Blue: A Scientist's Search for Nature's Rarest Colour by Kai Kupferschmidt
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Category: Popular Science SPECIALS
A globe-trotting quest to find blue in the natural world--and to understand our collective obsession with this captivating colorSearch human history and you'll quickly conclude that we've been enamored of blue at least since the pharaohs. So, it's startling to turn to the realms of nature and discover t ...Show more
Body Count: How Climate Change is Killing Us by Paddy Manning
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Category: Popular Science SPECIALS
'Our house is on fire,' 16-year-old Swedish school strike activist Greta Thunberg told world leaders in 2019. Across an angry year of weather, Australians watched it in real-time: record heatwaves and worsening drought, unprecedented fish kills in the Murray-Darling Basin and devastating wildfires acros ...Show more
Boom, Bust, Boom: A Story about Copper, the Metal That Runs the World by Bill Carter
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Category: Popular Science SPECIALS
A sweeping account of civilization's complete dependence on copper that "is the best sort of journalism: beautifully written, rich in detail, and impossible to ignore" (Sebastian Junger). For most of recorded history, copper has proven invaluable: not only did the ancient Romans build their empire on m ...Show more
Brief Cases (The Dresden Files Stories) HB by Jim Butcher (Editor)
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An all-new Dresden Files story headlines this urban fantasy short story collection starring the Windy City's favorite wizard. The world of Harry Dresden, Chicago's only professional wizard, is rife with intrigue--and creatures of all supernatural stripes. And you'll make their intimate acquaintance ...Show more
Curious: Life hacks through maths by Lily Serna
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Find love. Win at games and sport. Look smart. Save time.Lily Serna, a curious mathematician, believes passionately that 'mathematics is our golden key to unlocking the secrets of the universe'. She is on a quest to share her own sense of wonder about maths, and to leave all of us - even the maths phobi ...Show more
Dr Karl's Random Road Trip Through Science by Karl Kruszelnicki
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Category: Popular Science SPECIALS | Reading Level: 4 Science
In this, his 45th book, Dr Karl goes full kolour, with brilliant and funny illustrations to match his dress sense. So take a technikolour trip through science with the intrepid Dr Karl, Australia's favourite science guru. Q: HOW MANY DR KARL BOOKS ARE THERE IN THE UNIVERSE?A: MORE THAN A MILLION! Dr Kar ...Show more
Galileo: And the Science Deniers by Mario Livio
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A fresh interpretation of the life of Galileo Galilei, one of history's greatest and most fascinating scientists, that sheds new light on his discoveries and how he was challenged by science deniers. "We really need this story now, because we're living through the next chapter of science denial" (Bill M ...Show more
Gemstones
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Category: Popular Science SPECIALS
A compact, comprehensive guide to over 130 gemstones from around the world, featuring vivid photographs and concise textThe clearest and cleanest-cut photographic field guide to over 130 gemstones from around the worldThis compact visual guide is packed with more than 800 vivid full-colour photographs o ...Show more
How to Think Like Stephen Hawking by Daniel Smith
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Category: Popular Science SPECIALS | Series: How to Think Like Ser.
A unique insight into one of science's greatest minds of the last half-century.Undoubtedly the most famous name in science and the very face of physics over the last half-century, Stephen Hawking was remarkable for many reasons. Not least because he continued to strive to achieve so much while being hin ...Show more
Mars Observer's Guide by Neil Bone
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In 2003, Mars will be closer to Earth than it has ever been. Aimed at the practical astronomer, this book looks at what you need to know to make the most of the opportunity. It includes maps of the surface of Mars and colour photographs taken by spaceprobes.
One Giant Leap: The Impossible Mission That Flew Us to the Moon by Fishman, Charles
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The remarkable story of the trailblazers and the ordinary Americans on the front lines of the epic mission to reach the moon. President John F. Kennedy astonished the world on May 25, 1961, when he announced to Congress that the United States should land a man on the Moon by 1970. No group was more ...Show more
Rocks and Minerals (Eyewonder) by Dk
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Category: Popular Science SPECIALS | Series: Eye Wonder
Dig down and discover the remarkable treasures beneath our feet. How would our lives be different without rocks and minerals? Learn all about different kinds of rocks, crystals, precious gems and metals - how they are made, how the are found, and the different uses for them. Pcked with fats and great ph ...Show more