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Author: Tim M. Berra
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Published: 1998
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt also deals with the country's colorful history, its laidback lifestyle and the quirky and entertaining brand of English that Australians speak.
Author: Allan Fox
Publisher:
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780733319471
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFully illustrated journey through the Australian landscape from the Steve Parish team, featuring stunning photography depicting the Australian continent in all its wild glory.
Author: Greg Richards
Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 0643103740
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first book on Australian bats that focuses on their natural history. It describes the bioregions, describe what bats do in them and the ecosystem services that they provide. The book features a description of the 80.90 species in Australia, a section on bat myths and stories and rock art from indigenous Australians.
Author: Richard Shine
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9780801482618
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing on years of experience and an impressive grasp of the literature, Richard Shine covers the day-to-day lives of snakes, discussing their anatomy, evolution, and habitat, and describing their behavior, sex habits, life history, and diet.
Author: Michael J. Tyler
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780801484995
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAustralia is home to some of the most interesting and unusual frogs in the world, and Michael J. Tyler is acknowledged to be the foremost expert on them. This lavishly illustrated new edition of Australian Frogs is the definitive resource on the subject, with updated tables and supplementary text on the fossil record which is vital to historical understanding. Tyler covers the origins, environment, nomenclature, habits, and biology of frogs. The topic of declining frog populations, noted in American newspapers as a harbinger of ecological distress, has become the subject of a new chapter. Tyler discusses dietary studies and explains the effect on frogs of herbicides, fungicides, insecticides, and heavy metals. He provides information, as well, on an unprecedented study to control populations of the Cane Toad, Bufo marinus.
Author: Joseph M. Forshaw
Publisher:
Published: 2016-10-15
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780958174220
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is the final collaboration of Joseph M. Forshaw and William T. Cooper and combines the finest Cooper artwork with an updated, authoritative Forshaw text. Presented as a deluxe edition, this book is truly a combination of art and science presenting many previously unpublished Cooper drawings, sketches and paintings. Containing more than 300 artworks, it is fully cased in grey Ballantine cloth, with black blocking and marbled endpapers. The book is landscape format printed on fine quality satin art paper and the size is 350 mm x 305 mm.
Author: Barbara Triggs
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Published: 1991
Total Pages: 48
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents, in text and photographs, the habits, life cycle, and natural environment of the Australian wombat, one of the world's largest burrowing animals.
Author: Keith Lye
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Published: 1996-05
Total Pages: 34
ISBN-13: 9780811496650
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe early reader's introduction to the human body, the planet, and our neighbors in space Simple, powerful descriptions clarify complex body systems, Earth habitats, forces of nature, environmental concerns, and space exploration. Each book includes an illustrated glossary and an index.What are volcanoes? How can scientists predict an eruption? Investigate causes, effects, and benefits of volcanoes through history.
Author: Donald Denoon
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2000-11-27
Total Pages: 544
ISBN-13: 9780631179627
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides an arresting interpretation of the history of Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific from the earliest settlements to the present. Usually viewed in isolation, these societies are covered here in a single account, in which the authors show how the peoples of the region constructed their own identities and influenced those of their neighbours. By broadening the focus to the regional level, this volume develops analyses - of economic, social and political history - which transcend national boundaries. The result is a compelling work which both describes the aspirations of European settlers and reveals how the dispossessed and marginalized indigenous peoples negotiated their own lives as best they could. The authors demonstrate that these stories are not separate but rather strands of a single history.
Author: Stuart Macintyre
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009-06-29
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9780521516082
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAustralia is the last continent to be settled by Europeans, but it also sustains a people and a culture tens of thousands years old. For much of the past 200 years the newcomers have sought to replace the old with the new. This book tells how they imposed themselves on the land, and brought technology, institutions and ideas to make it their own. It relates the advance from penal colony to a prosperous free nation and illustrates how, as a nation created by waves of newcomers, the search for binding traditions was long frustrated by the feeling of rootlessness, until it came to terms with its origins. The third edition of this acclaimed book recounts the key factors - social, economic and political - that have shaped modern-day Australia. It covers the rise and fall of the Howard government, the 2007 election and the apology to the stolen generation. More than ever before, Australians draw on the past to understand their future.
