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    Guide to Native Orchids of Victoria
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    Guide to Native Orchids of Victoria

    This comprehensive guide describes the 447 species of wild orchids that occur in Victoria, Australia. This region is one of the richest in the world for its diversity of temperate terrestrial orchids. Orchid diversity in Victoria spans some of the...
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    Australia's Megafires
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    Australia's Megafires

    The Australian wildfires of 201920 (Black Summer) were devastating and unprecedented. These megafires burnt more than 10 million hectares, mostly of forests in southern and eastern Australia. Many of the fires were uncontrollable. These megafires...
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    Aboriginal Peoples and Birds in Australia
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    Aboriginal Peoples and Birds in Australia

    Australia is home to many distinctive species of birds, and Aboriginal peoples have developed close alliances with them over the millennia of their custodianship of this country. Aboriginal Peoples and Birds in Australia: Historical and Cultural...
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    Presenting Science Concisely
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    Presenting Science Concisely

    Imagine you are a scientist faced with presenting your research clearly and concisely. Where would you go for help? This book provides the answer. It shows how to use story structure to craft clear, credible presentations. In it you will find exercises...
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    Volcanoes & Earthquakes
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    Volcanoes & Earthquakes

    Volcanoes & Earthquakes features the earth sciences at their most spectacular. It reveals the massive internal forces that create and change the Earth's surface, with dramatic and sometimes beautiful consequences.The authors explain what fuels the...
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    GM Crops and the Global Divide
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    GM Crops and the Global Divide

    Attitudes to GM crops continue to generate tension, even though they have been grown commercially for over 20 years. Negative sentiment towards their development limits their adoption in Western countries, despite there being no evidence of harm to human...
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    The Action Plan for Australian Lizards and Snakes 2017
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    The Action Plan for Australian Lizards and Snakes 2017

    The Action Plan for Australian Lizards and Snakes 2017 provides the first comprehensive assessment of the conservation status of Australian squamates in 25 years. Conservation assessments are provided for 986 species of Australian lizards and snakes...
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    Community-based Control of Invasive Species
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    Community-based Control of Invasive Species

    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 order for...
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    Guide to Venomous and Medically Important Invertebrates
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    Guide to Venomous and Medically Important Invertebrates

    Though many are harmless and even beneficial, invertebrates are some of the world's most feared and dangerous creatures.Guide to Venomous and Medically Important Invertebrates describes the health threats posed by invertebrate groups worldwide, from...
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    Managing Australia's Pest Animals
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    Managing Australia's Pest Animals

    Pest animals are just one of many factors that influence the desired outcome from managing natural resource based systems, whether for production or conservation purposes. Others factors include diseases, weeds, financial resources, weather and fire...
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    Guidelines for Mine Waste Dump and Stockpile Design
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    Guidelines for Mine Waste Dump and Stockpile Design

    Guidelines for Mine Waste Dump and Stockpile Design is a comprehensive, practical guide to the investigation, design, operation and monitoring of mine waste dumps, dragline spoils and major stockpiles associated with large open pit mines. These...
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    Ladybird Beetles of the Australo-Pacific Region
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    Ladybird Beetles of the Australo-Pacific Region

    True ladybirds, classified in the tribe Coccinellini, are easily recognisable by their relatively large and shiny bodies and contrasting colour patterns. They are one of the most widely studied groups of beetles, being of economic importance and used as...
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    Hawkmoths of Australia
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    Hawkmoths of Australia

    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 species, and...
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    Global Megatrends
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    Global Megatrends

    Global Megatrends tells a story about how the world will change over the next 20 years. 'Megatrends' are gradual yet powerful trajectories of change that have the potential to throw companies, individuals and societies into freefall. In Global...
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    Taxonomy of Australian Mammals
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    Taxonomy of Australian Mammals

    Taxonomy of Australian Mammals utilises the latest morphometric and genetic research to develop the most up to date and comprehensive revision of the taxonomy of Australian mammals undertaken to date...
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    Australian Longhorn Beetles
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    Australian Longhorn Beetles

     Longhorn Beetles - Cerambycidae are one of the most easily recognised groups of beetles, a family that worldwide encompasses over 33,000 species in 5,200 genera. With over 1,400 species classified in 300...
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    Carnivores of Australia
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    Carnivores of Australia

