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Enemy of All Mankind - A true story of piracy, power and history's first global manhunt by Steven Johnson
$38.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
“Most confrontations, viewed from the wide angle of history, are minor disputes, sparks that quickly die out. But every now and then, someone strikes a match that lights up the whole planet.” Henry Every was the seventeenth century’s most notorious pirate. The press published wildly popular—and wildly i ...Show more
Wonderland : How We Got to Now, the World at Play by Steven Johnson
$34.99 NZD
Category: History
"Everyone knows the old saying "necessity is the mother of invention," but if you do a paternity test on many of the modern world's most important ideas or institutions, you will find, invariably, that leisure and play were involved in the conception as well." Most history books don't concern themselves ...Show more
Wow! Dinosaurs by Kingfisher; Steven Johnson Jr. (Illustrator); Jacqueline McCann
$16.99 NZD
Category: Children | Series: Wow! Ser.
Shout "WOW!" when your read about some surprising facts in this lively and fascinating picture book all about dinosaurs. Did you know that the word dinosaur means "terrible lizard", the heaviest dinosaur weighed as much as 17 African elephants and that Stegosaurus had a brain the size of a walnut? Lear ...Show more
Wow! Vehicles by Kingfisher; Steven Johnson (Illustrator); Jacqueline McCann
$16.99 NZD
Category: Children | Series: Wow! Ser.
Shout WOW! when your read about some surprising facts in this lively and fascinating picture book all about vehicles. Did you know that the first train reached a top speed of only 5 miles per hour, that helicopters are also called whirlybirds, and that some submarines can stay underwater for months at ...Show more
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