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Earthly Immortalities - How the Dead Live on in the Lives of Others by Peter Moore
$50.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
In this thought-provoking book, Peter Moore examines the often overlooked issues concerning human mortality, the fragile ways in which the dead can be said to "live on" in earthly terms: through their children, their work, the memories of others, their possessions, and even their bodies. Such earthly im ...Show more
Endeavour: The ship and the attitude that changed the world by Peter Moore
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR' Christopher Hart, Sunday Times An inventive biography of one of the most famous ships of all time - an alluring combination of history, adventure and science The Enlightenment was an age of endeavours. Britain was consumed by the impulse for grand p ...Show more
The Weather Experiment: The Pioneers Who Sought to See the Future by Peter Moore
$25.00 AUD
Category: Science
Book of the Week on Radio 4. "Gripping". (The Times). "Exhilarating". (Sunday Times). In an age when a storm was evidence of God's wrath, pioneering meteorologists had to fight against convention and religious dogma to realise their ambitions. But buoyed by the achievements of the Enlightenment, a gener ...Show more
The Weather Experiment: The Pioneers Who Sought to See the Future by Peter Moore
$53.00 AUD
Category: Science
In 1865 a broken Admiral Robert FitzRoy locked himself in his dressing room and cut his throat. His grand meteorological project had failed. Yet only a decade later, FitzRoy's storm-warning system and 'forecasts' would return, the model for what we use today. In an age when a storm at sea was evidence o ...Show more
Vroom with a View : Milan to Rome on a '61 Vespa by Peter Moore
$20.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
After a late night Tai Bo fitness commercial warns him that his life will be over after 40, Peter Moore decides to pursue a boyhood dream sparked by watching old black and white movies of Sophia Loren riding motor scooters - to putt-putt around Italy on a 1960s Vespa, living la dolce vita. Of course, it ...Show more
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