    The Australian continent provides a unique perspective on the evolution and ecology of carnivorous animals. Since European settlement, Australia has seen the extinction of one large marsupial predator (the thylacine),...
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    Insects of Stored Grain

    This handy pocket guide allows the non-specialist to identify major insect and arachnid pests found in stored cereal grains, grain products and grain legumes. It describes most storage pests found worldwide rather than concentrating on Australia and...
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    Eclipse Chasers
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    Eclipse Chasers

    Witnessing a total solar eclipse is a wondrous and unforgettable event! Eclipse Chasers is a guide to past and future Australian total solar eclipses, exploring historical and cultural knowledge, as well as featuring five upcoming eclipses that will be...
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    Building an Innovation Hotspot
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    Building an Innovation Hotspot

    How can you increase innovation at local levels and build new technology hotspots? Building an Innovation Hotspot outlines the approaches governments, communities and industry have used to stimulate innovation and examines the evidence behind them. It...
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    Sustainable Farm Finance
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    Sustainable Farm Finance

    Farm finance is a topic that is not often discussed but is vital to the success and longevity of these unique family businesses. Sustainable Farm Finance draws upon the practical, on-farm financial experience of John Mitchell, a grazier in New South...
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    Mistletoes of Western Australia
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    Mistletoes of Western Australia

    Mistletoes are fascinating, diverse, colourful and ecologically important plants, found in most parts of Western Australia.Mistletoes of Western Australia is a guide to identification, mistletoe ecology, conservation, biogeography and evolution,...
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    Australian Falcons
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    Australian Falcons

    Falcons are stunning and iconic birds. Australia has six falcon species, with two endemic to the continent and two others endemic to the Australasian region. They are important indicators of the health of our ecosystems, due to their position at the top...
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    Coral Reefs of Australia
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    Coral Reefs of Australia

    Australia's coral reefs stretch far and wide, covering 50 000 square kilometres from the Indian Ocean in the West to the Pacific Ocean in the East. They have been viewed as a bedrock of coastal livelihoods, as uncharted and perilous nautical...
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    Animal Migrations
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    Animal Migrations

    Age range 6 to 9A reindeer treks a continent under unimaginable weather extremes. One tiny bird flies non-stop for nine days, while another flies from the north to south pole (and back!) every year. A whale swims around an entire hemisphere.Animal...
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    Beachcombing
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    Beachcombing

    If you've ever walked along a beach or rocky shore and peered, poked or wondered at the things cast upon it by the waves, this book is for you. Beaches are our windows to the ocean, and the objects we find on them tell stories about life, death and...
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    One Potoroo
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    One Potoroo

    *CBCA 2022 Notable Book: Eve Pownall Award*Age range 6 to 9A conservation tale of the Gilbert's Potoroo Australia's rarest mammal.When a bushfire destroys Potoroo's home, he becomes one of the last surviving Gilbert's Potoroos at Two Peoples Bay in...
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    On the Trail of the Plains-wanderer
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    On the Trail of the Plains-wanderer

    **Shortlisted for the 2023 Environment Award for Children's Literature**Age range 5 to 9The Plains-wanderer is unlike any other bird on Earth it's one of a kind!On the Trail of the Plains-wanderer tells the true story of one of Australia's most...
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    Feather and Brush
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    Feather and Brush

    Feather and Brush traces the history of bird art in Australia - from the simple engravings illustrating accounts of the earliest European voyages of discovery to the diversity of artwork available today. It explores the early European approach, in which...
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    Secretive Slime Moulds
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    Secretive Slime Moulds

    Since their discovery, the taxonomy and systematics of Australia's myxomycetes, an important yet cryptic group of microorganisms, not been published in Australia in a comprehensive manner, until now. Myxomycetes are now considered to be profoundly...
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    The Complete Field Guide to Dragonflies of Australia
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    The Complete Field Guide to Dragonflies of Australia

    Dragonflies and damselflies are conspicuous insects: many are large and brightly coloured. They are also valuable indicators of environmental wellbeing. A detailed knowledge of the dragonfly fauna is therefore an important basis for decisions about...
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    Guide to Native Orchids of NSW and ACT
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    Guide to Native Orchids of NSW and ACT

