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Amazing Transport by Tom Jackson
27.00 NZD
Category: Children 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
Animal (DK Eyewitness) by Tom Jackson
9.99 NZD
16.00 (37% off)
Category: SALE Books
Discover how birds, bats and insects have all evolved different ways to fly. Find out how penguins survive the harshest weather conditions not he planet. See how animals use colour to attract mates, ward off predators, and hide from prey. What will you Eyewitness next? Visually stunning and packed full ...Show more
Brain Ponderables by Tom Jackson
39.99 NZD
Category: Science | 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
Climate Change by Tom Jackson
22.99 NZD
Category: Children Non Fiction | Series: What's the Issue?
What is climate change? Is it the same as global warming? Can we stop it? This book helps answer these questions and provides kids with the necessary knowledge to make up their own minds on climate change.
How to Build a Human Body by Tom Jackson
28.00 NZD
Category: Children Non Fiction | Reading Level: From 8 To 12
From the team who created the award-winning title How to Make a Universe from 92 Ingredients (9781407117911) and How to Change the Worlds with a Ball of String (9781407121543), HOW TO BUILD A HUMAN BODY makes human biology fun! Covering all the major body organs and systems, and featuring 'experiments' ...Show more
Mathematics: An Illustrated History of Numbers (Ponderables) by Tom Jackson
34.99 NZD
Category: Science | Series: Ponderables
Legend has it that the first magic square, where all lines and diagonals add up to the same figure, was revealed more than 2,000 years ago when a river turtle appeared to have ancient Chinese numerals inscribed on sections of its shell. Patterns are everywhere in nature, and counting, measuring, and cal ...Show more
Philosophy (Ponderables) by Tom Jackson
39.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Ponderables Ser.
Here is the essential guide to philosophy. Philosophy: An Illustrated History of Thought is an authoritative yet fun reference book and timeline on the compilation of human knowledge. Both art and science attempt answers to the big questions -- what is truth, how to be good, and where did we come from? ...Show more
Physics: An Illustrated History of the Foundations of Science (Ponderables) by Tom Jackson
39.99 NZD
Category: Science | Series: Ponderables
Our journey begins with the first attempts to understand reality, Mother Nature - or as the ancient Greeks called it, physis. Follow the journey through history as great scientists, such as Thales, Galileo, Feynman, and many others, gradually unpick the fabric of the Universe revealing an array of funda ...Show more
Postcard from the Past by Tom Jackson
29.99 NZD
Category: Humour
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MARK HADDON In Postcard From The Past, Tom Jackson has gathered a collection of the funniest, weirdest and most moving real messages from the backs of old postcards. 'Sublimely funny' Jason Hazeley, author of the Ladybird Books for Grown Ups 'My favourite Twitter account is now m ...Show more
Quiz Whiz by Tom Jackson
29.99 NZD
Category: Children Non Fiction
"Quiz Whiz" is designed to be used in three ways. Children can test themselves and each other with quick-fire quizzes; use the quizzes to gain straightforward question-and-answer information; or enjoy reading through the colourful, informative spreads and hunting for facts.Following on from the successf ...Show more
Stop the Clock: Hours of Record Breaking Facts by Tom Jackson
39.99 NZD
Category: Children Non Fiction
'Stop the Clock' is packed with world records, terrific trivia, brain-testing quizzes and eye-popping photos.
The Elements: An Illustrated History of the Periodic Table (Ponderables) by Tom Jackson
34.99 NZD
Category: Science | Series: Ponderables
In 1869 Dmitri Mendeleev presented the world with the Periodic Table. It contained 63 elements, many more than the four elements established in the ancient world, but less than half the total in our modern table. Mendeleev believed there were many elements still to come. He was right. This gloriously il ...Show more