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The Heartland: Finding and Losing Schizophrenia by Nathan Filer

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'Erudite, well-researched, and full of compassion... This book will change the way people understand schizophrenia, and that change is long overdue.' CHRISTIE WATSON, author of The Language of Kindness 'A truly important book. ' MAX PORTER, author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers and Lanny 'I have ...Show more

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The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli

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Category: Science

Time is a mystery that does not cease to puzzle us. Philosophers, artists and poets have long explored its meaning while scientists have found that its structure is different from the simple intuition we have of it. From Boltzmann to quantum theory, from Einstein to loop quantum gravity, our understandi ...Show more

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Origin Story: A Big History of Everything by David Christian

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Category: Science

How did we get from the Big Bang to today's staggering complexity, in which seven billion humans are connected into networks powerful enough to transform the planet? And why, in comparison, are our closest primate relatives reduced to near-extinction? Big History creator David Christian gives the answe ...Show more

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Superbugs: The Race to Stop an Epidemic by Matt McCarthy

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Category: Science | Reading Level: 4 Science

Physician, researcher, and ethics professor Matt McCarthy is on the front lines of a groundbreaking clinical trial testing a new antibiotic to fight lethal superbugs, bacteria that have built up resistance to the life-saving drugs in our rapidly dwindling arsenal. This trial serves as the backdrop for t ...Show more

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How To Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics (PB) by Michael Pollan

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Category: Science

'It's as if we made entering gothic cathedrals illegal, or museums, or sunsets!' When LSD was first discovered in the 1940s, it seemed to researchers, scientists and doctors as if the world might be on the cusp of psychological revolution. It promised to shed light on the deep mysteries of consciousness ...Show more

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Notes from a Public Typewriter by Michael Gustafson

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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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Never Enough by Judith Grisel

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Category: Science

Judith Grisel was a daily drug user and college dropout when she began to consider that her addiction might have a cure, one that she herself could perhaps discover by studying the brain. Now, after twenty-five years as a neuroscientist, she shares what she and other scientists have learned about addict ...Show more

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Octopuses - A Ladybird Expert Book by Helen Scales

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Category: Science | Series: The\Ladybird Expert Ser.

Part of the new Ladybird Expert series, Octopuses is a clear, simple and entertaining introduction to these eight-armed, ink-making, soft-bodied wonders. Written by the leading lights and most outstanding communicators in their fields, the Ladybird Expert books provide clear, accessible and authoritativ ...Show more

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How Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon by Joshua Mezrich

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Category: Science | Reading Level: 3 Biography

Gripping and evocative, How Death Becomes Life takes us inside the operating room and presents the stark dilemmas that transplant surgeons must face daily: How much risk should a healthy person be allowed to take to save someone she loves? Should a patient suffering from alcoholism receive a healthy liv ...Show more

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Quantum Mechanics (A Ladybird Expert Book) by Jim Al-Khalili

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Category: Science | Series: Ladybird Expert

Part of the new Ladybird Expert series, Quantum Mechanics is a clear, simple and entertaining introduction to the weird, mind-bending world of the very, very small. Written by physicist and broadcaster Professor Jim Al-Khalili, it explores all the key players, breakthroughs, controversies and unanswered ...Show more

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Genesis by Edward O. Wilson

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Category: Science

Of all species that have ever existed on earth, only one has reached human levels of intelligence and social organisation: us. Why? In Genesis, celebrated biologist Edward O. Wilson traces the great transitions of evolution, from the origin of life to the invention of sexual reproduction to the developm ...Show more

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Brain Changer by Felice Jacka

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Category: Science | Reading Level: 5

You feel how you eat.Professor Felice Jacka's love of food led her to question whether what we put in our mouths everyday affects more than our waistline. Felice set out on a journey of discovery to change the status quo and uncover the truth through rigorous science. Beginning her PhD in 2005, she exam ...Show more

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The Heartland: Finding and Losing Schizophrenia by Nathan Filer

$29.99 AUD

The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli

$19.99 AUD

Origin Story: A Big History of Everything by David Christian

$22.99 AUD

Superbugs: The Race to Stop an Epidemic by Matt McCarthy

$32.99 AUD

How To Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics (PB) by Michael Pollan

$22.99 AUD

Notes from a Public Typewriter by Michael Gustafson

$26.99 AUD

Never Enough by Judith Grisel

$30.00 AUD

Octopuses - A Ladybird Expert Book by Helen Scales

$19.99 AUD

How Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon by Joshua Mezrich

$32.99 AUD

Quantum Mechanics (A Ladybird Expert Book) by Jim Al-Khalili

$19.99 AUD

Genesis by Edward O. Wilson

$39.99 AUD

Brain Changer by Felice Jacka

$34.99 AUD

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