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  • Progress in Geography Fieldwork: Key Stage 3

    by Hayley Peacock ...
    Help your students understand and conduct fieldwork enquiries in their local area with Progress in Geography Fieldwork: Key Stage 3.Nine ready-made fieldwork enquiries contain the instructions, data and activities your students need to successfully carry out, analyse and evaluate fieldwork in their local area or in the classroom. Save time planning and easily integrate fieldwork into your KS3 ... Read more

    R329,23

  • Geology off the Beaten Track

    Exploring South Africa’s hidden treasures

    by Nick Norman ...
    Geology off the beaten track follows on the success of author Nick Norman’s earlier Geological Journeys(co-authored with Gavin Whitfi eld), which has sold more than 20 000 copies in the last 6 years.This new book helps readers understand and interpret the geology along SA’s regional and other less-travelled roads.● It features 13 detailed routes across the country, taking in geologically ... Read more

    R260,00

  • False Colours

    by Georgette Heyer ...
    Kit, a diplomatic and responsible twin, is persuaded to impersonate Evelyn at a dinner where Evelyn is expected to meet his fiancée, Cressy, and her formidable grandmother. What begins as a simple favor escalates into a tangled web of deception as Kit grows increasingly attached to Cressy, while trying to maintain the charade. The situation becomes more precarious when Evelyn eventually returns, ... Read more

    R19,72 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Geological Journeys

    A traveller’s guide to South Africa’s rocks and landforms

    by Nick Norman, Gavin Whitfield ...
    Geological Journeys: a traveller’s guide to South Africa’s rocks and landforms is an essential companion for car journeys. How often have we wondered about the jaunty tilt of a mountain ahead, the unusual patterns of a road cutting, the colour and texture of the roadside soil, or the purpose of a distant minehead? This handy volume offers answers and explanations about features along all the major ... Read more

    R340,04

  • A Short History of Nearly Everything

    The bestselling popular science book of the 21st Century

    by Bill Bryson ...
    Series Book 5 - Bryson
    The ultimate eye-opening journey through time and space, A Short History of Nearly Everything is the biggest-selling popular science book of the 21st century and has sold over 2 million copies.'Possibly the best scientific primer ever published.' Economist'Truly impressive...It's hard to imagine a better rough guide to science.' Guardian'A travelogue of science, with a witty, engagin... ... Read more

    R239,19

  • Desert Star

    Inspiration for the hit Amazon Prime series BALLARD

    by Michael Connelly ...
    Series series Ballard and Bosch
    THE WORLDWIDE #1 BESTSELLER BEHIND AMAZON PRIME'S BOSCH AND NETFLIX'S THE LINCOLN LAWYERSOME CRIMES YOU CAN'T FORGET.Detective Renée Ballard is given the chance of a lifetime: revive the LAPD's cold case unit and find justice for the families of the forgotten. The only catch is they must first crack the unsolved murder of the sister of the city councilman who is sponsoring the department - or lose ... Read more

    R203,77

  • Progress in Geography: Key Stage 3

    Motivate, engage and prepare pupils

    by David Gardner, Catherine Owen, Jo Coles, John Lyon, Eleanor Barker ...
    Motivate pupils to develop their geographical skills, knowledge and understanding as they become engaged and accomplished geographers, ready for the demands of GCSE.Specifically designed to provide a solid foundation for the 2016 GCSE specifications, this Student Book takes an enquiry-based approach to learning within each unit and lesson.- Easily and cost-effectively implement a new KS3 scheme of ... Read more

    R752,66

  • Under a Dark Cloud

    A compulsive British detective crime thriller

    by Louisa Scarr ...
    Series Book 2 - Butler & West
    One dead body. One witness. One answer.Early one morning, DS Robin Butler is summoned to a crime scene. Not as a policeman, but as best friend to renowned meteorologist, Dr Finn Mason. The morning after studying an enormous storm, Finn has locked himself in a van. Bloodied, confused, and with no memory of how he came to be there. And alongside him a dead body.Butler sets out to prove Finn's ... Read more

    R165,59

  • It's Not Rocket Science

    by Ben Miller ...
    The Top Ten BestsellerBlack holes. DNA. The Large Hadron Collider. Ever had that sneaking feeling that you are missing out on some truly spectacular science?You do? Well, fear not, for help is at hand.Ben Miller was working on his Physics PhD at Cambridge when he accidentally became a comedian. But first love runs deep, and he has returned to his roots to share with you all his favourite bits of ... Read more

    R250,80

  • The Hot Zone

    The Chilling True Story of an Ebola Outbreak

    by Richard Preston ...
    COMING TO NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC ON 27 MAY 2019_________In March 2014, the Ebola outbreak in West Africa was first reported. By October 2014, it had become the largest and deadliest occurrence of the disease.Over 4,500 people have died. Almost 10,000 cases have been reported, across Liberia, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Nigeria and the United States.Impossible to ignore, The Hot Zone is the terrifying, true ... Read more

    R220,79

  • The Rational Optimist

    How Prosperity Evolves

    by Matt Ridley ...
    Shortlisted for the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction 2011.Life is on the up.We are wealthier, healthier, happier, kinder, cleaner, more peaceful, more equal and longer-lived than any previous generation. Thanks to the unique human habits of exchange and specialisation, our species has found innovative solutions to every obstacle it has faced so far.In ‘The Rational Optimist’, acclaimed ... Read more

    R174,90

  • Proxima

    by Stephen Baxter ...
    How would you survive on a planet that doesn't spin?The very far future: The Galaxy is a drifting wreck of black holes, neutron stars, chill white dwarfs. The age of star formation is long past. Yet there is life here, feeding off the energies of the stellar remnants, and there is mind, a tremendous Galaxy-spanning intelligence each of whose thoughts lasts a hundred thousand years. And this mind ... Read more

