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A Periodic Tale: the bestselling life-long story of Australia's

A Periodic Tale: the bestselling life-long story of Australia's

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How did a shy Polish immigrant kid - Karl Sven Woytek Sas Konkovitch Matthew Kruszelnicki - evolve into the fabulously eccentric Dr Karl? Shortlist ABIA Biography of the Year 2025...
The Big Hop: The First Non-stop Flight Across the Atlantic and Into

The Big Hop: The First Non-stop Flight Across the Atlantic and Into

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The powerful true story of the first flight across the Atlantic - and of the ordinary heroes who risked their lives to race in pursuit of progress 'David Rooney is...
Genius: Richard Feynman and Modern Physics

Genius: Richard Feynman and Modern Physics

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Richard Feynman was the most brilliant and influential physicist of our time. Architect of quantum theories, enfant terrible of the atomic bomb project, caustic inquisitor on the space shuttle commission,...
Art and Fear

Art and Fear

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Art and Fear is compulsory reading for anyone still wondering where art has gone and where science is taking us. Paul Virilio traces the twin development of art and science...
Destroyer of Worlds: The Deep History of the Nuclear Age: 1895-1965

Destroyer of Worlds: The Deep History of the Nuclear Age: 1895-1965

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The first full history for forty years of the development of nuclear power and the extraordinary minds behind it Henry Becquerel's accidental discovery, in Paris in 1896, of a faint...
The Naked Diplomat: Understanding Power and Politics in the Digital

The Naked Diplomat: Understanding Power and Politics in the Digital

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Previously published as Naked Diplomacy . Who will be in power in the 21st century? Governments? Big business? Internet titans? And how do we influence the future? Digital technology is...
Space: The Human Story

Space: The Human Story

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The first human history of space travel - from the Apollo missions to our journey to Mars - by Britain's beloved astronaut From bestselling author and British astronaut Tim Peake,...
Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in

Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in

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Hacking, espionage, war and cybercrime as you've never read about them before Fancy Bear was hungry. Looking for embarrassing information about Hillary Clinton, the elite hacking unit within Russian military...
Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, The Cold War and the Birth of

Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, The Cold War and the Birth of

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'It was not the Baby Boomers who ushered in the first era of widespread drug experimentation. It was their parents.' The generation that survived the second World War emerged with...
Too Hot to Handle: Story of the Race for Cold Fusion

Too Hot to Handle: Story of the Race for Cold Fusion

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The extraordinary story of the Pons and Fleischmann "discovery" of cold fusion in Salt Lake City in 1988, the enormous world-wide media excitement their announcement generated, and the military, political...
Helgoland: The Strange and Beautiful Story of Quantum Physics

Helgoland: The Strange and Beautiful Story of Quantum Physics

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The instant Sunday Times bestseller -- a dazzling story of rebellion and science In June 1925, twenty-three-year-old Werner Heisenberg, suffering from hay fever, had retreated to the treeless, wind-battered island...
Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy

Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy

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An explosive new vision of geopolitics from two trail-blazing political scientists Deep beneath our feet, vast and sprawling, lies one of the most sophisticated empires the world has ever known....
Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks

Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in

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Hacking, espionage, war and cybercrime as you've never read about them before Fancy Bear was hungry. Looking for embarrassing information about Hillary Clinton, the elite hacking unit within Russian military...
Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy

Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy

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An explosive new vision of geopolitics from two trail-blazing political scientists Deep beneath our feet, vast and sprawling, lies one of the most sophisticated empires the world has ever known....