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Brain Ponderables by Tom Jackson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science | Series: Ponderables Ser.
Here is the essential guide to the human brain, an authoritative reference book and timeline that examines the three pounds of matter inside our heads that does all our thinking for us. With 100 billion nerve cells joined by thousands more to every corner of the body, the brain is wired together with 10 ...Show more
Discovery Kids Factivity Blast off on a Mission to Explore Space: Discover the Facts! Do the Activities! by Tom Jackson
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Category: Kids' Reference
Take a trip to explore space with this amazing Factivity book. Blast Off on a Mission to Explore Space lets you travel to different galaxies, navigate the solar system, and explore the International Space Station! Complete activities, puzzles, mazes and more on your exciting journey of discovery! Discov ...Show more
Engineering : An Illustrated History From Ancient Craft To Modern Technology by Tom Jackson
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Category: Popular Science | Series: Ponderables Ser.
From ancient aqueducts to soaring skyscrapers, explore engineering milestones over the centuries. Combining engaging text with captivating images and helpful diagrams, renowned science writer Tom Jackson guides readers through the history of Engineering in this engaging installment of the groundbreaking ...Show more
Mathematics: An Illustrated History of Numbers (Ponderables) by Tom Jackson
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Category: Popular Science | Series: Ponderables
Legend has it that the first magic square, where all lines and diagonals add up to the same figure, was revealed more than 2,000 years ago when a river turtle appeared to have ancient Chinese numerals inscribed on sections of its shell. Patterns are everywhere in nature, and counting, measuring, and cal ...Show more
Philosophy (Ponderables) by Tom Jackson
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Category: Politics | Series: Ponderables Ser.
Here is the essential guide to philosophy. Philosophy: An Illustrated History of Thought is an authoritative yet fun reference book and timeline on the compilation of human knowledge. Both art and science attempt answers to the big questions -- what is truth, how to be good, and where did we come from? ...Show more
Physics: An Illustrated History of the Foundations of Science (Ponderables) by Tom Jackson
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Category: Popular Science | Series: Ponderables
Our journey begins with the first attempts to understand reality, Mother Nature - or as the ancient Greeks called it, physis. Follow the journey through history as great scientists, such as Thales, Galileo, Feynman, and many others, gradually unpick the fabric of the Universe revealing an array of funda ...Show more
The Elements: An Illustrated History of the Periodic Table (Ponderables) by Tom Jackson
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Category: Popular Science | Series: Ponderables
In 1869 Dmitri Mendeleev presented the world with the Periodic Table. It contained 63 elements, many more than the four elements established in the ancient world, but less than half the total in our modern table. Mendeleev believed there were many elements still to come. He was right. This gloriously il ...Show more
The Periodic Table: A Visual Guide to the Elements by Tom Jackson; Gail Dixon
$39.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
Which is the densest element? Which has the largest atoms? And why are some elements radioactive? From the little-known uses of gold in medicine to the development of the hydrogen bomb, this is a fresh new look at the Periodic Table. Combining cutting edge science with fascinating facts and stunning inf ...Show more
The Universe : An Illustrated History of Astronomy by Tom Jackson
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Category: Astronomy | Series: Ponderables Ser.
Astronomers today believe that the Universe may have begun 13.7 billion years ago, when its entire energy, mass, space, and even time, expanded out from a single point. New, empty space was lit by innumerable baby stars and infant galaxies, their light finally reaching Earth many billions of years later ...Show more
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