It’s Not Fair: Why It’s Time for a Grown-Up Conversation About How Adults Treat Children by Eloise Rickman
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Category: Popular Science
Why do some adults think it's fine to hit children? Why does the school system fail so many pupils? And when their future is on the line, why can't children vote? How we treat children isn't fair. Despite the lip service paid to their rights, children are still discriminated against in every aspect of t ...Show more
Techno: Humans and Technology by Marcus Smith
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Category: Popular Science
Technology is changing the world. How will the opportunities and risks affect you? In the midst of a technology revolution and the rise of artificial intelligence (AI), we all need to understand the relationship between humans and technology. Social media, data surveillance, biometrics, genomics and cr ...Show more
Is My Phone Reading My Mind?: The real facts about artificial intelligence by Matt Agnew
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Category: Popular Science
Let Dr Matt explain everything you and your kids need to know about Artificial Intelligence and why you don't need to be afraid! When you think of AI, you might imagine a walking, talking robot or you might think of a giant computer that wants to take over the world, but the reality is that AI is a bril ...Show more
Ageless: The New Science of Getting Older Without Getting Old by Andrew Steele
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Category: Popular Science
Ageing is the biggest cause of disease in our society. Cancer, heart disease, dementia, flu: the risk of all increase staggeringly rapidly as we near the end of life. What if we could slow down the process - or even stop it? Ageless introduces us to the cutting-edge research that is paving the way for a ...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
Mind Your Brain: The Essential Australian Guide to Dementia by Kailas Roberts
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Category: Popular Science
There are steps you can take to reduce your risk of dementia, to delay its onset, and to ease the journey if the condition does occur. Over 400,000 Australians are currently living with dementia, yet misunderstanding about the condition is widespread. Few people realise they can take action to lessen th ...Show more
Eats, Shoots And Leaves (PB) by Lynne Truss
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Category: Popular Science
Anxious about the apostrophe? Confused by the comma? Stumped by the semicolon? Join Lynne Truss on a hilarious tour through the rules of punctuation that is sure to sort the dashes from the hyphens. We all had the basic rules of punctuation drilled into us at school, but punctuation pedants have good re ...Show more
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
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Category: Popular Science | Series: Bryson | Reading Level: very good
Bill Bryson describes himself as a reluctant traveller, but even when he stays safely at home he can't contain his curiosity about the world around him.A Short History of Nearly Everything is his quest to understand everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization - how we got ...Show more
BANG!! The Complete History of the Universe by Patrick Moore; Brian May; Chris Lintott
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Category: Popular Science
In 2006, rock legend and experienced amateur astronomer Brian May joined the legendary expert Sir Patrick Moore and astrophysicist Professor Chris Lintott to tell the story of the universe from the moment time and space came into existence at the Big Bang, through to the infinite future and the ultimate ...Show more
Black Holes: The Key to Understanding the Universe by Professor Brian Cox
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Category: Popular Science
A brilliant exploration of the most exotic objects in the universe by Professor Brian Cox and Professor Jeff Forshaw. Lying at the centre of every galaxy are the strangest objects in the Universe: black holes. Of extraordinary density and huge gravitational pull, no matter or even light can escape their ...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
Head and Heart: The Art of Modern Leadership by Kirstin Ferguson
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Category: Popular Science
THE DEFINITIVE BOOK ON MODERN LEADERSHIP If leadership is simply a series of moments, every moment gives you the opportunity to leave a positive legacy for those you lead. In this ground-breaking book, award-winning leadership expert and business leader Kirstin Ferguson upends the traditional notion o ...Show more