Item category 2: Science & Technology

Fungi are diverse, delicious and sometimes deadly. With interest in foraging for wild food on the rise, learning to accurately identify fungi reduces both poisoning risk to humans and harm to the environment. This extensively illustrated guide takes a 'slow mushrooming' approach - providing the i...

Cobb & Co. began when a young American, Freeman Cobb, arrived in Melbourne in the 1950s to seek his fortune and instead of heading to the Victorian goldfields, he started up a coaching transport company: Cobb & Co. But he left Australia a few years later and it was another American Rutherford, wh...

This book looks at the wild rivers of Australia. It looks at the catchment areas that the rivers flow into, waterfalls and animals that live in and around the habitat of the river. This book also looks at recreation on the river such as white water rafting and canoeing, bushwalking etc. The envio...

What's it like to study polar bears in the wild? How do you raise children among large carnivores? And how do you find a frog that no-one has seen for 40 years? From deserts to rainforests and even the polar Arctic, scientists venture into the field to collect, observe and study the world's organ...

The remarkable story of the Southern Ocean (AKA the Antarctic or Austral Ocean), from its birth in deep geological time to the present day. Flowing completely around the Earth and unimpeded by any landmass, the Southern Ocean reaches from the seasonally-shifting ice continent of Antarctica to the...

Alice Fox, artist and author of Natural Processes in Textile Art, works with found, foraged, gathered and grown materials to create fabulous textile pieces that are inspired by, and made from, nature. In this new book, she encourages crafters to be open minded and experimental, using local (and s...

Extreme weather events, from bushfires to floods, and sudden geological changes, like earthquakes and tsunamis, have an enormous impact on our planet. In this book, students investigate different examples of extreme weather, focusing on examples from around Australia, and how these events affect ...

Extreme weather events, from bushfires to floods, and sudden geological changes, from earthquakes to tsunamis, have an enormous impact on our planet. In this book, students investigate different examples of extreme weather, focusing on examples from around Australia, and learn how these events af...

Climate change will be a defining issue facing Generations Z and Alpha -- but research shows that awe is a more powerful motivator for action than fear. With that idea in mind, this handbook is a hope-filled, awe-provoking middle-grade guide to environmental stewardship and the diverse habitats w...

Sydney has one of the greatest wildflower regions of the world, with over 1500 species occurring within an hour's drive of the city. There are 268 species illustrated here in full colour with each page devoted to a single flower.