The Secret Lost Diary of Admiral Richard E. Byrd and the Phantom of the Poles by Admiral Richard E. Byrd; Timothy Green Beckley; William Reed
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Category: Popular Science
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Soil: The Incredible Story of What Keeps the Earth, and Us, Healthy by Matthew Evans
$32.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science | Reading Level: very good
'A love letter to Mother Earth and entertaining must-read that goes to the heart of our survival' Charles Massy, author of Call of the Reed Warbler. What we do to the soil, we do to ourselves. Soil is the unlikely story of our most maligned resource as swashbuckling hero. A saga of bombs, ice ages and c ...Show more
Worlds in Shadow: Submerged Lands in Science, Memory and Myth by Patrick Nunn
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Category: Popular Science
The traces of much of human history and that which preceded it lie beneath the ocean surface; broken up, dispersed, often buried and always mysterious. This is fertile ground for speculation, even myth-making, but also a topic on which geologists and climatologists have increasingly focused in recent de ...Show more
The Edge of Memory - Ancient Stories, Oral Tradition and the Post-Glacial World by Patrick Nunn
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Category: Popular Science
We all know those stories that have been told in our families for generations. The ones that start 'Have I ever told you about your great-great-uncle...?' In some cultures these stories have been passed down for thousands of years and often reveal significant information about how the surrounding envi ...Show more
The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking) by Katie Mack
$22.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2020NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY * THE WASHINGTON POST * THE ECONOMIST * NEW SCIENTIST * PUBLISHERS WEEKLY * THE GUARDIAN "A thrilling tour of potential cosmic doomsdays....Mack's infectious enthusiasm for communicating the finer points of cosmological doom elevate ...Show more
Galileo: And the Science Deniers by Mario Livio
$29.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
An "intriguing and accessible" (Publishers Weekly) interpretation of the life of Galileo Galilei, one of history's greatest and most fascinating scientists, that sheds new light on his discoveries and how he was challenged by science deniers. "We really need this story now, because we're living through ...Show more
No Shadow of a Doubt - The 1919 Eclipse That Confirmed Einstein's Theory of Relativity by Daniel Kennefick
$34.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
The extraordinary story of the scientific expeditions that ushered in the era of relativity In 1919, British scientists led expeditions to Brazil and Africa to test Albert Einstein's new theory of general relativity in what became the century's most celebrated scientific experiment. The result usher ...Show more
The Black Swan: The Impact Of The Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
$24.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
The Black Swan is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb's landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don't understand. The other books in the series are Fooled by Randomness, Antifragile, Skin in the Gam ...Show more
Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Absolutely Everything by Jordan Ellenberg
$35.00 AUD
Category: Popular Science
How should a democracy choose its representatives? How does Covid-19 spread? How do computers teach themselves chess, and why is chess easier for them than analyzing a sentence? What should your kids study in school if they really want to learn to think? All of these are questions about geometry. Seriou ...Show more
Calling Bullshit: The Art of Scepticism in a Data-Driven World by Carl T. Bergstrom, Jevin D. West
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Category: Popular Science
We think we know bullshit when we hear it, but do we? A spotter's guide to bullshit in the wild from two brilliantly contrarian scientists The world is awash in bullshit, and we're drowning in it. Politicians are unconstrained by facts. Science is conducted by press release. Startup culture elevates bul ...Show more
Books do Furnish a Life: Reading and Writing Science by Richard Dawkins
$35.00 AUD
Category: Popular Science
At a time when science can seem complex and remote, it has a greater impact on our lives, and to the future of our planet, than ever before. It really matters that its discoveries and truths should be clearly and widely communicated. That its enemies, from the malicious to the muddled, the self-deluding ...Show more