Viral BS - Medical Myths and Why We Fall for Them by Seema Yasmin
$48.99 AUD
Category: Science
Can your zip code predict when you will die? Should you space out childhood vaccines? Does talcum powder cause cancer? Why do some doctors recommend e-cigarettes while other doctors recommend you stay away from them? Health information--and misinformation--is all around us, and it can be hard to separat ...Show more
Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19 by Alina Chan; Matt Ridley
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science
It's the greatest whodunnit mystery of the century: how did the first detected outbreak of Covid-19 start in Wuhan city? We know that the natural reservoir of SARS-related coronaviruses is in bats, but we do not how, where, and when SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for Covid-19, acquired the ability to ...Show more
Virusphere by Frank Ryan
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science
A fascinating and long overdue examination of viruses - from what they are and what they do, to the vital role they have played in human history. What are viruses? Do they rely on genes, like all other forms of life? Do they follow the same patterns of evolution as plants and animals?Frank Ryan answers ...Show more
Visions of a Better World by Brice Le Blevennec
$44.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Welcome to the world of 2051 through the eyes of digital marketing pioneers from around the world: engineers, developers, designers, writers and analysts who closely follow tech trends. With their finely honed intuition for user experience and a passion for technology, the authors boldly predict life 30 ...Show more
Vital Science by Karl Kruszelnicki
$19.99 AUD
Category: Science | Reading Level: 4 Science
Get your pulse racing with Australia's most popular scientist, Dr Karl Kruszelnicki.Discover why people tell lies, why some planets are hotter than stars and how humans are terraforming the Earth. Is cockroach milk really the next Superfood? Why are birds so smart? Why do trees need each other to grow a ...Show more
Voyagers - Our Journey into the Anthropocene by Lauren Fuge
$36.99 AUD
Category: 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
Wars of Anunnaki by Chris H. Hardy, Ph.D.
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science
The detonation of nuclear weapons in the 20th century was not the first time humanity has seen such terrible destruction. Drawing upon the work of Zecharia Sitchin, the Book of Genesis, Sumerian clay tablets, and archaeological evidence such as ancient radioactive skeletons, Chris Hardy reveals the anci ...Show more
Waters of the World: The Story of the Scientists Who Unravelled the Mysteries of Our Seas, Glaciers, and Atmosphere - and Made the Planet Whole by Sarah Dry
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
How is the climate where you are? And how did it get that way? How does the great complex global interaction of ice, ocean, and atmosphere combine to generate the rain that sustains us? And who figured all its secret processes out?From the glaciers of the Alps to the towering cumulonimbus clouds of the ...Show more
Wayfinding: The Art and Science of How We Find and Lose Our Way by Michael Bond
$19.99 AUD
Category: Science
The physical world is infinitely complex, yet most of us are able to find our way around it. We can walk through unfamiliar streets while maintaining a sense of direction, take shortcuts along paths we have never used and remember for many years places we have visited only once. These are remarkable ach ...Show more
Ways of Being - Animals, Plants, Machines - The Search for a Planetary Intelligence by James Bridle
$26.99 AUD
Category: Science | Reading Level: very good
Artist, technologist, and philosopher James Bridle's Ways of Being is a brilliant, searching exploration of different kinds of intelligence--plant, animal, human, artificial--and how they transform our understanding of humans' place in the cosmos. What does it mean to be intelligent? Is it something uni ...Show more
We Are Electric: The New Science of Our Body's Electrome by Sally Adee
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science
Award-winning science and technology journalist Sally Adee reveals the new science of our body's electrome You may be familiar with the idea of our body's biome - the bacterial fauna that populates our gut and can so profoundly affect our health. In We Are Electric we cross the next frontier of scientif ...Show more
Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O'Neil
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
We live in the age of the algorithm. Increasingly, the decisions that affect our lives - whether we get a job or a loan, how much we pay for insurance - are being made by mathematical models. In theory, this should lead to greater fairness- everyone is judged according to the same rules, and bias is eli ...Show more