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Eureka Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Ancient Greeks but Were Afraid to Ask by Peter Jones
$22.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Classic Civilisations
The ancient Greeks gave us our alphabet and much of our scientific, medical and cultural language; they invented democracy, atomic theory, and the rules of logic and geometry; laid the foundations of philosophy, history, tragedy and comedy; and debated everything from the good life and the role of women ...Show more
Fromelles – Naming the Dead: The Scientists' Story by Margaret Cox, Peter Jones, Louise Loe
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military
This is the extraordinary story of the engagement between 250 young Australians, who enlisted in 1915 and died in the Battle of Fromelles of 1916, their families, and three British scientists. In 2009, the bodies of these 250 soldiers were excavated by Oxford Archaeology. Among them were the Wilson br ...Show more
It's All About the Food Not the Fork! by Peter Morgan-Jones; Lisa Greedy; Prudence Ellis
$19.99 AUD
$39.95 (49% off)
Category: Cooking
Everyone enjoys the fun and convenience of snacks and other easy to eat food. But for some people these meals in a mouthful may actually be a life-changer if they can be eaten with your hands and are good for you as well. Imagine... you're not comfortable with cutlery, can't face a large meal, have re ...Show more
Memento Mori - What the Romans Can Tell Us about Old Age and Death by Peter Jones
$22.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Classic Civilisations
In this revealing and entertaining guide to how the Romans confronted their own mortality, Peter Jones shows us that all the problems associated with old age and death that so transfix us today were already dealt with by our ancient ancestors 2,000 years ago. Romans inhabited a world where people, knowi ...Show more
Poisoned Chalice: Peter Hall and the Sydney Opera House by Anne Watson; Anne Savage (Editor); Clive Jones (Designed by); Fiona Sim (Index by); Peter Webber (Foreword by)
$59.95 AUD
Category: Architecture and Design
Since the announcement of Jorn Utzon's winning Sydney Opera House competition entry in early 1957 the project has excited controversy. Testing the very boundaries of technology, the gestation of this sublime building was long and fraught with problems, none more so than the departure of its architect in ...Show more
Veni, Vidi, Vici: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Romans but Were Afraid to Ask by Peter Jones; James Nightingale (Editor)
$22.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Classic Civilisations
The Romans left a long-lasting legacy and their influence can still be seen all around us, from our calendar and coins to our language and laws, but how much do we really know about them? Help is at hand in the form of this bookwhich tells the remarkable, and often surprising, story of the Romans and th ...Show more
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