Capturing Nature: Early Scientific Photography at the Australian Museum 1857–1893 by Vanessa Finney
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Category: Science
The ground-breaking scientific photographs of Australian Museum curator Gerard Krefft and taxidermist Henry Barnes are revealed for the first time. In the mid-nineteenth century, some of the earliest adopters of the revolutionary new art form of photography were scientists. Museums around the world were ...Show more
Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity by Carlo Rovelli
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Category: Science
What are time and space made of? Where does matter come from? And what exactly is reality? Scientist Carlo Rovelli has spent his life exploring these questions and pushing the boundaries of what we know. Here he explains how our image of the world has changed throughout centuries. From Aristotle to Albe ...Show more
Immune: A Journey into the Mysterious System That Keeps You Alive by Philipp Dettmer
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Category: Science
A gorgeously illustrated deep dive into the immune system that will forever change how you think about your body, from the creator of the wildly popular science YouTube channel Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell'A truly brilliant introduction to the human body's vast system for fighting infections and other thr ...Show more
Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution by Neil deGrasse Tyson, Donald Goldsmith
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Category: Science
Our true origins are not only human, or even terrestrial, but in fact cosmic. Drawing on recent scientific breakthroughs and cross-pollination among geology, biology, astrophysics, and cosmology, Origins illuminates the soul-stirring leaps in our understanding of the cosmos. This newly revised and updat ...Show more
The Great Dead Body Teachers: An adventure into the world of anatomy and dissection by Jackie Dent
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Category: Science
'Since I was a child, I’ve been interested in dead bodies. When I was eight years old, I dug up the remains of my pet budgie Zazbut. He had been buried for about eight weeks in a patch of grass outside our house in Dasmarinas, a fortified village in Manila, in the Philippines. ‘The first exhumation was ...Show more
The Big Switch: Australia's Electric Future by Saul Griffith
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Category: Science
An inspiring, practical plan to transform Australia's energy system and supercharge our response to the climate crisis An optimistic - but realistic and feasible - action plan for fighting climate change while creating new jobs and a healthier environment- electrify everything. Climate change is a plane ...Show more
The Five Million Year Odyssey: The Human Journey from Ape to Agriculture by Peter Bellwood
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Category: Science
The epic story of human evolution, from our primate beginnings more than five million years ago to the agricultural era Over the course of five million years, our primate ancestors evolved from a modest population of sub-Saharan apes into the globally dominant species Homo sapiens. Along the way, humans ...Show more
Journey of the Mind: How Thinking Emerged from Chaos by Ogi Ogas, Sai Gaddam
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Category: Science
Why do you exist? How did atoms and molecules transform into sentient creatures that experience longing, regret, compassion, and even marvel at their own existence? What does it truly mean to have a mind--to think? Science has offered few answers to these existential questions until now.Journey of the M ...Show more
Big Meg: The Story of the Largest and Most Mysterious Predator that Ever Lived by Tim Flannery, Emma Flannery
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Category: Science
Big Meg charts the evolution of megalodon, its super-predator status for about fifteen million years and its decline and extinction. It delves into the fossil record to answer questions about its behaviour and role in shaping marine ecosystems as well as its impact on the human psyche. It contains stori ...Show more
Earth in Our Hands: Photos from the International Space Station by THOMAS PESQUET
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Category: Science
Take a trip around Earth, with a front-row seat on the International Space Station and an astronaut as your guide The Earth in Our Hands is a work of amazing breadth and beauty Astronaut Thomas Pesquet brought his camera along for the ride when he was deployed to the International Space Station, and f ...Show more
In Plain Sight: An Investigation into UFOs and Impossible Science by Ross Coulthart
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Category: Science
An award-winning journalist investigates a story largely ignored by mainstream media but right there, in front of our eyes ... Investigative journalist Ross Coulthart has been intrigued by UFOs since mysterious glowing lights were reported near New Zealand's Kaikoura mountains when he was a teenager. Th ...Show more
What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe
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Category: Science
From the creator of the wildly popular webcomic xkcd, hilarious and informative answers to important questions you probably never thought to ask Millions of people visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe’s iconic webcomic. His stick-figure drawings about science, technology, language, and love h ...Show more