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Influenza: The Hundred Year Hunt to Cure the Deadliest Disease in History by Jeremy Brown

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Jeremy Brown, a veteran ER doctor, explores the troubling, terrifying, and complex history of the flu, from the origins and lessons of the Great Flu that killed millions to vexing questions like: are we prepared for the next epidemic, should you get a flu shot, and are we close to finding a cure?

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Transcendence - How Humans Evolved Through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time by Gaia Vince

$45.00 AUD

Category: Science

Humans now live longer and better than ever before, and we are the most populous big animal on earth. Meanwhile, our closest living relatives, the now-endangered chimpanzees, continue to live as they have for millions of years. We are not like the other animals, yet we evolved through the same process. ...Show more

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The Road to Conscious Machines by Michael Wooldridge

$35.00 AUD

Category: Science | Series: Pelican Bks.

In this mythbusting guide to AI past and present, one of the world's leading researchers shows why our fears for the future are misplaced The ultimate dream of artificial intelligence is to build machines that are like us: conscious and self-aware. While this remains a remote possibility, rapid progres ...Show more

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Life: Selected Writings by Tim Flannery

$39.99 AUD

Category: Science

Tim Flannery is one of the world's great thinkers, environmental scientists and writers. Sir David Attenborough once described him as being 'in the league of the all-time great explorers like Dr David Livingstone.' This definitive collection of his work brings together thirty years of essays, speeches a ...Show more

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Just One More Question - Stories from a Life in Neurology by Niall Tubridy

$19.99 AUD

Category: Science

An eye-opening, gripping and moving account of dealing with some of medicine's most complicated challenges. As a trainee doctor, fascinated by the ways the brain and nervous system signal problems with the body's wiring, Niall Tubridy fell in love with neurology. This was high stakes detective work whe ...Show more

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Obesity Code Unlocking the Secrets of Weight Loss by Jason Fung

$29.99 AUD

Category: Science

"We are in the midst of an obesity epidemic, but despite being inundated with diet advice we are only getting fatter. We count calories and exercise regularly, yet still the pounds won't budge. Why? In this highly readable and provocative book, Dr Jason Fung sets out a groundbreaking new theory- that ob ...Show more

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When Galaxies Collide by Lisa Harvey-Smith

$24.99 AUD

Category: Science

In 2018, Lisa Harvey-Smith was appointed as the inaugural Australian Women in STEM Ambassador by the Australian Federal Government. Why is the Milky Way blue? Why isn't a black hole dark? How many stars can you see with your naked eye?* How much hotter are blue stars than red ones?** Humans are th ...Show more

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The Mathematics of the Gods and the Algorithms of Men: A Cultural History by Paolo Zellini

$35.00 AUD

Category: Science

Is mathematics a discovery or an invention? Have we invented numbers or do they truly exist? What sort of reality should we attribute to them? Mathematics has always been a way of understanding and ordering the world: from sacred ancient texts and pre-Socratic philosophers to twentieth-century logicians ...Show more

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Notes from a Public Typewriter by Michael Gustafson

$26.99 AUD

Category: Science

When Michael Gustafson and his wife Hilary opened Literati Bookstore in Ann Arbor, Michigan, they put out a typewriter for anyone to use. They had no idea what to expect. Would people ask metaphysical questions? Write mean things? Pour their souls onto the page? Yes, no, and did they ever. Every day, pe ...Show more

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The Gendered Brain - The New Neuroscience That Shatters the Myth of the Female Brain by Gina Rippon

$22.99 AUD

Category: Science

Reading maps or reading emotions? Barbie or Lego? Do you have a female brain or a male brain? Or is that the wrong question? We live in a gendered world where we are bombarded with messages about sex and gender. On a daily basis we face deeply ingrained beliefs that your sex determines your skills and p ...Show more

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The Hidden Life of Trees (Illustrated Edition) by Peter Wohlleben

$49.99 AUD

Category: Science

In his international bestseller, The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben opened readers? eyes to the wonders and amazing processes at work in the forest. Now this new, breathtakingly illustrated edition brings those wonders to life like never before. With compelling selections from the original book a ...Show more

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Untrue - Why Nearly Everything We Believe about Women and Lust and Infidelity Is Wrong and How the New Science Can Set Us Free by Wednesday Martin

$32.99 AUD

Category: Science

Men are biologically programmed to want sex with lots of different women, whereas women are designed to stay true to one person, right?Wrong.In Untrue, New York Times-bestselling author Wednesday Martin reveals that we are just at the beginning of understanding women?s sexuality properly. From New York ...Show more

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Influenza: The Hundred Year Hunt to Cure the Deadliest Disease in History by Jeremy Brown

$32.99 AUD

Transcendence - How Humans Evolved Through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time by Gaia Vince

$45.00 AUD

The Road to Conscious Machines by Michael Wooldridge

$35.00 AUD

Life: Selected Writings by Tim Flannery

$39.99 AUD

Just One More Question - Stories from a Life in Neurology by Niall Tubridy

$19.99 AUD

Obesity Code Unlocking the Secrets of Weight Loss by Jason Fung

$29.99 AUD

When Galaxies Collide by Lisa Harvey-Smith

$24.99 AUD

The Mathematics of the Gods and the Algorithms of Men: A Cultural History by Paolo Zellini

$35.00 AUD

Notes from a Public Typewriter by Michael Gustafson

$26.99 AUD

The Gendered Brain - The New Neuroscience That Shatters the Myth of the Female Brain by Gina Rippon

$22.99 AUD

The Hidden Life of Trees (Illustrated Edition) by Peter Wohlleben

$49.99 AUD

Untrue - Why Nearly Everything We Believe about Women and Lust and Infidelity Is Wrong and How the New Science Can Set Us Free by Wednesday Martin

$32.99 AUD

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