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    Treasures of the Natural World
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    Treasures of the Natural World

    Treasures of the Natural World catalogue accompanies an exhibition at the Melbourne Museum. A collection of some of the most fascinating and rare treasures from the Natural History Museum, London and enriched by the addition of First Peoples' narratives,...
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    Dragon Lizards of Australia
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    Dragon Lizards of Australia

    The only title available on Australian Dragon Lizards including the most recent understanding of their origins and life history.Australia's mostly hot dry continent is home to nearly 800 described species and the seven Australian families represent four...
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    War Trophies or Curios?
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    War Trophies or Curios?

    Showcases a unique and rarely seen collection of cultural objects from New Guinea. Referred to as 'war trophies' during the German possesion of New Guinea, before the takeover by Australian military forces in 1914. The Australian War Museum...
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    Visions of Colonial Grandeur
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    Visions of Colonial Grandeur

    Visions of Colonial Grandeur explores Melbourne'sinternational exhibitions through the art collection of 19th-century businessmanJohn Twycross. John Twycross, also known as Top Hat, was a merchant and artcollector who lived and worked in 'Marvellous...
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    Prehistoric Marine Life in Australia's Inland Sea
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    Prehistoric Marine Life in Australia's Inland Sea

    Step back to a time when Australia's red centre was flooded by a vast shallow ocean, the Eromanga Sea. While dinosaurs stalked the scattered islands that made up the Australian continent, giant marine reptiles ruled the waves. Plesiosaurs and...
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    Gemstones in Victoria
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    Gemstones in Victoria

    Victoria is often seen as the forgotten state when it comes to gem minerals. The history of gems in Victoria is inextricably linked to the discovery of gold in 1851. In 1854, George Milner Stephen publicised for the first time, the discovery of gems in...
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    First People
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    First People

    This is the only up-to-date book available about the Eastern Kulin peoples. The Kulin nation lived around Port Phillip Bay and the Yarra River valley and their territory stretched as far north as the Murray River at Echuca. Gary Presland looks at the...
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  • A Flying Life
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    A Flying Life

    The flying career of John Robertson Duigan spanned just a decade from 1908 to 1918. 100 years ago he built and successfully flew the first aeroplane made in Australia using only photographs, journal articles and an unreliable textbook as his guides. He...
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    Sponges
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    Sponges

    We might think of sponges as bathroom objects but the real living animals are far more interesting.They come in all shapes and sizes, occur in all oceans of the world, and have amazing lives.Sponges have lived in our oceans for 600 million years. Ancient...
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    Barnacles
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    Barnacles

    This guide covers barnacles of mainly south-eastern Australia and begins withinformation about their biology, habitats and diversity. A description of each animal is accompanied by a colour photograph. A key is also provided for easier identification of...
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    Shrimps, Prawns and Lobsters
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    Shrimps, Prawns and Lobsters

    For most of us, shrimps, prawns and lobsters immediately brings to mind something edible and tasty and many are small inconspicuous inhabitants living on our shores and in shallow water.This guide includes a description of each animal...
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    An Introduction to Marine Life
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    An Introduction to Marine Life

    For many people, the first experience of marine environments is amazement at the bewildering variety of life in the oceans. Sea anemones and corals, sea stars and sea urchins, octopuses and squids are just a few marine creatures that we never encounter...
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    Crabs, Hermit Crabs and Allies
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    Crabs, Hermit Crabs and Allies

    Crabs, hermit crabs and allies will familiarise the amateur naturalist, beachcomber, diver and others who have an interest in the marine environment of crabs, hermit crabs and their close relatives. What they do, how they behave, their environments,...
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    Ellis Rowan Puzzle
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    Ellis Rowan Puzzle

    Ellis Rowan (1848-1922) was a painter, naturalist, writer and explorer. For almost 50 years, she travelled to remote parts of Australia, India, Europe, America and New Guinea in pursuit of exotic flowers and wildlife to paint. One of Australia's...
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  • The Excellencies of Musick
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    The Excellencies of Musick

    Enter the musical world of Stuart and Georgian Britain, of concert-going, music makers and thinkers, printers and publishers. Written to accompany the upcoming collections-in-focus exhibition at the National Library of Australia, this book invites you...
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    Our Streets
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    Our Streets

