What Is Inside a Black Hole? by Stephen Hawking
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Category: Science | Series: Brief Answers, Big Quest Ser.
'If you feel you are in a black hole, don't give up. There's a way out'What is inside a black hole?Is time travel possible?Throughout his extraordinary career, Stephen Hawking expanded our understanding of the universe and unravelled some of its greatest mysteries. In What Is Inside a Black Hole? Hawkin ...Show more
Nuts and Bolts: Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World (in a Big Way) by Roma Agrawal
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Category: Science
Smartphones, skyscrapers, spacecraft. Modern technology seems mind-bogglingly complex. But beneath the surface, it can be beautifully simple. In Nuts and Bolts, award-winning engineer and broadcaster Roma Agrawal deconstructs our most complex feats of engineering into seven fundamental inventions: the n ...Show more
Toxic: The Rotting Underbelly of the Tasmanian Salmon Industry by Richard Flanagan
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Category: Science
Is Tasmanian salmon one big lie? In a triumph of marketing, the Tasmanian salmon industry has for decades succeeded in presenting itself as world’s best practice and its product as healthy and clean, grown in environmentally pristine conditions. What could be more appealing than the idea of Atlantic sal ...Show more
On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking's final theory by Thomas Hertog
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Category: Science
A new theory of the universe, twenty years in the making, by Stephen Hawking and his close collaborator Thomas Hertog. Perhaps the biggest question Stephen Hawking tried to answer in his extraordinary life was how the universe could have created conditions so perfectly hospitable to life. Pondering this ...Show more
The Frontiers of Knowledge: What We Know About Science, History and The Mind by A C Grayling
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Category: Science
What do we know, and how do we know it? What do we now know that we don't know? And what have we learnt about the obstacles to knowing more? In a time of deepening battles over what knowledge and truth mean, these questions matter more than ever. Bestselling polymath and philosopher A. C. Grayling seeks ...Show more
The Trials of Life - A Natural History of Animal Behaviour by David Attenborough
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Category: Science
The third and final updated edition of David Attenborough’s classic Life trilogy. Life on Earth covered evolution, Living Planet , ecology, and now The Trials of Life tackles ethology, the study of how animals behave. ‘This is, quite simply, the best thing I’ve ever done.’ Sir David Attenborough on the ...Show more
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert M Sapolsky
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Category: Science
'Awe-inspiring ... the best scientific book written for non-specialists that I have ever read. You will learn more about human nature than in any other book I can think of, and you will be inspired' Henry Marsh, author of Do No HarmA ground-breaking synthesis of the entire science of human behaviour by ...Show more
Simply Astronomy: Facts Made Fast by DK
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Category: Science
Understanding astronomy has never been easier.Combining bold graphics with easy-to-understand text, Simply Astronomy is the perfect introduction to astronomy and stargazing for those who are short of time but hungry for knowledge.Each pared-back entry covers the essentials more clearly than ever before. ...Show more
Gemstones in Victoria by Bill Birch, Dermot Henry
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Category: Science
Victoria is often seen as the forgotten state when it comes to gem minerals. The history of gems in Victoria is inextricably linked to the discovery of gold in 1851. In 1854, George Milner Stephen publicised for the first time, the discovery of gems in Victoria. These included blue and white sapphires f ...Show more
The Brain that Changes Itself: stories of personal triumph from the frontiers of brain science by Norman Doidge
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Category: Science | Series: The Neuroplasticity Chronicles
An astonishing new scientific discovery called neuroplasticity is overthrowing the centuries-old notion that the adult human brain is fixed and unchanging. It is, instead, able to change its own structure and function, even into old age. Psychiatrist and researcher Norman Doidge, MD, travelled around th ...Show more
How Space Works: The Facts Visually Explained by DK
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Category: Science
The clearest, most visual guide to space and the Universe for complete beginners to astronomy. Have you ever asked yourself how big the Universe is, how far it is to the nearest star, or what came before the Big Bang? Then this is the book for you. How Space Works shows you the different types of object ...Show more