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Large. Some foxing and wear on cover. This image is of the actual book.

A colourful foray into the world of New Zealand's native flowering herbs, shrubs and trees. Plants are presented alphabetically by scientific name within the environments they are found and descriptions of the plants follow introductions to the various groupings. Plants and environments are illustra...

128 pages : 23 cm. This book shows you how to create the most mazelike contraptions imaginable. The different components that go into making a contraption, and how to build them. The scientific, mechanical, and engineering secrets behind each of the components. How to build working models that demon...

Large. Cover foxed and worn. Pages inside in good condition. This image is of the actual book.

Match-fixing is one of the biggest issues surrounding sport. John Daniell, a former professional rugby player, has written the fascinating story of Mark Stevens, a former All Black playing professional rugby in Paris. Moving toward the end of his career Mark is drawn, through his relationship with a...

Pierre Teilhard De Chardin was one of the most distinguished thinkers and scientists of our time. He fits into no familiar category for he was at once a biologist and a paleontologist of world renown, and also a Jesuit priest. He applied his whole life, his tremendous intellect and his great spiritu...

A freelance technical writer notices that the moon is unusually bright. At first, he thinks it is some kind of atmospheric phenomenon, but soon he realizes he will be spending his last night alive. What should he do Hugo Award Winner. This 1986 Sphere Paperback is in good condition. Some tanning. IS...

Why do pizzas stay hot Why are olives edible How does ice carry electricity Why is blood redder in the tropics How much is a fingertip worth Why do camps require health forms What do drooping eyelids, electric eels, and curare have in common What was the secret of the Sphinx In fifty-plus essays, Ha...

'It is no accident that we see green almost wherever we look. It is no accident that we find ourselves perched on one tiny twig in the midst of a blossoming and flourishing tree of life; no accident that we are surrounded by millions of other species, eating, growing, rotting, swimming, walking, fly...

Moving Mars is a story of human courage and love set within the greater saga of a planetary liberation movement. Mars is a colonial world, governed by corporate interests on Earth. The citizens of Mars are hardworking, but held back by their lack of access to the best education, and the desire of th...

Eleventh Edition. Canon produced technical book describing Canon lens. This 2008 Canon Hardback is in very good condition. Heavy; Large; DJ. DJ has small tear front bottom otherwise book in near mint condition. SKU: 1580774 This image is of the actual book.

An intimate self-portrait of the American icon Will Eisner, and a chronicle of the career that launched a new art form. In what will be the closest thing Eisner fans will see to an autobiography, the great master and pioneer of American graphic arts presents the most intimate and personal perspectiv...

The worlds most trusted clinically focused anatomy text Renowned for comprehensive coverage, the best-selling Clinically Oriented Anatomy guides students from initial anatomy and foundational science courses through clinical training and practice. The eighth edition reflects significant New informat...

Fans of the xkcd comic ask Munroe a lot of strange questions: What if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90 percent the speed of light How fast can you hit a speed bump while driving and live If there was a robot apocalypse, how long would humanity last What if everyone only had one soulmate Wha...

No DJ As Issued. Cover rubbed; some tanning. This image is of the actual book.

A work of historical and scientific detection in which the authors set out a new theory concerning the Pyramid Texts and other archaic Egyptian scriptures.

After developing a lengthy expos on "frankenscience," SeeNet reporter Andrew Worth is burnt out. So burnt that he passes up a plum assignment covering the new disease "Distress." Instead, he asks for a lower-key job profiling Violet Mosala, a scientist who earned a Nobel Prize at the age of 25 and w...

2012 Reprint of 1948 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Julian Sommerville Hatcher was a noted firearms expert and author of the early twentieth century. He is credited with several technical books and articles relating to military fir...

The definitive guide to classical ballet - Experience the beauty and grace of ballet with this comprehensive guide. Fully describes and defines over 1,100 ballet steps, movements, poses and concepts. Miss Grant has made more information available in one book than we have ever had before. Teacher's o...

It is 1910 and to ten-year-old Oskar Grunewald, the Melville family is impossibly, incomprehensibly glamorous. Born into privilege, buttressed by inherited wealth, their certainties are as unshakeable as the walls of their Victorian castle. It is a world to which Oskar, mathematics prodigy and son o...

The Secret Garden, a classic loved for more than seventy-five years, is all that its title implies. It is, as one might imagine, a mystery. But it is also a love story and the love is as passionate and fervent as one could imagine. It is a story of the love of nature, of science and the scientific m...

This edition of "Othello" aims to shed light on the text of the play as we have come to know it, and on our knowledge of its early history. The professional malpractices of the publisher of the Quarto, as described in documents in the Public Record Office, and the professional zeal of the Folio scri...

Grandma knew best These 100 tried-and-true treatments for the most common ailments were staples in her home. With the growth of pharmaceuticals, many of them were temporarily eclipsedbut the newest scientific research proves that many of these healthy foods and herbs are well worth rediscovering. It...