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Cruise Ships: The World's Most Luxurious Vessels by Peter C. Smith
$75.00 AUD
Category: Planes, Trains & Automobiles
The stunning elegance and luxurious interiors of today's vast fleet of cruise liners remains unrecorded in all but holiday brochures. This book gives a complete overview of the cream of these ships, today's queens of the sea. Each liner is illustrated and described with colour illustrations of external ...Show more
Living on Earth by Peter Godfrey-Smith
$35.00 AUD
Category: Natural History
The eagerly anticipated conclusion to Peter Godfrey-Smith’s three-part exploration of the origins of intelligence on Earth, which began with the bestselling Other Minds in 2018 and continued with Metazoa in 2020. Peter Godfrey-Smith, the scuba-diving philosopher, examined the evolution of sentience in ...Show more
Metazoa: Animal Minds and the Birth of Consciousness by Peter Godfrey-Smith
$33.00 AUD
Category: Science
From the human being to the octopus, the shark to the humble sea squirt, all animals are physical beings made up entirely of cells. And yet they can think, to varying degrees. How did this come to be? How did a mind first grow from the matter that is the body? And at what stage did that clump of cells b ...Show more
Monsieur Albert Rides to Glory (HB) by Peter Smith
$24.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books
'There's a hush in the crowd as the mayor lifts his gun, then an ear-splitting Bang! and the race has begun, with a flashing of goggles and pale cyclists' knees, and a murmuring sound like the bumble of bees.' Monsieur Albert enters the Grand Cycle Race, but he's up against Francois, the champion of Fr ...Show more
Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life by Peter Godfrey-Smith
$20.00 AUD
Category: Mind & Body
'Brilliant' GuardianWaterstones Non-Fiction Book of the Month (March) SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE What if intelligent life on Earth evolved not once, but twice? The octopus is the closest we will come to meeting an intelligent alien. What can we learn from the encounter? ...Show more
Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea and the Deep Origins of Consciousness by Peter Godfrey-Smith
$28.00 AUD
Category: Science
A philosopher dons a wet suit and journeys into the depths of consciousness. Peter Godfrey-Smith is a leading philosopher of science. He is also a scuba diver whose underwater videos of warring octopuses have attracted wide notice. In this book, he brings his parallel careers together to tell a bold new ...Show more
The Akimbo Adventures by Alexander McCall Smith; Peter Bailey (Illustrator)
$25.00 AUD
Category: Fiction (8 to 12 years) | Series: Akimbo Ser.
Three classic adventure tales from the bestselling author of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, now together in paperback for the first time. Imagine living in the heart of Africa. Imagine living in a place where the sun rises every morning over blue mountains. Akimbo and his parents live on the edge ...Show more
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