The Age of Seeds: How Plants Hacked Time and Why Our Future Depends on It by Fiona McMillan-Webster
Category: Science
Plants evolved seeds to hack time. Thanks to seeds they can cast their genes forward into the future, enabling species to endure across seasons, years, and occasionally millennia. When a 2000-year-old extinct date palm seed was discovered, no one expected it to still be alive. But it sprouted a healthy ...Show more
The Genius of Birds by Jennifer Ackerman
Category: Science
Birds are astonishingly intelligent creatures. According to revolutionary new research, some birds rival primates and even humans in their remarkable forms of intelligence. In The Genius of Birds, acclaimed author Jennifer Ackerman explores the newly discovered brilliance of birds. As she travels ar ...Show more
The Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene
Category: Science | Series: Penguin Press Science Ser.
From Brian Greene, one of the world's leading physicists, comes a grand tour of the universe that makes us look at reality in a completely different way. Space and time form the very fabric of the cosmos. Yet they remain among the most mysterious of concepts. Is space an entity? Why does time have a dir ...Show more
The Science of Fate - Why Your Future Is More Predictable Than You Think by Hannah Critchlow
Category: Science
The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller 'A truly fascinating - if unnerving - read'The Telegraph 'We can all benefit from Critchlow's book'New Scientist 'Acute, mind-opening, highly accessible - this book doesn't just explain how our lives might pan out, it helps us live better'Bettany Hughes 'A humane ...Show more
2023 Guide to the Night Sky Southern Hemisphere: A Month-By-Month Guide to Exploring the Skies Above Australia, New Zealand and South Africa by Storm Dunlop
Category: Science
The ideal gift for all amateur and seasoned astronomers. A comprehensive handbook to the planets, stars and constellations visible from the southern hemisphere. 6 pages for each month covering January–December 2023. Diagrams drawn for the latitude of southern Australia, but including events visible from ...Show more
Gray's Anatomy: Gray (HB) by GRAY HENRY
Category: Science
Although written in the middle of the nineteenth century, this book is still the most famous and important medical reference book ever written. An essential element of the book is the remarkable illustrative work of Henry Vandyke Carter, indisputedly the most talented medical artist of his day. It was w ...Show more
The Matter of Everything: Twelve Experiments that Changed Our World by Suzie Sheehy
Category: Science
The astonishing story of twentieth-century physics, told through the twelve experiments that changed our world.How did a piece a gold foil completely change our understanding of atoms? What part did a hot air balloon play in the discovery of cosmic rays?How did the experiments in the run-up to the Large ...Show more
The Human Condition: Second Edition by Hannah Arendt
Category: Science
The past year has seen a resurgence of interest in the political thinker Hannah Arendt, "the theorist of beginnings," whose work probes the logics underlying unexpected transformations--from totalitarianism to revolution.A work of striking originality, The Human Condition is in many respects more releva ...Show more
Origins of the Universe - The Cosmic Microwave Background and the Search for Quantum Gravity by Keith Cooper
Category: Science | Series: Hot Science Ser.
The quest to find a theory of quantum gravity that could potentially explain everything.
Body Count: How Climate Change is Killing Us by Paddy Manning
Category: Science
'Our house is on fire,' 16-year-old Swedish school strike activist Greta Thunberg told world leaders in 2019. Across an angry year of weather, Australians watched it in real-time: record heatwaves and worsening drought, unprecedented fish kills in the Murray-Darling Basin and devastating wildfires acros ...Show more
Thing Explainer - Complicated Stuff in Simple Words by Randall Munroe
Category: Science
Have you ever tried to learn more about some incredible thing, only to be frustrated by incomprehensible jargon? Randall Munroe is here to help. In Thing Explainer, he uses line drawings and only the thousand (or, rather, "ten hundred") most common words to provide simple explanations for some of the mo ...Show more
The Arbornaut by Meg LOWMAN
Category: Science
Nicknamed the 'Real-Life Lorax' by National Geographic, the botanist and conservationist Meg Lowman takes us on an adventure into the eighth continent of the world's treetops, along her journey as a scientist, and into climate action. One of the world's first tree-top scientists, Meg Lowman is as innov ...Show more