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Cracking the Egyptian Code: The Revolutionary Life of Jean-Francois Champollion by Andrew Robinson
$21.99 NZD
Category: History
Cracking the Egyptian Code is the first biography in English of Jean-Francois Champollion, the impoverished, arrogant and brilliant child of the French Revolution who made the vital breakthrough in deciphering the Egyptian hieroglyphs. This finely illustrated account charts Champollion's dramatic life a ...Show more
Cracking the Egyptian Code: The Revolutionary Life of Jean-François Champollion by Andrew Robinson
$30.00 NZD
Category: History
An updated edition of this acclaimed book, now with a new preface and published to tie in with the bicentenary of Champollion's breakthrough in 1822.Cracking the Egyptian Code is the first biography in English of Jean-François Champollion, the impoverished, arrogant and brilliant child of the French Rev ...Show more
Earth-Shattering Events - Earthquakes, Nations and Civilization by Andrew Robinson
$50.00 NZD
Category: History
"A truly welcome and refreshing study that puts earthquake impact on history into a proper perspective" --Amos Nur, Emeritus Professor of Geophysics, Stanford University, California, and author of Apocalypse: Earthquakes, Archaeology, and the Wrath of God. Since antiquity, on every continent, human bein ...Show more
Einstein: A Hundred Years of Relativity by Andrew Robinson
$63.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
"The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility ...The fact that it is comprehensible is a miracle." --Albert Einstein, 1936 Albert Einstein's universal appeal is only partially explained by his brilliant work in physics, as Andrew Robinson demonstrates in this authoritative, accessible, and ...Show more
Genius by Andrew Robinson
$25.99 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Very Short Introductions
Homer, Leonardo da Vinci, Mozart, Shakespeare, and Tolstoy; Curie, Darwin, Einstein, Galileo, and Newton. What do these world-famous artists and scientists have in common?- apart from the fact that their achievements predate our own time by a century or more. Most of us would probably answer: all ten po ...Show more
India: A Short History by Andrew Robinson
$21.99 NZD
Category: History
India's unfolding story, from the ancient Hindu dynasties to the coming of Islam, from the Mughal Empire to the present day India has always been a land of great contradictions. To Alexander the Great, the country was a place of clever naked philosophers and massive armies mounted on elephants - whi ...Show more
Lost Languages by Andrew Robinson
$70.00 NZD
Category: Reference
Illustrated throughout, this volume looks at the world\\\'s remaining undeciphered scripts and the people who are stuggling to crack them.
The Scientists: An Epic of Discovery by Andrew Robinson
$65.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
This book tells the remarkable lives of the pioneers of science from Galileo and Newton, Faraday and Darwin, Pasteur and Marie Curie, to Einstein, Freud, Turing, and Crick and Watson. A series of seventy articles, written by an international team of distinguished scientists, historians of science and sc ...Show more
The Story of Measurement by Andrew Robinson
$75.00 NZD
Category: Reference
New from the author of the highly successful "The Story of Writing", here is the first fully illustrated guide to the human passion for measurement - of ourselves, our experiences, our surroundings and the universe - published at a time of great interest in popular science titles. Answering many of the ...Show more
The Story of Writing: Alphabets, Hieroglyphs and Pictograms by Andrew Robinson
$44.95 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Reading Level: very good
Writing is one of humanity's greatest inventions. Without it there would be no history and no civilization as we know it. But how, when and where did writing evolve? In a succinct, absorbing and well-illustrated text, Andrew Robinson discusses the history of decipherment and then each of the major writi ...Show more
The Winter Spirits - Ghostly Tales for Frosty Nights by Bridget Collins; Catriona Ward; Laura Shepherd-Robinson; Susan Stokes-Chapman; Imogen Hermes Gowar; Natasha Pulley; Jess Kidd; Andrew Michael Hurley; Elizabeth Macneal; Laura Purcell; Kiran Millwood Hargrave; Stuart Turton
$0.00 NZD
Category: No Category
FROM THE CREATORS OF THE HAUNTING SEASON COMES A DAZZLING COLLECTION OF NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN GHOSTLY TALES.'Terrific - every bit as good as an MR James collection' ROSIE ANDREWS, author of THE LEVIATHANFeaturing new and original stories from:Bridget Collins, author of The BindingImogen Hermes Gowar, author ...Show more