The Coming Wave: The instant Sunday Times bestseller from the ultimate AI insider by Mustafa Suleyman
36.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE & NATURE
Cofounder of the pioneering AI company DeepMind sounds the alarm on the unprecedented risks to global order posed by a wave of fast-developing technologies like artificial intelligence and genetic engineeringA stark and urgent warning on the unprecedented risks that a wave of fast-developing technologie ...Show more
Man-Made: How the bias of the past is being built into the future by Tracey Spicer
34.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE & NATURE
Walkley Award-winning journalist Tracey Spicer exposes the next frontier of feminism. Man Made aims to open readers’ eyes to a transformative technological shift in society and give them the tools to make positive change. `Mum, I want a robot slave.’ Broadcaster Tracey Spicer had an epiphany when her ...Show more
Our Fragile Moment - How lessons from Earth's past can help us survive the climate crisis by Michael Mann
35.00 AUD
Category: SCIENCE & NATURE | Reading Level: ear fine
In this sweeping work of science and history, the renowned climate scientist and author of The New Climate War shows us the conditions on Earth that allowed humans not only to exist but thrive, and how they are imperilled if we veer off course. For the vast majority of its 4.54 billion years, Earth has ...Show more
Eclipse Chasers by Nick Lomb, Toner Stevenson
39.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE & NATURE
Witnessing a total solar eclipse is a wondrous and unforgettable event! Eclipse Chasers is a guide to past and future Australian total solar eclipses, exploring historical and cultural knowledge, as well as featuring five upcoming eclipses that will be visible in Australia.The science of eclipses is exp ...Show more
The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human by Siddhartha Mukherjee
27.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE & NATURE
From the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies and The Gene, the stunning odyssey of the cell - the key to life and ourselves**A NEW YORK TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, ECONOMIST, MAIL ON SUNDAY and GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR**'Will leave you in awe' GuardianFrom the dawn of ...Show more
2062: The World that AI Made by Toby Walsh
34.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE & NATURE
Many people think the future is something we need to adjust to, rather than what we decide through the choices we make today. This book looks at the choices we are starting to make that will define this future. The majority of experts in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and robotics predict we are likely to ...Show more
White Holes: Inside the Horizon by Carlo Rovelli
35.00 AUD
Category: SCIENCE & NATURE
A mesmerizing trip to the strange new world of white holes, from Carlo Rovelli, the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics. Let us journey, with beloved physicist Carlo Rovelli, into the heart of a black hole. Let us slip beyond its boundary, the horizon, and tumble - on and on - down thi ...Show more
Planet Earth III
85.00 AUD
Category: SCIENCE & NATURE
"There are over 100 billion planets in our galaxy. Only one is home to life. Ranging across seven dramatic habitats, from the depths of the ocean, to the scorching desert and into the to the darkest jungle, Planet Earth III showcases places and animals from all corners of our amazing, unique, planet. Fo ...Show more
Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era by James Barrat
24.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE & NATURE
'I wish it was science fiction, but I know it's not.' Jaan Tallinn, co-founder of Skype'If you read just one book that makes you confront scary high-tech realities that we'll soon have no choice but to address, make it this one.' Washington PostCorporations and government agencies around the world have ...Show more
Psychedelics: The revolutionary drugs that could change your life by Professor David Nutt
34.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE & NATURE
We are on the cusp of a major revolution in psychiatric medicine and neuroscience. After fifty years of prohibition, criminalisation and fear, science is finally showing us that psychedelics are not dangerous or harmful. Instead, when used according to tested, safe and ethical guidelines, they are our m ...Show more
Dance of the Photons: From Einstein to Quantum Entanglement and Teleportation by Anton Zeilinger
24.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE & NATURE
A Nobel Laureate explains quantum entanglement and teleportation and why Einstein was wrong about the nature of reality. What is the true nature of reality? To find out, Nobel Laureate Anton Zeilinger takes us (along with his fictional students Alice and Bob) on a voyage through a quantum wonderland, e ...Show more
Future Stories: A user's guide to the future by David Christian
24.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE & NATURE
Big History professor and bestselling author of Origin Story tells you everything you need to know about the future in this ambitious, interdisciplinary book, taking in history, philosophy, theology, physics, biology, chemistry and, of course, futurology...Every second of our lives - whether we're looki ...Show more