Best Science Books 2009: New Zealand Listener

The New Zealand Listener has a few good suggestions from two different categories: Science and Journalism & Essays.

  • The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure and Human Evolution by Denis Dutton
  • The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins
  • Innocents in the Dry Valley: An Account of the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition, 1958-59 by Colin Bull
  • On the Origin of Stories: Evolution, Cognition and Fiction by Brian Boyd
  • The Best of New Zealand Geographic: Exploring our Land and Culture

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