    This comprehensive guide describes the 582 species of wild orchids that occur in NSW and the ACT. This region covers the richest area for wild orchids in Australia and includes over 500 species of seasonal ground orchids and 62 species of evergreen tree...
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    Plants of Subtropical Eastern Australia
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    Plants of Subtropical Eastern Australia

    Plants of Subtropical Eastern Australia describes the rich flora of this biogeographically distinct region located on the east coast of Australia, covering the north coast of New South Wales and South-East Queensland. This guide presents a selection of...
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    Wildlife Research in Australia
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    Wildlife Research in Australia

    Wildlife Research in Australia: Practical and Applied Methods is a guide to conducting wildlife research in Australia. It provides advice on working through applications to animal ethics committees, presents general operating procedures for a range of...
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    Ecoagriculture for a Sustainable Food Future

    Global food security is dependent on ecologically viable production systems, but current agricultural practices are often at odds with environmental sustainability. Resolving this disparity is a huge task, but there is much that can be learned from...
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    How Birds Behave
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    How Birds Behave

    Birds are intelligent, sociable creatures that exhibit a wide array of behaviours - from mobbing and mimicking to mating and joint nesting. Why do they behave as they do? Bringing to light the remarkable actions of birds through examples from...
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    Photographic Field Guide to Australian Frogs
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    Photographic Field Guide to Australian Frogs

    Australia is home to more than 240 species of frogs, many of which cannot be found anywhere else in the world. The Photographic Field Guide to Australian Frogs provides readers with the tools to confidently identify 242 species and five recognised...
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    Environmental Offsets
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    Environmental Offsets

    We are currently facing significant challenges in environmental management that must be addressed to maintain the health of our planet and our population. While carbon offsetting in its various forms is widespread globally, few countries have fully...
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    Two-way Science
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    Two-way Science

    Two-way Science: An Integrated Learning Program for Aboriginal Desert Schools supports remote Indigenous schools and communities to develop integrated learning programs connecting the cultural knowledge of the local community with Western science and the...
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    Field Guide to the Frogs of Australia
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    Field Guide to the Frogs of Australia

    Throughout much of the world, frog populations are declining, with the survival of many species under threat. In Australia, several species have become extinct in the past 35 years.This second edition of Field Guide to the Frogs of Australia provides...
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    Wild Mushrooming
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    Wild Mushrooming

    *Longlisted for the Indie Book Awards 2022: Illustrated Non-Fiction**Longlisted for the ABIA Book Awards 2022: Small Publishers' Adult Book of the Year*Fungi are diverse, delicious and sometimes deadly. With interest in foraging for wild food on...
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    Australian Bird Names
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    Australian Bird Names

    This Second Edition of Australian Bird Names is a completely updated checklist of Australian birds and the meanings behind their common and scientific names, which may be useful, useless or downright misleading! For each species, the authors examine the...
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    Australian Rainforest Seeds
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    Australian Rainforest Seeds

    Have you ever wondered how to grow your own rainforest trees? Is there a beautiful tree that you have always wanted to collect and propagate the seed from? Are you in the business of ecological restoration, rainforest propagation or environmental...
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    Frogs and Reptiles of the MurrayDarling Basin
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    Frogs and Reptiles of the MurrayDarling Basin

    The MurrayDarling Basin spans more than 1 million square kilometres across most of New South Wales, northern Victoria, the Australian Capital Territory, the lower third of Queensland and the south-eastern corner of South Australia. Wildlife habitats...
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    A Water Story
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    A Water Story

    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 near-terminal...
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    Birds of Prey of Australia
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    Birds of Prey of Australia

    Raptors are popular and iconic birds, and are important ecologically, with some species listed as threatened. Yet they are among the most difficult birds to identify. This fully updated Third Edition of the popular and award-winning field guide Birds of...
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    Darwin's Fossils
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    Darwin's Fossils

    Charles Darwin's voyage on the HMS Beagle was a journey that would revolutionise our understanding of the natural world and our place in it.The magisterial work it spawned, The Origin of Species, is widely associated with the flora and fauna of the...
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