    R250,80

  • The Hiking Trip

    An unforgettable must-read psychological thriller

    by Jenny Blackhurst ...
    'A breathtaking page-turner of a mystery' Susi HollidayDon't trust everyone you meet hereA young British backpacker goes missing on the West Coast Trail.No one is sure whether she died or simply disappeared.Apart from Laura.Twenty years later, a body has been found.And there's only one person who could reveal the secret that Laura's been hiding all this time.But she knows that two can keep a ... Read more

    R165,59

  • This Changes Everything

    Capitalism vs. the Climate

    by Naomi Klein ...
    From Naomi Klein, author of the #1 international bestsellers, The Shock Doctrine and No Logo, a must-read on how the climate crisis needs to spur transformational political changeWe seem to have given up on any serious effort to prevent catastrophic climate change. Despite mounting scientific evidence, denialism is surging in many wealthy countries, and extreme fossil-fuel extraction gathers pace. ... Read more

    R202,39

  • Stealing Fire

    How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work

    by Jamie Wheal, Steven Kotler ...
    National BestsellerCNBC and Strategy + Business Best Business Book of the YearIt’s the biggest revolution you’ve never heard of, and it’s hiding in plain sight. Over the past decade, Silicon Valley executives like Eric Schmidt and Elon Musk, Special Operators like the Navy SEALs and the Green Berets, and maverick scientists like Sasha Shulgin and Amy Cuddy have turned everything we thought we knew ... Read more

    R320,84

  • Forces of Nature

    by Professor Brian Cox, Andrew Cohen ...
    Sunday Times BestsellerHow did life on Earth begin? What is the nature of space and time? What are the chances that we will discover life on other worlds?Think you know our planet?Think again.Forces of Nature takes you from the mid-Atlantic ridge in Iceland, the volcanoes of Indonesia and the precipitous cliffs in Nepal, to the manatees off the coast of Florida and the northern lights of the ... Read more

    R142,93

  • The Corinthian

    by Georgette Heyer ...
    The novel begins with Sir Richard contemplating a dreary future of societal expectations and a loveless engagement. On a fateful night, he encounters Penelope, who is disguised as a boy and attempting to run away to avoid marrying her cousin. Feeling an unexpected kinship and a desire for adventure, Sir Richard agrees to help her. What ensues is a rollicking journey across the countryside filled ... Read more

    R19,72 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ultima

    by Stephen Baxter ...
    The mind-blowing, time-warping science fiction epic that puts grand scientific ideas into a thrilling page-turning narrativeFresh from his latest collaboration with Terry Pratchett on the Long Earth sequence Stephen Baxter now returns to the mysteries and challanges first hinted at in his acclaimed novel PROXIMA.In PROXIMA we discovered ancient alien artifacts on the planet of Per Ardua - hatches ... Read more

    R250,80

  • A Winter Grave

    a chilling new mystery set in the Scottish highlands

    by Peter May ...
    A #4 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERFrom the twelve-million copy bestselling author of the Lewis trilogy comes a chilling new mystery set in the isolated Scottish Highlands.A TOMB OF ICEA young meteorologist checking a mountain top weather station in Kinlochleven discovers the body of a missing man entombed in ice.A DYING DETECTIVECameron Brodie, a Glasgow detective, sets ou... ... Read more

    R219,41

  • The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: Revised and Updated Third Edition

    The Fate of the World and What We Can Do Before It's Too Late

    by Thom Hartmann, Neale Donald Walsch ...
    While everything appears to be collapsing around us – ecodamage, genetic engineering, virulent diseases, the end of cheap oil, water shortages, global famine, wars – we can still do something about it and create a world that will work for us and for our children’s children. The inspiration for Leonardo DiCaprio’s feature documentary movie The Eleventh Hour and soon to be released HBO special Ice ... Read more

    R137,87

  • Bones of Contention: Inside the Struggle to Unearth the Great Rocky Mountain Dinosaur Discovery

    by Leslie Anthony ...
    In 2007, a massive, concentrated deposit of dinosaur fossils, some of theoldest ever found, were discovered in the mountain ridges of northernBritish Columbia, near an old coal mining town. The site contained thelargest number of tyrannosaur teeth ever found with another species, anunfortunate lambeousaur who¹d been scavenged by a pack of hyena-likejuvenile predators millions of years ago. The ... Read more

    R33,16

  • Instant Temptation

    Fun, feel-good romance - guaranteed to make you smile!

    by Jill Shalvis ...
    Series series Wilder
    'Perfect, feel-good fiction' Sarah Morgan on The Lemon SistersIf you love Holly Martin, Jill Mansell and Debbie Macomber, you'll LOVE Jill Shalvis and her irresistible trademark gift for humour, warmth and romance!Jill's books are guaranteed to make you smile:'You can't go wrong with a Jill Shalvis book' 5* reader r... ... Read more

    R82,90

  • A Life on Our Planet

    My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future

    by David Attenborough ...
    The Sunday Times bestseller by David Attenborough, who marks his 100th birthday this year - a deeply personal account of his love of the natural world, and the devastating changes to it he's witnessed first hand.As a young man, I felt I was out there in the wild, experiencing the untouched natural world - but it was an illusion. The tragedy of our time has been happening all around us, barely ... Read more

    R239,19

  • The White Spider

    by Heinrich Harrer ...
    A classic of mountaineering literature, this is the story of the harrowing first ascent of the North Face of the Eiger, the most legendary and terrifying climb in history.Heinrich Harrer, author of ‘Seven Years in Tibet’ and one of the twentieth century’s greatest mountaineers, was part of the team that finally conquered the Eiger’s fearsome North Face in 1938. It was a landmark expedition that ... Read more

    R158,80