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The best Australian science writing 2014 /
Now in its fourth year, this popular and acclaimed anthology steps inside the Australia's finest scientific and literary minds to present a collection that celebrates the nation's finest science writing of the year. Featuring prominent authors - such as Tim Flannery, Jo Chandler, Frank Bow...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Sydney, N.S.W. :
NewSouth Publishing,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; About the Editor; Title Page; Dedication; Copyright; CONTENTS; CONTRIBUTORS; FOREWORD; INTRODUCTION; A short walk in the Australian bush; Survival in the City; Planet of the Vines; Is There Room for Organics?; This. Here. Now. The climate catastrophe; Weather and mind games; Weathering the storm; Firefront; Antarctic ice: Going, going ... ; They're taking over! The jellyfish move in; From Alzheimer's to zebrafish; Joseph Jukes' epiphanies; Popular mechanics: A short story; The CAVE artists; High-tech treasure hunt; The carnivorous platypus; The eye in the sand; The now delusion.
- Reached by committee, nineteen eighty-three Material of the future: Sticky tape, honey and graphene; Pitch fever; Uniquely human; The pet-keeping species; Penis size may be driven by women (Oh, and it matters ...); Eleven grams of trouble; TB and me: A medical souvenir; Massimo's genes: Medicine at the genetic frontier; Life, the universe and Boolardy; Liner notes, Voyager Golden Record; Beyond the 'Morning Star'; The oldest known star; The quantum spinmeister: Professor Andrea Morello; Here be dragons; ADVISORY PANEL; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; The Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing.