The Anatomists' Library: The Books that Unlocked the Secrets of the Human Body by Colin Salter
$59.99 AUD
Category: Science and Nature | Series: Liber Historica Ser.
The Anatomists Library is a lavishly illustrated compendium of the anatomical publications that have informed medicine over six centuries. The Anatomists Library is a fascinating chronological collection of the best anatomical books from six centuries, charting the evolution of both medical knowledge an ...Show more
NeuroTribes: The legacy of autism and how to think smarter about people who think differently by Steve Silberman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science and Nature
What is autism: a devastating developmental condition, a lifelong disability, or a naturally occurring form of cognitive difference akin to certain forms of genius? In truth, it is all of these things and more - and the future of our society depends on our understanding it. Following on from his ground ...Show more
Awakenings by Oliver Sacks
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Category: Science and Nature | Series: Picador Collection
'The story of a disease that plunged its victims into a prison of viscous time, and the drug that catapulted them out of it' - GuardianHailed as a medical classic, and the subject of a major feature film as well as radio and stage plays and various TV documentaries, Awakenings by Oliver Sacks is the ext ...Show more
Pleasure Of Finding Things Out by Richard P. Feynman
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Category: Science and Nature
This collection of Feynman's best short works includes uproarious tales of Feynman's student experiments, his famous report on the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, his experiences on the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos during World War II, and stories of the physicist as a child.
The Frontier Below: The 2000 Year Quest to Go Deeper Underwater and How It Impacts Our Future by Jeff Maynard
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Category: Science and Nature
A journey through time and water, to the bottom of the ocean and the future of our planet. We do not see the ocean when we look at the water that blankets more than two thirds of our planet. We only see the entrance to it. Beyond that entrance is a world hostile to humans, yet critical to our survival. ...Show more
Looking After Guinea Pigs by Laura Howell
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Category: Science and Nature | Series: Usborne Pet Guides
Offers lots of useful information on how to care for guinea pigs, that is suitable for those who already have a guinea pig or those dreaming about getting one. This title has been checked thoroughly by experts.
Cosmic Wonder: Halley's Comet and Humankind by Ashley Benham-Yazdani
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Category: Science and Nature
An innovative and visually sweeping picture book imagines Halley's Comet observing Earth and its inhabitants at every pass, tracing human evolution over millennia. First recorded traveling overhead in 240 BCE, Halley's Comet returns every seventy-six years or so for a fresh glimpse of life on bounti ...Show more
Rise of the Robots Technology and the threat of mass unemployment by Martin Ford
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Category: Science and Nature
If a 'robot' could do your job quicker than you and better than you for no pay, would you still be employed? Today it's travel agents, data-analyst and paralegals whose jobs are under threat. Soon it will be doctors, taxi-drivers and, ironically, even computer programmers. Without a radical reassessment ...Show more
The Chimp and the River by David Quammen
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Category: Science and Nature
The real story of AIDS-how it originated with a virus in a chimpanzee, jumped to one human, and then infected more than 60 million people-is very different from what most of us think we know. Recent research has revealed dark surprises and yielded a radically new scenario of how AIDS began and spread. E ...Show more
Life's Grandeur : The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin by Stephen Jay Gould
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Category: Science and Nature
Argues that progress and increasing complexity are not inevitable features of the evolution of life on Earth. This book states that if we wish to see grandeur in life, we must discard our selfish and anthropocentric view of evolution and learn to see it as Darwin did, as the unfathomably rich source of ...Show more
What the Dog Knows by Cat Warren
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Category: Science and Nature
"Taking the reader from crime scenes to training sites and science labs, talking and working with other handlers and trainers, and interviewing animal psychologists, forensic anthropologists, breeders, and scent researchers, Warren explains how working dogs can capture the hidden worlds their noses know ...Show more
Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise by K Anders Ericsson
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Category: Science and Nature
Mozart wasnâe(tm)t born with perfect pitch.Most athletes are not born with any natural advantage.Three world-class chess players were sisters, whose success was planned by their parents before they were even born.Anders Ericsson has spent thirty years studying The Special Ones, the geniuses, sports star ...Show more