Quarterly Essay 61: Balancing Act: Australia Between Recession and Renewal. by George Megalogenis
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Category: Popular Science | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
Australia is in transition. Saying it is easy. The panic kicks in when we are compelled to describe what the future might look like. There is no complacent middle to aim at. We will either catch the next wave of prosperity, or finally succumb to the Great Recession. What has gone wrong with our politics ...Show more
Dinosaurs - 10 Things You Should Know by Dean Lomax
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Category: Popular Science
'A warp-speed tour of dinosaurs, with an expert guide' PROF. STEVE BRUSATTE, bestselling author of The Rise and Fall of Dinosaurs 'A fun, speedy read for grown-ups who love dinosaurs - a great way to get into the subject' PROF. MICHAEL BENTON, author of The Dinosaurs Rediscovered --------- Travel back ...Show more
This View of Life - Completing the Darwinian Revolution by David Sloan Wilson
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Category: Popular Science
It is widely understood that Charles Darwin's theory of evolution completely revolutionized the study of biology. Yet, according to David Sloan Wilson, the Darwinian revolution won't be truly complete until it is applied more broadly--to everything associated with the words "human," "culture," and "poli ...Show more
Out of our Minds by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
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Category: Popular Science
To imagine – to see that which is not there – is the startling ability that has fueled human development and innovation through the centuries. As a species we stand alone in our remarkable capacity to refashion the world after the pictures in our minds. Traversing the realms of science, politics, religi ...Show more
How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology by Philip Ball
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Category: Popular Science
A cutting-edge new vision of biology that will revise our concept of what life itself is, how to enhance it, and what possibilities it offers. Biology is undergoing a quiet but profound transformation. Several aspects of the standard picture of how life works—the idea of the genome as a blueprint, of g ...Show more
How to Survive History by Cody Cassidy
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Category: Popular Science
A humorous and information guide to surviving history's most challenging threats, from outrunning dinosaurs to making it off the Titanic alive. A humorous and informative guide to surviving history's most challenging threats, from outrunning dinosaurs to making it off the Titanic alive.History is the mo ...Show more
Nine Musings on Time by John Gribbin
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Category: Popular Science
Time travel is a familiar theme of science fiction, but is it really possible?
Outbreak - Foodborne Illness and the Struggle for Food Safety by Timothy D. Lytton
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Category: Popular Science
Foodborne illness is a big problem. Wash those chicken breasts, and you're likely to spread Salmonella to your countertops, kitchen towels, and other foods nearby. Even salad greens can become biohazards when toxic strains of E. coli inhabit the water used to irrigate crops. All told, contaminated food ...Show more
Testosterone: The Story of the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us by Carole Hooven
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Category: Popular Science
RECOMMENDED AS ONE OF THE TIMES'' BEST SCIENCE BOOKS OF 2021''With all the talk about testosterone in sex, sports and politics, we need a good explanation of the science and its implications, and this one is outstanding.'' STEVEN PINKER, bestselling author of The Blank Slate''There are whole books writt ...Show more
Thinking Big: How the Evolution of Social Life Shaped the Human Mind by Clive Gamble; John Gowlett; Robin Dunbar
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Category: Popular Science
How did the brains of our hominin ancestors first become human minds? When did our capacity for language and art, music and dance evolve? And why does this matter today? This groundbreaking book contends that it was the need for early humans to live in ever-larger social groups, and to maintain social r ...Show more
The Heart Healers by James Forrester
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One Australian dies from heart disease every twelve minutes. But hundreds of thousands have lived thanks to the greatest medical breakthrough of our lives. World-renowned cardiologist Dr James Forrester tells the dramatic story of the misfits, mavericks and rebels who defied the accumulated scientific w ...Show more
Testosterone Rex: Unmaking the Myths of Our Gendered Minds by Cordelia Fine
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Testosterone Rex is the powerful myth that squashes hopes of sex equality by telling us that men and women have evolved different natures. Fixed in an ancestral past that rewarded competitive men and caring women, these differences are supposedly re-created in each generation by sex hormones and male an ...Show more