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Amazing Transport by Tom Jackson
24.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
Fasten your seat belts and get ready to zoom through the history of transport and discover incredible facts about all kinds of vehicles along the way. Every day, all over the world, people are busy travelling - short hops or great, long voyages, moving slowly and steadily or racing along at super-fast ...Show more
Basher Science Mini: Artificial Intelligence by Tom Jackson; Simon Basher (Illustrator)
19.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Basher Ser.
We're not just smart computers! We do stuff that you humans think only you can do such as reasoning, recognizing faces, playing games, and even making art.Basher Science Mini: Artificial Intelligence explains what artificial intelligence is and how computers are aiding humans in everyday tasks. Artifici ...Show more
Basher Science Mini: Extreme Weather - It's Really Wild! by Tom Jackson; Simon Basher (Illustrator)
19.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
Meet the Climate Crew. We're a freaky crowd, so watch out!When the weather gets extreme, it shows off its awesome power by swatting cars around, sweeping away roads, bridges and houses - even making matchsticks out of buildings. Although extreme weather has been around throughout Earth's history, it's b ...Show more
Brain Ponderables by Tom Jackson
29.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History | 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
Chess (Basher Games) by Simon Basher, Tom Jackson
14.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
What takes 2 people, 32 pieces and 64 squares? It's chess, mate! How's that for an opening gambit? This game of strategy has been around for thousands of years and it gives your brain a real workout. But you don't have to be a brainiac to have fun playing chess, as Basher brings you his unique guide to ...Show more
Chilled: How Refrigeration Changed the World and Might Do So Again by Tom Jackson
19.99 AUD
Category: History
'...a chill-cabinet of curiosities: hot stuff, and deeply cool ...' Heat and fire have been at humanity's command for at least 100,000 years, but we've been in control of the cold for barely one hundred. Why it took so long is quite a story. Figuring out the cold would involve some gnomes, a fake perpe ...Show more
Dinosaur Atlas by Tom Jackson
24.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
In this follow-on to Football Atlas, Space Atlas and Ocean Atlas readers will be taken on a journey to the prehistoric world! On this Amazing Adventure readers will discover the mysteries of dinosaur origins, clues to what they looked like, how they survived, where they lived, and why they became extinc ...Show more
Earth Clock - The History of Our Planet in 24 Hours by Tom Jackson
32.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
Our planet has been spinning in the blackness of Space for 4.5 billion years. People have only been around for a tiny part of it. But what happened before we arrived on the scene? Before animals, dinosaurs and even trees? Imagine if we could discover Earth's history in one day... Starting the clock from ...Show more
Endangered Animals Atlas (HB) by Tom Jackson
24.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Amazing Adventures Ser.
Endangered Animals Atlas is a richly informative book for animal lovers everywhere, with an important and timely focus on the endangered animals around the world that need our protection. In this follow-on to Football Atlas, Space Atlas, Ocean Atlas and Dinosaur Atlas, you will be taken on a journey aro ...Show more
Engineering: Machines and Buildings (Basher Science) by Tom Jackson
16.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Basher Science | Reading Level: Children's - Grade 4-6, Age 9-11
How does a 3D printer work? What stops a skyscraper from falling over? Where does a smart phone store information? Welcome to the world of engineering! Discover how the familiar machines and buildings in today's world are constructed, and how they function. How do scientists choose the right materials f ...Show more
Follow the Link: A Journey Through Technology: From Frogs' Legs to the Titanic by Tom Jackson
24.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Follow the Link
Follow the Link: From Frogs' Legs to Titanic takes the reader on a journey through a network of knowledge. It tells the story of how we figured out what electricity is and how we learned to use it to communicate with each other. Over the centuries, we have taken the same power that creates a flash of li ...Show more
Follow the Link A Journey Through Transportation From Hot Lava to a Spy Rocket by Tom Jackson
24.99 AUD
Category: Childrens | Series: Follow The Link
This title in the Follow the Link series takes the reader on a journey through a network of knowledge. The route they take highlights how the inspiration behind new ideas is often surprising, always unpredictable and sometimes rather bizarre. Step inside the network of time to see how lightning led to c ...Show more