A Brief History of Intelligence: Why the Evolution of the Brain Holds the Key to the Future of AI by Max Bennett
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science
A Brief History of Brains bridges the gap between AI and neuroscience by telling the evolutionary story of how the brain came to be. The entirety of the human brain's 4-billion-year story can be summarised as the culmination of five evolutionary breakthroughs, starting from the very first brains, all t ...Show more
A Million Wild Acres: 200 Years of Man and an Australian Forest by Eric Rolls
$39.95 AUD
Category: Science
30TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION. By popular demand from a number of libraries and institutions, Hale and Iremonger will be producing a hardcover edition of Eric Roll's A MILLION WILD ACRES in a very short run of 300 copies. This will be a very useful Christmas gift for the serious reader of Australian history ...Show more
Cronin's Key Guide to Australian Reptiles and Frogs: Fully revised edition by Leonard Cronin
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science
An indispensable introduction to identifying Australian reptiles and frogs from the one of Australia's foremost natural historians. An indispensable guide to Australia's fascinating reptiles and frogs, packed with information about their behaviour, development, food and habitat. Each entry fully describ ...Show more
Cronin's Key Guide to Australian Wildlife by Leonard Cronin
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science
Beautifully illustrated and a wonderful introduction to identifying Australian plants and animals. An indispensable guide to Australian wildlife with plants and animals from the coral reefs to the rainforests, eucalypt woodlands and deserts. * Over 600 beautifully illustrated images. * Distribution maps ...Show more
Escape From Shadow Physics: The Quest To End the Dark Ages of Quantum Theory by Adam Forrest Kay
$39.99 AUD
Category: Science
An engaging and razor-sharp attack on the orthodoxy of modern physics, and a bold new idea about the structure of reality. For 70 years, mathematical physicist Adam Kay argues, physics has laboured under delusions. 'When it comes to atoms,' the founding quantum physicist Neils Bohr once wrote, 'language ...Show more
Grounded: How soil shapes the games we play, the lives we make and the graves we lie in by Alisa Bryce
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science
An Aussie scientist digs up some dirt about the history and science of soilLife on land could not exist without soil. Almost everything we need can be traced to the soil- food, fibre, medicines - even oxygen produced by plants. What would we be without it? Certainly not a planet worthy of the name Earth ...Show more
How The World Ran Out Of Everything by Peter S. Goodman
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science
One of Foreign Policy's "Most Anticipated Books of 2024" Part Michael Lewis, part The Way Things Work: From the New York Times’s Global Economics Correspondent, an extraordinary journey revealing the worldwide supply chain—exposing both the fascinating pathways of manufacturing and transportation that b ...Show more
In Hot Water: Inside the battle to save the Great Barrier Reef by Paul Hardisty E
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science
A searing, candid and personal account from inside the battle to save the Great Barrier Reef from the recent CEO of Australia's leading coral research institute (who also happens to be a widely published thriller writer). In the ongoing climate wars, the Great Barrier Reef has become a symbol of everyt ...Show more
Inheritance: The Evolutionary Origins of the Modern World by Harvey Whitehouse
$36.99 AUD
Category: Science
Every human being is endowed with an inheritance. A set of ancient biases - forged by natural selection and fine-tuned by millennia of culture - that shape every facet of our behaviour. For countless generations, this inheritance has been taking us to ever greater heights- driving the rise of more sophi ...Show more
Lifespan: Why We Age - and Why We Don't Have To by David Sinclair
$26.99 AUD
Category: Health and Wellbeing
In this paradigm-shifting book from acclaimed Harvard Medical School doctor and one of TIME magazine's 100 most influential people on earth, Dr. David Sinclair reveals that everything we think we know about ageing is wrong, and shares the surprising, scientifically-proven methods that can help readers l ...Show more
Milk: The truth, the lies and the unbelievable story of the original superfood by Matthew Evans
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science
Milk: The truth, the lies and the unbelievable story of the original superfood. A powerful, entertaining and, at times, eviscerating commentary on the most controversial of original superfoods. Milk. It's in our coffee, on our cereal. We see it in processed form - yoghurt, butter, cheese, skimmed and l ...Show more
Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet by Hannah Ritchie
$36.99 AUD
Category: Science
Feeling anxious, powerless or confused about the future of our planet? This book will transform how you see our biggest environmental problems - and how we can solve them We are bombarded by doomsday headlines that tell us the soil won't be able to support crops, fish will vanish from our oceans, that w ...Show more