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By: Jeremy Bernstein
ISBN: 9781742230887
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2009
Publisher: UNSW Press
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From the discovery of uranium in 1789 to the Manhattan Project, from Nazi efforts to build a nuclear bomb to the Cold War, this is the important story of one of nature's rarest elements, put to deadly use in nuclear weapons. Includes revealing word portraits of scientists who helped discover the element and produce it in vast quantities.
(Paperback)
By: Professor David Nutt
ISBN: 9781399719681
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2023
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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The definitive guide to psychedelics, science and our health by a world-renowned, leading authority, Professor David Nutt.
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By: Jim Tucker
ISBN: 9781742613789
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2013
Publisher: Pan Macmillan Australia
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A noted US Professor of Psychiatry investigates stories of children with past life experiences.
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By: David Lindenmayer
ISBN: 9780643095922
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2008
Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
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Forest ecology experts analyse the ecological and economic costs and benefits of salvage logging.
(Hardback)
By: Alan Lightman
ISBN: 9781472152824
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2018
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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An inspired, lyrical meditation on religion and science, with an exploration of the tension between our yearning for permanence and certainty versus modern scientific discoveries pointing to the impermanent and uncertain nature of the world.
(Paperback)
By: Jackie Higgins
ISBN: 9781529030785
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2021
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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An enthralling examination of some of the most remarkable creatures in the animal kingdom, and what they tell us about what it means to be human.
(Hardback)
By: Carl Zimmer
ISBN: 9781509818532
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2018
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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Award-winning, celebrated New York Times columnist and science writer Carl Zimmer presents a history of our understanding of heredity in this sweeping, resonating overview of a force that shaped human society - a force set to shape our future even more radically.
(Paperback)
By: Dan Maoz
ISBN: 9780691137643
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2008
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Hardback)
By: James S. Milne
ISBN: 9780691082387
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jul 1980
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback)
By: James S. Milne
ISBN: 9780691171104
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2017
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Hardback)
By: Carole Hooven
ISBN: 9781788402927
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2021
Publisher: Octopus Publishing Group
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A compelling investigation into the potent influence of testosterone, from our physical bodies and the way we behave to its explosive impact on our politics, sport and culture
(Paperback, Unabridged edition)
By: Jonathan Eig
ISBN: 9781447234814
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2016
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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The story of the extraordinary characters behind the invention of the contraceptive Pill
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By: Jacqueline de Bourgoing
ISBN: 9780500301067
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2001
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
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Observing many cultures - the ancient Greeks, Romans and Chinese, the Maya and the Aztec - and also looking at the modern western calendar, with its long and tumultuous history, this book traces the scientific, technical and political history of calendars.
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By: John Casti
ISBN: 9780349108537
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 1999
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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*John L Casti has created a fascinating, genre-bending book an accessible novel of ideas which explores the fundamental nature of mind and machine.
(Paperback)
By: David Andrew
ISBN: 9780643098145
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2015
Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
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Uncovers the best sites for observing Australia's spectacularly diverse and unique mammals.
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By: Dr Karl Kruszelnicki
ISBN: 9781925481266
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2017
Publisher: Pan Macmillan Australia
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THE TIME(LESS) LORD OF SCIENCE, DR KARL KRUSZELNICKI, IS BACK.
(Hardback, Main)
By: Professor Matthew Cobb
ISBN: 9781788167000
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2022
UK Publication Date: 1st September 2022
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
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How fifty years of genetic engineering have brought us to the brink of a profound and disturbing future, from Baille Gifford-shortlisted scientist Matthew Cobb.
(Hardback)
By: Libby Copeland
ISBN: 9781419743009
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2020
UK Publication Date: 13th April 2020
Publisher: Abrams
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(Paperback)
By: Arthur Benjamin
ISBN: 9780465096213
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2016
Publisher: Basic Books
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"Arthur Benjamin... joyfully shows you how to make nature's numbers dance. Let his book be your partner for a lifetime of learning."-Bill Nye, Science Educator and CEO, The Planetary Society
(Paperback)
By: Bryce Seligman Dewitt
ISBN: 9780691618951
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2015
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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A novel interpretation of quantum mechanics, first proposed in brief form by Hugh Everett in 1957, forms the nucleus around which this book has developed. In his interpretation, Dr. Everett denies the existence of a separate classical realm and asserts the propriety of considering a state vector for the whole universe. Because this state vector nev
(Hardback)
By: Bryce Seligman Dewitt
ISBN: 9780691645926
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Hardback)
By: Clifford A. Pickover
ISBN: 9781454913221
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2014
Publisher: Union Square & Co.
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Celebrates the beauty and wisdom of mathematics. This book includes the birthdays of notable mathematicians, so readers can see which ones share theirs.
(Hardback)
By: Dana Mackenzie
ISBN: 9781742232980
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2012
Publisher: NewSouth Publishing
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(Hardback, Main)
By: Graham Farmelo
ISBN: 9780571321803
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2019
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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Graham Farmelo's ground-breaking exploration of the relationship between physics and maths reveals the discoveries that have enriched our understanding of the universe.
