Dancing Cockatoos and the Dead Man Test: How Behavior Evolves and Why It Matters by Marlene Zuk
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Category: Popular Science
For centuries, people have been returning to the same tired nature-versus-nurture debate, trying to determine what we learn and what we inherit. In Dancing Cockatoos and the Dead Man Test, biologist Marlene Zuk goes beyond the binary and instead focuses on interaction, or the way that genes and environm ...Show more
The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli
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Category: Popular Science
Time is a mystery that does not cease to puzzle us. Philosophers, artists and poets have long explored its meaning while scientists have found that its structure is different from the simple intuition we have of it. From Boltzmann to quantum theory, from Einstein to loop quantum gravity, our understandi ...Show more
Biomimetics: How Lessons from Nature can Transform Technology by Brian Clegg
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Category: Popular Science | Series: Hot Science Ser.
An exploration of the transformative ways in which nature has inspired the technological advancement of humankind.
The Internet of Animals: Discovering the Collective Intelligence of Life on Earth by Martin Wikelski
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Category: Popular Science
For readers of An Immense World, this thrilling book unveils a new scientific technology that tracks animal movements from space and 'could fundamentally reshape the way we understand the role of mobility on our changing planet'. -The New York Times Animal senses are finely tuned to their environments. ...Show more
The Best Australian Science Writing 2017 by Michael Slezak (Contribution by)
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Category: Popular Science
Would it be ethical to eat sentient aliens? What is the basis of differences between the sexes? Where do you find fossils of early multicellular life? Is there any hope for the Great Barrier Reef or Tasmanian forests in a warming climate? Were Aboriginal Australians the world's first astronomers? The Be ...Show more
Alien Earths: Planet Hunting in the Cosmos by Lisa Kaltenegger
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Category: Popular Science
The world expert explains how we hunt new planets, then search them to find if we're alone in the universe For thousands of years, humans have wondered whether we're alone in the cosmos. Now, for the first time, we have the technology to investigate. The question should have an obvious answer- yes or no ...Show more
Guns, Germs and Steel: A short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years by Jared Diamond
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Category: Popular Science
**WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE** Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe? Jared Diamond puts the case that geography and biogeography, not race, moulded the contrasting fates of Europeans, Asians, Native Americans, sub-Saharan Africans, and aboriginal Australians. An ambitious syn ...Show more
Blue Machine - How the Ocean Shapes Our World by Helen Czerski
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Category: Popular Science
FINANCIAL TIMES 2023 HIGHLIGHT'Helen Czerski weaves together physics and biology, history and science, in a beautifully poetic way.'Professor Alice Roberts'In Helen Czerski's hands, the mechanical becomes magical. An instant classic.'Tristan Gooley, author of How to Read Water'Blue Machine is quite simp ...Show more
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari
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Category: Popular Science
THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER Sapiens shows us where we came from. Homo Deus shows us where we're going. Yuval Noah Harari envisions a near future in which we face a new set of challenges. Homo Deus explores the projects, dreams and nightmares that will shape the twenty-first century and beyond - from ove ...Show more
The Insect Crisis: Our Fragile Dependence on the Planet's Smallest Creatures by Oliver Milman
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Category: Popular Science
How would we live if insects no longer existed?
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli
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Category: Popular Science
In this mind-bending introduction to modern physics, Carlo Rovelli explains Einstein's theory of general relativity, quantum mechanics, black holes, the complex architecture of the universe, elementary particles, gravity, and the nature of the mind.Everything you need to know about modern physics, the u ...Show more
42 Reasons to Hate the Universe (And One Reason Not to) by Chris Ferrie, Wade David Fairclough, Byrne LaGinestra
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Category: Popular Science
From bestselling author Chris Ferrie comes an out of this world pop science space book on how the universe is, indeed, trying to kill us all. If you've always suspected the universe was out to get you... you were right! Yes, the universe we live in is cosmically beautiful and mysterious and all that cr ...Show more