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A Brief History of Motion: From the Wheel to the Car to What Comes Next by Tom Standage
22.99 AUD
Category: History
'Speckled with anecdotes, insights and surprises. It is great fun - and utterly timely' Sunday Times'Standage writes with a masterly clarity' New York Times'The product of deep research, great intelligence and burnished prose . . . It is rare that I encounter a non-fiction author whose prose is so elega ...Show more
A Brief History of Motion: From the Wheel, to the Car, to What Comes Next by Tom Standage
29.99 AUD
Category: Transport
From the New York Times bestselling author comes a timely and illuminating history of personal transportation, and how it has transformed the world we live in.Beginning around 3,500 BC with the wheel, and moving through the eras of horsepower, trains and bicycles, Tom Standage puts the rise of the car a ...Show more
Go Figure And Other Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know: The Economist Explains by Tom Standage
22.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
Want to know how a tattoo affects your job prospects, which James Bond drinks the most martinis, or how to make an invisibility cloak? We have the answers. The news cycle moves fast, and as one story is swiftly replaced by another, underlying causes and bigger (and smaller) questions often go unexplored ...Show more
Oddly Informative: Matters of fact that amaze and delight by Tom Standage
24.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
The latest edition in the Economist Explainer series, edited and introduced by Deputy Editor Tom Standage.
Truly Peculiar - Fantastic Facts That Are Stranger Than Fiction by Tom Standage
22.99 AUD
Category: Science
Our extraordinary world makes more (and sometimes less) sense when you wonder:What's driving the international turkey-meat boom?How does a cannonball determine a maritime boundary?Where can you wed your mobile phone?Why do septuagenarians have a better chance of summiting Mount Everest than ever?The eve ...Show more
Uncommon Knowledge by Tom Standage
22.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
The world can be an amazing place if you know the right questions to ask:How did carrots become orange? What's stopping us from having a four-day week? How can we remove all the broken bits of satellite from orbit? If everything is so terrible, why is the global suicide rate falling?The keen minds of th ...Show more
Unconventional Wisdom - Adventures in the Surprisingly True by Tom Standage
22.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
The world can be an amazing place if you know the right questions to ask: How much does a ghost reduce a house's value? How are winemakers responding to climate change? How much should you tip your Uber driver? Should your dog fear Easter more than fireworks? The keen minds of The Economist love to look ...Show more
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