Science ε = –dø/dt, Peter Calder
North Pole, South Pole: The Epic Quest to Solve the Great Mystery of Earth’s Magnetism Gillian Turner Awa Press, $40.00, ISBN 9780958275002 Consider this passage about magnetism: Cooling basalts, it...
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Expert Witness: Behind the Scenes with a Real-life Forensic Scientist Anna Sandiford HarperCollins, $32.99, ISBN 9781869508753 “The CSI effect” refers to the influence of forensic science-themed TV...
View ArticleShaping the land, Ian J Graham
Volcanoes of Auckland: The Essential Guide Bruce W Hayward, Graeme Murdock and Gordon Maitland Auckland University Press, $59.99, ISBN 9781869404796 Auckland, New Zealand’s largest city, is often...
View ArticleTracing ancient footprints, Brent Southgate
Digging Up the Past: Archaeology for the Young and Curious David Veart Auckland University Press, $39.99, ISBN 9781869404659 When I was about seven years old, I started a museum. It stood in our...
View ArticleWhat’s squeezed into the skull, Rebecca Priestley
Pieces of Mind: 21 Short Walks around the Human Brain Michael C Corballis Auckland University Press. $30.00, ISBN 9781869404925 Last year, my sister Rachel returned from 10 years in Italy, laden with...
View ArticleLipstick, ice cream and bombs, Trevor Richards
Mad on Radium: New Zealand in the Atomic Age Rebecca Priestley Auckland University Press, $45.00, ISBN 9781869407278 In April 1960, thousands of Aucklanders and Wellingtonians flocked to their ports to...
View ArticleThe frozen continent, Janet Hunt
Science on Ice: Discovering the Secrets of Antarctica Veronica Meduna Auckland University Press, $60.00, ISBN 9781869405830 “Visiting this frozen landscape,” writes Veronica Meduna, “is to gain a fresh...
View ArticleThe colony’s resident expert of choice, Simon Upton
James Hector: Explorer, Scientist, Leader Simon Nathan Geoscience Society of New Zealand, $45.00 ISBN 9781877480461 Simon Nathan’s biography of Sir James Hector fills a major gap in the nation’s...
View ArticleDiscovery on the great southern continent, Julia Millen
Dispatches from Continent Seven: An Anthology of Antarctic Science Rebecca Priestley (ed) Awa Press, $55.00, ISBN 9781927249055 New Zealand’s connection with Antarctica began with early explorers. Abel...
View ArticleFighting the good fight, Philip Simpson
Fight for the Forests Paul Bensemann Potton and Burton, $70.00, ISBN 9780947503130 This book is a marvellous chronicle of the people, the campaigns, the sorrows and sacrifices and, ultimately, the...
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