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Boffinology: The Real Stories Behind Our Greatest Scientific Discoveries by Justin Pollard
29.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
The history of science is often seen as a story of advancement but nothing could be further from the truth. Science, it is true, has progressed, but rarely in the direction intended and seldom for the reasons given. This has a lot to do with the people responsible. Meet Thales, credited as 'the father o ...Show more
Boffinology: The Real Stories Behind Our Greatest Scientific Discoveries by Justin Pollard
38.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
The history of science is often seen as a story of advancement but nothing could be further from the truth. Science, it is true, has progressed, but rarely in the direction intended and seldom for the reasons given. This has a lot to do with the people responsible. Meet Thales, credited as 'the father o ...Show more
Charge!: The Interesting Bits of Military History by Justin Pollard
30.00 NZD
Category: History
War brings out the very best and worst in people although, frankly, its usually the latter. But for all our thousands of years of practice at this most dangerous art there is precious little evidence that we're either outgrowing it or getting any good at it. It is an occupation filled with heroism, geni ...Show more
The Interesting Bits by Justin Pollard
30.00 NZD
Category: Humour
Did you give school history lessons your undivided attention? Even if you did, youre probably none the wiser as to how exactly Henry II of France came to have a two-foot splinter in his head or why Alexandra of Bavaria believed she had swallowed a piano. Or where terms like bunkum, maverick, John Bull a ...Show more
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