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Spaceships travel through time at lightspeed, piloted by human clones and talking animals. Serious injuries are healed with the wave of a medical gizmo. The media make it all look so real. Can scientists hope to one day accomplish these feats This book is a fun look at what can, and can't, be achie

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Australia's favourite scientist answers more curly questions on Life, the Universe and Everything. No one conveys the excitement and wonder of science quite like Dr Karl, and this, his twenty-seventh book, takes us on another thoroughly entertaining exploration of the world around us.

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Birds provide humans not only with enormous aesthetic pleasure, they also inform us of our ever-changing situation in this complex and unpredictable world. Free flying birds sample the atmosphere, the oceans, the plants, the forests and insect populations, signalling toxic and environmental dangers that threaten all vertebrate species.

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Explores a platter of topics, from the frivolous to the tragic falling in love, making music, our obsession with rock n roll, mating, fertility, obesity, consumption, and more illustrating how evolution stands alongside economics, anthropology, psychology and political science in shaping our world.

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The intriguing story of how wireless was invented by Guglielmo Marconi and how it amused Queen Victoria, saved the lives of the Titanic survivors, tracked down criminals and began the radio revolution.

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Scientists have begun to apply insights from the theoretical study of networks to understand forms as superficially different as social networks and electrical networks, computer networks and economic networks, and to show how common principles underlie them all.


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A collection of puzzles. Covering a range of fields, from geography and environmental studies to map- and flag-making, it uses basic algebra and geometry to solve problems. It is suitable for readers interested in sharpening their thinking and mathematical skills.

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Quantum mechanics describes the behavior of subatomic particles. Since its inception, physicists and philosophers have struggled to work out the meaning of quantum mechanics. This book sets out what we know about the quantum world, how we came to this understanding, where we disagree, and where we are heading in our quest to comprehend it.

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At the beginning of Europe's turbulent seventeenth century, no one knew how the brain worked. By the century's close, the science of the brain had taken root, helping to overturn many common misconceptions about the human body as well as to unseat centuries-old philosophies of man and God.

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Guides readers through the advances in stem cell research, telling stories of the researchers who are exploring the potential of stem cells to cure cancer, grow new organs, and repair the immune system. This work also leads readers through a discussion of the question at the heart of the explosive ethical debate.

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How does mathematics enable us to send pictures from space back to Earth Where does the bell-shaped curve come from Drawing on areas of mathematics from probability theory, number theory, and geometry, this work highlights how ideas, mostly from pure math, can answer these questions. It includes puzzles and problems of varying difficulty.

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Dr Chris Smith - The Naked Scientist - strips down science to its bare essentials to sort fact from fiction and replace myths and misinformation with some seriously interesting medical, technological and biological breakthroughs.

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In this groundbreaking and absorbing book Dr. Sharon Moalem, delves back into the evolution of man to offer a radical perspective on survival, the human body, and our understanding of disease. Survival of the Sickest will change the way you think about your body.

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A scientific nail-biter that takes readers where no reality television show would dare go - and proves what survival really means.

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Over the years, millions of school children must have written out their address in the same way their house number and street, their town, their country, their continent, planet Earth, the universe

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A scientist provides a close-up look at his discoveries about and evidence concerning life after death, offering revelations about the nature of life and death, the soul in the afterlife, and the meaning of eternity and charting his own personal odyssey in search of the mysteries of human existence.

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A sweeping overview of the scientific achievements of the 20th century, without question the greatest century for science in human history, by the legendary former publisher of Scientific American.

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In a world supposedly governed by ruthless survival of the fittest, why do we see acts of goodness in both animals and humans This work traces the history of this debate from Darwin. It aims to bring to life the people, the issues, and the passions that have surrounded the altruism debate.

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Showcasing selections from the work of renowned communicators such as Tim Flannery, Germaine Greer, Anna Funder and Paul Davies, this book is an inspiring exploration of the most exciting, elegant, powerful, and important writing about science and nature published in Australia and by Australians.

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Good writing about science can be moving, funny, exhilarating or poetic, but it will always be honest and rigorous about the research that underlies it. Editor Elizabeth Finkel showcases the nation's best science writing, drawn from some of this country's best publications.

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Now in its sixth year, The Best Australian Science Writing 2016 brings together knowledge and insight from Australias brightest thinkers as they explore the intricacies of the world around us. This lively collection of essays covers a wide range of subjects, and challenges our persceptions of the world and how we exist within it.

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This book examines the facts and myths about the first human arrival in Australia and its region; what modern DNA tells us about the origin of Australian Aborigines; theories on the Indonesian hobbits; and who or what killed off Australia's giant marsupials. It explains the science behind the latest techniques in an accessible way.

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This is a book about universes. It tells a story that revolves around a single extraordinary fact: that Albert Einstein's famous theory of relativity describes a series of entire universes.