive scale, to decide who gets hired, fired and promoted. Through whistleblower exclusives, leaked internal documents and astonishing real-world practices, journalist Hilke Schellmann reveals the secret rise of AI in the world of work. Testing them herself, ...Show more
Techno: Humans and Technology by Marcus Smith
$34.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
Technology is changing the world. How will the opportunities and risks affect you? In the midst of a technology revolution and the rise of artificial intelligence (AI), we all need to understand the relationship between humans and technology. Social media, data surveillance, biometrics, genomics and ...Show more
Escape from Shadow Physics: the quest to end the dark ages of quantum theory by Adam Forrest Kay
$39.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
An engaging and razor-sharp attack on the orthodoxy of modern physics, and a bold new idea about the structure of reality. For 70 years, mathematical physicist Adam Kay argues, physics has laboured under delusions. 'When it comes to atoms,' the founding quantum physicist Neils Bohr once wrote, 'languag ...Show more
How to Win Friends and Influence Fungi: Collected Quirks of Science, Tech, Engineering, and Math from Nerd Nite by Matt Wasowski, Chris Balakrishnan
$36.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
For 20 years, Nerd Nite has delivered to live audiences the most interesting, fun, and informative presentations about science, history, the arts, pop culture, you name it. There hasn't been a rabbit hole that their army of presenters hasn't been afraid to explore. Finally, after countless requests to b ...Show more
Counting: Humans, History and the Infinite Lives of Numbers by Benjamin Wardhaugh
$36.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
What has counting meant to different cultures and different individuals? In this book, historian and mathematician Benjamin Wardhaugh explores stories from all over the world and from every period of human history, from the African Stone Age to cyberspace; from Assyrian kings to Chinese peasants. ...Show more
The Trolls Of Wall Street: How The Outcasts And Insurgents Are Hacking the Markets by Nathaniel Popper
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Category: Popular Science
The dramatic story of an improbable gang of self-proclaimed "degenerates" who made WallStreetBets into a cultural movement that moved from the fringes of the internet to the center of Wall Street, upending the global financial markets and changing how an entire generation thinks about money, investing, ...Show more
Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space by Adam Higginbotham
$36.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
The definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the 1986 Challenger space shuttle disaster by New York Times-bestselling author Adam Higginbotham, based on fascinating new archival research and in-depth reporting - a riveting history that reads like a thriller From the New York Times-bestselling aut ...Show more
Under Construction by Chrishell Stause
$32.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
In this engaging, witty, and inspirational memoir, Chrishell Stause shares her story of living an unconventional childhood in small-town Kentucky marked by periods of homelessness, family addiction struggles and dreams of one day being on a daytime soap, all while managing the local Dairy Queen. Through ...Show more
White Holes: Inside the Horizon by Carlo Rovelli
$35.00 AUD
Category: Popular Science
A mesmerizing trip to the strange new world of white holes, from Carlo Rovelli, the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics. Let us journey, with beloved physicist Carlo Rovelli, into the heart of a black hole. Let us slip beyond its boundary, the horizon, and tumble - on and on - down thi ...Show more