The Best Australian Science Writing 2014
Ashley Hay is the author of four books of narrative nonfiction, including Gum: The Story of Eucalypts and Their Champions, and two novels, including The Railwayman's Wife, which was short-listed in the fiction category of the NSW Premier's Literary Awards and won the People's Choice A...
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Sydney, NSW
University of New South Wales Press
2015
NewSouth Publishing NewSouth |
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| Abstract | Ashley Hay is the author of four books of narrative nonfiction, including Gum: The Story of Eucalypts and Their Champions, and two novels, including The Railwayman's Wife, which was short-listed in the fiction category of the NSW Premier's Literary Awards and won the People's Choice Award. She was literary editor of the Bulletin and her science writing has appeared in several magazines. Her work was awarded one of the inaugural Bragg Prizes for Science Writing in 2012 and short-listed for a Eureka award. Ian Lowe is the president of the Australian Conservation Foundation; an emeritus professor of science, technology, and society at Griffith University in Brisbane; and an adjunct professor at both Sunshine Coast University and Flinders University. He is the author of A Big Fix, Bigger or Better?, Living in the Hothouse, and A Voice of Reason. |
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| AbstractList | Now in its fourth year, this popular and acclaimed anthology steps inside the Australia's finest scientific and literary minds to present a collection that celebrates the nation's finest science writing of the year. Featuring prominent authors-such as Tim Flannery, Jo Chandler, Frank Bowden and Iain McCalman, as well as many new voices-this annual anthology covers topics as diverse and wondrous as our lumpy universe, the creation of dragons, why are Sydney's golden orb weaver spiders getting fatter and fitter, and the frontiers of climate science. Ashley Hay is the author of four books of narrative nonfiction, including Gum: The Story of Eucalypts and Their Champions, and two novels, including The Railwayman's Wife, which was short-listed in the fiction category of the NSW Premier's Literary Awards and won the People's Choice Award. She was literary editor of the Bulletin and her science writing has appeared in several magazines. Her work was awarded one of the inaugural Bragg Prizes for Science Writing in 2012 and short-listed for a Eureka award. Ian Lowe is the president of the Australian Conservation Foundation; an emeritus professor of science, technology, and society at Griffith University in Brisbane; and an adjunct professor at both Sunshine Coast University and Flinders University. He is the author of A Big Fix, Bigger or Better?, Living in the Hothouse, and A Voice of Reason. The annual collection celebrating the finest Australian science writing of the year. |
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| TableOfContents | Cover -- About the Editor -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Copyright -- 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 graphene -- Pitch 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 |
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