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The Ant and the Ferrari: Lifting the Hood on Truth, Society and the Universe
   

The Ant and the Ferrari: Lifting the Hood on Truth, Society and the Universe (Trade Paperback/Paperback)

By Spackman, Dr. Kerry

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An accessible pop science book which offers readers a clear, navigable path through the big questions that confront us all today, using science to reveal the hidden truths in the universe. Author Dr Spackman examines questions such as: Is there such thing as absolute truth? How ...

ISBN 9781869509590
Release Date 1 June 2012 by HarperCollins
Interest Age Young Adults
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Naked Eye Wonders: A Short Guide to the Stars as Seen from Aotearoa New Zealand
  

Naked Eye Wonders: A Short Guide to the Stars as Seen from Aotearoa New Zealand (Paperback, 3rd Revised edition, Contains Sheet map)

By Taylor, Paul

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The book is written in a straightforward manner for the interested layperson to be able to identify all the interesting points without any further equipment. The book is now increased to 64 pages all in full colour, numerous simple to follow diagrams and a large fold out colour s ...

ISBN 9780473057879
Published 1 August 2001
Interest Age Young Adults
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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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Matariki: The Maori New Year
  

Matariki: The Maori New Year (Paperback, 2nd New edition)

By Hakaraia, Libby

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This book is an introduction to the star group Matariki. Known in other cultures by names including the Pleiades and the Seven Sisters, Matariki featured strongly in pre-European New Zealand. It marked the beginning of the Maori calendar, and its rising before the sun in late May ...

ISBN 9780143010180
Published 29 May 2008 by Penguin
Interest Age Young Adults
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Science on Ice: Discovering the Secrets of Antarctica
  

Science on Ice: Discovering the Secrets of Antarctica (Hardback)

By Meduna, Veronika

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'For some scientific questions, Antarctica is the best - and sometimes the only - place to look for answers. Visiting this frozen landscape is to gain a fresh perspective on our world, almost like going to another planet and looking back with renewed wonder on Earth.' In Science ...

ISBN 9781869405830
Published 6 April 2012 by Auckland University Press
Interest Age Young Adults
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Torbay Ti Kouka: A New Zealand Tree in the English Riviera
 

Torbay Ti Kouka: A New Zealand Tree in the English Riviera (Paperback)

By Wayne, Barrar

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In Torbay ti kouka, photographer Wayne Barrar looks at how the New Zealand cabbage tree has been relocated, hybridised and utilised to redefine a new domestic landscape: the South West of England. Defying the normal direction of ecological colonialism, the cabbage tree was int ...

ISBN 9781841022970
Published 1 February 2012 by University of Plymouth Press
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New Zealand Astronomical Yearbook 2012
 

New Zealand Astronomical Yearbook 2012 (Paperback)

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This is a must-have astronomy almanac for what's happening in the New Zealand skies for 2012! Featuring: u Topical articles including '2012 Not the End' dispelling the popular myths and false science about the end of the world. u 'Mars Exploration' - the sea ...

ISBN 9771171110003
Published 1 October 2011 by AUCKLAND OBSERVATORY
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New Zealand Seashells Visual Guide
 

New Zealand Seashells Visual Guide (Paperback)

By Raven & Selwyn Bracegirdle, Jenny

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This is the first comprehensive identification guide to New Zealand seashells produced since New Zealand Mollusca by AWB Powell, 1979 It has been scienfically checked and contains up to date names and identifications. It is a key publication for collectors, naturalists and sci ...

ISBN 9780473159597
Published 4 June 2010
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Guide to the Freshwater Crustacea of New Zealand
  

Guide to the Freshwater Crustacea of New Zealand (Paperback)

By Chapman, M. A.; Lewis, M. H.; Winterbourn, Michael

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Guide to the freshwater Crustacea of New Zealand is a comprehensive update of the classic volume Introduction to the freshwater Crustacea of N.Z. by Chapman & Lewis (1976). In the intervening 35 years there have been many advances in the systematics of crustaceans leading in many ...

ISBN 9780473201753
Published 13 December 2011 by NZ Freshwater Sciences Society
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Marine fauna of New Zealand. King crabs of New Zealand, Australia and the Ross Sea
 

Marine fauna of New Zealand. King crabs of New Zealand, Australia and the Ross Sea (Paperback)

By T Ahyong, Shane

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ISBN 9780478232851
Published 12 December 2010 by Niwa
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