The Best Australian Science Writing 2019 by Bianca Nogrady (Editor); Lisa Harvey-Smith (Foreword by)
$16.00 NZD
Category: Science and Technology | Series: The\Best Australian Science Writing Seri Ser. | Reading Level: 4 Science
Good science writing makes us feel. It makes us delight in the discovery of a black hole munching on a star, laugh at the image of aliens puzzling over golf balls on the Moon, wonder at the mystery of the Spanish influenza's deadly rampage, grieve for baby shearwater chicks dying with plastic-filled sto ...Show more
The Future Eaters - An Ecological History of the Australasian Lands and People by Tim Flannery
$16.00 NZD
Category: Science and Technology | Reading Level: very good
This is the story of how human beings have consumed the resources they need for their own future. It examines the original "future eaters" who were the first people to leave the Afro-Asian homeland and travel down the chain of islands to Australasia and became the Aboriginal, Maori and other Polynesian ...Show more
Darwinism under the Microscope - How Recent Scientific Evidence Points to Divine Design by James P. Gills
$18.00 NZD
Category: Science and Technology
Did you know...The claim that "science and faith are enemies" is a myth? The discovery of DNA and its genetic code points squarely to a designer of the universe? The fossil record is a gigantic embarrassment and "headache" for evolution? Darwin's theories are based ultimately on philosophy, not on scien ...Show more
Dis Information by KRUSZELNICKI KARL DR.
$12.00 NZD
Category: Science and Technology
Following on from the "Great Mythconceptions", this book of myth-busting answers life's several important questions.
Cloning - A Beginner's Guide by Aaron D. Levine
$10.00 NZD
Category: Science and Technology | Series: Beginner's Guides
Would you drink milk from a cloned cow? When will we be able to clone humans? How would you react if a friend's child was a genetic clone of herself? Could the science of cloning provide the cure to Alzheimer's? Ever since the birth of Dolly, the infamous cloned sheep, such questions have rarely been lo ...Show more
Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients by Ben Goldacre
$16.00 NZD
Category: Science and Technology | Reading Level: very good
'Bad Science' hilariously exposed the tricks that quacks and journalists use to distort science, becoming a 400,000 copy bestseller. Now Ben Goldacre puts the $600bn global pharmaceutical industry under the microscope. What he reveals is a fascinating, terrifying mess. Doctors and patients need good sci ...Show more
Bring Back the King by Pilcher Helen
$14.00 NZD
Category: Science and Technology
If you could bring back just one animal from the past, what would you choose? It can be anyone or anything from history, from the King of the Dinosaurs, T. rex, to the King of Rock 'n' Roll, Elvis Presley, and beyond.De-extinction - the ability to bring extinct species back to life - is fast becoming re ...Show more
Here be Dragons: How the Study of Animal and Plant Distributions Revolutionized Our Views of Life and Earth by Dennis McCarthy
$14.00 NZD
Category: Science and Technology
Why do we find polar bears only in the Arctic and penguins only in the Antarctic? Why do oceanic islands often have many types of birds but no large native mammals? As Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace travelled across distant lands studying the wildlife they both noticed that the distribution of ...Show more
DNA USA: A Genetic Portrait of America by Sykes Bryan
$22.00 NZD
Category: Science and Technology
Crisscrossing the continent, a renowned geneticist provides a groundbreaking examination of America through its DNA. Bryan Sykes, one of the world’s leading geneticists and best-selling author of The Seven Daughters of Eve, sets his sights on America, one of the most genetically variegated countries i ...Show more
The Stuff of Life by Mark Schultz
$14.00 NZD
Category: Science and Technology
Let's face it: From adenines to zygotes, from cytokinesis to parthenogenesis, even the basics of genetics can sound utterly alien. So who better than an alien to explain it all? Enter Bloort 183, a scientist from an asexual alien race threatened by disease, who's been charged with researching the fundam ...Show more
Science is Golden by Karl Kruszelnicki
$14.00 NZD
Category: Science and Technology
Australia's favourite scientist answers more curly questions on Life, the Universe and Everything. No one conveys the excitement and wonder of science quite like Dr Karl, and this, his twenty-seventh book, takes us on another thoroughly entertaining exploration of the world around us.
Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes, Second Edition by Robert M. Emerson; Rachel I. Fretz; Linda L. Shaw
$18.00 NZD
Category: Science and Technology | Series: Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing Ser.
In Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes, Robert M. Emerson, Rachel I. Fretz, and Linda L. Shaw present a series of guidelines, suggestions, and practical advice for creating useful fieldnotes in a variety of settings, demystifying a process that is often assumed to be intuitive and impossible to teach. Using ...Show more