Mind Magic: The Neuroscience of Manifestation and How It Changes Everything by James Doty
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Category: Popular Science
This empowering book helps readers discover the power of manifestation. Neurosurgeon, compassion expert and bestselling author Dr James Doty reframes manifesting not as a way of gaining great wealth and possessions, but as a daily practice. He teaches us how to direct our attention in the right way and ...Show more
In Plain Sight: An Investigation into UFOs and Impossible Science by Ross Coulthart
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Category: Popular Science
An award-winning journalist investigates a story largely ignored by mainstream media but right there, in front of our eyes ... Investigative journalist Ross Coulthart has been intrigued by UFOs since mysterious glowing lights were reported near New Zealand's Kaikoura mountains when he was a teenager. Th ...Show more
Southern Signals: Stories of innovation, challenge and triumph in Australia’s communication history by Hugh Tranter
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Category: Popular Science
From sea-stained dispatches to data sent back from deep space, Southern Signals is the story of Australia’s use of communications to bridge vast distances through war and peace, exploration and growth.Communications have been vital at every stage of Australia’s history. From the time the First Fleet tra ...Show more
The Universe: The Book of the BBC TV Series Presented by Professor Brian Cox by Andrew Cohen, Professor Brian Cox
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Category: Popular Science
Every night, above our heads, a drama of epic proportions is playing out. Diamond planets, zombie stars, black holes heavier than a billion Suns. The cast of characters is extraordinary, and each one has its own incredible story to tell. We once thought of our Earth as unique, but we have now discovere ...Show more
2024 Australasian Sky Guide by Nick Lomb
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Category: Popular Science | Series: Australasian Sky Guide Ser.
This popular guide by astronomer and author Dr Nick Lomb provides stargazers with everything they need to know about the southern night sky. It contains the latest information on the solar system, historical features, monthly sky maps, details of the year’s exciting celestial events, and viewing tips fo ...Show more
The Best Australian Science Writing 2023 by Donna Lu (Editor)
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Category: Popular Science | Series: The\Best Australian Science Ser.
The annual collection — now in its thirteenth year — celebrating the finest voices in Australian science writing.Should we alter animals’ DNA to save them from extinction? What secrets will old ice reveal to us about the Earth’s deep past? How is the world’s most expensive — and explosive — substance ma ...Show more
The Matter of Everything: Twelve Experiments that Changed Our World by Suzie Sheehy
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Category: Popular Science
The astonishing story of twentieth-century physics, told through the twelve experiments that changed our world.How did a piece a gold foil completely change our understanding of atoms? What part did a hot air balloon play in the discovery of cosmic rays?How did the experiments in the run-up to the Large ...Show more
Brief Answers to the Big Questions: the final book from Stephen Hawking by Stephen Hawking
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Category: Popular Science | Reading Level: very good
THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. 'A beautiful little book by a brilliant mind'- DAILY TELEGRAPH. 'Effortlessly instructive, absorbing, up to the minute and - where it matters - witty'- GUARDIAN. The world-famous cosmologist and #1 bestselling author of A Brief History of Time leaves us with his final t ...Show more
Along Came Google - A History of Library Digitization by Deanna Marcum; Roger C. Schonfeld
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Category: Popular Science
An incisive history of the controversial Google Books project and the ongoing quest for a universal digital library Libraries have long talked about providing comprehensive access to information for everyone. But when Google announced in 2004 that it planned to digitize books to make the world's knowled ...Show more
Future Hackers: The Indispensable Guide for Curious Minds by JOHN ALEXANDER
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Category: Popular Science
In the next two decades, we'll see profound technological, social and cultural developments that will drive the same level of change as we have experienced the past 200 years, but it will be even faster and look and feel completely different. FUTURE HACKERS is an indispensable guide to these changes, wh ...Show more
In Search of Sleep: An Insomniac's Quest to Understand the Science, Psychology, and Culture of Sleeplessness by Bregje Hofstede
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Category: Popular Science
Jenny Odell’s How to Do Nothing meets Matthew Walker’s Why We Sleep in this fascinating deep-dive into the science and history of sleep.In Search of Sleep is both a self-help manual for insomniacs, and a sweeping critique of the hustle culture that blinds us to the real reasons we lie awake at night: fr ...Show more
Machines Behaving Badly : The Morality of AI by Toby Walsh
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Category: Popular Science
Can we build moral machines? Toby Walsh, AI expert, examines the ethical issues we face in a future dominated by artificial intelligence.Artificial intelligence is an essential part of our lives - for better or worse. It can be used to influence what we buy, who gets shortlisted for a job and even how w ...Show more