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. …
[ Books ] Built Environment — Built Environment / Planning and Design
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
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 …
[ Books ] Children — Children / Children and Teen Non-Fiction
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 …
[ Books ] Children — Children / Activity Books
Sports Turf and Amenity Grasses is a comprehensive reference for anyone involved with the selection and maintenance of grasses used in sports and amenity areas in all areas. It provides a means to identify these grasses through keys, …
[ Books ] Gardening & Horticulture — Gardening & Horticulture / Horticulture
This book describes 92 of the most popular wine grape varieties currently used by wine makers around the world plus some that may have a place in the future. It builds on the earlier edition of Wine Grape Varieties of Australia, …
[ Books ] Food & Agriculture — Food & Agriculture / Viticulture
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 …
[ Books ] Built Environment — Built Environment / Planning and Design
Acarology: Proceedings of the 10th International Congress is a timely overview of the current international research mites and ticks. The outcome of a conference of leading acarologists, it presents major reviews of all current areas …
[ Books ] Animals — Animals / Invertebrates
An account of the 69 species of moss known from subtropical Norfolk Island, an Australian territory in the south-western Pacific Ocean. Illustrated in colour and with numerous habit and anatomical drawings and distribution maps, it includes …
[ Books ] Plants & Fungi — Plants & Fungi / Mosses and Fungi
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 …
[ Books ] Natural Environment — Natural Environment / Water
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 …
[ Books ] Built Environment — Built Environment / Planning and Design
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 …
[ Books ] Built Environment — Built Environment / Planning and Design
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 …
[ Books ] Built Environment — Built Environment / Planning and Design
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 …
[ Books ] Plants & Fungi — Plants & Fungi / Field and Regional Guides
With the continuing improvement of wheat, there is a need to provide assistance in the identification of newly registered wheat varieties. Sixteen such wheats are described in this Supplement according to the characters explained in 'Australian …
[ Books ] Food & Agriculture — Food & Agriculture / Crops and Pastures
'Have you got any ideas on how to make a better banknote?' In the late 1960s, the detection of counterfeit banknotes and the rise of new photographic and copying technologies prompted the Reserve Bank of Australia to explore options …
[ Books ] Physical Sciences — Physical Sciences / Technology
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 …
[ Books ] Natural Environment — Natural Environment / Environmental Management
Reprinted due to popular demand, Australia: 300 Years of Botanical Illustration tells the story of the European discovery and exploration of Australia, the collection and classification of plants for science, and the establishment …
[ Books ] Plants & Fungi — Plants & Fungi / Identification and Systematics
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
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 …
[ Books ] Built Environment — Built Environment / Planning and Design