Underbug - An Obsessive Tale of Termites and Technology by Lisa Margonelli
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Category: Science & Natural History
Who has the answer to the world's fuel problems? How can we bring ruined land back to life? Where do roboticists turn when they try to engineer a hive mind? Termites. Strange though it seems, scientists look to tiny termites for answers to some big ideas. Lisa Margonelli tracks them, deep into their m ...Show more
Endless Novelties of Extraordinary Interest - The Voyage of H. M. S. Challenger and the Birth of Modern Oceanography by Doug Macdougall
52.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
A gripping tale of exploration aboard H.M.S. Challenger, an expedition that laid the foundations for modern oceanographyFrom late 1872 to 1876, H.M.S. Challenger explored the world's oceans. Conducting deep sea soundings, dredging the ocean floor, recording temperatures, observing weather, and collecti ...Show more
Dark Cosmos: In Search of Our Universe's Missing Mass and Energy by Dan Hooper
36.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
Everyone knows that there are things no one can see, for example, the air you're breathing or a black hole, to be more exotic. But not everyone knows that what we can see makes up only 5 percent of the Universe. The rest is totally invisible to us. The invisible stuff comes in two varieties--dark matter ...Show more
The Making Of The Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes
29.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
With a new Introduction by the author, the twenty-fifth anniversary edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning epic about how the atomic bomb came to be. In rich, human, political, and scientific detail, here is the complete story of the nuclear bomb. Few great discoveries have evolved so swiftly-or h ...Show more
Deadliest Enemy - Our War Against Killer Germs by Michael Osterholm; Mark Olshaker
32.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
"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 explains ...Show more
Subterranea by Chris Fitch
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Category: Science & Natural History | Reading Level: near fine
If you were to peel back the Earth's surface like an orange, then take a sly peek underneath, what extraordinary things would you see? Subterranea is where the world's remaining mysteries are yet to be found. For millennia, across nations and cultures, it has been a hotbed of fantastical stories. It's w ...Show more
Good Blood - A Doctor, a Donor, and the Incredible Breakthrough That Saved Millions of Babies by Julian Guthrie
39.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
A remarkable, uplifting story about one of the greatest medical breakthroughs of the 20th century In 1951 in Sydney, Australia, a fourteen-year-old boy named James Harrison was near death when he received a transfusion of blood that saved his life. A few years later, and half a world away, a shy you ...Show more
Eve of Destruction - The Inside Story of Our Dangerous Nuclear World by John Hughes-Wilson
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Category: Science & Natural History
Leading military historian, John Hughes-Wilson exposes just how close we have come to genuine nuclear disaster, military and civilian, on many occasions.
Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain by David Eagleman
32.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
How can a blind person learn to see with her tongue or a deaf person learn to hear with his skin? What does a baby born without a nose tell us about our sensory machinery? Might we someday control a robot with our thoughts? And what does any of this have to do with why we dream?The answers to these ques ...Show more
Easy Peasy Doggy Squeezy - The UK's No. 1 Trainer Solves More of Your Dog Dilemmas by Steve Mann
29.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
Hundreds of your biggest dog-training questions answered by the UK's no.1 dog trainer.
30-Second Data Science by Liberty Vittert
27.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History | Series: 30 Second Ser.
30-Second Data Science covers 50 key elements in the field of data-gathering from basic to ethics, explained clearly and concisely.
Lithium - A Doctor, a Drug, and a Breakthrough by Walter A. Brown
27.95 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
From insulin comas and lobotomy to incarceration to exile, Brown chronicles the troubling history of the diagnosis and (often ineffective) treatment of bipolar disorder through the centuries, before the publication of a groundbreaking research paper in 1949. Cade's "Lithium Salts in the Treatment of Psy ...Show more