Dissent over Descent: Evolution's 500-Year War on Intelligent Design by Steve Fuller
$29.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
If you think Intelligent Design Theory (IDT) is merely the respectable face of Christian fundamentalism, and Evolution the only sensible scientific world-view, think again...IDT has driven science for 500 years. It was responsible for the 17th century's Scientific Revolution and helped build modern hist ...Show more
Happy Families by Carlos Fuentes
$49.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
This is a choral novel on the hopes, disillusionments and betrayals of family life in Mexico. A rich Catholic rancher wants his four sons to become priests, while the boys themselves have other plans; a bereaved mother explains her daughter's life to the man who killed her; three daughters meet up aroun ...Show more
The Book of General Ignorance by Stephen Fry
$19.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Reading Level: very good
Compendium of popular misconceptions, misunderstandings and common mistakes culled from the hit BBC show, QI. Published to coincide with the fourth series broadcast in September 2006. If, like Alan Davies, you still think that Henry VIII had six wives, the earth has only one moon, that George Washington ...Show more
The Ode Less Travelled : Unlocking the poet within by Stephen Fry
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Stephen Fry's On Poetry provides us with a witty and entertaining guide to the mysteries of writing poetry. TERZA RIMA The terza rima mode is very fine, Great Dante used it for his famous text; It rhymes the words in every other line With each thought drawing you towards the next: A B A B, C B, C D C D. ...Show more
Atomic: The First War of Physics and the Secret History of the Atom Bomb 1939-49 by Jim Baggott
$49.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
Rich in personality, action, confrontation and deception, "Atomic" is the first fully realised popular account of the race to build humankind's most destructive weapon. The book draws on declassified material, such as MI6's FarmHall transcripts, coded Soviet messages cracked by American cryptographers i ...Show more
A UNIVERSAL HISTORY OF THE DESTRUCTION O by BAEZ FERNANDO
$45.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks