Item category 2: Science & Technology

Feeding the growing population is causing serious problems for the environment. However, people still need to eat. How can people strike a balance between using the land for food and protecting the planet? This accessible and age-appropriate main text provides essential information about this pro...

Explore the rise of technology that may soon rule our lives! What is artificial intelligence, how does it work, what is it being used for and what role may it play in the future? Impactful photos fill the pages highlighting the science and technology at work. These pieces of technology are infilt...

Find out the current advances in AI technology, what it can be used for and also some of the ethical issues with certain technology.

"A smart, incisive take-down of the bogus claims being made about so-called 'artificial intelligence', exposing the real harm these technologies do to our jobs, health, society and environment, who stands to gain from them, and how to fight back. Is AI going to take over the world? Have scientist...

Artificial Intelligence is all about humans asking computers and other machines to think and even behave like humans, and to take on jobs that people find too difficult or too boring. But how do you actually define the term? What exactly can machines with AI already do, and what might they be abl...

"In AI Snake Oil, computer scientists Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor cut through the confusion to give you an essential understanding of how AI works and why it often doesn't, where it might be useful or harmful, and when you should suspect that companies are using AI hype to sell AI snake oi...

Air transport began in Australia in the early 1900s. Find out about the first powered flights, early pioneers of aviation, and Australia's first airlines. Read about air transport today - the aircraft and what they carry, the people who work on planes and in airports, and safety measures to preve...

How does the Wright Brother's first airplane compare with today's fighter jets? And might we travel in see-through airliners in the future?

So you want to build your own aircraft models? Real ones that you can power and fly? Well now you can, with How to Build. Inside you'll find simple instructions, equipment lists and templates to help you make working models, including a hot-air balloon, hammer glider, Bernoulli glider, roto-copte...