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  • Exploration Science
    Dr Peter T Scott
    About Exploration ScienceHave you wondered what the science of geology is all about?Together we will explore of the surface and sub-surface of the Earth, the sub-branches of geology, including mineralogy, petrology (rocks), palaeontology (fossils), geochemistry, seismology (earthquakes), engineering geology, and many more.The scientific method used by all scientists as well as ...
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    30,12 €

  • Adventures in Earth Science
    Dr Peter T Scott
    ADVENTURES in EARTH SCIENCE is not just an in-depth textbook but a series of adventures across seven continents and beyond in the sciences of astronomy, geology, meteorology and oceanography. It has been written with over forty years of experience in studying, researching and teaching earth science. Whilst it has been designed for senior high school and junior university or col...
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    142,25 €

  • More from the Casebook of the Ghost and Detective Mc Nab
    Dr Peter T Scott
    This is the second Omnibus edition featuring the young Probationary Detective Constable McNab and his ghostly mentor and companion, Dr. Joseph Bell, expert in deductive reasoning and forensic medicine and the real-life model for Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes. In this edition there are again three case studies set in and around Edinburgh, Scotland:The Selkie of Calaròin - McNab’...
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    27,32 €

  • Orion and Other Stories of the Future
    Dr Peter T Scott
    This is a trilogy of science fiction stories set in the near future. It is a time of transition when fossil fuels are no longer supplied and when there are new advances in transport and education. The three stories are:Orion - with air transport uncertain and limited to small aircraft. The Orion, an innovation based on a past concept, is ready to take to the sky but its potenti...
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    25,69 €

  • Two Hundred Years Before the Mast
    Dr Peter T Scott
    The year is 1996 and a young Nuclear Physicist accidently discovers how to travel in time. Having an interest in the ’Days of Fighting Sail’, he goes back in time to the year 1796 where he is unexpectedly press ganged aboard a Royal Navy frigate bound for blockade duty in the Bay of Biscay. He realises that having a modern education is of little use back in the eighteenth-centu...
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    28,92 €

  • A Pocketbook for Surviving Teaching and Instruction
    Dr Peter T Scott
    This is NOT an academic text on Education, but rather a sometimes-light-hearted guide to the art of teaching with some asides for instructors in the corporate or industrial world. It is written in a simple, easy-to-understand manner and so would be suitable for parents wishing to know more about the teaching profession, especially if they are involved in home schooling. The tex...
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    32,94 €

  • Tom Shipley’s War
    Dr Peter T Scott
    Tom Shipley’s War: Memoirs of a Weekend Warrior.Tom Shipley was first introduced in The Innocence of Tom Shipley Teacher, Tom is an innocent, idealist reaching his maturity in the mid-1960s. He is dedicated, hardworking and loyal. His humorous escapades and wry observations give a very clear picture on what life was really like in Australia if you were part of the majority who ...
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    23,28 €

  • A Pocketbook for Hiking and Survival
    Dr Peter T Scott
    This book contains most of the skills and knowledge needed for safe hiking into the wild. It covers much of the equipment needed, methods of navigation, reading the weather and how to use basic food, water and shelter. It is designed as a ready reference guide to be carried in the pocket or backpack as there are many skills and useful pieces of information which may be forgotte...
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    30,12 €

  • The Innocence of Tom Shipley
    Dr Peter T Scott
    Tom Shipley decided to be a teacher at 4 years old. He never wavered in his enthusiasm. Join him as he studies then during his first two years in the Capital. Fascinating characters painted with a gently humourous brush. Tom grows up, leaves home on a long train trip out west only to find that the school to which he has been transferred is not finished, and not equipped. He is ...
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    19,88 €

  • Surviving Global Warming
    Dr Peter T Scott
    Surviving Climate Change. Is climate change real? What is Global Warming?  Here is the proof without any hype. What is the science, not pseudo-science behind it? What are normal climate cycles? Each of the cycles is explained, illustrated, and put in a practical context. Global warming, what causes it, changes we can make to reduce or reverse it in full colour heavily illustrat...
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    31,60 €

  • The Ice Ship
    Dr Peter T Scott
    About THE ICE SHIPThis is a work of fiction set in Antarctica in the 1840’s. It has been written in the style of Jules Verne’s ‘Voyages Extraordinaires’ and tells the story of a then futuristic steam-auxiliary whaling ship which ventures too far south into the waters of the Antarctica peninsula and becomes trapped within the ice. Her young captain is left aboard the ship whilst...
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    23,38 €

  • Adventures in Earth and Environmental Science Teachers Guide
    Dr Peter T Scott
    Adventures in Earth and Environmental Science is a series of books covering years 11 & 12 in high school and first year university.  There are Books 1 &2 for years 11 and 12 with accompanying practical manuals, one per year. These are all tied together with the Teachers’ Manual. The whole series exactly ties in with the Australian syllabus and the 2019 Queensland syllabus inclu...
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    54,39 €

