Collins World Atlas (Reference Edition) by Collins Maps
44.99 AUD
Category: ATLAS & REFERENCE
A new, fully updated edition of this popular atlas in the stylish and authoritative Collins world atlas range. Designed in the distinctive Collins style, it is the ideal reference atlas for school, home and business use. This is a great value world atlas with more place names and mapping than any other ...Show more
Adam Spencer's Big Book of Numbers by Adam Spencer
29.99 AUD
Category: ATLAS & REFERENCE
A hilarious, enlightening romp through the world of numbers with one of Australia's best-loved broadcasters. Why do people get freaked out by Friday the 13th? Where does a 'dozen' come from? Who was Erno Rubik? And how do you become a master at Sudoku? In 100 bite-sized chapters, mathematician, broadcas ...Show more
An Unkindness of Ravens: A Book of Collective Nouns by Chloe Rhodes
22.99 AUD
Category: ATLAS & REFERENCE
A beautifully packaged, highly enjoyable collection that showcases the most unusual and interesting collective nouns in the English language—from the author of A Certain "Je Ne Sois Quoi" Why are geese in a gaggle? Are crows really murderous? And what makes lions so proud? Collective nouns are one o ...Show more
Mapping the World : The Story of Cartography by Beau Riffenburgh
39.99 AUD
Category: ATLAS & REFERENCE
From the crude maps of ancient Babylon to the satellite-fueled precision of Google Maps, cartography has been both a record of dreams and of discoveries. Maps have played midwife to empires, helped win wars, and encouraged humanity to venture beyond boundaries of space and time. Containing numerous maps ...Show more
Maps: Their Untold Stories by Rose Mitchell; Andrew Janes
60.00 AUD
Category: ATLAS & REFERENCE
Drawing on 700 years' worth of maps from the National Archives, this stunning and fascinating collection is not just about the history of the maps, but is also an insight into the places and the social history of the time that the mapmakers captured.This magnificent collection, drawn from seven centurie ...Show more
Plato at the Googleplex - Why Philosophy Won't Go Away by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
32.99 AUD
Category: ATLAS & REFERENCE | Reading Level: very good
Imagine that Plato came to life in the twenty-first century and embarked on a multi-city speaking tour. How would he mediate a debate between a Freudian psychoanalyst and a 'tiger mum' on how to raise the perfect child? How would he handle the host of a right-wing news program who denies there can be mo ...Show more
Lists of Note by Shaun Usher
59.99 AUD
Category: ATLAS & REFERENCE
Humans have been making lists for even longer than they've been writing letters. They are the shorthand for what really matters to us: our hopes and aspirations; likes and dislikes; rules for living and loving; records of our memories and reminders of the things we want to do before we die. Just as he d ...Show more
Writing Without a Parachute: the Art of Freefall by Barbara Turner-Vesselago
24.99 AUD
Category: ATLAS & REFERENCE
Writing Without a Parachute: The Art of Freefall shows both beginning and experienced writers how to get the thinking mind to step aside so that writing becomes truly creative - a vulnerable and open-hearted engagement with the moment. Here, for the first time, writing teacher Barbara Turner-Vesselago s ...Show more
History of the Book in 100 Books by Roderick Cave
35.00 AUD
Category: ATLAS & REFERENCE
The ebook age has taken 'the book' to a turning point. But in fact, casting off old technologies and taking on new ones has been part of the history of the book since Egyptian times...From inscriptions on tombs to the first writings on papyrus; how scrolls gave way to the first bound codex books in Roma ...Show more
Little Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs by Elizabeth Knowles
34.99 AUD
Category: ATLAS & REFERENCE | Reading Level: good
Little Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs features 2,000 proverbs and sayings from around the world and across 250 subjects - from 'Cats' and 'Dogs' to 'Achievement' and 'Extravagance'. Each theme has a short introduction giving an overview of key elements in the proverbial treatment of the topic and each en ...Show more
Tolkien On Fairy-Stories by Verlyn Flieger
24.99 AUD
Category: ATLAS & REFERENCE
A new expanded edition of Tolkien's most famous, and most important essay, which defined his conception of fantasy as a literary form, and which led to the writing of The Lord of the Rings. Accompanied by a critical study of the history and writing of the text. J.R.R. Tolkien's "On Fairy-stories" is his ...Show more
How To Write Your First Novel by Sophie King
24.99 AUD
Category: ATLAS & REFERENCE
This revised edition takes aspiring novelists through the steps of writing a novel, from finding that initial idea, to keeping the plot going and crafting the perfect ending. With helpful exercises in each chapter you will learn how to: develop a brilliant idea for your first novel; create characters th ...Show more