The Art of Statistics: Learning from Data by David Spiegelhalter
$29.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science/Environment | Series: Pelican Bks. | Reading Level: very good
Statistics has played a leading role in our scientific understanding of the world for centuries, yet we are all familiar with the way statistical claims can be sensationalized, particularly in the media. In the age of big data, as data science becomes established as a discipline, a basic grasp of statis ...Show more
Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman
$24.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science/Environment
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER ... A Guardian, Daily Telegraph, New Statesman and Daily Express Book of the Year ... 'Hugely, highly and happily recommended' Stephen Fry ... 'You should read Humankind. You'll learn a lot (I did) and you'll have good reason to feel better about the human race' Tim Harford ...Show more
What's Eating the Universe?: And Other Cosmic Questions by Paul Davies
$24.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science/Environment
Combining the latest scientific advances with storytelling skills unmatched in the cosmos, an award-winning astrophysicist and popular writer leads us on a tour of some of the greatest mysteries of our universe. In the constellation of Eridanus, there lurks a cosmic mystery: It's as if something has tak ...Show more
Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity by Carlo Rovelli
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Category: Popular Science/Environment
What are time and space made of? Where does matter come from? And what exactly is reality? Scientist Carlo Rovelli has spent his life exploring these questions and pushing the boundaries of what we know. Here he explains how our image of the world has changed throughout centuries. From Aristotle to Albe ...Show more
The Big Oyster : A Molluscular History of New York by Mark Kurlansky
$29.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science/Environment | Reading Level: very good
When Peter Minuit bought Manhattan for $24 in 1626, he showed his shrewdness by also buying the oyster beds off tiny, nearby Oyster Island, renamed Ellis Island in 1770. From the Minuit purchase until pollution finally destroyed the beds in the 1920s, New York was a city known for its oysters, especiall ...Show more
White Holes: Inside the Horizon by Carlo Rovelli
$35.00 AUD
Category: Popular Science/Environment
A mesmerizing trip to the strange new world of white holes, from Carlo Rovelli, the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics. Let us journey, with beloved physicist Carlo Rovelli, into the heart of a black hole. Let us slip beyond its boundary, the horizon, and tumble - on and on - down thi ...Show more
How to Expect the Unexpected: The Science of Making Predictions and the Art of Knowing When Not To by Kit Yates
$34.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science/Environment
· Are you more likely to become a professional footballer if your surname is Ball? · How can you be one hundred per cent sure you will win a bet? · Why did so many Pompeiians stay put while Mount Vesuvius was erupting? · How do you prevent a nuclear war? Ever since the dawn of human civilisation, we ha ...Show more
Around the World in 80 Inventions (HB) by Matt Ralphs
$35.00 AUD
Category: Popular Science/Environment
CHOCKS AWAY! Take off on a marvellous journey of discovery as you explore 80 incredible world-changing inventions from around the globe! From the wheel to the space rocket, the bow and arrow to the atom bomb, chocolate to toothpaste, and the battery to the quantum computer, find out about innovations fr ...Show more
Impossible Monsters: Dinosaurs, Darwin and the Victorian War Between Science and Religion by Michael Taylor
$39.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science/Environment
Impossible Monsters is the captivating story of the discovery of the dinosaurs and how it upended our understanding of the origins of the world - overturning the literal reading of the Bible, liberating science from the shackles of religion, and giving birth to the secular age.In 1811, a twelve-year-old ...Show more
Managing the Local Climate - A Third Way to Respond to Climate Change by Femke van Woesik; Frank van Steenbergen; Francesco Sambalino; Hugo Jan de Boer; Jean Marc Pace Ricci; Wim Bastiaanssen
$59.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science/Environment | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Drawing on practical examples supported by scientific evidence, this book demonstrates how preserving and managing local climates can complement global mitigation and adaptation as a third way to address the effects of climate change. The book outlines the mechanisms that shape the local climate compone ...Show more
Four Ways of Thinking: Statistical, Interactive, Chaotic and Complex by David Sumpter
$39.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science/Environment
How can we see through the chaos and complexity of our lives?Beyond all the facts and figures, there is just one question at the heart of science- what is the best way to think about the world? Yet in our everyday lives, this is something we rarely consider. How often do we wonder about our own thinking ...Show more
Water - A Natural History by Alice Outwater
$70.00 AUD
Category: Popular Science/Environment
An environmental engineer turned ecology writer relates the history of our waterways and her own growing understanding of what needs to be done to save this essential natural resource. Water: A Natural History takes us back to the diaries of the first Western explorers; it moves from the reservoir to t ...Show more