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India: A Short History by Andrew Robinson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Asian
India's unfolding story, from the ancient Hindu dynasties to the coming of Islam, from the Mughal Empire to the present day India has always been a land of great contradictions. To Alexander the Great, the country was a place of clever naked philosophers and massive armies mounted on elephants - whi ...Show more
The Indus - Lost Civilizations by Andrew Robinson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Ancient Civilisations | Series: Lost Civilizations Ser.
The Indus civilization flourished for half a millennium from about 2600 to 1900 BCE, when it mysteriously declined and vanished from view. It remained invisible for almost four thousand years, until its ruins were discovered in the 1920s by British and Indian archaeologists. Today, after almost a centur ...Show more
The Story of Measurement by Andrew Robinson
$59.95 AUD
Category: Science
New from the author of the highly successful "The Story of Writing", here is the first fully illustrated guide to the human passion for measurement - of ourselves, our experiences, our surroundings and the universe - published at a time of great interest in popular science titles. Answering many of the ...Show more
The Story of Writing - Alphabets, Hieroglyphs & Pictograms by Andrew Robinson
$35.00 AUD
Category: Writing Guides | Reading Level: very good
Aims to demystify writing for the general reader. This book explains the interconnection between sound, symbol and script for each of the major writing systems in turn, and follows the discovery of writing forms from cuneiform and Egyptian hieroglyphs to alphabets and the scripts of Japan today.
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