Building with straw bales is being embraced by amateurs and professionals for its versatility, comfort, environmental friendliness and high insulation. New methods should expand its growing worldwide popularity. In Practical Straw …
[ Books ] Built Environment — Built Environment / Building
Extensively illustrated with photographs and drawings, Living Architecture highlights the most exciting green roof and living wall projects in Australia and New Zealand within an international context. Cities around the world …
[ Books ] Built Environment — Built Environment / Landscape Architecture
Hawkmoths are large charismatic insects with highly variable and colourful larvae. Some species are specialised in their habitat preferences, but others are widespread and often encountered in gardens. However, little is known about most …
[ Books ] Animals — Animals / Invertebrates
Guidelines for Open Pit Slope Design is a comprehensive account of the open pit slope design process. Created as an outcome of the Large Open Pit (LOP) project, an international research and technology transfer project on rock slope …
[ Books ] Physical Sciences — Physical Sciences / Mining and Resources
It’s time to explore the solar system in this issue of Double Helix! Take a tour around the planets and find out how they smell, and stop off at the dwarf planets along the way. Closer to home, we look at plans to build a …
[ Books ] Children — Children / Children and Teen Non-Fiction
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 …
[ Books ] Children — Children / Activity Books
In this issue, we're getting sticky, smelly and goopy! Speedy slugs and frogs' eyes kick off our coverage of slimy animals, but we're also taking a look at slime moulds – a form of life that's not animal, plant or fungus! We uncover the …
[ Books ] Children — Children / Children and Teen Non-Fiction
Stone House Construction is a comprehensive study of Australian stone building techniques in a residential context, for people with an interest in building or renovating, including property owners, architects and builders. It has …
[ Books ] Built Environment — Built Environment / Building
Neither plants, nor animals, nor fungi, the myxomycetes are a surprisingly diverse and fascinating group of organisms. They spend the majority of their life out of sight as single-celled amoeboid individuals in leaf litter, soil or decaying …
[ Books ] Plants & Fungi — Plants & Fungi / Mosses and Fungi
The discipline of silviculture is at a crossroads. Silviculturists are under increasing pressure to develop practices that sustain the full function and dynamics of forested ecosystems and maintain ecosystem diversity and resilience while …
[ Books ] Food & Agriculture — Food & Agriculture / Agroforestry
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