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Lifetimes: The Story of Mozart by Stewart Ross
10.99 NZD
Category: Children Non Fiction
This series tells the life stories of people who have made an impact on our lives; people who changed the way the world looked at things when they were alive, and still do today after their death. This work discusses the life of Mozart. Fact boxes tell the reader about the background to the person's lif ...Show more
Pirates, Plants and Plunder! by Stewart Ross (illus David Roberts)
16.95 NZD
Category: Children Fiction
Twelve fascinating tales about the adventurers who travelled all over the globe, finding new plants and the amazing things they produce. Join Joseph Banks as he gets stranded on the Australian Great Barrier Reef whilst searching for new botanical specimens. Battle with the Mexican Emperor Montezuma agai ...Show more
Sports Technology by Stewart Ross
40.00 NZD
Category: Children Non Fiction | Series: New Technology
Sports Technology looks at developments in the world of sport, and explores the way in which technology has enhanced both the players' and the supporters' experience. It discusses electronic decision-making, advances in technology that have improved equipment, sportswear, athletes' training and performa ...Show more
The First of Everything by Stewart Ross
29.99 NZD
Category: Science
The First of Everything follows a context-setting introduction with seven stimulating sections: In the Beginning (The Big Bang to Homo Sapiens), At Home (the first glass windows to dentures and bikinis); Health and Medicine (herbs to heart transplants); Getting About (donkeys to double deckers); Science ...Show more
The French Revolution: Events and Outcomes by Stewart Ross
49.95 NZD
Category: Children Non Fiction
Each book in this series presents a two-part investigation of a major event or significant era in world history. A detailed narrative provides an analysis of the immediate significance of events, and their place in the bigger picture, going on to examine the consequences of these events and their impact ...Show more
The Holocaust: A Young Boy's Story (Survivors) by Stewart Ross
17.99 NZD
Category: Children Fiction | Series: Survivors
Bandi Guttmann is a 14-year-old Hungarian Jew, living in Budapest in 1944. German forces have occupied the city and life for Bandi and his family is about to become unbearable. Set apart from the rest of the Hungarian community, and denied basic human rights, the family's only weapon is their determinat ...Show more
The Russian Revolution: Events and Outcomes by Stewart Ross
49.95 NZD
Category: Children Non Fiction
An investigation of the Russian Revolution. A detailed narrative provides an analysis of the immediate significance of the events, and their place in the bigger picture, going on to examine the consequences of these events and their impact both on contemporaries and on following generations.
The Story of Ireland by Stewart Ross
19.99 NZD
Category: Children Non Fiction
Comic, colourful and succinct, with short text, lots of pictures and jokey captions, this is a brilliant introduction to the story of Ireland. From its pictorial endpaper maps to the panels of 'Irish Icons' ranging from Brian Boru to the Abbey Theatre, it is packed with useful and fascinating informatio ...Show more
What If the Bomb Goes Off? by Stewart Ross
14.95 NZD
Category: Children Fiction
The story of the Coventry Blitz. While out hunting for German spies, Bill and his brother find an unexploded bomb. When their friends refuse to believe them, they go on a dangerous quest to prove that the bomb is real. This volume is part of a series which seeks to bring the past alive.
Wolfwalkers by Tomm Moore & Ross Stewart & Samuel Sattin
24.99 NZD
Category: Graphic Novels
An enchanting graphic novel about a feud, a friendship, and two girls forever changed. Based on the beautifully hand-crafted animated adventure, WolfWalkers, this graphic novel features an introduction and exclusive original art from film cocreator Tomm Moore and co-Art Director Maria Pareja. On the ord ...Show more
World War I: A Young Boy's Story (Survivors) by Stewart Ross
17.99 NZD
Category: Children Fiction | Series: Survivors
It's 1914 and France is at war. Fourteen-year-old Pierre Clouet is desperate to help defeat the Germans, but he's too young to fight. The only way he could sign up is if he has false identity papers. So when the opportunity arises, Pierre seizes it with both hands. But the world of war is a gruesome one ...Show more