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Dispatches From Continent Seven by Rebecca Priestley (ed)
55.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
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
End Times by Rebecca Priestley
35.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
In the late 1980s, two teenage girls found refuge from a world of cosy conformity, sexism and the nuclear arms race in protest and punk. Then, drawn in by a promise of meaning and purpose, they cast off their punk outfits and became born-again Christians. Unsure which fate would come first - nuclear ann ...Show more
Fifteen Million Years in Antarctica by Rebecca Priestley
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non- fiction
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: Popular Science
‘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
44.99 NZD
48.00 (6% off)
Category: NZ Non- fiction | Series: Awa Science
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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