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Southern Surveyor
Michael Veitch
RRP $35.00
Adam Spencer’s
World of Numbers
Adam Spencer
RRP $34.99
Australia’s funniest and most famous
mathematician is back with a brilliant new
book. Adam Spencer’s World of Numbers
takes the reader on a fun filled ride,
explaining the crucial role numbers play
in our understanding of sport and space,
computers and cooking, and a whole lot in
between.
Thing explainer
This engaging book tells the stories of the men
and women who worked on board CSIROs research
vessel the Southern Surveyor. For ten years
this magnificent ship sailed over 190 voyages
across the seas and oceans around Australia
and contributed a wealth of knowledge to marine
science.
Pacific: ocean of the Future
Simon Winchester
RRP $32.99
Navigating the newly evolving patterns of
commerce and trade, the world’s most violent
weather and the fascinating histories, problems
and potentials of the many Pacific states, Simon
Winchester’s thrilling journey is a grand depiction
of the future ocean.
Randall Munroe
RRP $35.00
In Thing Explainer, Munroe gives us the
answers to questions such as where things
come from and many, many more. Funny,
interesting, and always understandable, this
book is for anyone who has ever wondered
about how things work and why.
Resurrection Science
Australia’s Wild Weather
Mark Tredinnick
RRP $29.99
Marrying photographs with an evocative and
contemplative essay by Mark Tredinnick,
Australia’s Wild Weather is a lyric field guide
to Australia’s climate. Tredinnick considers
what it means to be living at
a time when weather is no
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M.R. O’Connor
RRP $29.99
In a world dominated by human interference
and rapid climate change, species are
increasingly vulnerable to extinction. In
Resurrection Science, M.R. O’Connor explores
the extreme measures scientists are taking to
try and save them, from captive breeding and
translocating genetically rare individuals to
frozen zoos and de-extinction.
Future Brain
Dr Jenny Brockis
RRP $25.95
A brain that can change, adapt, lead, and
collaborate to operate with a high level of
flexibility, agility, and creativity is a brain that will
serve you well now and into the future. Future
Brain turns neuroscience into actionable steps,
helping you to train your brain to achieve highperformance in all areas of life.
Dr Karl’s
Short Back and Science
The Heart Healers
Dr Karl Kruszelnicki
RRP $32.99
James S. Forrester
RRP $29.99
Dr Karl is back with accessible, absorbing and
highly relevant science. From the mystery of
earwax and armpit sweat to the intricacies of
visual neuroscience and textile technology, Dr
Karl’s idiosyncratic and compelling insights
into the world in which we live,
intrigue and inform readers of
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The Heart Healers is the compelling story of how
scientists and doctors learned to save the human
heart, told by one of the men who made it possible.
Dr Forrester tells the story of these rebels, and the
risks they took with their own lives and the lives
of others to heal the most elemental of human
organs. The result is a compelling chronicle of a
disease that is slowly being worn away by ‘The
Heart Healers.
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