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Deadliest Enemy - Our War Against Killer Germs by Michael Osterholm; Mark Olshaker

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"A powerful and necessary book that looks at the threat of emerging diseases with clarity and realism, and offers us not just fear but plans."---Richard Preston, author of The Hot Zone A world-leading epidemiologist shares his stories from the front lines of our war on infectious diseases and exp ...Show more

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The Doctor Who Fooled the World: Andrew Wakefield by Brian Deer

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Award-winning investigative reporter Brian Deer reveals the shocking truth behind the rise of Andrew Wakefield the so-called father of the anti-vaccine movement. In February 1998, a then-unknown British doctor, Andrew Wakefield, published an explosive scientific paper in a top medical journal, Th ...Show more

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X +Y - A Mathematician's Manifesto for Rethinking Gender by Eugenia Cheng

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From imaginary numbers to the fourth dimension and beyond, mathematics has always been about imagining impossible things. In x+y, Eugenia Cheng draws on the insights of higher-dimensional mathematics to reveal a transformative new way of talking about the patriarchy, mansplaining and sexism: a way that ...Show more

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Ancient Bones - UnEarthing the Astonishing new story of how we became human by Madelaine Bohme; Rüdiger Braun; Florian Breier

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A leading paleontologist discovers the missing link in human evolution. Somewhere west of Munich, Madelaine B hme and her colleagues dig for clues to the origins of humankind. What they discover is beyond anything they imagined- the fossilised bones of Danuvius guggenmosiignite a global media frenzy. T ...Show more

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Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World by Fareed Zakaria

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Since the end of the Cold War, the world has been shaken to its core three times. September 11, 2001, the financial collapse of 2008 and - most of all - COVID-19. Each was an asymmetrical threat, different from anything the world had experienced before.Fareed Zakaria presents ten surprising, hopeful and ...Show more

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The Comedy of Error: Why Evolution Made Us Laugh by Jonathan Silvertown

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What is humour? Why do we laugh? And why is the root of a good joke almost always error? Good jokes, bad jokes, clever jokes, dad jokes -- the desire to laugh is universal. But why do we find some gags hilarious, whilst others fall flat? Why does explaining a joke make it less amusing rather than more s ...Show more

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Fathoms: The World in the Whale by Rebecca Giggs

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A work of bright and careful genius. Equal parts Rebecca Solnit and Annie Dillard, Giggs masterfully combines lush prose with conscientious history and boots-on-the-beach reporting. With Giggs leading us gently by the hand we dive down, and down, and down, into the dark core of the whale, which, she con ...Show more

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How Contagion Works: Science, Awareness and Community in a Globalised World in Crisis by Paolo Giordano

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'Sublimely elegant, provocatively simple, deeply troubling. In one short hour, in the midst of this difficult moment, Giordano reinforced my sense of hope in humanity, in the one and the many' Philippe Sands, author of East West Street The Covid-19 pandemic is the most significant health emergency of o ...Show more

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Is the Moon Upside Down? by Greg Quicke

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During his younger days working as a bush mechanic and pearl diver in remote WA, Greg Quick spent countless nights lying in a swag and staring at the stars. That daily distraction grew into a passion that has seen him become one of Australia's best known and most engaging astronomers. In recent years Gr ...Show more

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Look Up: Why Space Is for Everyone... and Why It Matters by Sarah Cruddas

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‘Sarah Cruddas is a gifted writer and Look Up is an inspired book. I am hopeful that we will never stop looking up.' Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins Most of us have never been to space. To date, of the more than 100 billion humans that have ever existed, fewer than 600 humans have ever left Ea ...Show more

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The Genes That Make Us: Human Stories from a Revolution in Medicine by Edwin Kirk

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Genes -- we all have them and we're all affected by them, often in unknown ways. Whether directly inherited or modified by our environment, genes control or significantly influence almost every aspect of our lives, from the success of our conception and the development of our sexual characteristics, to ...Show more

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Woo's Wonderful World of Maths by Eddie Woo

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Why is a rainbow curved? Why aren't left-handers extinct? How is a sunflower like a synchronised swimmer? Why is 'e' a magic number?The answer to these questions is contained within one simple word: MATHS. Because maths is all about patterns, and our universe is extraordinarily patterned.With enthusiasm ...Show more

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Deadliest Enemy - Our War Against Killer Germs by Michael Osterholm; Mark Olshaker

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The Doctor Who Fooled the World: Andrew Wakefield by Brian Deer

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X +Y - A Mathematician's Manifesto for Rethinking Gender by Eugenia Cheng

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Ancient Bones - UnEarthing the Astonishing new story of how we became human by Madelaine Bohme; Rüdiger Braun; Florian Breier

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Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World by Fareed Zakaria

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The Comedy of Error: Why Evolution Made Us Laugh by Jonathan Silvertown

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Fathoms: The World in the Whale by Rebecca Giggs

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How Contagion Works: Science, Awareness and Community in a Globalised World in Crisis by Paolo Giordano

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Is the Moon Upside Down? by Greg Quicke

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Look Up: Why Space Is for Everyone... and Why It Matters by Sarah Cruddas

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The Genes That Make Us: Human Stories from a Revolution in Medicine by Edwin Kirk

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Deadliest Enemy - Our War Against Killer Germs by Michael Osterholm; Mark Olshaker

$32.99 AUD

The Doctor Who Fooled the World: Andrew Wakefield by Brian Deer

$35.00 AUD

X +Y - A Mathematician's Manifesto for Rethinking Gender by Eugenia Cheng

$34.99 AUD

Ancient Bones - UnEarthing the Astonishing new story of how we became human by Madelaine Bohme; Rüdiger Braun; Florian Breier

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Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World by Fareed Zakaria

$43.99 AUD

The Comedy of Error: Why Evolution Made Us Laugh by Jonathan Silvertown

$29.99 AUD

Fathoms: The World in the Whale by Rebecca Giggs

$32.99 AUD

How Contagion Works: Science, Awareness and Community in a Globalised World in Crisis by Paolo Giordano

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Is the Moon Upside Down? by Greg Quicke

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Look Up: Why Space Is for Everyone... and Why It Matters by Sarah Cruddas

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The Genes That Make Us: Human Stories from a Revolution in Medicine by Edwin Kirk

$29.99 AUD

Woo's Wonderful World of Maths by Eddie Woo

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