The Tree Faller’s Manual is an essential handbook for forest operators and others who need to fell trees manually using a hand-held chainsaw. This manual builds on the information provided by the Chainsaw Operator’s Manual. Tree …
[ Books ] Food & Agriculture — Food & Agriculture / Agroforestry
Whether you have a garden suffering from lack of attention, damaged from weather events or suffering pest attacks, Australian Garden Rescue will guide you through practical solutions, helpful tips and preventative tactics to minimise …
[ Books ] Gardening & Horticulture — Gardening & Horticulture / Techniques and Design
Bryozoans are aquatic animals that form colonies of connected individuals. They take a variety of forms: some are bushy and moss-like, some are flat and encrusting and others resemble lace. Bryozoans are mostly marine, with species found …
[ Books ] Marine & Freshwater — Marine & Freshwater / Marine Ecology
This three-volume series represents a comprehensive treatment of the beetles of Australia, a relatively under-studied fauna that includes many unusual and unique lineages found nowhere else on Earth. Volume 1 contains keys to all …
[ Books ] Animals — Animals / Invertebrates
The first in this series to be published, Volume 1A is a companion volume of general essays appropriate to all future volumes in this superb series. It is an authoritative introduction to the physical and natural environment of Australia. …
[ Books ] Natural Environment — Natural Environment / Biodiversity and Ecology
Cockroaches! Even a mere mention of the word causes many people to recoil in horror. However, of the hundreds of species of cockroaches (or blattodeans as they are known) found in Australia, only a small number of them give the group a bad …
[ Books ] Animals — Animals / Invertebrates
'The deepest trenches, highest mountains, biggest earthquakes, most explosive volcanoes are all associated with these places. We’re discovering things all the time.' For ten years, the RV Southern Surveyor represented …
[ Books ] Science in Society — Science in Society / Heritage and History
Australia’s experience in community-based environmental repair is unique in the world, with no shortage of analysis by bureaucrats, academics and environmentalists. This collection of 17 case studies gives a view from ground level. It includes …
[ Books ] Natural Environment — Natural Environment / Biodiversity and Ecology
Within the Yarra River catchment area nestles the valley of Steels Creek, a small shallow basin in the lee of Kinglake plateau and the Great Dividing Range. The escarpment walls of the range drop in a series of ridges to the valley and form …
[ Books ] Natural Environment — Natural Environment / Fire
This book provides architects, engineers, builders, foresters, members of the pest control and timber industries, and the general public with a ready source of reference to the more important wood borers and termites encountered in Australia. …
[ Books ] Animals — Animals / Invertebrates
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: …
[ Books ] Marine & Freshwater — Marine & Freshwater / Marine Ecology
Australia’s introduced vertebrate pest species cost at least $1 billion annually in economic, environmental and social impacts. The Guide to Introduced Pest Animals of Australia is a comprehensive, practical guide to 60 introduced …
[ Books ] Animals — Animals / Invasive
How do we measure the universe? How do our bodies repair themselves when we are ill? What species will exist on Earth in a million years' time? Discover the answers to these questions and a lot more in The Great Australian Science …
[ Books ] Children — Children / Children and Teen Non-Fiction
The long-awaited, fully revised and updated fourth edition of this wonderful resource, now published in full colour with photos and line drawings illustrating the descriptions of every listed plant native to the Greater Melbourne region. Flora …
[ Books ] Plants & Fungi — Plants & Fungi / Field and Regional Guides
This book lists the stomach contents of Australian non-passerine birds collected by the CSIRO Wildlife and Ecology from 1963 to 1980. …
[ Books ] Animals — Animals / Birds
Groundwater discharge is associated with salinity and pollution problems. The widespread presence of millions of saline lakes in North America, Africa and Australia, shows that across the geological record, most salinity and desertification …
[ Books ] Built Environment — Built Environment / Engineering
Originally published in 1991, Insects of Australia was acclaimed worldwide as one of the best general textbooks of entomology ever written. Now made available in electronic form for the first time, this PDF eBook includes both volumes …
[ Books ] Animals — Animals / Invertebrates
This volume deals with the shield-backed katydids, the Tettigoniinae, covering 17 genera and 72 species. The use of tribes has been disregarded until generic classification is made on a worldwide basis. Introductory chapters provide a wealth …
[ Books ] Animals — Animals / Invertebrates
The Murray–Darling Basin spans more than 1 million square kilometres across the lower third of Queensland, most of New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory, northern Victoria and the south-eastern corner of South Australia. Wildlife …
[ Books ] Animals — Animals / Reptiles and Amphibians
Double Helix just finished ten trips around the Sun! Being our last issue and being exactly ten years old are both reasons to look back on what we’ve done. Meet the spacecraft taking a ten-year journey to the Sun. Meanwhile, …
[ Books ] Children — Children / Children and Teen Non-Fiction