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A Brief History of Puzzles: 120 of the World's Most Baffling Brainteasers from the Sphinx to Sudoku by William Hartston
$24.99 AUD
Category: Games & Puzzles
A mindbending history of the greatest puzzles of all time, by the author of The Things That Nobody Knows.
Numb and Number by William Hartston
$29.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
'A wise, witty and insightful guide to clear thinking amid a deluge of percentages and probabilities.' Ian StewartLike it or not, our lives are dominated by mathematics. Our daily diet of news regales us with statistical forecasts, opinion polls, risk assessments, inflation figures, weather and climate ...Show more
Sloths! - A Celebration of the World's Most Misunderstood Mammal by William Roland Hartston
$22.99 AUD
Category: Natural History
In public estimation, sloths have undergone an astonishing transformation in the course of the past few years. Thanks largely to YouTube clips posted by the sloth orphanage in Costa Rica, sloths have attracted a vast audience of admirers. Instead of seeing them as ridiculous anachronisms of which we kno ...Show more
The Encyclopaedia of Everything Else by William Hartston
$39.99 AUD
Category: Dictionaries
A delightful and witty treasure trove of utterly useless information by the author of The ThingsThat Nobody Knows. Most encyclopaedias are boring. They are so packed with worthy but dull facts that a great dealof weird and wonderful material is squeezed out. The Encyclopaedia of Everything Else takesthe ...Show more
Things That Nobody Knows: 501 Mysteries of Life, the Universe and Everything by William Hartston
$24.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
" HERE ARE MANY, MANY THINGS THAT NOBODY KNOWS ...Why are so many giraffes gay? Has human evolution stopped? Where did our alphabet come from? Can robots become self-aware? Can lobsters recognize other lobsters by sight? What goes on inside a black hole? Are cell phones bad for us? Why can't we remember ...Show more
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