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  <name><![CDATA[Peter Macinnis]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Peter Macinnis is an Australian writer for for both adults and younger readers, published most recently by the National Library of Australia and Pier 9. He writes mainly about history or science, but monsters, natural history and eccentricity are on his current agenda.  He also broadcasts about science on ABC Radio National, and has been translated into Russian, Slovak, Polish and American. He is about to be translated into Chinese.

He is a happy grandfather who travels assiduously, completes an average of 1500 words of polished and researched text each day.

He uses the handle McManly on a number of social utilities such as Twitter, Flickr and ted.com.]]></about>  <influences><![CDATA[Peter Mason, Henry Lawson, Peter Medawar, J B S Haldane, Rudyard Kipling, Walter Murdoch, Charles Dickens, Douglas Hofstadter, Primo Levi, Oliver Sacks, James Burke, Jared Diamond, T. H. Huxley, Jasper Fforde]]></influences>  <gender>male</gender>    <born_at>04/25/1944</born_at>    
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Poisons: From Hemlock to Botox to the Killer Bean of Calabar]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Bittersweet: The Story of Sugar]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Killer Bean of Calabar and Other Stories]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Rockets: Sulfur, Sputnik and Scramjets]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Peter Macinnis]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Lawn]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Peter Macinnis]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Readability and Science Testing]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Peter Macinnis]]></name>
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  <published>1979</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Science in Action Book 2: Teachers Guide]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Peter Macinnis]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Tom Bray]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Science in Action Book 1: Teachers Guide]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Peter Macinnis]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Tom Bray]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Science Library of Test Items vol. 2]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Peter Macinnis]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Science Library of Test Items vol. 1]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Peter Macinnis]]></name>
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