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New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity: Volume Three : Kingdoms Bacteria, Protozoa, Chromista, Plantae, Fungi
  

New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity: Volume Three : Kingdoms Bacteria, Protozoa, Chromista, Plantae, Fungi (Hardback)

Edited by Gordon, Dennis P.

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This volume is the third in the trilogy that provides a review and inventory of New Zealand's entire living and fossil biodiversity - an international effort involving more than 220 New Zealand and overseas specialists and the most comprehensive of its kind in the world. Together ...

ISBN 9781927145050
Published 1 January 2012
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Sea (Hardback)

By Laita, Mark

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Laita's breathtaking images of sea life are mesmerising; his cutting-edge photographic techniques unveil the full splendour and other-worldliness of the ocean's creatures in an entirely new and thrilling way. Sea showcases the exquisite beauty and technical brilliance of Laita's ...

ISBN 9780733628245
Published 29 November 2011 by Hachette
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Pieces of Mind: 21 Short Walks Around the Human Brain
  

Pieces of Mind: 21 Short Walks Around the Human Brain (Paperback)

By Corballis, Michael C.

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Do we have bigger brains than dolphins? Does your dog remember where it buried its bone? Why don't sheep laugh or gorillas lie? Why do we remember faces but not names? In 21 short walks around the human brain, acclaimed psychologist Michael Corballis answers these and other quest ...

ISBN 9781869404925
Published 29 November 2011 by Auckland University Press
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Feynman's Tips on Physics: How to Tackle Physics' Toughest Problems, from the Feynman Lectures on Physics and Everywhere Else
  

Feynman's Tips on Physics: How to Tackle Physics' Toughest Problems, from the Feynman Lectures on Physics and Everywhere Else (Trade Paperback/Paperback)

By Feynman, Richard P.; Gottlieb, Michael A.; Leighton, Ralph

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Provides essential advice on problem solving. This title reflects on the problems facing by the students making the transition from high school to college, and then to real life.

ISBN 9780465027972
Release Date 28 February 2012 by The Perseus Books Group
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Demon Fish: Travels Through the Hidden World of Sharks
  

Demon Fish: Travels Through the Hidden World of Sharks (Hardback)

By Eilperin, Juliet

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Travels through the Hidden World of Sharks

ISBN 9780715642917
Release Date 1 March 2012 by Gerald Duckworth & Co
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From Melancholia to Prozac: A History of Depression
  

From Melancholia to Prozac: A History of Depression (Hardback)

By Lawlor, Clark

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Exactly what is depression? Do we under- or over-diagnose it? Do treatments on offer really work? Clark Lawlor sheds light on the current debates by looking back at how depression has been described, understood, and dealt with in other cultures and throughout history.

ISBN 9780199585793
Release Date 23 February 2012 by Oxford University Press
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Waking the Giant: How a Changing Climate Triggers Earthquakes, Tsunamis, and Volcanoes
  

Waking the Giant: How a Changing Climate Triggers Earthquakes, Tsunamis, and Volcanoes (Hardback)

By McGuire, Bill

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The last 20,000 years has seen our world flip from icehouse to greenhouse, provoking earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic outbursts. Like a giant stirring from a long sleep, the Earth beneath our feet tossed and turned. Bill McGuire argues that climate change is once more setting t ...

ISBN 9780199592265
Release Date 6 March 2012 by Oxford University Press
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Sand and Silicon: Science That Changed the World
  

Sand and Silicon: Science That Changed the World (Hardback)

By McWhan, Denis

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This is a story about sand and how science and silicon changed our lives. Over the last century science taught us to take this common material and make the products on which we depend - computer chips, solar cells and optical fibers. This book relates the underlying scientific di ...

ISBN 9780199640270
Release Date 6 March 2012 by Oxford University Press
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The Cybernetic Brain: Sketches of Another Future

The Cybernetic Brain: Sketches of Another Future (Hardback)

By Pickering, Andrew

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Cybernetics - roughly, the study of systems - is often thought of as a grim science of control. This book reveals a much more lively and experimental strain of cybernetics that can be traced from the 1940s onwards.

ISBN 9780226667898
Published 23 April 2010 by FOOTPRINT BOOKS
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The Brain is Wider Than the Sky: Why Simple Solutions Don't Work in a Complex World
 

The Brain is Wider Than the Sky: Why Simple Solutions Don't Work in a Complex World (Hardback)

By Appleyard, Bryan

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A clarion call against dumbing-down in modern society by one of our most eminent journalists

ISBN 9780297860303
Published 13 December 2011 by Orion Publishing
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