| Author: | Bill Bryson |
| Category: |
Science |
| Reading Level: | 4 Non Fiction |
In the bestselling, prize-winning A Short History of Nearly Everything Bill Bryson achieved the seemingly impossible by making the science of our world both understandable and entertaining to millions of people around the globe. Now he turns his attention inwards to ... read more
| Author: | Randall Munroe |
| Category: |
Science |
| Reading Level: | 4 Non Fiction |
The world's most entertaining and useless self-help guide, from the brilliant mind behind the wildly popular webcomic xkcd and the million-selling What If? and Thing Explainer
For any task you might want to do, there's a right wa... read more
| Author: | David Sinclair |
| Category: |
Better Living, Self Help & Personal development |
In this paradigm-shifting book from acclaimed Harvard Medical School doctor and one of TIME magazine's 100 most influential people on earth, Dr. David Sinclair reveals that everything we thin... read more
| Author: | Jason Murphy |
| Category: |
Science |
| Reading Level: | 4 Non Fiction |
Rewards. Punishments. Prices. The Nobel Prize. Candy Crush. Incentives take more forms than you might expect and they can be hard to spot, but they shape our lives in ways that we rarely examine.
... read more
| Author: | Yuval Noah Harari |
| Category: |
Science |
| Awards: | Long-listed for Wellcome Book Prize 2017 (UK). |
THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER
Sapiens shows us where we came from. Homo Deus shows us where we're going.
Yuval Noah Harari envisions a near future in which we face a new set of challenges. Homo Deus explores the projects, dreams and nightmares that w... read more
| Author: | Anne Unkenstein |
| Category: |
Science |
Informs, reassures and gives practical guidance to people who worry they are losing their memory.
| Author: | Robert Hazen |
| Category: |
Science |
| Reading Level: | 4 Science |
An enchanting biography of the most resonant – and most necessary – chemical element on Earth. Carbon. It's in the fibres in your hair, the timbers in your walls, the food that you eat and the air that you breathe. It's worth ... read more
| Author: | John Brockman |
| Category: |
Science |
THE UNIVERSE'S GREATEST UNANSWERED QUESTIONS, POSED BY "THE WORLD'S FINEST MINDS" (The Guardian)
Featuring Jared Diamond, Steven Pinker, Nobel laureate ... read more
| Author: | Karl Kruszelnicki |
| Category: |
Science |
| Reading Level: | 4 Science |
Get your pulse racing with Australia's most popular scientist, Dr Karl Kruszelnicki.Discover why people tell lies, why some planets are hotter than stars and how humans are terraforming the Earth. Is cockroach milk really the next Superfood? Why are birds so smart? Why do trees need ... read more
| Author: | Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson |
| Category: |
Science |
A journey into the weird, wonderful and truly astonishing lives of the small but mighty creatures who keep the world turning. Out of sight, underfoot, unseen beyond fleeting scuttles or darting flights, insects occupy a ... read more
| Author: | Lonely Planet |
| Category: |
Science |
| Series: | Lonely Planet Ser. |
The world's first and only guide to the Universe
The follow-up to the best-selling The World has been developed with NASA and is the world's first and only guide to the Universe. It explores in detail the planets within our s... read more
| Author: | Adam Spencer |
| Category: |
Science |
Who's smarter -- a four-year-old chimp or a four-year-old human? How much does it cost to stop a computer virus? And will you really become a billionaire at 31? The answers to all these questions -- as well as over 100 brainbusting and mind-bending number game... read more
