(Paperback)
By: Sam Harris
ISBN: 9781451683400
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2013
UK Publication Date: 26th April 2012
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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(Paperback)
By: Daniel Whiteson
ISBN: 9781529331066
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2023
UK Publication Date: 13th April 2023
Publisher: John Murray Press
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An eminent physicist at CERN and the cartoonist behind the hugely successful PhD Comics answer the most important, most outrageous and funniest questions about everything. If the universe had an FAQ, this would be it.
(Paperback)
By: Tim James
ISBN: 9781472143488
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2019
UK Publication Date: 1st August 2019
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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In the same way that Tim's first book Elemental, a Daily Mail Book of the Year in 2018, serves as a beginner's guide to Chemistry, Fundamental provides a very entertaining beginner's guide to quantum and particle physics.
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By: Frank Wilczek
ISBN: 9780141985770
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2022
UK Publication Date: 6th January 2022
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Elise Bohan
ISBN: 9781742236759
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2022
Publisher: NewSouth Publishing
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In breathtakingly original prose, Elise Bohan argues that we're hurtling towards a superhuman future - or, if we blunder, extinction. The only way out of our existential crises, from global warming to the risks posed by nuclear weapons, novel and bioengineered pathogens and unaligned AI, is up. We'll need more technology to safeguard our future.
(Paperback)
By: Charles Spence
ISBN: 9780241977743
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2018
UK Publication Date: 3rd May 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Robin Hansen
ISBN: 9781486315246
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2022
Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
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A dazzling insight into the unique beauty, properties and history of the gemstones of the world.
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By: Terri Favro
ISBN: 9781510754614
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2020
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
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(Paperback)
By: Kathy Willis
ISBN: 9781526664907
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Emma Vanstone
ISBN: 9781645671145
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2020
UK Publication Date: 9th November 2020
Publisher: Page Street Publishing Co.
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Emma Vanstone, author of This Is Rocket Science and Snackable Science Experiments, has 60 new fun and icky activities to keep kids entertained while they learn.
(Paperback)
By: Alisa Bryce
ISBN: 9781922458650
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2022
Publisher: Text Publishing
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An Aussie scientist digs up some dirt about the history and science of soil
(Paperback)
By: Rudi Westendorp
ISBN: 9781925106916
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2015
Publisher: Scribe Publications
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Originally published in Dutch as "Oud worden zonder het te zijn" by Atlas Contact in 2014.
(Hardback)
By: Brenna Hassett
ISBN: 9781472975751
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Brings the science of physical anthropology to bear on understanding how our evolutionary history has shaped a phenomenon everyone has experienced - childhood.
(Paperback, with French flaps)
By: Lawrence Weinstein
ISBN: 9780691150802
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2012
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Reveals the simple techniques needed to estimate virtually anything and illustrates them using an eclectic array of problems. This title shows how to estimate everything from how closely you can orbit a neutron star without being pulled apart by gravity, to the fuel used to transport your food from the farm to the store.
(Paperback)
By: Giulia Enders
ISBN: 9781925106671
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2015
Publisher: Scribe Publications
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The key to living a happier, healthier life is inside us.
(Hardback)
By: Kathryn D. Sullivan
ISBN: 9780262539647
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2021
UK Publication Date: 30th November 2020
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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The first American woman to walk in space recounts her experience as part of the team that launched, rescued, repaired, and maintained the Hubble Space Telescope.
(Hardback)
By: Jean-Baptiste Fressoz
ISBN: 9781839765506
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2024
Publisher: Verso Books
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How the mess we are in started. How risk, disasters and pollution were managed and made acceptable during the 'industrial revolution'
(Paperback)
By: Russell A. Poldrack
ISBN: 9780691226415
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2021
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback)
By: Jeremiah P. Ostriker
ISBN: 9780691258935
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2024
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Describes the saga of humankind's quest to unravel the secrets of the universe. This title explains the physics and the history of how the advanced model of our universe arose and has passed every test hurled at it by the skeptics. It also explains the growth of all cosmic structure, and holds the key to the universe's fate.
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By: Yuval Noah Harari
ISBN: 9781784703936
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2017
UK Publication Date: 23rd March 2017
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Homo Deus explores the projects, dreams and nightmares that will shape the twenty-first century and beyond - from overcoming death to creating artificial life.
It asks the fundamental questions: how can we protect this fragile world from our own destructive power
(Hardback)
By: Thomas D. Seeley
ISBN: 9780691147215
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2011
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Honeybees make decisions collectively - and democratically. This book reveals that these incredible insects have much to teach us when it comes to collective wisdom and effective decision making. It presents an account of scientific discovery. It investigates how evolution has honed the decision-making methods of honeybees over millions of years.
(Paperback)
By: James Poskett
ISBN: 9780241986264
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2023
UK Publication Date: 23rd February 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Paul J. Nahin
ISBN: 9780691207858
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2020
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback)
By: Ian Robertson
ISBN: 9781787633728
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2021
UK Publication Date: 3rd June 2021
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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Confidence lies at the core of what makes things happen.
Exploring the science and neuroscience behind confidence that has emerged over the last decade, clinical psychologist and neuroscientist Professor Ian Robertson tells us how confidence plays out in our minds, our brains and indeed our bodies.
