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30-Second Anatomy by Gabrielle Finn
25.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction | Series: 30-Second
The 30-Second...series takes a revolutionary approach to learning about all those subjects that you feel you should really understand. Each title takes a popular topic and dissects it into the 50 most significant, intriguing, or thought-provoking ideas at its heart. Each idea, no matter how complex, is ...Show more
30-Second Ancient China: The 50 Most Important Achievements of a Timeless Civilisation, Each Explained in Half a Minute by Yijie Zhuang
25.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: 30 Second
In the West, the story of Ancient China is less familiar to us than that of Ancient Egypt or Rome, but it is no less absorbing, and its roll call of achievements is easily as impressive. 30-Second Ancient China unlocks the secrets of its Bronze Age glories and offers summaries of everything from the los ...Show more
30-Second Architecture: The 50 Most Signicant Principles and Styles in Architecture, Each Explained in Half a Minute by Edward Denison
30.00 NZD
33.00 (9% off)
Category: Architecture | Series: 30-Second
The 50 most significant principles and styles in architecture, each explained in half a minute. The bestselling 30-Second series offers a new approach to learning about those subjects you feel you should really understand. Every title takes a popular topic and dissects it into the 50 most significant id ...Show more
30-Second Astronomy by Francois Fressin
25.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction | Series: 30-Second
The 50 most cosmic concepts, each explained in half a minute.
30 Second Bible: The 50 Most Meaningful Moments in the Bible, Each Explained in Half a Minute by Dr Russell Re Manning
30.00 NZD
Category: Religion | Series: 30-Second
The 50 most meaningful moments in the Bible, each explained in half a minute. The Bible has been a bestseller from its earliest days but its a little like "A Brief History of Time": most people have a copy, and we all think we know what its about, but if you have read it, it was most likely when you wer ...Show more
30-Second Brain by Anil Seth
25.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Series: 30-Second
The bestselling 30-Second...series takes a revolutionary approach to learning about those subjects you feel you really should understand. Each title dissects a popular topic into its 50 most significant ideas, explaining each one using only 300 words and a picture. The brain is the hot science topic of ...Show more
30 Second Chemistry: The 50 elemental concepts in chemistry by Nivaldo Tro
33.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Series: 30 Second Ser.
As the central science that bridges biology and physics, chemistry explains the diversity of all things tangible at a molecular level. Chemistry is the science of matter--its composition, structure, properties, and how it changes.Understand chemistry, and you'll know why some things oxidize and others e ...Show more
30-Second Classical Music by Joanne Cormac
23.00 NZD
Category: Music | Series: 30 Second
Do you know a capella from zarzuela, or your major from your minor? Can you distinguish between a serenade and a symphony? If you only have 30 seconds, there is time - using this book - to understand the creative journey taken by classical music from the Middle Ages to the modern era. Our early ancestor ...Show more
30-Second Economics by Donald Marron
25.00 NZD
Category: Economics | Series: 30-Second
In these times of financial crisis, the economic consensus of the past 15 years has been destroyed. It's clear that there's a problem, but what's the solution? Once again, different economic theories are being debated and names such as Adam Smith and John Maynard Keynes are being bandied about. What onc ...Show more
30-Second Elements by Eric Scerri
25.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Series: 30-Second
30-Second Elements presents you with the foundations of chemical knowledge, distilling the 50 most significant chemical elements into half-a-minute individual entries, using nothing more than two pages, 300 words and one picture. Divided into seven chapters, it includes the atomic details of the other 6 ...Show more
30-Second Great Inventions by David Boyle
33.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction | Series: 30 Second
30-Second Great Inventions looks at fifty groundbreaking innovations - together with the individuals behind the ideas - that really have changed the world. Universal change is often the result of an individual’s lightbulb moment – an invention that triggers a ripple effect across countries, continents, ...Show more
30-Second Maths by Richard Brown
25.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction | Series: 30 Second
The ideal introduction to the key theories and principles of mathematics.