  • Adventures in Earth and Environmental Science Book 2
    Dr Peter T Scott
    This is the student practical manual to accompany the second book of ADVENTURES in EARTH and ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE. It is designed for the second-year program in this topic and is matched to the chapters of Book 2 i.e. Chapters 15 to 28. There are fifty tested practical experiments requiring relatively simple laboratory equipment and Internet connectivity. Each practical activi...
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    32,61 €

  • Adventures in Earth and Environmental Science
    Dr Peter T Scott / Dr Peter T Scott
    This is the second book with this title and, after a short revision chapter, looks at how humankind lives on planet Earth. Renewable and non-renewable resources are described and how their use has impacted on the world’s ecosystems, on land, in the sea and in the atmosphere. This is also discussed with an emphasis on the problems of future energy needs, global warming and socia...
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    82,62 €

  • Adventures in Earth and Environmental Science Book 1
    Dr Peter T Scott
    This is the practical manual to accompany the Adventures in Earth and Environmental Science Book 1.There are 50 experiments that cover all the required practical work for the Queensland and Australian Syllabus in Earth and Environmental Science, all of which have been thoroughly tested.Here is the chance to get real with the studies and see the science in action.  There are of ...
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    32,61 €

  • Adventures in Earth and Environmental Science Book 1
    Dr Peter T Scott
    Adventures in Earth and Environmental Science Book 1. This is the first book of two which looks at the earth its matter energy, life , relationships and how these interact as a whole. The Earth is seen as a closed system containing the Earth's materials and living things whilst allowing the necessary flow of energy in and out of the planet. The atmosphere, hydrosphere, geos...
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    84,55 €

  • Adventures in Earth Science
    Dr Peter T Scott
    Useful for both the new  and experienced teacher, with lesson plans, templates and ideas, objectives for each chapter and each practical activity.This Teachers' Guide has answers to all the questions in the textbook, multi choice, extended and research with working as appropriate.This is the guide for both the textbook, Adventures in Earth Science (800 page A4 compendium fo...
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    30,50 €

  • Adventures in Earth Science
    Dr Peter T Scott
    This student practical manual covers a comprehensive range of practical work for the whole of an Earth Science course run in senior high school or first year university.  It is printed in black and white to keep student costs down. Not only does it give practical work from identifying minerals in class to comprehensive astronomy nights, it also includes training in report writi...
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    22,76 €

  • Changing the Surface
    Dr Peter T Scott
    CHANGING THE SURFACE is the third book in the Adventures in Earth Science series and deals with the topics of weathering, erosion and the landscapes which they produce. The general nature of change in minerals within rocks and how rocks are degraded by both physical and chemical means is discussed in the first chapter which also contains a section about soils and their classifi...
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    32,52 €

  • Rocks
    Dr Peter T Scott
    Rocks –Building the Earth This is the fourth book in the series Adventures in Earth Science and deals with the formation, composition and general features of rocks and some of the structures found within them. Rocks are mixtures of two or more minerals although some monomineralic rocks are composed of one mineral and minor impurities. The three main rock types, igneous, sedimen...
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    32,39 €

  • Riches from the Earth
    Dr Peter T Scott
    About the Book – Riches from the EarthThis book is the second in the series Adventures in Earth Science. It introduces minerals as basic components of Earth materials and describes the mining, separation and uses of the most common economic minerals or ores. This includes gemstones, composition and recognition. The smelting of the ores of copper, iron and aluminium is given in ...
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    33,17 €

  • A Dangerous Planet
    Dr Peter T Scott
    This is the sixth book in the series Adventures in Earth Science and is about movements within the Earth’s crust and deformation in rock. It outlines the nature of faults and folds in rocks, volcanoes and earthquakes and uses evidence from earthquakes and other sources to suggest a model for the Earth’s interior and its shape. Considerable detail is provided about the nature of...
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    32,56 €

  • Fossils- Life in the Rocks
    Dr Peter T Scott
    About the Book – Life in the Rocks This is the fifth book in the series Adventures in Earth Science and concerns fossils – the remains of living things found in rocks. Starting with an examination of how fossils are preserved in rocks and how they should be collected in the field. The book then describes how living things, including fossils, are classified and named. Many of th...
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    35,74 €

  • Through Sea and Sky
    Dr Peter T Scott
    This is an introduction to the sciences of oceanography and meteorology. The use of astronomy to navigate was complimented by the use of the magnetic compass and the sextant and then by satellite navigation techniques. The seafarer’s knowledge about wind and ocean currents and the sea-floor gradually developed into the sciences of oceanography and meteorology.This book is as go...
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    30,62 €

  • Adventures in Earth Science Beyond Planet Earth
    Dr Peter T Scott
       About Beyond Planet Earth   This is the eighth book in the series Adventures in Earth Science and deals with the science of astronomy. The book takes an historical approach detailing observations made throughout early history by many cultures and eventually by those in Europe after the renaissance. From naked eye astronomy of the early astronomers, the book looks at the inve...
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    36,23 €