What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe
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Category: Science
WHAT IF... one man decided to answer all the unanswerable questions, using science. The Sunday Times-bestselling author and xkcd creator, Randall Munroe is here to provide the best answers yet to the important questions you probably never thought to ask. The millions of people around the world who rea ...Show more
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future by Elizabeth Kolbert
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Category: Science
The author of the international bestseller The Sixth Extinction returns to humanity's transformative impact on the environment, now asking: after doing so much damage, can we change nature, this time to save it?CHOSEN BY BILL GATES AND BARACK OBAMA AS A SUMMER READMeet the biologists trying to save the ...Show more
Evolution: The Human Story by Dr. Alice Roberts
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Category: Science
This unrivalled illustrated guide to human evolution brings you face to face with your ancient ancestors. Travelling back in time almost eight million years, the book charts the development of our species, Homo sapiens, from tree-dwelling primates to modern humans. Evolution investigates each of our an ...Show more
We Have No Idea A Guide to the Unknown Universe by Jorge Cham; Daniel Whiteson
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Category: Science
Prepare to learn everything we still don't know about our strange and mysterious universe.Humanity's understanding of the physical world is full of gaps. Not tiny little gaps you can safely ignore --there are huge yawning voids in our basic notions of how the world works. PHD Comics creator Jorge Cham a ...Show more
Understanding Numbers (Build and Become): 20 Thought-Provoking Lessons by Marianne Freiberger; Rachel Thomas
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Category: Science | Series: Build+become Ser.
Mathematics is an indispensable tool for life. From the systems that underpin our newsfeeds, through to the data analysis that informs our health and financial decisions, to the algorithms that power how we search online - mathematics is at the heart of how our modern world functions. In 20 dip-in less ...Show more
Startalk: Everything You Ever Need to Know about Space Travel, Sci-Fi, the Human Race, the Universe, and Beyond by Neil deGrasse Tyson (Editor); Jeffrey Simons; Charles Liu
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Category: Science
For decades, beloved astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has interpreted science with a combination of brainpower and charm that resonates with fans everywhere. This pioneering, provocative book brings together the best of StarTalk, his beloved podcast and television show devoted to solving the most conf ...Show more
Adam Spencer's Top 100 by Adam Spencer
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Category: Science
Australia's funniest mathematician is back in 2019 with a small format edition of 2018's bestseller. Which number terrifies Ogdokontaheptaphobes? Why would you watch the same clock for 14 years? And have you met the 23-million-digit prime? The answers to all of these questions - and much, much more - ar ...Show more
Nature's Mutiny: How the Little Ice Age Transformed the West and Shaped the Present by Phillipp Blom
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Category: Science
'Europe where the sun dares scarce appear For freezing meteors and congealed cold.' - Christopher Marlowe In this innovative and compelling work of environmental history, Philipp Blom chronicles the great climate crisis of the 1600s, a crisis that would transform the entire social and political fabric ...Show more
Latitude: The Astonishing Adventure that Shaped the World by Nick Crane
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Category: Science
By knowing the shape of our earth we can create maps, survive the oceans, follow rivers, navigate the skies, and travel across the globe. This is the story of our world, of how we discovered what no one thought possible - the shape of the earth. A thrilling and page-turning account of the first major e ...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
Long Half-Life: The Nuclear Industry in Australia by Ian Lowe
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Category: Science
Australia has been directly involved in the nuclear industry for more than a century, but our involvement has never been comprehensively documented. Long Half-life tells the social and political history of Australia’s role, from the first discovery of radioactive ores in 1906 to contemporary contentious ...Show more
AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future by Kai-Fu Lee, Chen Qiufan
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Category: Science
New York Times bestselling non-fiction author joins forces with a celebrated science-fiction novelist to blend imaginative storytelling and scientific forecasting to ask how artificial intelligence will change our world over the next 20 years. In this ground-breaking blend of imaginative storytelling an ...Show more