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ReviewsPrehistoric Giants: the Megafauna of AustraliaMay 2009
Imagine a scene where seven-metre-long goannas stalked rhinoceros-sized wombats, and marsupial lions roamed the bush. House of SunsApril 2009
Six million years have passed since Abigail Gentian split herself into 1,000 clones and launched them across the galaxy. The Young Charles DarwinApril 2009
Darwin began studying medicine at the tender age of 16, even though he couldn't stand the sight of blood. With details like these, Thomson takes a peek into his as a young boy through to his late twenties aboard the famed HMS Beagle. Evolution in the AntipodesApril 2009
Darwin detested Australia. It's sometimes a hard fact to swallow, but a little easier to understand when you think about the hardships of the early colonists. Mr Darwin's Incredible Shrinking World: Science and Technology in 1859April 2009
The publication of On the Origin of Species was a remarkable event that changed the world forever, right? Not so, says Macinnis. He argues that Darwin's book was not the cause of change, but a symptom of it. Darwin's Armada: How Four Voyagers to Australiasia Won the Battle for Evolution and Changed the WorldApril 2009
Between these covers is a story of adventure: setting sail amid gales and plunging barometers, men lost overboard and the lonely captain who shoots himself in a fit of depression when he's appointed the task of mapping Argentina's bleak Tierre del Fuego. Guesstimation: Solving the World's Problems on the Back of a Cocktail NapkinApril 2009
How many people in the world are picking their nose right now? Weinstein and Adam solve this and 79 other world problems on chemistry, physics, biology and history – and all on the back of a napkin. Voyage of the Nautilus: The Greatest Australian Adventure Never ToldApril 2009
It's a story that sounds fit for Hollywood, or at the very least, fodder for national myth-making: a South Australian boy from an impoverished background grows up to be a fearless adventurer; he hatches a plan, dubbed suicidal by many, to captain a cramped submarine more than 3,000 km under Arctic ice to the North Pole. He does all this purely in the pursuit of knowledge. The SuperorganismApril 2009
They're a formidable duo: Bert Hölldobbler and E. O. Wilson are the only professional scientists to have won a Pulitzer Prize in general non-fiction, for The Ants (1990). The Human Mind: and How to Make the Most of itFebruary 2009
The Human Mind is a three-part TV series presented by eminent British reproductive scientist and fervent science communicator Robert Winston. MatterFebruary 2009
Matter is the latest in Banks’ Culture series, a loosely connected string of self contained novels set in a universe crowded with sentient species at every possible level of development. From Here to Infinity: The Royal Observatory, Greenwich Guide to AstronomyFebruary 2009
What exactly did Galileo see through his telescope? Is the Sun a perfect sphere? Are there multiple universes? A Ball, A Dog, and a Monkey: 1957- the Space Race BeginsFebruary 2009
The space race began on 4 October 1957, when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the first artificial satellite. An Ocean of Air: A Natural History of the AtmosphereFebruary 2009
Starting 400 years ago with Galileo, Walker traces the tales of adventure behind centuries of atmospheric research. |
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