Learn Chess FastThe Fun Way to Start Smart and Master the Game by Raymond Keene
$24.99 AUD
Category: Miscellaneous
Includes everything you need to learn and play, including a board, pieces, and a book. Chess is the game of kings, an ancient competition that continues to delight and intrigue young and old alike. Mammoth tomes have been written in pursuit of the perfect game, but everyone needs to start somewhere. Wit ...Show more
All over the Map - A Cartographic Odyssey by Betty Mason; Greg Miller
$85.00 AUD
Category: Miscellaneous
In this visually stunning book, award-winning journalists Betsy Mason and Greg Miller--authors of the National Geographic cartography blog "All Over the Map"--explore the intriguing stories behind maps from a wide variety of cultures, civilizations, and time periods. Based on interviews with scores of l ...Show more
Cabinets of Curiosities by Patrick Mauriès
$39.99 AUD
Category: Miscellaneous
Unicorns' horns, mermaids' skeletons, stuffed and preserved animals and plants, precious metals, clocks, scientific instruments, celestial globes--all knowledge, the whole cosmos, arranged on shelves in a single room. Such were the cabinets of curiosities of the seventeenth century, the last period of h ...Show more
Innate - How the Wiring of Our Brains Shapes Who We Are by Kevin J. Mitchell
$34.99 AUD
Category: Miscellaneous
A leading neuroscientist explains why your personal traits are more innate than you think What makes you the way you are--and what makes each of us different from everyone else? In Innate, leading neuroscientist and popular science blogger Kevin Mitchell traces human diversity and individual difference ...Show more
1227 QI Facts to Blow Your Socks Off by John Lloyd; John Mitchinson; James Harkin
$17.99 AUD
Category: Miscellaneous | Series: Quite Interesting Ser.
Did you know that: cows moo in regional accents; the entire internet weighs less than a grain of sand; the dialling code from Britain to Russia is 007; potatoes have more chromosomes than human beings; the London Underground has made more money from its famous map than it has from running trains; Tintin ...Show more
Literary Landscapes: Charting the Topography of Classic Literature by JOHN SUTHERLAND (ed)
$49.99 AUD
Category: Miscellaneous
Some stories couldn't happen just anywhere or any time - often the scenery , landscape or era is as central to the tale as any character- and just as easily recognised. Wh at adventures would Heidi have had without her mountain neighbours? W ould Jim Hawkins have experienced such an adventure had he not ...Show more
The Best Australian Science Writing 2019 by Bianca Nogrady (Editor); Lisa Harvey-Smith (Foreword by)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Miscellaneous | Series: The\Best Australian Science Writing Seri Ser. | Reading Level: 4 Science
Good science writing makes us feel. It makes us delight in the discovery of a black hole munching on a star, laugh at the image of aliens puzzling over golf balls on the Moon, wonder at the mystery of the Spanish influenza's deadly rampage, grieve for baby shearwater chicks dying with plastic-filled sto ...Show more
1,234 Qi Facts to Leave You Speechless by John Lloyd
$22.99 AUD
Category: Miscellaneous
The QI team have blown your socks off, made your jaw drop and knocked you sideways. Now they return with 1,234 brand-new mind-blowing facts that will leave you speechless. flowers get suntans; Denmark imports prisoners; bees can fly higher than Mount Everest; The Republic of Ireland first got postcodes ...Show more
Alphabetical: How Every Letter Tells a Story by Michael Rosen
$22.99 AUD
Category: Miscellaneous
From minding your Ps and Qs to wondering why X should mark the spot, Alphabetical is a book for everyone who loves words and language. Whether it's how letters are arranged on keyboards or Viking runes, textspeak or zip codes, this book will change the way you think about letters for ever. How on Earth ...Show more
Never Eat Shredded Wheat - Weird Ways to Remember Things by James M. Russell
$19.99 AUD
Category: Miscellaneous
The mnemonics that many of us learned as children are simply a shortcut to help locate information within your memory. For instance, rather than remember that the clockwise order of the points of the compass is North, East, South, West, we remember the mnemonic "Never Eat Shredded Wheat," and the combin ...Show more