Vaxxers: The Inside Story of the Oxford AstraZeneca Vaccine and the Race Against the Virus by Sarah Gilbert, Catherine Green
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science
Our future hangs on the success of the Oxford vaccine.This is the story of its creation, its makers and how science will ultimately beat the virus.On 1 January 2020, Sarah Gilbert, Professor of Vaccinology at Oxford University, read an article about four people in China with a strange pneumonia. Within ...Show more
Volcanoes and Earthquakes by Chiara Maria Petrone; Roberto Scandone; Alex Whittaker
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
Volcanoes & Earthquakes features the earth sciences at their most spectacular. It reveals the massive internal forces that create and change the Earth’s surface, with dramatic and sometimes beautiful consequences. The authors explain what fuels the power of volcanoes and earthquakes, and explore ho ...Show more
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science | Reading Level: good
From the creator of the wildly popular webcomic xkcd, hilarious and informative answers to important questions you probably never thought to ask Millions of people visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe’s iconic webcomic. His stick-figure drawings about science, technology, language, and love h ...Show more
What Is Real? The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics by Adam Becker
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science
"A thorough, illuminating exploration of the most consequential controversy raging in modern science." --New York Times Book ReviewEvery physicist agrees quantum mechanics is among humanity's finest scientific achievements. But ask what it means, and the result will be a brawl. For a century, most physi ...Show more
What a Fish Knows by Jonathan Balcombe
$19.99 AUD
Category: Science
ANew York Times Bestseller Do fishes think? Do they really have three-second memories? And can they recognize the humans who peer back at them from above the surface of the water? InWhat a Fish Knows, the myth-busting ethologist Jonathan Balcombe addresses these questions and more, taking us under the s ...Show more
Why Calories Don't Count - How science got weight loss wrong by Giles Yeo
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science
'In this great read, Giles Yeo ruthlessly and amusingly destroys the calorie as our most persistent diet myth.' Tim Spector, author of Spoon-Fed and The Diet Myth 'A tour de force by the wise and witty Professor Giles Yeo. As well as being one of the UK's foremost experts on the genetics of obesity, Pr ...Show more
World War C - Lessons from the Covid-19 Pandemic and How to Prepare for the Next One by Sanjay Gupta
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science
'If there is any 'must read' book about COVID-19, this is, without a doubt, the one.'Peter Jay Hotez, MD, PhD, National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine'Drawing on his brilliant reporting from the front lines of the fight against COVID, Gupta has produced a book filled with hope a ...Show more