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All the Knowledge in the World - The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopaedia by Simon Garfield
24.99 AUD
Category: History
Created by thousands of scholars and the most obsessive of editors, adults cleared their shelves in the belief that wisdom was now effortlessly accessible in their living rooms. Contributions from Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Orville Wright, Alfred Hitchcock, Marie Curie and Indira Gandhi helped mill ...Show more
All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopaedia by Simon Garfield
32.99 AUD
Category: History
The encyclopaedia once shaped our understanding of the world. Created by thousands of scholars and the most obsessive of editors, a good set conveyed a sense of absolute wisdom on its reader. Contributions from Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Orville Wright, Alfred Hitchcock, Marie Curie and Indira Gan ...Show more
Baskerville - The Biography of a Typeface (the ABC of Fonts) by Simon Garfield
34.99 AUD
Category: Design | Series: The\ABC of Fonts Ser.
The classic elegant English typeface, still widely used as a book text more than 250 years since its creation. Baskerville is a transitional design, poised between the first metal types and modern styles, notable for its combination of fat and thin strokes. When it was first used there was genuine conce ...Show more
Dog's Best Friend: A Brief History of an Unbreakable Bond by Simon Garfield
22.99 AUD
Category: History
'This love letter to our four-legged friends is a delight . . . there is a good joke, an intriguing tale or a fascinating statistic on every page' Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday'A fact-packed history of a 15,000-year relationship' Sunday TimesHow did we arrive at the moment when a dog goes to the cinema? H ...Show more
In Miniature - How Small Things Illuminate the World by Simon Garfield
24.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Bestselling, award-winning writer Simon Garfield returns with an enthralling investigation of humans' peculiar fascination with small things--and what small things tell us about our larger world." Simon Garfield is] an exuberant truffle-hound of the recondite and delightful factoid." --Sunday Times (Lon ...Show more
In Miniature - How Small Things Illuminate the World by Simon Garfield
29.99 AUD
Category: History
Bestselling, award-winning writer Simon Garfield returns with an enthralling investigation of humans' peculiar fascination with small things-and what small things tell us about our larger world. Simon Garfield writes books that shine a light on aspects of the everyday world in order to reveal the charm ...Show more
Just My Type - A Book About Fonts by Simon Garfield
26.99 AUD
Category: Design | Reading Level: very good
Just My Type is not just a font book, but a book of stories. About how Helvetica and Comic Sans took over the world. About why Barack Obama opted for Gotham, while Amy Winehouse found her soul in 30s Art Deco. About the great originators of type, from Baskerville to Zapf, or people like Neville Brody wh ...Show more
Mauve by Simon Garfield
22.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Canons Ser.
1856. Eighteen-year-old chemistry student William Perkin's experiment has gone horribly wrong. But the deep brown sludge his botched project has produced has an unexpected power: the power to dye everything it touches a brilliant purple. Perkin has discovered mauve, the world's first synthetic dye, brid ...Show more
On the Map : Why the World Looks the Way it Does by Simon Garfield
22.99 AUD
Category: History
Maps fascinate us. They chart our understanding of the world and they log our progress, but above all they tell our stories. From the early sketches of philosophers and explorers through to Google Maps and beyond, Simon Garfield examines how maps both relate and realign our history. With a historical sw ...Show more
On the Map : Why the World Looks the Way it Does by Simon Garfield
29.99 AUD
Category: History
Maps fascinate us. They chart our understanding of the world and they log our progress, but above all they tell our stories. From the early sketches of philosophers and explorers through to Google Maps and beyond, Simon Garfield examines how maps both relate and realign our history. His compelling narra ...Show more
Timekeepers: How the World Became Obsessed with Time by Simon Garfield
32.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
Not so long ago we timed our lives by the movement of the sun. These days our time arrives atomically and insistently, and our lives are propelled by the notion that we will never have enough of the one thing we crave the most. How have we come to be dominated by something so arbitrary? The compelling s ...Show more
Timekeepers : How the World Became Obsessed with Time by Simon Garfield
22.99 AUD
Category: History
Time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana. The Beatles learn to be brilliant in an hour and a half. An Englishman arrives back from Calcutta but refuses to adjust his watch. Beethoven has his symphonic wishes ignored. A US Senator begins a speech that will last for 25 hours. The horrors of ...Show more