The Demon in the Machine: How Hidden Webs of Information Are Finally Solving the Mystery of Life by Paul Davies
$22.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
When Darwin set out to explain the origin of species, he made no attempt to answer the deeper question: what is life? For generations, scientists have struggled to make sense of this fundamental question. Life really does look like magic: even a humble bacterium accomplishes things so dazzling that no ...Show more
The Future Eaters - An Ecological History of the Australasian Lands and People by Tim Flannery
$29.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
This is the story of how human beings have consumed the resources they need for their own future. It examines the original "future eaters" who were the first people to leave the Afro-Asian homeland and travel down the chain of islands to Australasia and became the Aboriginal, Maori and other Polynesian ...Show more
Snowball in a Blizzard: The Tricky Problem of Uncertainty in Medicine by Steven C. Hatch
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Category: Popular Science
There's a running joke among radiologists: finding a possible tumour in a mammogram, they say, is akin to finding a snowball in a blizzard. The result? Up to 30% of breast cancer surgeries are done on those who have no cancer at all. In this landmark book, medical professor Steven Hatch reveals that alt ...Show more
Tamed: Ten Species That Changed Our World by Alice Roberts
$24.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
**'A masterpiece of evocative scientific storytelling.' BRIAN COX** **'The best popular book on broad-sweep history since Guns, Germs and Steel.'** Peter Forbes The extraordinary story of the species that became our allies. For hundreds of thousands of years, our ancestors depended on wild plants and an ...Show more
The Book of Humans - The Story of How We Became Us by Adam Rutherford
$32.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
'Charming, compelling and packed with information. I learned more about biology from this short book than I did from years of science lessons. A weird and wonderful read' PETER FRANKOPAN We like to think of ourselves as exceptional beings, but is there really anything special about us that sets us apart ...Show more
How Humans Took Over the World: Unstoppable Us, Volume 1 (HB) by Yuval Noah Harari
$39.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
*From the author of the multi-million bestselling Sapiens comes an incredible new story of the human race, for younger readers.* We humans aren't strong like lions, we don't swim as well as dolphins, and we definitely don't have wings! So how did we end up ruling the world? The answer to that is one o ...Show more