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Katie Steckles , Jamie Gallagher , Aidan Randle-Code

Bundle and save! When you buy this set you will receive one copy of each of the following books at 17% off the RRP*: The Biology of Bananas The …

Amalie Wright

The first public parks were created on urban 'greenfields'. Once these designated sites had been used, cities looked towards post-industrial sites, and built parks in places that had suffered from environmental degradation, neglect, abandonment …

David Lindenmayer , Christopher MacGregor , Nick Dexter , Martin Fortescue , Esther Beaton

Booderee National Park at Jervis Bay, 200km south of Sydney, attracts over 450,000 visitors each year. The park has many special features, including dramatic wave cut platforms and sea caves, some of the whitest beach sands in Australia, …

Patricia Cook , Philip Bock , Dennis Gordon , Haylee Weaver

Bundle and save! When you buy this set you will receive one copy of each of the following books at 8% off the RRP*: Australian Bryozoa Volume 1: Biology, Ecology and Natural History Australian Bryozoa Volume 2: …

Ailsa Wild , Aviva Reed , Briony Barr , Gregory Crocetti , Linda Blackall , Patricia Stock

Bundle and save! When you buy this set you will receive one copy of each of the following books at 20% off the RRP*: The Forest in the Tree: How Fungi Shape the Earth …

Mark Webb

Australian Native Plants provides a comprehensive guide to the horticulture of our native plants. Based on nearly 50 years of experience at Kings Park and Botanic Garden in Perth, the book describes the necessary growing conditions …

Katie Steckles

Get ready to play (and learn!) with your food! Discover the secrets of Pi(e), learn about the hidden numbers in your food, conduct experiments with shapes and patterns, and more. Become a Kitchen Scientist by creating number patterns …

Jamie Gallagher

Get ready to play (and learn!) with your food! Discover the truth about the problems with plastic and recycling, learn how to read the periodic table, conduct experiments with soda rockets, and more. Become a Kitchen Scientist by …

Aidan Randle-Conde

Get ready to play (and learn!) with your food! Discover how electricity is made, learn about the inner workings of atoms and conduct experiments with making waves, and more. Become a Kitchen Scientist by grasping gases using a home-made …

Katie Steckles

Get ready to play (and learn!) with your food! Discover the truth about yeast, learn how to count calories, conduct experiments with rubbery eggs, and more. Become a Kitchen Scientist by dissecting an onion, decorating a cookie to …

Andrea Fabbri , Giorgio Bartolini , Maurizio Lambardi , Stan Kailis

This practical manual is an authoritative guide to olive propagation, providing extended information on seed germination, rooting of cuttings, grafting and micropropagation. The authors describe each topic in detail and discuss the relative …

W Bond

Measurements in and just below the plant root zone, using principles of soil physics, can be used to estimate recharge. This booklet describes the Zero Flux Plane Method, Methods Based on Darchy's law, and Lysimetry for making such estimates. …

Robert Freestone

Urban Nation: Australia's Planning Heritage provides the first national survey of the historical impact of urban planning and design on the Australian landscape. This ambitious account looks at every state and territory from the earliest …

Roy R Kellaway , Tim T Harrington

This book presents strategies for feeding energy and protein supplements to pasture-fed dairy cows and examines the potential economic benefits. Effective supplementary feeding of concentrates is critical to the success of all dairy …

We humans eat a whole lot of plants. This issue, we’re checking out the science, from plant to plate! We investigate whether tomatoes are fruits or vegetables, and give you tips on being a food adventurer. Want to know the science …

Phil Cheney , Andrew Sullivan

Grassfires: Fuel, Weather and Fire Behaviour presents information from CSIRO on the behaviour and spread of fires in grasslands. This second edition follows over 10 years of research aimed at improving the understanding of the fundamental …

Russell Barrett , Eng Pin Tay

The city of Perth is well known and treasured for its areas of protected bushland in the heart of the city. Kings Park and Bold Park represent a significant part of the natural heritage of the Swan Coastal Plain and are an important part …

Todd E Erickson , Russell L Barrett , David J Merritt , Kingsley W Dixon

The Pilbara region in Australia’s arid northwest is rich in flora that is suited to extreme temperatures and boom and bust cycles of moisture availability. It is also a region important for its natural resources. In places where mining activities …

Paul Meek , Peter Fleming , Guy Ballard , Peter Banks , Andrew Claridge , Jim Sanderson , Don E Swann

Camera trapping in wildlife management and research is a growing global phenomenon. The technology is advancing very quickly, providing unique opportunities for collecting new biological knowledge. In order for fellow camera trap researchers …

Barbara Vincent

Goat meat is growing in popularity in Australia and is also an important export industry. It offers many opportunities for large- and small-scale farmers who need to diversify or seek alternative enterprises. Farming Meat Goats provides …