Herding Hemingway's Cats: Understanding How Our Genes Work by Kat Arney
$29.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
The language of genes has become common parlance. We know they make your eyes blue, your hair curly or your nose straight. The media tells us that our genes control the risk of cancer, heart disease, alcoholism or Alzheimer's. The cost of DNA sequencing has plummeted from billions of pounds to a few hun ...Show more
OriginsThe Scientific Story of Creation by Jim Baggott
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Category: Pop Science
What is life? Where do we come from and how did we evolve? What is the universe and how was it formed? What is the nature of the material world? How does it work? How and why do we think? What does it mean to be human? How do we know? There are many different versions of our creation story. This book te ...Show more
The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animal by Charles Darwin (Contribution by)
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Category: Pop Science
One of science's greatest intellects examines how people and animals display fear, anger, and pleasure. Darwin based this 1872 study on his personal observations, which anticipated later findings in neuroscience. Abounding in anecdotes and literary quotations, the book is illustrated with 21 figures and ...Show more
50 Popular Beliefs That People Think are True by Guy P. Harrison
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Category: Pop Science
Looks at some of the most common unfounded beliefs - and their alternative scientific explanations. This title shows readers how to find a gently persuasive way of steering people away from unfounded beliefs, bogus cures, and conspiracy theories.
Universe by Nicolas Cheetham
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Category: Pop Science
A Journey From Earth to the Edge of the Cosmos Travel through the Universe at the speed of light and explore its 200 most remarkable sights. An original and timely journey into space. With almost daily news reports on freshly discovered planets and galaxies; the drama of the Beagle, Cassini and Di ...Show more
The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen by Kwame Anthony Appiah
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Category: Pop Science
Honour emerges at the centre of our modern world in Kwame Anthony Appiah's The Honor Code. Over the last few centuries, new democratic movements have led to the emancipation of women, slaves and the oppressed. What drove these modern changes, Appiah argues, was not imposing legislation from above but ha ...Show more
Discord: The Story of Noise by Mike Goldsmith
$32.95 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Noise is a widely recognized problem and health concern in the modern world. Given the importance of managing noise levels and developing suitable 'soundscapes' in contexts such as industry, schools, or public spaces, this is an area of active research for acousticians. But noise, in the sense of disson ...Show more
Homo Mysterious: Evolutionary Puzzles of Human Nature by David P. Barash
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Category: Pop Science
For all that science knows about the living world, there are even more things that we don't know, genuine evolutionary mysteries that perplex the best minds in biology. And paradoxically, many of these mysteries are very close to home: They involve some of the most personal aspects of being human, incl ...Show more
Tweeting the Universe: Tiny Explanations of Very Big Ideas by Marcus Chown
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Category: Pop Science
In 140 pages, two masterly popularisers present 140 explanations of the biggest questions in physics - in the form of 10 or so tweets per page. They set themselves the challenge of boiling down what is essential on each subject into sentences of 140 characters, and the results are both entertaining and ...Show more
Europe Before Rome: A Site-by-site Tour of the Stone, Bronze, and Iron Ages by T. Douglas Price
$53.95 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Werner Herzog's 2011 film Cave of Forgotten Dreams, about the painted caves at Chauvet, France brought a glimpse of Europe's extraordinary prehistory to a popular audience. But paleolithic cave paintings, stunning as they are, form just a part a story that begins with the arrival of the first humans to ...Show more
The Future by Al Gore
$65.00 AUD
Category: Pop Science
In "The Future", former US Vice President Al Gore, explores the political, social and economic forces that are shaping what America and the world will become in ensuing decades. From demographics to democracy, Gore explores what he calls the 'Drivers of Global Change', framing the international conversa ...Show more
The Science of Monsters: Why Monsters Came to Be and What Made Them So Terrifying by Matt Kaplan
$24.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Modern audiences do not find dragons frightening. Fascinating as mythical creatures, yes, but terrifying, no. Yet, present them with a story about a virus that can kill a healthy adult in hours and they will have nightmares for weeks. The difference between the two is believability. Monsters are at thei ...Show more