The best Australian science writing 2016 / foreword by Professor Fiona Stanley AC ; edited by Jo Chandler.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chandler, Jo, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Technical writing--Australia.

Technical writing.

Communication in science--Australia.

Communication in science.

Science in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Sydney NSW : NewSouth, 2016.

Summary:

From the furthest reaches of the universe to the microscopic world of our genes, science offers writers the kind of scope other subjects simply can't match. Good writing about science can be moving, funny, exhilarating or poetic, but it will always be honest and rigorous about the research that underlies it.

Contents:

Cover

Title page

Copyright

Contents

Foreword by Professor Fiona Stanley AC

Introduction by Jo Chandler

Transforming the bush by Paul Daley

Every lizard counts by Nicole Gill

Lucy's lullaby: Song of the ages by Fiona McMillan

Pluto and the human gaze by Alice Gorman

Germ warfare by Karen Hitchcock

The forest at the edge of time by Ashley Hay

Cyberbrains by Jane McCredie

Drilling for history by Adam Morton

I feel, therefore I am by Margaret Wertheim

You wouldn't bet on it: The cosmic crapshoot of life by Geraint F Lewis

The doctor will scan you now by Leah Kaminsky

Radiology by Magdalene Ball and Rob Walker

Slippery migrants by James Bradley

Swept up in a gravitational wave by Ling Sun

Beautiful contrivances by Susan Double

Reality cannot by denied by Peter Doherty

The bone collector by Andrew McMillen

Built for eternity by Elmo Keep

Once bitten: The tick making a meal of carnivores by Bianca Nogrady

Ice Age lizards of Oz by Gilbert Price

Tooling up for Mars by Belinda Smith

Cracking the Knut case by Wendy Zukerman

Lessons from a working dog by Hazel Flynn and Elizabeth Finkel

Don't shoot: Stargazing in Afghanistan by Danielle Moylan

Antarctica's sleeping giant stirs by Tas van Ommen

Treasure chests by Brian Hawkins

New power, new realities by Kathy Marks

Her brilliant career by Wilson da Silva

Downloadable, full searchable, you by Sophia Frentz

White knuckle ethics: From the moral high ground to the slippery slope by Michael Cook

The hunt for Ned Kelly's head by Craig Cormick

Meat the relatives by Michael Slezak

Be afraid of the known unknowns by William Laurance

Poet of light by Roger Pulvers

Contributors

Acknowledgements

The Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing 2016 shortlist

Advisory panel.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 6, 2020).

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ISBN:

1-74224-805-5

1-74224-260-X

OCLC:

960701643