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
This authoritative catalogue will greatly assist readers in finding the correct taxonomic name for any given family, genus or species within each of the six arachnid orders treated. It contains a valuable summary of bibliographic information, …
[ Books ] Animals — Animals / Invertebrates
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
Dragonflies are conspicuous insects. Many are large; they fly strongly; most are brightly coloured. As a result, they have been collected extensively. Their larvae are less familiar. 'Mud-eyes', as some are called, are drab, and almost all …
[ Books ] Animals — Animals / Invertebrates
The Australian Soil Classification provides a framework for organising knowledge about Australian soils by allocating soils to classes via a key. Since its publication in 1996, this book has been widely adopted and formally endorsed …
[ Books ] Natural Environment — Natural Environment / Soils
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
A land of extremes, the Northern Territory’s arid deserts and monsoonal forests harbour some of Australia’s smallest and the world’s largest reptiles, as well as some of the world’s most venomous snakes. Field Guide to the Reptiles …
[ Books ] Animals — Animals / Reptiles and Amphibians
Do you know your Algorithms from your Brownian motion? How about your Coprolites? Discover these words and more in this illustrated STEM encyclopedia. Organised in alphabetical order and each term beautifully …
[ Books ] Children — Children / Children and Teen Non-Fiction
There are possibly 30 000 species of beetle in Australia - no one knows for sure. But professional entomologists, students and keen amateurs alike will find what is known about this striking, diverse and intriguing order of insects in this …
[ Books ] Animals — Animals / Invertebrates
This booklet outlines the properties of geological materials which enable them to accept, store and transmit groundwater, together with a description of the principal types of aquifer which are commonly found to occur in the field. Sources …
[ Books ] Built Environment — Built Environment / Engineering
Invasive species are among the greatest challenges to environmental sustainability and agricultural productivity in the world. One of the most promising approaches to managing invasive species is voluntary citizen stewardship. However, in …
[ Books ] Animals — Animals / Invasive
Lambs need high energy and protein levels and optimum conditions in which to grow rapidly. Now, with the increasing need to supply lambs all year round to meet market expectations, producers are more often turning to feedlotting lambs. This …
[ Books ] Food & Agriculture — Food & Agriculture / Livestock Management