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Atoms, Dinosaurs & DNA: 68 Great New Zealand Scientists by Veronika Meduna & Rebecca Priestley
34.99 NZD
37.00 (5% off)
Category: Science | Reading Level: Very Good
From Joseph Banks to Ernest Rutherford to Beatrice Tinsley to Ingrid Visser, 'Atoms, Dinosaurs & DNA' covers 68 of New Zealand's most pre-eminent scientists. Among them are some of the earliest explorers and collectors, the first professional scientists and some of today's leading scientists who are ...Show more
Dispatches From Continent Seven by Rebecca Priestley (ed)
55.00 NZD
Category: Science | Reading Level: near fine
Since British explorer James Cook first circumnavigated Antarctica in the late 18th century, the white continent has exerted a powerful attraction. There is no permanent human habitation, and no mercy from the raw, relentless elements, yet for nearly 200 years explorers and scientists have been drawn to ...Show more
Fifteen Million Years in Antarctica by Rebecca Priestley
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Rebecca Priestley longs to be in Antarctica. But it is also the last place on Earth she wants to go. In 2011 Priestley visited the wide white continent for the first time, on a trip that coincided with the centenary of Robert Falcon Scott's fateful trek to the South Pole. For Priestley, 2011 was the ful ...Show more
Mad on Radium - New Zealand in the Atomic Age by Rebecca Priestley
45.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics | Reading Level: very good
‘New Zealand is known around the world for our nuclear-free stance – banning US ship visits, prohibiting uranium mining, selling ourselves to the world on our clean, green, nuclear-free image. But have we always been nuclear sceptics?’ In this engaging and accessible history, prize-winning author Rebecc ...Show more
The Awa Book of New Zealand Science by Rebecca Priestley
49.90 NZD
Category: Science | Series: Awa Science | Reading Level: very good
This landmark anthology of writings about New Zealand science and by New Zealand scientists traces the development of all branches of science, from early naturalists' ramblings on flora and fauna, to geological accounts of Lake Rotomahana's famous pink and white terraces, to Rutherford splitting the ato ...Show more
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