Upanishads by PARAMANANDA, SW
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Category: Science
The ancient teachings of Swami Paramananda.
Barron's Pocket Factbook: Weather: Essential Facts about the Earth's Weather by Michael Bright
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Category: Science | Series: Barron's Pocket Factbooks
How do hurricanes form? Where is the world's hottest location? Which American city has the largest average snowfall? Readers can find facts on major hurricanes and typhoons of recent decades and the tracks they have taken. They will also find information on reading and understanding weather maps, climat ...Show more
2020 Australasian Sky Guide by Nick Lomb
16.95 AUD
Category: Science
Compact, easy to use and reliable, this popular guide by well-known astronomer and author Dr Nick Lomb has been providing stargazers with everything they need to know about the southern night sky for over 25 years. The 2020 guide contains monthly sky maps, an Indigenous astronomy section, viewing tips a ...Show more
Plato's Republic A Vision of Truth, Justice and the Ideal Society by Alan Jacobs
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Category: Science | Series: Sacred Texts
"The Republic" is considered by many authorities to be Plato's greatest work. This is a readable, provocative and enjoyable dialogue between Plato and various Athenian dignitaries in which they discuss the meaning of justice and democracy, the great philosopher's theory of the Forms and the ideal ruler. ...Show more
How Many Moons Does the Earth Have?: The Ultimate Science Quiz Book by Brian Clegg
16.99 AUD
Category: Science
Why did Uuq become Fl? Why is the sky blue? Why is the sky black? What is spaghettification? There's a problem with the typical pub quiz. It always features far too much sport, 1980s pop and celebrity gossip - and not nearly enough science. How Many Moons Does the Earth Have? is the ultimate solution. T ...Show more
Electrified Sheep: Bizarre Experiments from the Bestselling Author of Elephants on Acid by Alex Boese
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Category: Science
Benjamin Franklin was a pioneering scientist, leader of the Enlightenment and founding father of the USA. But perhaps less well known is that he was also the first person to use artificial respiration to revive an electric shock victim. Odder still, it was actually mouth-to-beak resuscitation on a hen t ...Show more
Introducing Anthropology: A Graphic Guide by Merryl Wyn-Davis
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Category: Science
Anthropology originated as the study of 'primitive' cultures. But the notion of 'primitive' exposes presumptions of 'civilized' superiority and the right of the West to speak for 'less evolved' others. With the fall of Empire, anthropology became suspect and was torn by dissension from within. Did anthr ...Show more
Atmospheric: The Burning Story of Climate Change by Carole Wilkinson
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Category: Science | Series: Drum
Talking about the weather used to be small talk, now it's the hottest topic on Earth. We can't survive without Earth's atmosphere, yet most of the time we ignore it. We treat our atmosphere as a rubbish dump for our greenhouse gas emissions. Slowly but surely, what we are doing is changing Earth's clima ...Show more
Eureka!: The Surprising Stories Behind the Ideas That Shaped the World by Marlene Wagman-Geller
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Category: Science
The fascinating inspirations behind common inventions and creations from Barbie to Sweet and Low to Mt. Rushmore. The slinky was born aboard a World War II ship. The Barbie doll was inspired by a German sex toy. Weight Watchers began with a Jewish housewife in Queens, New York. "Eureka!" explores the fa ...Show more
The Earth Gazers: On Seeing Ourselves by Christopher Potter
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Category: Science
It will soon be the fiftieth anniversary of the first manned mission to the moon, when men first saw for themselves the Earth as a sphere falling through space--they saw a world without borders and these images continue to give hope and inspire. Only twenty-four people have seen the whole earth. The mo ...Show more