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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 …

Kathy Arthurson

Concern about rising crime rates, high levels of unemployment and anti-social behaviour of youth gangs within particular urban neighbourhoods has reinvigorated public and community debate into just what makes a functional neighbourhood. …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Geoff Beeson

Freshwater scarcity is a critical challenge, with social, economic, political and environmental consequences. Water crises in Australia have already led to severe restrictions being applied in cities, drought ravaging farmlands, and the …

Caryl Bosman , Ayşın Dedekorkut-Howes , Andrew Leach

The Gold Coast is a well-known and loved destination for local and international tourists, a city of surf and sun, pleasure and leisure. However, it is also one of the fastest growing cities in Australia, occupying the largest urban footprint …

Richard Tomlinson

Australia’s Unintended Cities identifies and researches housing and housing-related urban outcomes that are unintended consequences of other policies, the structure of incentives and disincentives for the housing market, and governance …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Tor Hundloe , Bridgette McDougall , Craig Page

The Gold Coast is one of Australia's premier tourism destinations, a modern city cut out of coastal vegetation, including paperbark swamps, mangroves and rainforests of both Indigenous and worldwide significance. The Gold Coast Transformed …

Graeme Hopkins , Christine Goodwin

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 …

Richard Tomlinson , Marcus Spiller

Since the early 1990s there has been a global trend towards governmental devolution. However, in Australia, alongside deregulation, public–private partnerships and privatisation, there has been increasing centralisation rather than decentralisation …

Michael Buxton , Robin Goodman , Susie Moloney

For more than a decade, Melbourne has had the fastest-growing population of any Australian capital city. It is expanding outward while also growing upward through vast new high-rise developments in the inner suburbs. With an estimated 1.6 …

Peter W Newton

Formidable challenges confront Australia and its human settlements: the mega-metro regions, major and provincial cities, coastal, rural and remote towns. The key drivers of change and major urban vulnerabilities have been identified and …