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From the imagination of award winning author Carmel Bird comes her latest novel Child of the Twilight. It brings together religion, science, pregnancies wanted and unwanted, love, loss and belief and questions and celebrates the miraculous.
Sydney Peony Kent is nineteen years old. [...]

The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by acclaimed surgeon and writer Atul Gawande is about finding a remedy in the humblest and simplest of techniques: the checklist. This highly readable intellectual adventure, in which lives are lost and saved, is essential reading for anyone wanting to get things right.
Today we find ourselves in [...]

In No Small Matter: Science on the Nanoscale by Felice C. Frankel and George M. Whitesides objects unable to be seen by the human eye, such as viruses and molecules, are imaged brilliantly in rich detail through the use of high-powered microscopes and fine photographic detail.
A small revolution is remaking the world. The only problem [...]

Martin Bridgstock in Beyond Belief: Skepticism, Science and the Paranormal explains the basic ideas of skepticism and applies these principles to examining the full range of paranormal phenomena. His observations are evidence-based and founded upon the scientific principles of analysis, deduction, critical and ethical thinking.
Whether ghosts, astrology or ESP, up to 80 per cent of [...]

Sex Sleep Eat Dream: A Day in the Life of Your Body by science writer Jennifer Ackerman is a tour of your body set over 24 hours.
The acclaimed science writer Jennifer Ackerman lends her keen eye and lively voice to this marvellous exploration of the human body. Taking us through a typical day, from the [...]

The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing edited by noted biologist and atheist Richard Dawkins is a breathtaking celebration of science writing.
Selected and introduced by Richard Dawkins, The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing is a celebration of the finest writing by scientists for a wider audience – revealing that many of the best scientists [...]

In The Complete Ice Age: How Climate Change Shaped the World edited by Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the University of California Brian Fagan, four leading scientists present the most up-to-date discoveries in the different fields of Ice Age Research.
They reveal how the epoch was discovered, the profound climatic fluctuations it generated as ice sheets [...]

The Geology of Australia is a comprehensive exploration of the timeless forces that have shaped this continent and that continue to do so
The Geology of Australia provides a vivid and informative account of the evolution of the Australian continent over the last 4400 million years. Starting with the Precambrian rocks that hold clues to the [...]

How to Make a Tornado provides entertaining facts and some surprising trivia on subjects you didn’t realise you were interested in. Perfect for a child with a curious mind.
Science tells us grand things about the universe: how fast light travels, and why stones fall to earth. But scientific endeavour goes far beyond these obvious foundations. [...]

What’s Next?: A Preview of the Ideas You’re Going To Be Reading About in Ten Years is a fascinating chronicle of the big, new ideas that are keeping scientists up atnight, written by the Who’s Who of the coming generation of scientists
In What’s Next?, 18 young scientists present the futuristic ideas they are pursuing that [...]