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30-Second Rock Music: The 50 key styles, artists and happenings each explained in half a minute by Mike Evans
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Category: Music | Series: 30 Second Ser.
30-Second Rock Music starts with 1950s rock'n'roll (and its roots) and explores blues and folk, progressive and heavy metal, punk, indie and alt rock, profiling extraordinary bands and musicians along the way. Featuring groups as diverse as Wilco, The Killers, Fleetwood Mac, Stevie Wonder and The White ...Show more
30-Second Space Travel - 50 Key Inventions and Destinations That Have Inspired Humanity Toward the Heavens by Charles Liu
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Category: Science & Natural History | Series: 30 Second Ser.
From the imaginings of science-fiction writers and scientists through the ages, all the way to the Moon landings, and beyond into the realms of easy space-tourism, 30-Second Space Travel will guide you through the hows, wheres, whys, and whens of one of the most remarkable feats of human exploration. ...Show more
30-Second Theories by Paul Parsons
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Category: Science & Natural History | Series: 30-Second
The primary ideas of science, presented in one easy-to-understand volume.
30-Second Universe by Charles Liu; Karen Masters; Sevil Salur
27.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History | Series: 30 Second Ser.
The universe literally encompasses everything we were, are and will be, everything we knew, know and can know. When we decide to understand the universe as a whole, new truths come to light, and unexpected perspectives illuminate our take on life. 30-Second Universe explains all the tantalising concepts ...Show more
30 Second Weather by Adam Scaife
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Category: Science & Natural History | Series: 30 Second
If you only have 30 seconds, there is time - using this book - to make sense of the science behind the seeming vagaries of the weather, the controversies, predictions and forecasts for climate change that shape our day-to-day experiences of the great outdoors. Ever since Aristotle first tried to explain ...Show more
30 Second Whisky: The 50 essential elements of producing and enjoying the world's whiskies by Charles MacLean
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Category: No Category | Series: 30 Second
The bestselling 30-Second| series takes a revolutionary approach to learning about those subjects you feel you should really understand. Each title selects a popular topic and dissects it into the 50 most significant ideas at its heart. Every idea, no matter how complex, is explained in 300 words and on ...Show more
30-Second Zoology - The 50 Most Fundamental Categories and Concepts from the Study of Animal Life by Mark Fellowes
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Category: Science & Natural History | Series: 30 Second Ser.
Endowed with abundant water, extraordinary ecoystems, varied climates and biomes, our planet is teeming with creatures, great and small. What produced this rich diversity? How have so many species formed, evolved and adapted? What effects are humans having on the rest of the animal kingdom and on the ...Show more
30-second Ancient Egypt: The 50 Most Important Achievements of a Timeless Civilisation Each Explained in Half a Minute by Peter Der Manuelian
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Category: History | Series: 30-Second | Reading Level: very good
We've all heard of pyramids, hieroglyphs and Cleopatra, but how much do you really know about ancient Egypt? Why was the Nile integral to the unification of Egypt? What is the mystery surrounding Queen Hetephere's tomb? What did the Amarna Letters reveal? What did the ancient Egyptians eat and drink? 30 ...Show more
30-second Ancient Rome: The 50 Most Important Achievements of a Timeless Civilisation Each Explained in Half a Minute by Matthew Nicholls
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Category: History | Series: 30-Second | Reading Level: very good
You know that Rome wasn't built in a day, but just how did a cluster of small hilltop villages expand to become one of the greatest empires in history? Why did Romulus kill his brother Remus? How was a legion organized? Did people really speak Latin? What entertainment could you see at the Colosseum? An ...Show more
30-second Theories: The 50 Most Thought-provoking Theories in Science by Paul Parsons
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Category: Science & Natural History | Series: 30-Second
When it comes to big science, very few things are conclusively known. From Quantum Mechanics to Natural Selection, what we have instead are theories - ideas explain why things happen the way they do. We don't know for certain these are correct - no one ever saw the Big Bang - but with them we can paint ...Show more
Ancient Egypt in 30 Seconds: 30 Awesome Topics for Pharaoh Fanatics Explained in Half a Minute by Cath Senker
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Category: Picture Books | Series: Children's 30 Second
30 awesome topics for pharaoh fanatics explained in half a minute Meet the charismatic Ancient Egyptians in this informative title for history buffs aged 812. Covering more than just mummies and pyramids, this book introduces life by the Nile, including the jobs people had, the clothes they wore, the to ...Show more
Ancient Rome in 30 Seconds by Simon Holland
14.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Children's 30 Second
With fast facts, mini missions and engaging artwork, Ancient Rome in 30 Seconds is an introduction to one of the world' s greatest ancient civilizations. Children will discover how ordinary Romans lived, what it was like to be a legionary and how the mighty Roman empire rose - and fell. Other topics cov ...Show more