National Science Week

National Science Week is Australia's annual celebration of science and technology which features more than 1000 events around Australia, including those delivered by universities, schools, research institutions, libraries, museums and science centres. This year National Science Week is it being held from 10-18 August, so join the festivities and events by reading some of the titles from the following list.

Updated June 11, 2024
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Adventures in Volcanoland : What Volcanoes Tell Us About the World and Ourselves
Mather, Tamsin.
Paper Book
*A Library Journal Best Book of 2024* A mix of memoir, travel and popular science, charting journeys across deserts, through jungles and up ice caps, to some of the most important volcanoes around the world In this captivating book from one of...
The Light Eaters : How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
Schlanger, Zoë.
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The New Yorker's Best Books of 2024 * TIME's 10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2024 * New York Magazine's 10 Best Books of the Year * Washington Post's 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction of 2024 * Smithsonian's 10 Best Science Books of the Year * ...
How to Win Friends and Influence Fungi : Collected Quirks of Science, Tech, Engineering, and Math from Nerd Nite
Orr, Kristen
Paper Book
In the vein of acclaimed popular-science bestsellers such as Atlas Obscura, Astrophysics for Young People in a Hurry, The Way Things Work, What If?, and Undeniable, the co-founders of the global science organization Nerd Nite bring readers a collection of...
Sing like fish : how sound rules life under water
Kingdon, Amorina
Paper Book
A captivating exploration of how underwater animals tap into sound to survive, and a clarion call for humans to address the ways we invade these critical soundscapes--from an award-winning science writer "Sing Like Fish is that rare book that makes you see the world...
Comet madness : how the 1910 return of Halley's comet (almost) destroyed civilization
Goodrich, Richard J.
Paper Book
Halley's Comet visits the earth every seventy-five years. Since the dawn of civilization, humans had believed comets were evil portents. In 1705, Edmond Halley liberated humanity from these primordial superstitions (or so it was thought), proving that Newtonian mechanics rather than the will of...
Every Living Thing : The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life
Roberts, Jason (President of Panmedia Corporation)
Paper Book
An epic, extraordinary account of scientific rivalry and obsession in the quest to survey all of life on Earth--a competition "with continued repercussions for Western views of race. [This] vivid double biography is a passionate corrective" (The New York Times Book Review,...
The Internet of Animals : Discovering the Collective Intelligence of Life on Earth
Wikelski, Martin.
Paper Book
An illuminating account of animal migration and the stunning new science that reveals their infinite, untapped knowledge. "A loving ode to science itself, told with wit and wonder."--Thor Hanson, author of Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid ...
The Possibility of Life : Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos
Green, Jaime.
Paper Book
An LA Times Book Prize Finalist A Washington Post Best Book of the Year An NPR Science Friday Book Club Pick A "Next Big Idea Book Club" Must Read An Esquire Best Book of 2023 A Gizmodo New Release Pick for April
The science of cleaning
Bressanini, Dario
Paper Book
Countless cleaning hacks for every kind of household dirt may vie for our attention, but how do we know which ones really work and which ones will only leave you with a sticky mess that doesn't actually do the job? Scientific evidence comes to the rescue, as chemistry professor Dario Bressanini...
Perfume : a century of scents
Ostrom, Lizzie
Paper Book
Signature scents and now-lost masterpieces; the visionaries who conceived them; the wild and wonderful campaigns that launched them; the women and men who wore them--every perfume has a tale to tell. Join Lizzie Ostrom on an olfactory adventure as she explores the trends and...

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