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Anatomical Oddities by Alice Roberts
32.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
Every part of the human body has a name - and story. But how familiar are you with your arachnoid mater or your Haversian canals? Anatomical Oddities is an artistic and linguistic adventure, taking the reader on a journey to discover the hidden landscape of the human body: its crypts and caverns, gorges ...Show more
Ancestors: A prehistory of Britain in seven burials by Alice Roberts
45.00 AUD
Category: History
This book is about belonging: about walking in ancient places, in the footsteps of the ancestors. It's about reaching back in time, to find ourselves, and our place in the world.We often think of Britain springing from nowhere with the arrival of the Romans. But in Ancestors, pre-eminent archaeologist, ...Show more
Artificial Intelligence: A Ladybird Expert Book by Alice Roberts; Michael Woolridge
19.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History | Series: Ladybird Expert Ser.
Part of the new Ladybird Expert series, Artificial Intelligence is a clear, simple and entertaining introduction to intelligent machines and the humans that program them. Written by computer scientist Michael Wooldridge, Artificial Intelligence chronicles the development of intelligent machines, from Tu ...Show more
Buried: An alternative history of the first millennium in Britain by Alice Roberts
45.00 AUD
Category: History
Funerary rituals show us what people thought about mortality; how they felt about loss; what they believed came next. From Roman cremations and graveside feasts, to deviant burials with heads rearranged, from richly furnished Anglo Saxon graves to the first Christian burial grounds in Wales, Buried prov ...Show more
Buried: An alternative history of the first millennium in Britain by Alice Roberts
22.99 AUD
Category: History
A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Tender, fascinating ... Lucid and illuminating' Robert MacfarlaneFunerary rituals show us what people thought about mortality; how they felt about loss; what they believed came next. From Roman cremations and graveside feasts, to deviant burials with heads rearranged, from rich ...Show more
Crypt: Life, Death and Disease in the Middle Ages and Beyond by Alice Roberts
49.99 AUD
Category: History
The new book by Sunday Times bestselling author of Ancestors and Buried - the final instalment in Professor Alice Roberts' acclaimed trilogy.We can unlock secrets from bones preserved for centuries in tombs, graves and crypts.The history of the Middle Ages is typically the story of the rich and powerful ...Show more
Evolution: The Human Story by Dr. Alice Roberts
45.00 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
This unrivalled illustrated guide to human evolution brings you face to face with your ancient ancestors. Travelling back in time almost eight million years, the book charts the development of our species, Homo sapiens, from tree-dwelling primates to modern humans. Evolution investigates each of our an ...Show more
Human Anatomy: The Definitive Visual Guide by Alice Roberts
39.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
The definitive visual guide to human anatomyDiscover fascinating facts about the human body in Human Anatomy.Did you know that your stomach is only a centimetre away from the bottom of your heart? You'll get to see all the biological wonders of the human body, often at life-size, with spectacular anatom ...Show more
Human Origins - A Ladybird Expert Book by Alice Roberts
19.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History | Series: Ladybird Expert Ser.
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Incredible Unlikeliness of Being: Evolution and the Making of Us, The by Dr. Alice Roberts
39.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
The presenter of the BBC's The Incredible Human Journey gives us a new and highly accessible look at our own bodies, allowing us to understand how we develop as an embryo, from a single egg into a complex body, and how our embryos contain echoes of our evolutionary past. Bringing together the latest sci ...Show more
Tamed: Ten Species That Changed Our World by Alice Roberts
24.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
**'A masterpiece of evocative scientific storytelling.' BRIAN COX** **'The best popular book on broad-sweep history since Guns, Germs and Steel.'** Peter Forbes The extraordinary story of the species that became our allies. For hundreds of thousands of years, our ancestors depended on wild plants and an ...Show more
The Celts by Alice Roberts
22.99 AUD
Category: History
'Informed, impeccably researched and written' Neil Oliver The Celts are one of the world's most mysterious ancient people. In this compelling account, Alice Roberts takes us on a journey across Europe, uncovering the truth about this engimatic tribe: their origins, their treasure and their enduring leg ...Show more