The Periodic Table: A Field Guide to the Elements by Paul Parsons & Gail Dixon
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
As one of the most recognizable images in science, the periodic table is ingrained in our culture. First drawn up in 1869 by Dmitri Mendeleev, its 118 elements make up not only everything on our planet but also everything in the entire universe. The Periodic Table looks at the fascinating story and surp ...Show more
The Periodic Table of Wine by Sarah Rowlands
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Welcome to The Periodic Table of Wine! Instead of hydrogen to helium, here you'll find Chardonnay to Shiraz - grape varieties and wine names, as you would find wine in shops, arranged following the logical ordering of The Periodic Table of Elements. Wine expert Sarah Rowland has arranged 127 wines by th ...Show more
The Persimmon Tree by Bryce Courtenay
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
The persimmon tree is a symbol of life, a heartwood that will outlast everything man can make . . . It is 1942 in the Dutch East Indies, and Nick Duncan is a young Australian butterfly collector in search of a single exotic butterfly. With invading Japanese forces coming closer by the day, Nick falls in ...Show more
The Phantom Atlas: The Greatest Myths, Lies and Blunders on Maps by Edward Brooke-Hitching
$49.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
The Phantom Atlas is an atlas of the world not as it ever existed, but as it was thought to be. These marvellous and mysterious phantoms - non-existent islands, invented mountain ranges, mythical civilisations and other fictitious geography - were all at various times presented as facts on maps and atla ...Show more
The Philosopher's Dog by Raimond Gaita
$25.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Filled with wonderful stories about domestic and wild animals, about friendship and love, about the experience of mountaineering and the metaphysical contemplation of landscape, The Philosopher's Dog is a wonderful and moving work.
The Philosopher's Flight: A Novel by Tom Miller
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A thrilling debut from ER doctor turned novelist Tom Miller, The Philosopher's Flight is an epic historical fantasy set in a World-War-I-era America where magic and science have blended into a single extraordinary art. "Like his characters, Tom Miller casts a spell." (Matthew Pearl, author of The Dante ...Show more
The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win by Gene Kim
$31.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Bill is an IT manager at Parts Unlimited. It's Tuesday morning and on his drive into the office, Bill gets a call from the CEO. The company's new IT initiative, code named Phoenix Project, is critical to the future of Parts Unlimited, but the project is massively over budget and very late. The CEO wants ...Show more
The Physics of Everyday Things: The Extraordinary Science Behind an Ordinary Day by James Kakalios
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Most of us are clueless when it comes to the physics that makes our modern world so convenient. What's the simple science behind motion sensors, touch screens and toasters? How do we enter our offices using touch-on passes or find our way to new places using GPS? In The Physics of Everyday Things, James ...Show more
The Physics of Sorrow by Georgi Gospodinov (translated by Angela Rodel)
$27.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction
Finalist for the 2015 PEN Literary Award for Translation Winner of the 2016 Jan Michalski Prize for Literature A quirky, compulsively readable book that deftly hints at the emptiness and sadness at its core.--New York Times A finalist for both the Strega Europeo and Gregor von Rezzori awards (and win ...Show more
The Pianist by Wladyslaw Szpilman
$24.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction
Wladyslaw Szpilman was a young Jewish pianist who, almost uniquely, managed to stay alive in Warsaw throughout World War II. Immediately afterwards, he wrote this account of his experiences during the war.
The Piano Cemetery by Jose Luis Peixoto
$19.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction
The Lazaro family are carpenters who would rather be piano-makers. In the dusty back room of their carpentry shop in Lisbon is the 'piano cemetery', filled with broken-down pianos that provide the spare parts needed for repairing and rebuilding instruments all over the city. It is a mysterious and magic ...Show more
The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason
$18.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
On a misty London afternoon in 1886, piano tuner Edgar Drake receives a strange request from the War Office: he must leave his wife, and his quiet life in London, to travel to the jungles of Burma to tune a rare Erhard grand piano. The piano belongs to Surgeon-Major Anthony Carroll, an enigmatic British ...Show more