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Anatomies - The Human Body, Its Parts and The Stories They Tell by Hugh Aldersey-Williams
$19.99 AUD
Category: Science | Reading Level: very good
The Sunday Times Science Book of the Year, Anatomies by Hugh Aldersey-Williams, author of bestseller Periodic Tales, is a splendidly entertaining journey through the art, science, literature and history of the human body. "Magnificent, inspired. He writes like a latter-day Montaigne. Stimulating scienti ...Show more
Dutch Light: Christiaan Huygens and the Making of Science in Europe by Hugh Aldersey-Williams
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
Enchanting to the point of escapism.' – Simon Ings, -Spectator. 'Hugh Aldersey-Williams rescues his subject from Newton's shadow, where he was been unjustly confined for over three hundred years.' – Literary Review. Filled with incident, discovery, and revelation, Dutch Light is a vivid account of Chris ...Show more
Panicology by Simon Briscoe & Hugh Aldersey-Williams
$32.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Every day, the press warns us of some new calamity that will threaten our lives. The risks of simply being alive apparently grow ever more alarming. Life has never been better yet we live in fear. Why do we work ourselves up into such a state?Because these stories are a heady mix of supposedly scientifi ...Show more
Periodic Tales: The Curious Lives of the Elements by Hugh Aldersey-Williams
$32.95 AUD
Category: Science
Everything is made of them, from the furthest reaches of the universe to this book that you hold in your hands, including you. Like you, the elements have lives: personalities and attitudes, talents and shortcomings, stories rich with meaning. You may think of them as the inscrutable letters of the peri ...Show more
Periodic Tales: The Curious Lives of the Elements by Hugh Aldersey-Williams
$22.95 AUD
Category: Science | Reading Level: very good
The phenomenal Sunday Times bestseller Periodic Tales by Hugh Andersey-Williams, packed with fascinating stories and unexpected information about the building blocks of our universe. Everything in the universe is made of them, including you. Like you, the elements have personalities, attitudes, talents, ...Show more
The Adventures of Sir Thomas Browne in the 21st Century by Hugh Aldersey-Williams
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Aldersey-Williams pulls the unfairly neglected yet enormously influential writer Thomas Browne out of the obscure pages of 'Pseudodoxia Epidemica' and into the 21st century, to apply his generous curiosity and rational intelligence to the vagaries and contradictions of life today. Browne has had some im ...Show more
Tide: The Science and Lore of the Greatest Force on Earth by Hugh Aldersey-Williams
$24.99 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment
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Tide The Science and Lore of the Greatest Force on Earth by Hugh Aldersey-Williams
$35.00 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment
From Cnut to D-Day: the history and science of the ever-powerful tide explored for the first time Half of the world's population today lives in coastal regions lapped by tidal waters. On our little island, we live surrounded by water and love to be beside the seaside. But it rises and falls according to ...Show more
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