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Brunel: The Man Who Built the World by Steven Brindle
$30.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Series: Phoenix Press Ser.
In his lifetime, Isambard Kingdom Brunel towered over his profession. Today, he remains the most famous engineer in history, the epitome of the volcanic creative forces which brought about the Industrial Revolution - and brought modern society into being.
Seven Million Years - The story of human evolution by Douglas Palmer
$33.00 NZD
Category: World History | Series: Phoenix Press Ser. | Reading Level: good
A voyage into the deep past to discover how we became human, and how modern science is rewriting our family treeSeven million years ago there were ape-like animals living in the forests and woodlands of Africa who were our ancestors. They were also the ancestors of the chimpanzee. It's still a provocati ...Show more
The Cunning Of The Dove by Alfred Duggan
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Phoenix Press Ser.
Alfred Duggan's Saxon novels have a special cachet. In The Cunning of the Dove, this masterly author chooses Edward the Confessor as his hero. The story is told by the royal chamberlain. He thinks in English, speaks in French and writes in Latin, but Duggan does our share of the work and the fog is diss ...Show more
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