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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 €

  • Kemper on Kemper
    Peter Scott
    Kemper on Kemper is the first-ever collection of 'interviews and encounters' with the notorious serial killer, Ed Kemper. The expanded edition includes the complete and never-before-published transcript of the April 1973 Ed Kemper confessions to the Santa Cruz Sheriff’s Department. Through newspapers, first-person accounts, and interviews, Kemper on Kemper brings the reader fro...
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    26,56 €

  • The Face Beyond the Window
    Peter Scott
    On a winter’s evening in 2041, 14-year-old Tom arrives at Albans School, tucked away in an isolated Blue Mountains location west of Sydney - a special school for children with disabilities. Tom doesn’t speak, can’t hear and has no word recognition. Watching Tom’s arrival from the school library is Abbey, a book that no one has ever read. Abbey’s desperate need to be read drives...
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    13,18 €

  • 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 €

  • Artificial Intelligence and You
    Peter J. Scott
    What Is AI?Why Will It Affect You?How Do You Survive and Thrive through the AI Revolution?Sensationalism about AI has reached new heights, and getting a useful understanding of it has never been more important. AI will extend and accelerate thinking, delivering unprecedented abundance. But it will also require us to navigate a path of challenges ranging from today’s issues of b...
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    19,48 €

  • 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 €

  • Retreat or Resolution?
    Peter Scott
    Although higher education in the UK has expanded opportunities for much of the population, in many ways it remains stubbornly elitist.In order to address this crisis in education, Peter Scott, a leading expert and unique voice, examines the development of mass higher education and proposes a ’radical escape-forward’. He calls for more robust action to secure fair access at all ...
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    39,26 €

  • Retreat or Resolution?
    Peter Scott
    Although higher education in the UK has expanded opportunities for much of the population, in many ways it remains stubbornly elitist.In order to address this crisis in education, Peter Scott, a leading expert and unique voice, examines the development of mass higher education and proposes a ’radical escape-forward’. He calls for more robust action to secure fair access at all ...
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    135,95 €

  • 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 €

  • Working, Housing
    Allen J Scott / Jennifer Robinson / Peter J Taylor
    This book presents an incisive outline of the historical development and geography of cities. It focuses on three themes that constitute essential foundations for any understanding of urban form and function. These are: (a) the shifting patterns of urbanization through historical time, (b) the role of cities as centers of production and work in a globalizing world, and (c) the ...
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    63,74 €

  • Working, Housing
    Allen J Scott / Jennifer Robinson / Peter J Taylor
    This book presents an incisive outline of the historical development and geography of cities. It focuses on three themes that constitute essential foundations for any understanding of urban form and function. These are: (a) the shifting patterns of urbanization through historical time, (b) the role of cities as centers of production and work in a globalizing world, and (c) the ...
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    48,22 €

  • The Next Cmo
    Dan Faulkner / Peter Mahoney / Scott Todaro
    The world is changing and so is the marketing profession. CMOs and the next generation of marketing leaders need to read this book to develop a strategy for ensuring operational excellence to achieve their goals. This book will provide a best practices approach for forming your marketing goals, creating a strategy, building a plan, crafting impactful campaigns, optimizing budge...
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    11,16 €

  • 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 €

  • Animalia
    William Peter Scott
    Millions of years ago, a host of life forms began evolving. Monkeys, the first of our primate families, eventually transformed into life forms akin to ourselves. Although homo sapiens evolved with a minimal gene variation from our chimpanzee cousins, major additions to our crania caused our species to become embroiled in conflicts that have consistently detracted from our abili...
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    15,45 €

  • Poetry and Terror
    Ng / Peter Dale Scott
    The book explores, in interview format, issues raised but not fully explored by Scott’s poem Coming to Jakarta on the 1965 Indonesian massacre. In addition, Scott reflects on ways that poetry can serve as a non-violent higher politics, contributing to the evolution of human culture and thus our “second nature.” ...
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    47,22 €

  • 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 €

  • Poetry and Terror
    Peter Dale Scott
    The book explores, in interview format, issues raised but not fully explored by Scott’s poem Coming to Jakarta on the 1965 Indonesian massacre. In addition, Scott reflects on ways that poetry can serve as a non-violent higher politics, contributing to the evolution of human culture and thus our “second nature.” ...
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    142,71 €

  • Pictures of the World
    Peter Hunter / Scott Steinkerchner
    What is real? What is the foundation of right and wrong? How can we know? There are many ways to answer these questions--Western religious views in which humanity is part of God’s creation, Eastern religious views in which delusion traps humanity in a cycle of reincarnation, and secular views in which humanity evolved as part of the material universe driven by nothing other tha...
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    39,46 €

  • Pictures of the World
    Peter Hunter / Scott Steinkerchner
    What is real? What is the foundation of right and wrong? How can we know? There are many ways to answer these questions--Western religious views in which humanity is part of God’s creation, Eastern religious views in which delusion traps humanity in a cycle of reincarnation, and secular views in which humanity evolved as part of the material universe driven by nothing other tha...
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    22,37 €

  • 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 €


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