SciBooks • Mar 17, 2014 •
by Rod Hanson REVIEW The Tragedy at Pike River Mine – How and Why 29 Men Died by Rebecca Macfie Awa Press RRP: $40.00 The Pike River coal mine disaster which cost the lives of 29 men in November 2010 has been extensively researched and documented with great feeling and compassion for the families involved … Read More
Ken Perrott • Nov 20, 2011 •
This weekend the Royal Society announced the winners of the New Zealand Manhire Prize for Creative Science Writing. There are two categories, fiction and non-fiction, and this year entrants were asked to write about chemistry and our world. This is … Continue reading → … Read More
Peter Griffin • Dec 28, 2009 •
The Sunday Star Times yesterday published a list of the top ten best-selling non-fiction books of 2009 in New Zealand (see below). It is a woeful list by any measure. Crockpots dominated. The only thing we have to be thankful for was that crackpots like Ian Wishart were absent from it. In previous years, decent works of local non-fiction, like … Read More