    The modernist RSL club, the Art Deco cinema, the stilted Queenslander or the elaborate Edwardian. The iconography of Australia's regional towns is familiar to many of us, whether we live, work and play in these places, or just journey through. A...
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    Telling Lives
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    Telling Lives

    'What we now want from a biography, or autobiography, is the very thing that Virginia Woolf said that we have no right to want: art. Not only art, obviously, but art nevertheless. And we love the illumination of dark corners of the soul, having...
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    Townsend of the Ranges
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    Townsend of the Ranges

    Surveyor Thomas Scott Townsend (18121869) is an elusive, almost legendary figure, closer to folklore than to history. His name is given to the country's second highest mountain, but the details of his career are obscure and his personal identity has...
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    Ellis Rowan
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    Ellis Rowan

    'Petite, plucky and always immaculately dressed in the constraint of Victorian finery...throughout her life she was acclaimed internationally, winning 29 medals, and accolades from leading art critics. Her work was also collected by royalty,...
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    Harold Cazneaux
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    Harold Cazneaux

    '[Cazneaux's] work is what matters, its place in the history of Australian photography and its influence on past, present and future generations of photographers.' - Max Dupain, 1978Harold Cazneaux (1878-1953) is widely considered the...
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    Dear Mutzi
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    Dear Mutzi

    Harry Peters - formerly Hermann Ludwig Pollnow, known to his family as Mutzi - was born in Berlin in 1920. As a teenager, he fled Nazi Germany and landed in rural Australia. Harry's parents, Max and Edith, stayed and perished in Nazi camps.This story, of...
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    Vintage Crochet
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    Vintage Crochet

    Vintage Crochet builds on the success of Vintage Knits (2022) and features vintage patterns from Australian publications such as the Australian Women's Weekly and the Australian Woman's Mirror. The book presents a curated selection of patterns from these...
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    If Everyone Cared Enough
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    If Everyone Cared Enough

    Margaret Lilardia Tucker MBE (affectionately known as Aunty Marge) was a significant Aboriginal activist and one of the first Aboriginal women to publish for mainstream audiences. If Everyone Cared (1977) was a landmark publication. In that first...
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    The Bird Art of William T. Cooper
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    The Bird Art of William T. Cooper

    **Shortlisted, 2024 Queensland Literary Awards, The Courier-MailPeople'sChoiceQueenslandBook of the YearAward**William T. Cooper is considered a master painter of birds. He painted them for many books, mainly bird monographs. He also created...
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    Southern Signals
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    Southern Signals

    From sea-stained dispatches to data sent back from deep space, Southern Signals is the story of Australia's use of communications to bridge vast distances through war and peace, exploration and growth.Communications have been vital at every stage of...
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  • Grit and Gold
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    Grit and Gold

    Sport is a story telling machine. When we watch a game, race or competition, there are all the makings of a great tale. There are heroes and villains. There are challenges to overcome. There is a sense of jeopardy and risk. There is triumph and failure,...
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  • Bold Types
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    Bold Types

    In Bold Types, Patricia Clarke recounts the chequered journey of women journalists in the fight for gender equality from 1860 to the end of World War II. These were independent, adventurous women who ventured far and wide in search of news, relevance and...
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    A Maker of Books
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    A Maker of Books

    Alec Bolton and His Brindabella Press is an account of a passion: that of a publisher and the books he made for himself and his friends, keeping alive craft traditions that were threatened by unrelenting change.'Printing is like religion', Alec Bolton...
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    The Botanical Art of William T. Cooper
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    The Botanical Art of William T. Cooper

    William T. Cooper was one of the world's most esteemed bird painters. In his paintings, birds nibble at plump red berries, they rest on twisted vines and branches covered with lichen, and they clutch forest fruits and leaves in their claws. These...
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    Steam Australia
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    Steam Australia

    Written by former Deputy Prime Minister, The Honourable Tim Fischer, Steam Australia paints a fascinating picture of Australian steam transportation over ten vital decades of transformation; from two world wars, to changes in leadership and even a visit...
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    Sophia's Question
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    Sophia's Question

