Victoria's Box–Ironbark region is one of the most important areas of animal diversity and significance in southern Australia. The forests and woodlands of this region provide critical habitat for a diverse array of woodland-dependent animals, …
[ Books ] Animals — Animals / Field Guides
It’s time to peer into the unknown with this issue of Double Helix! Join us as we discover the truth about mermaids, the Kraken and the Bermuda Triangle. We’ll show you the latest developments in the tech of invisibility. And for a more …
[ Books ] Children — Children / Children and Teen Non-Fiction
Nutrition is the key driver of animal health, welfare and production. In agriculture, nutrition is crucial to meet increasing global demands for animal protein and consumer demands for cheaper meat, milk and eggs and higher standards of …
[ Books ] Food & Agriculture — Food & Agriculture / Livestock Management
Although relatively little known, fungi provide the links between the terrestrial organisms and ecosystems that underpin our functioning planet. The Allure of Fungi presents fungi through multiple perspectives – those of mycologists …
[ Books ] Plants & Fungi — Plants & Fungi / Mosses and Fungi
This visually superb and informative field guide is the second volume of Flora of the Otway Plain and Ranges, and covers more than 480 species of Daisies, Heaths, Peas, Saltbushes, Sundews, Wattles and other shrubby and herbaceous …
[ Books ] Plants & Fungi — Plants & Fungi / Field and Regional Guides
A walk in the bush reveals insects visiting flowers, patrolling the air, burrowing under bark and even biting your skin. Every insect has characteristic feeding preferences and behaviours. Insects of South-Eastern Australia is a unique …
[ Books ] Animals — Animals / Invertebrates
This book brings together extensive scientific learning on what makes a good farm for biodiversity. Based on thirteen years of intensive research, it breaks the discussion into chapters on key environmental and vegetation assets and then …
[ Books ] Animals — Animals / Wildlife
Poisonous to Pets is vital to anyone who owns a dog or cat – it could save their pet's life. This highly illustrated, full-colour book allows rapid access to visual and written information about plants that are poisonous to cats and …
[ Books ] Animals — Animals / Health and Welfare
Reef and Rainforest is a photographic portrayal of marine and terrestrial life in one of the world's most biodiverse regions – the tropics of north-eastern Australia, together with the South Pacific nations of Solomon Islands and …
[ Books ] Natural Environment — Natural Environment / Biodiversity and Ecology
This handbook provides a basis for checking the range of quality factors that can be judged by on-the-spot examination. When barley is being received at the silo or the malt-house, it is impractical and unnecessary to use the range of precise …
[ Books ] Food & Agriculture — Food & Agriculture / Crops and Pastures
Australia is a land of many unique animals, some of which are active only during the cooler evening and night-time and so are rarely seen. These are the after dark animals so widespread yet so little noticed by humans, whether in our backyards, …
[ Books ] Animals — Animals / Wildlife
A Guide to Southern Temperate Seagrasses describes the exceptionally diverse seagrasses in the temperate parts of the southern hemisphere. This book introduces readers to the evolution, biology and ecology of the southern temperate …
[ Books ] Plants & Fungi — Plants & Fungi / Aquatic and Marine Plants
Ned Kelly was hanged at the Old Melbourne Gaol on 11 November 1880, and his body buried in the graveyard there. Many stories emerged about his skull being separated and used as a paperweight or trophy, and it was finally put on display …
[ Books ] Science in Society — Science in Society / Heritage and History
This new edition of the Code is intended as a guide for all people responsible for the welfare of pigs under both intensive, deep litter and outdoor systems. Good welfare of farmed pigs will ensure that pigs cope well in their environment …
[ Books ] Food & Agriculture — Food & Agriculture / Livestock Codes
Possibly the most successful urban birds, pigeons and doves in the Order Columbiformes are one of the most easily recognised groups. They are an ancient and very successful group with an almost worldwide distribution and are most strongly …
[ Books ] Animals — Animals / Birds
Desert Lake is a book combining artistic, scientific and Indigenous views of a striking region of north-western Australia. Paruku is the place that white people call Lake Gregory. It is Walmajarri land, and its people live on their …
[ Books ] Science in Society — Science in Society / Indigenous Australia
The Aboriginal Story of Burke and Wills is the first major study of Aboriginal associations with the Burke and Wills expedition of 1860–61. A main theme of the book is the contrast between the skills, perceptions and knowledge of …
[ Books ] Science in Society — Science in Society / Indigenous Australia
It is not surprising that Australian grassfinches are highly popular with ornithologists and aviculturists, for included among the species are one of the most beautiful of all birds – the Gouldian Finch Erythrura gouldiae – and one …
[ Books ] Animals — Animals / Birds
Desert Channels is a book that combines art, science and history to explore the ‘impulse to conserve’ in the distinctive Desert Channels country of south-western Queensland. The region is the source of Australia’s major inland-flowing …
[ Books ] Science in Society — Science in Society / Indigenous Australia