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When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut

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Albert Einstein opens a letter sent to him from the Eastern Front of World War I. Inside, he finds the first exact solution to the equations of general relativity, unaware that it contains a monster that could destroy his life's work.

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What Is Life? Understand Biology in Five Steps by Sir Paul Nurse

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Life is all around us, abundant and diverse. It is truly a marvel. But what does it actually mean to be alive, and how do we decide what is living and what is not? After a lifetime of studying life, Nobel Prize-winner Sir Paul Nurse, one of the world's leading scientists, has taken on the challenge of d ...Show more

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

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Category: Gender Studies

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

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Category: Science

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, The Lan ...Show more

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A History of the Universe in 21 Stars - (and Three Imposters) by Giles Sparrow

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Expert science writer Giles Sparrow guides you through 21 stars you can see in the night sky and what they can teach us about our universe. On a clear evening, if you look up you can see thousands of stars shining in the dark sky, each with a story of their own. Taking 21 stars (and three imposters, th ...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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Artificial Intelligence - A Guide for Thinking Humans by Melanie Mitchell

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Category: Science | Series: Pelican Bks.

Melanie Mitchell separates science fact from science fiction in this sweeping examination of the current state of AI and how it is remaking our world No recent scientific enterprise has proved as alluring, terrifying, and filled with extravagant promise and frustrating setbacks as artificial intelligenc ...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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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 Zoologist's Guide to the Galaxy: What Animals on Earth Reveal About Aliens and About Ourselves by Arik Kershenbaum

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Category: Science

We are unprepared for the greatest discovery of modern science. Scientists are confident that there is alien life across the universe yet we have not moved beyond our perception of 'aliens' as Hollywood stereotypes. The time has come to abandon our fixation on alien monsters and place our expectations o ...Show more

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Dr Karl's Surfing Safari Through Science by Karl Kruszelnicki

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Australia's favourite science guru returns with a new haul of extraordinary stories from our incredible Universe - includes pop-up Dr Karl holograms! Dr Karl is surfing the Universe for all that's gnarly, awesome, weird and wonderful.Why is sharpening a pencil in space a risky business?What makes a suns ...Show more

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When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut

$29.99 AUD

What Is Life? Understand Biology in Five Steps by Sir Paul Nurse

$24.99 AUD

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

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

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

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A History of the Universe in 21 Stars - (and Three Imposters) by Giles Sparrow

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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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Artificial Intelligence - A Guide for Thinking Humans by Melanie Mitchell

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

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Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World by Fareed Zakaria

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The Zoologist's Guide to the Galaxy: What Animals on Earth Reveal About Aliens and About Ourselves by Arik Kershenbaum

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Dr Karl's Surfing Safari Through Science by Karl Kruszelnicki

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When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut

$29.99 AUD

What Is Life? Understand Biology in Five Steps by Sir Paul Nurse

$24.99 AUD

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

$34.99 AUD

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

$29.99 AUD

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

$35.00 AUD

A History of the Universe in 21 Stars - (and Three Imposters) by Giles Sparrow

$27.99 AUD

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

$35.00 AUD

Artificial Intelligence - A Guide for Thinking Humans by Melanie Mitchell

$19.99 AUD

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

$6.99 AUD

Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World by Fareed Zakaria

$43.99 AUD

The Zoologist's Guide to the Galaxy: What Animals on Earth Reveal About Aliens and About Ourselves by Arik Kershenbaum

$39.99 AUD

Dr Karl's Surfing Safari Through Science by Karl Kruszelnicki

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