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
Booderee National Park at Jervis Bay, 200km south of Sydney, attracts over 450,000 visitors each year. The park has many special features, including dramatic wave cut platforms and sea caves, some of the whitest beach sands in Australia, …
[ Books ] Natural Environment — Natural Environment / Biodiversity and Ecology
This ‘ice-breaking’ book collects the English words of the Antarctic and the Arctic for the first time. These words relate to weather, ice and snow, auroras, clothes, food, housing, social structures, wildlife, plants, politics, as well …
[ Books ] Science in Society — Science in Society / Heritage and History
The red kangaroo is at the heart of Australia's ecological identity. It is Australia's largest terrestrial land mammal, the largest extant marsupial, and the only kangaroo truly restricted to Australia's arid interior. Almost nothing was …
[ Books ] Animals — Animals / Mammals and Marsupials
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
The Pilbara region in Australia’s arid northwest is rich in flora that is suited to extreme temperatures and boom and bust cycles of moisture availability. It is also a region important for its natural resources. In places where mining activities …
[ Books ] Plants & Fungi — Plants & Fungi / Identification and Systematics
Mound-builders are unique in being the only birds that do not incubate their eggs using body heat; rather, a variety of naturally occurring sources of heat is exploited such as solar energy and the heat generated by decomposing organic matter. …
[ Books ] Animals — Animals / Birds
Voltammetric methods are among the most sensitive and versatile available to the analytical chemist. They can identify and quantify substances from simple metal ions, through to complex organic molecules. The concentration range spans …
[ Books ] Physical Sciences — Physical Sciences / Chemistry
Australian Native Plants provides a comprehensive guide to the horticulture of our native plants. Based on nearly 50 years of experience at Kings Park and Botanic Garden in Perth, the book describes the necessary growing conditions …
[ Books ] Gardening & Horticulture — Gardening & Horticulture / Native
Pastoral Australia tells the story of the expansion of Australia's pastoral industry, how it drove European settlement and involved Aboriginal people in the new settler society. The rural life that once saw Australia 'ride …
[ Books ] Science in Society — Science in Society / Heritage and History
Camera trapping in wildlife management and research is a growing global phenomenon. The technology is advancing very quickly, providing unique opportunities for collecting new biological knowledge. In order for fellow camera trap researchers …
[ Books ] Animals — Animals / Ecology and Management
Goat meat is growing in popularity in Australia and is also an important export industry. It offers many opportunities for large- and small-scale farmers who need to diversify or seek alternative enterprises. Farming Meat Goats provides …
[ Books ] Food & Agriculture — Food & Agriculture / Livestock Management
Although stem rust has been controlled by means of resistant cultivars, leaf and stripe rust continue as problems for many growing areas of the world. Wheat Rusts: An Atlas of Resistance Genes has been prepared by specialists from …
[ Books ] Food & Agriculture — Food & Agriculture / Crops and Pastures
The opening of the Parkes radio telescope in October 1961 placed Australia at the forefront of international research in radio astronomy and ushered in an era of rapid developments in our understanding of the origin and nature of the Universe …
[ Books ] Physical Sciences — Physical Sciences / Astronomy
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
For the first time in a single volume, this book brings together more than 140 of the best walks, tracks or trails in New South Wales, which can be walked by the moderately fit individual. They are located in national parks, coastal parks, …
[ Books ] Science in Society — Science in Society / Leisure and Tourism
More than 300 species of Australian native animals — mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians — use tree hollows, but there has never been a complete inventory of them. Many of these species are threatened, or are in decline, because of land-use …
[ Books ] Animals — Animals / Ecology and Management
Australian Alps is a fascinating guide to Australia’s highest mountains and the extraordinary diversity, rich heritage and precious resource of the Australian Alps National Parks. Covering Kosciuszko, Alpine and Namadgi National …
[ Books ] Science in Society — Science in Society / Leisure and Tourism
The Hawkesbury River is the longest coastal river in New South Wales. A vital source of water and food, it has a long Aboriginal history and was critical for the survival of the early British colony at Sydney. The Hawkesbury’s weathered …
[ Books ] Natural Environment — Natural Environment / Biodiversity and Ecology
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