    The Sophia's Question: Teacher Resource Book is designed to help the teacher develop an inquiring classroom community, in which students use questioning, justification, conceptual exploration and reasoning to explore issues and ideas together. To assist...
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    How to Trace Your Convict Ancestors

    In this revised and expanded edition of Janet Reakes's bestselling guide, comprehensive listings of convicts sent over on the First, Second and Third Fleets make the task that much easier of establishing convict ancestry. In this useful book, the author...
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    Switch on Your Brain
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    Switch on Your Brain

    How many of us have found ourselves hampered in our work and at home because we can't take a balanced view. If this is you then you're probably a lop-sided left or right brain person. This imbalance shows in other ways too: some of us...
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    Camp Canberra
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    Camp Canberra

    The students of Mount Mayhem Primary are on their school trip to Canberra. Their teacher, Ms Sparks says they will visit places of National Significance and learn about Australian History and Government. Who knew Canberra could be so interesting!
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    Putting Australia on the Map
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    Putting Australia on the Map

    Australia is a big place. It covers 7.7 million square kilometres. You would think it would be easy to find, but it stayed hidden from everyone but its First People for a very long time. Australia’s coastline was discovered piece by piece. Mapping the...
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    Anna Pignataro 2025 Champignons
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    Anna Pignataro 2025 Champignons

    Collaborating with artist Anna Pignataro, we have created a calendar for 2025 called Champignons, introducing a gorgeous mushroom illustration each month.
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    2025 A Secret World
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    2025 A Secret World

    A Parisian dream... We have created this beautiful Calendar called A Secret World in collaboration with Elise Hurst.
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    Cursed Shards
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    Cursed Shards

    Be careful what you wish for...We've all heard childhood fairy tales and hearthside stories passed from generation to generation warning us of unseen dangers lurking in the dark forest, the glimpse of a future in watery reflections and to be wary of...
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    Cthulhu Deep Down Under Volume 3

    In the story that first established the monstrous cosmic terrors of his Mythos, writer H. P. Lovecraft said, "We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity..." Which makes it all the more fitting that the adepts of...
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    Killer Creatures Down Under
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    Killer Creatures Down Under

    Australia: the land where everything wants to kill you. A continent filled with some of the deadliest animals in the world. From creepy-crawlies to crocodiles, you'll have plenty to fear in this anthology penned by Australian authors. Killer...
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    Indigenous Artists
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    Indigenous Artists

    Collection of indigenous art, full colour hardcover over 100 pieces of art, painting and sculpture.The Torch Collection showcases extraordinary artworks by Indigenous men and women who have come in contact with the criminal justice system in...
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    Time Flies / Time Flies Too
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    Time Flies / Time Flies Too

    Enjoy all of Al Clark's absorbing recollections in this combined bundle of both of his memoirs.Time FliesTime Fliesis an idiosyncratic memoir with a distinctive voice and a sense of the absurd: a wistful, reflective, sometimes comic view of a...
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    Farewell to Robert
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    Farewell to Robert

    Two men, Robert and Vras, met in 1993 and formed a committed relationship until Robert's death of leukemia in May, 2022. This short book is a farewell letter to Robert, a long lamentation and a threnody, exploring the nature of their friendship, their...
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    Late Night Shopping

    These are poems that reflect many aspects of the human condition and the individual, from poems about love and death, the family, science, the natural world and historical figures such as Ned Kelly and Charles Darwin. Her sequence on Ned Kelly...
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From the timeless elegance of antiques and vintage collectables to cutting-edge architecture and design books, explore how creativity shapes our everyday surroundings.

Mind, Body, and Personal Growth Books

Support your wellbeing with books on mind, body and spirit, or delve into biographies and true stories of remarkable people. Our health, relationships and personal development section offers everything from mindfulness to practical self-help guides.

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Explore titles for fans of cars, boats and roads, or dive into the fast-paced world of computing and information technology.

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Find the best cookbooks and food guides, or master your finances and leadership with finance, business and management books. For practical know-how, explore home maintenance and lifestyle and fashion titles.

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Unearth wisdom with gardening books or uncover our past with history and archaeology titles. Curious minds will enjoy mathematics and science books that make complex ideas accessible.

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Our range of medical and nursing books includes reference materials and textbooks. Understand the legal world with titles from Australian law, international law, and study guides.

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