Eve: How The Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution by Cat Bohannon
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Category: Popular Science/Environment
An ambitious, eye-opening, myth-busting and groundbreaking history of the evolution of the female body, by a brilliant new scientist and writer. How did wet nurses drive civilization? Are women always the weaker sex? Is sexism useful for evolution? And are our bodies at war with our babies? In Eve, Ca ...Show more
2024 Guide to the Night Sky Southern Hemisphere: A Month-by-Month Guide to Exploring the Skies Above Australia, New Zealand and South Africa by Storm Dunlop, Wil Tirion, Collins Astronomy
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Category: Popular Science/Environment
The ideal gift for all amateur and seasoned astronomers. A comprehensive handbook to the planets, stars and constellations visible from the southern hemisphere. 6 pages for each month covering January–December 2024. Diagrams drawn for the latitude of southern Australia, but including events visible from ...Show more
In Plain Sight: A fascinating investigation into UFOs and alien encounters from an award-winning journalist, fully updated and revised new edition for 2023 by Ross Coulthart
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Category: Popular Science/Environment
An award-winning journalist investigates a story largely ignored by mainstream media but right there, in front of our eyes ... Are we not alone? The moment we have an answer might have arrived. Award-winning investigative journalist Ross Coulthart has been intrigued by UFOs since mysterious glowing ...Show more
The Age of Scientific Wellness: Why the Future of Medicine Is Personalized, Predictive, Data-Rich, and in Your Hands by Leroy Hood; Nathan Price
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Taking us to the cutting edge of the new frontier of medicine, a visionary biotechnologist and a pathbreaking researcher show how we can optimize our health in ways that were previously unimaginable. We are on the cusp of a major transformation in healthcare--yet few people know it. At top hospitals and ...Show more
Blue Machine: How the Ocean Shapes Our World by Helen Czerski
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Category: Popular Science/Environment
A timely and powerful examination of ocean physics. All of the Earth's ocean, from the equator to the poles, is a single engine powered by sunlight - a blue machine. Human history has been dictated by the ocean- the location of cities, access to resources and the gateways to new lands have all revolve ...Show more
Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era by James Barrat
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Category: Popular Science/Environment
'I wish it was science fiction, but I know it's not.' Jaan Tallinn, co-founder of Skype'If you read just one book that makes you confront scary high-tech realities that we'll soon have no choice but to address, make it this one.' Washington PostCorporations and government agencies around the world have ...Show more
Powering Up: Unleashing the Clean Energy Supply Chain by Alan Finkel
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Category: Popular Science/Environment
Former chief scientist Alan Finkel shares his compelling insights and expertise and makes the case for Australia leading the way in the global transition to clean energy. The clean energy transition is humanity's biggest ever economic challenge. In Powering Up, former Australian chief scientist Alan F ...Show more
The Dark Cloud: How the Digital World Is Costing the Earth by Guillaume Pitron
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Category: Popular Science/Environment
A gripping new investigation into the underbelly of digital technology, which addresses the pressing question of the carbon footprint it leaves behind. In a sort of news thriller, the author reveals not only how costly the virtual world is, but how damaging it is to the environment. A simple 'like' sent ...Show more
Here be Monsters: Is Technology Reducing Our Humanity? by Richard King
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Category: Popular Science/Environment
Technology is developing fast — so fast that it threatens to overwhelm the very species whose genius lies in its technological cunning: us. From the metaverse to genetic engineering and mood-altering pharmaceuticals, to cybersex and cyberwar and the widespread automation of work, new technologies are re ...Show more
Beyond DNA: How Epigenetics is Transforming our Understanding of Evolution by Benjamin Oldroyd
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Category: Popular Science/Environment
Uncover how a new approach to epigenetics affects the basis for our understanding of evolutionary biologyBeyond DNA is a journey through uncharted territory, advancing new ways of thinking about evolution and adaptation. For nearly a hundred years evolutionary biologists have understood that evolution p ...Show more
The Climate Action Handbook - A Visual Guide to 100 Climate Solutions for Everyone by Heidi Roop
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Category: Popular Science/Environment
This must-have book shows us WHY we need to take action now to combat climate change and then, critically, HOW, through easy-to-understand language and stunning infographics that offer each of us varied and doable solutions to the overwhelming challenges facing our planet. As more focus is put on clima ...Show more
One Medicine: How understanding animals can save our lives by Matt Morgan
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Category: Popular Science/Environment
It all started with a Hob Nob. As Dr Matt Morgan, an intensive care consultant, examined a patient who had suffered a cardiac arrest after inhaling some biscuit crumbs, he saw a flock of birds fly past the window. They must inhale objects all the time when flying, how do they survive? he thought to hims ...Show more