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A Crack in the Edge of the World : The Great American Earthquake of 1906 by Simon Winchester
$29.95 AUD
Category: History
A burgeoning new city is built on the dreams of the American gold rush. It is also built upon a landscape that has been stretching, sliding and breaking apart for millennia. In 1906 the dreams of this city came crashing down beneath the rippling wave of a horrifying earthquake that turned roads into gre ...Show more
Atlantic: A Vast Ocean of a Million Stories by Simon Winchester
$35.00 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The epic life story of the Atlantic Ocean from the bestselling author, Simon Winchester. In a narrative tour de force, Simon Winchester dramatises the life story of the Atlantic Ocean, from its birth in the farther recesses of geological time to its eventual extinction millions of years in the future. A ...Show more
Atlantic - A Vast Ocean of a Million Stories by Simon Winchester
$24.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The definitive biography of the world's most important body of water - the Atlantic. One hundred and ninety million years ago, the shifting of two of the world's tectonic plates led to the creation of an immense chasm. This giant gash in the flanks of the planet slowly opened up and eventually evolved i ...Show more
Bomb, Book and Compass - Joseph Needham and the Great Secrets of China by Simon Winchester
$32.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: good
Before fate intervened, Joseph Needham was a distinguished biochemist performing research at Cambridge University, married to a fellow scientist and an ardent member of the local Communist party. In 1937 he was asked to supervise a young Chinese student named Lu Gwei-Djen, and in that moment began the t ...Show more
Bomb, Book and Compass: Joseph Needham and the Great Secrets of China by Simon Winchester
$26.95 AUD
Category: History
The seventeenth-century philosopher-statesman Francis Bacon famously declared that nothing had changed the world more profoundly than three great inventions: gunpowder, printing and the compass. What he didn't know was that the Chinese had been successfully using all three, long before the west ever 'in ...Show more
Exactly: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World by Simon Winchester
$32.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2018 Bestselling author Simon Winchester writes a magnificent history of the pioneering engineers who developed precision machinery to allow us to see as far as the moon and as close as the Higgs boson. Precision is the key to everything. It is an int ...Show more
Exactly: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World by Simon Winchester
$24.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2018 Bestselling author Simon Winchester writes a magnificent history of the pioneering engineers who developed precision machinery to allow us to see as far as the moon and as close as the Higgs boson. Precision is the key to everything. It is an in ...Show more
Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic by Simon Winchester
$34.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
From the creation of the first encyclopedia to Wikipedia, from ancient museums to modern kindergarten classes—here is award-winning writer Simon Winchester’s brilliant and all-encompassing look at how humans acquire, retain, and pass on information and data, and how technology continues to change our li ...Show more
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded by Simon Winchester
$24.95 AUD
Category: History
Simon Winchester, New York Times bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman, examines the legendary annihilation in 1883 of the volcano-island of Krakatoa, which was followed by an immense tsunami that killed nearly forty thousand people. The effects of the immense waves were felt as far away as ...Show more
Land - How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World by Simon Winchester
$34.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: good-very good
From the bestselling author Simon Winchester, a human history of land around the world: who mapped it, owned it, stole it, cared for it, fought for it and gave it back. The ownership of land has always been complicated, opaque, and more than a little anarchic when viewed from the outside. In this book, ...Show more
Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World by Simon Winchester
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
From the bestselling author Simon Winchester, a human history of land around the world: who mapped it, owned it, stole it, cared for it, fought for it and gave it back. In 1889, thousands of hopeful people raced southward from the Kansas state line and westward from the Arkansas boundary to stake claims ...Show more