SciBooks • Feb 27, 2014 •
by Sophie Fern REVIEW: Cryptozoologicon: the biology, evolution and mythology of hidden animals by John Conway, C.M. Kosemen and Darren Naish Irregular books, 2013 If it is possible to have a coffee table e-book, that is exactly what this is – a volume to dip into for edification and entertainment. With tongues firmly lodged in cheeks, … Read More
SciBooks • Feb 21, 2014 •
by Sophie Fern REVIEW: Black Robin Country: The Chatham Islands and its wildlife. by David Cemmick and Dick Veitch Hodder and Stoughton, 1985 The story of the survival of the black robins and their matriarch ‘Old Blue’ is well known, but this is a legendary snapshot of the project at a time when no one … Read More
SciBooks • Feb 21, 2014 •
by Dion O’Neale Review: Hidden Agendas: What we need to know about the TPPA by Jane Kelsey Bridget Williams Books, 2013 e-book RRP $4.99 Jane Kelsey makes no bones about the fact that she thinks that the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement is bad news for New Zealand: the first page of … Read More
SciBooks • Jan 28, 2014 •
Reviewed by: Aimee Whitcroft REVIEW: Nothing Edited by: Jeremy Webb (New Scientist) Profile Books Limited, 2013 I’ve read a great many science books over the years, and stacked up against the numerous tomes into which I’ve sunk myself of an afternoon, Nothing has to be one of my favourites. With chapters by 20 science writers – … Read More
Grant Jacobs • Dec 11, 2013 •
Looking for a Christmas present for someone who likes reading about ‘things’, how they work, why? Or just generally musing about life. I’ve had past success with anthologies of science writing as gifts, in my case Best American Science and Nature Writing or Best American Science Writing, both part of the long-established ‘Best American’ … Read More
Ken Perrott • Oct 10, 2013 •
I am spending some time dealing with family business so I am reposting some of my past book reviews over the next few days. These could be useful with Christmas coming up. This is Gareth Morgan’s second to last book. … Continue reading → … Read More
SciBooks • Oct 01, 2013 •
by Alison Campbell REVIEW: Charlatan: America’s Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam by Pope Brock Three Rivers Press, New York, USA (2008) Paperback: 324 pages ISBN: 978-0-307-33989-8 RRP: US$14.95 Goat glands, greed, and the gullibility of others turned out to be a winning combination for John R. Read More
SciBooks • Sep 25, 2013 •
Reviewed by Alison Ballance REVIEW: Birds of New Zealand: a photographic guide by Paul Scofield and Brent Stephenson Auckland University Press 2013 RRP $59.99 Like many New Zealanders I take a strong interest in our country’s natural history, and if you’re talking about our terrestrial vertebrate fauna then you’re pretty much talking about birds. My bookshelves … Read More
Bill Kaye-Blake • Sep 09, 2013 •
In the recent book Inequality: A New Zealand Crisis, Jonathan Boston has a really useful chapter. It probably should have started the book as a way of laying some intellectual groundwork, instead of being Chapter 5. It raises the same point as Matt Nolan does at TVHE, quoting Amartya Sen, but with more detail. Here’s Boston: […] … Read More
Aimee Whitcroft • Sep 02, 2013 •
If sometimes you wonder whether everything possible hasn’t already been written about startups, business, software startups, software businesses and so on (ad nauseum), you wouldn’t be alone. Certainly, the industry which examines this seems pretty healthily active. Books, lectures, blawgs,… Read more › … Read More