Astronomy 2021 Australia - Your Guide to the Night Sky by Peter Northfield Glenn Dawes
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Category: Nature and Science
The Accidental Scientist The Role of Chance and Luck in Scientific Discovery by Graeme Donald
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Category: Nature and Science
Explore the role of chance, luck, and error in scientific, medical, and commercial innovation with examples of how well-known products, gadgets, and useful gizmos came to be Have you ever wondered how the ideas for some things come about? Surprisingly, it is often as much down to chance as a single pe ...Show more
Rewording the Brain by David Astle
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Category: Nature and Science
Master wordsmith and crossword king David Astle scientifically proves how cryptic crosswords can ward off dementia.
The Frog with Self-Cleaning Feet - And Other Extraordinary Tales from the Animal World by Michael Bright
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Category: Nature and Science
Wild animals do the most extraordinary things. Some are exceptionally bright, use tools and solve complex problems. Others are devious: they cheat, steal and run protection rackets. There are animals with enormous appetites and those that self-medicate. In this fascinating collection author and film-mak ...Show more
Adam Spencer's World of Numbers by Adam Spencer
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Category: Nature and Science | Reading Level: very good
What's a 'firkin'? Is a tardigrade animal, vegetable or mineral? How fast is Usain Bolt ... really? And what's the record for the most lobster rolls eaten in 10 minutes? All these questions and more are answered in Adam Spencer's World of Numbers. This is a book for young and old - for anyone who's ever ...Show more
Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea and the Deep Origins of Consciousness by Peter Godfrey-Smith
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Category: Nature and Science
A philosopher dons a wet suit and journeys into the depths of consciousness. Peter Godfrey-Smith is a leading philosopher of science. He is also a scuba diver whose underwater videos of warring octopuses have attracted wide notice. In this book, he brings his parallel careers together to tell a bold new ...Show more
The Climate Cure: Solving the Climate Emergency in the Era of COVID-19 by Tim Flannery
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Category: Nature and Science
Australians are witnessing an unprecedented government response to crisis-swift decisive action to avert catastrophe. And the advice of scientists has informed every step of the way. But for decades the advice of scientists on the impending catastrophe that climate change will bring has been ignored, di ...Show more
Vesper Flights - New and Collected Essays by Helen Macdonald
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Category: Nature and Science | Reading Level: very good
Animals don't exist to teach us things, but that is what they have always done, and most of what they teach us is what we think we know about ourselves. From the internationally acclaimed author of H is for Hawk comes Vesper Flights, a transcendent collection of essays about the human relationship to th ...Show more
Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape by Cal Flyn
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Category: Nature and Science
‘Meticulous research, lyrical writing … A book that goes to the eeriest, most desolate places on Earth and finds hope' LOUISE GRAY This is a book about abandoned places: exclusion zones, no man's lands, ghost towns and post-industrial hinterlands – and what nature does when we're not there to see it. ...Show more
The Brain's Way of Healing - Remarkable Discoveries and Recoveries from the Frontiers of Neuroplasticity by Norman Doidge
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Category: Nature and Science | Series: The Neuroplasticity Chronicles | Reading Level: very good
Based on astonishing case studies, this is a brilliant and beautifully written follow-up to Dr Doidge’s record-breaking bestseller The Brain That Changes Itself. In his first book, Norman Doidge described the most important development in our understanding of the brain in four hundred years: the discove ...Show more
An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth - Life Lessons from Space by Chris Hadfield
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Category: Nature and Science | Reading Level: very good
"Hadfield is a genius, a man of science and technology and no first-timer to the universe."-New York Post Chris Hadfield has spent decades training as an astronaut and has logged nearly 4000 hours in space. During this time he has broken into a Space Station with a Swiss army knife, disposed of a live ...Show more
Insectpedia: A Brief Compendium of Insect Lore by Eric R. Eaton
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Category: Nature and Science | Series: Pedia Bks.
A fun and fact-filled A–Z treasury for the insect lover in all of us.Insectpedia introduces you to the wonders of the insect world while inviting you to make discoveries of your own. Featuring dozens of entries on topics ranging from murder hornets and the 'insect apocalypse' to pioneering entomologists ...Show more