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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 €

  • Prayer After the Slaughter
    James Scott / Kurt Tucholsky / Peter Appelbaum
    No one before or after Kurt Tucholsky has captured the horrors of the 'Great War,' as World War I was known, quite like he did. The famed Weimar writer, who would become one of Germany’s best-known satirist and journalists, describes surviving in the trenches and fighting a losing battle, the arrogance of the officers and the desperation of the loved ones back home. His writing...
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    16,57 €

  • Where Condors Soar
    Dr Peter T Scott
    GENRE; historical short stories, myths 7 legends, South AmericaThis is a book of short stories set in South America at the end of the nineteenth century - a time when most countries are trying to establish themselves after the quarrels following independence from Spain and Portugal. These stories are in the fable format, where the readers can learn valuable life lessons, whilst...
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    26,21 €

  • Poseidon’s People
    DR Peter T Scott
    At a time when global warming is a great concern amongst the world’s population, a Russian Climatologist predicts that very soon, the world will experience a sudden and widespread ice age. Before he can join a ship called the Mystery of the Seas on a tour along the Norwegian coast and into the Arctic Ocean, he is killed under suspicious circumstances. Only the American Oceanogr...
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    29,10 €

  • 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 €

  • Reading the Dream
    Peter Dale Scott
    This book is a unique meditation on poetry, history, philosophy, religion, and politics from one of the most important poets of our time. It is the result of decades of deep thinking about the fate of poetry in human history as well as the nature of our shared human condition. ...
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    54,69 €

  • 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 €

  • Ecstatic Pessimist
    Peter Dale Scott
    Ecstatic Pessimist addresses several topics and strands in the literary production and life of Czesław Miłosz, the Nobel Prize Polish-language poet and American citizen. It is also a personal history of the relations between Miłosz and the author of the book, himself a poet who worked on translations with the Polish poet in 1960s. ...
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    54,69 €

  • 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 €

  • Triumph of the South
    Peter Scott
    This book provides a scholarly but accessible account of British regional development during the twentieth century, focusing on the emergence and development of theNorth-South divide. Beginning with regional imbalance in the Victorian and Edwardian economies, the book goes on to discuss the effects on the First World War and its aftermath, which created a discernible split betw...
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    66,06 €

  • 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 €

  • Belonging, Identity, Time and Young People’s Engagement in the Middle Years of School
    Peter Kelly / Scott K. Phillips / Seth Brown
    This book explores the complex ways in which belonging, identity and time are entangled in shaping young people engagement with the middle years of school. The authors argue that these ’entanglements’ need to be understood in ways that move beyond a focus on why individual young people engage with the middle years. Instead, there should be a focus on the socio-ecologies of part...
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    66,99 €

  • 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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    48,22 €

  • The Next CMO
    Dan Faulkner / Peter Mahoney / Scott Todaro
    The role of the Chief Marketing Officer has never been more complex-or more critical. As the marketing profession rapidly evolves, today’s CMOs and tomorrow’s marketing leaders are expected to balance visionary strategy with precise operational execution.The Next CMO: A Guide to Operational Marketing Excellence delivers a practical framework to help you meet that challenge head...
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    16,33 €

  • 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 €

  • Strategies for Postsecondary Education
    Peter Scott
    Originally published in 1975, Strategies for Postsecondary Education looks at how postsecondary education absorbs an increasing proportion of education budgets in developed countries. The book analyses the inequalities in the American postsecondary education system and compares its performance with France and the United Kingdom. The traditional concept of higher education with ...
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    64,14 €

  • The Crisis of the University
    Peter Scott
    Originally published in 1984, The Crisis of the University looks at the way in which changes to intellectual life relate to the development of the different institutions that make up higher education. It examines the evolution of the liberal university that flourished in the 19th and early 20th centuries into the modern university that has grown up since 1945. It also looks at ...
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    63,61 €

  • 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 / 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 €


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