The best Australian science writing 2014 / / edited by Ashley Hay

• Pubblicazione: Sydney, New South Wales : , : Newsouth, , 2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (312 p.)
• Disciplina: 500
• Soggetto topico: Technical writing - Australia; Communication in science - Australia; Science in literature
• Persona (resp. second.): HayAshley
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: CONTENTS; CONTRIBUTORS; FOREWORD; INTRODUCTION; A short walk in the Australian bush; Survival in the City; Planet of the Vines; Is There Room for Organics?; This. Here. Now. The climate catastrophe; Weather and mind games; Weathering the storm; Firefront; Antarctic ice: Going, going ...; They're taking over! The jellyfish move in; From Alzheimer's to zebrafish; Joseph Jukes' epiphanies; Popular mechanics: A short story; The CAVE artists; High-tech treasure hunt; The carnivorous platypus; The eye in the sand; The now delusion; Reached by committee, nineteen eighty-three ; Material of the future: Sticky tape, honey and graphenePitch fever; Uniquely human; The pet-keeping species; Penis size may be driven by women (Oh, and it matters...); Eleven grams of trouble; TB and me: A medical souvenir; Massimo's genes: Medicine at the genetic frontier; Life, the universe and Boolardy; Liner notes, Voyager Golden Record; Beyond the 'Morning Star'; The oldest known star; The quantum spinmeister: Professor Andrea Morello; Here be dragons; ADVISORY PANEL; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; The Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing
• Sommario/riassunto: The annual collection celebrating the finest Australian science writing of the year. Why are Sydney's golden orb weaver spiders getting fatter and fitter? Could sociology explain the recent upsurge in prostate cancer diagnoses? Why were Darwinites craving a good storm during 'The Angry Summer'? Is it true that tuberculosis has become deadlier over time? And are jellyfish really taking over the world? Now in its fourth year, this popular and acclaimed anthology steps inside the nation's laboratories and its finest scientific and literary minds. Featuring prominent authors such as Tim Flannery,
• Titolo autorizzato: The best Australian science writing 2014
• ISBN: 1-74224-188-3; 1-74224-713-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910658105803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II