Item category 2: Science & Technology

"With their eerie howls and fierce hunting skills, wolves are fascinating creatures. These loyal pack animals are close relatives to man's best friend, dogs. Learn more about these proud hunters"--

Far underground, where dirt and tree roots mesh, are tunnels that lead to a burrow, and in this burrow Wombat's day begins. A story about the life of a wombat, looking at the interesting way these animals build their homes, look after their family and protect themselves from predators. 'Wombat' i...

"There's Dusty the kangaroo who thinks he's a dog, and Louie the emu who thinks she's a cow. There's Bazz the dog who likes beekeeping, and Pebble the joey who loves reality TV. From an opera-loving seal to a drunk rampaging pig to the happiest marsupial of them all, take a look at the weird, wil...

All Australian creatures from galahs and potoroos, to stingrays and goannas, do their own distinctive poos. Discover which animal has sparkly poo, who poos hundreds of times a day and, of course, whose poos are square! With whimsical illustrations and humorous text, "Wombat Poos Are Square" expla...

"Simple text and photographs present wombats, their physical features, where they live, and what they do"--Provided by publisher.

In this book, young readers will learn about the diet, life cycle, behaviour and habitat of wombats. Special emphasis is placed on the wombat's burrow habitat.

A collection of artworks inspired by the lives and achievements of fifty famous women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, from the ancient world to the present, profiles each notable individual.

How can we be sure that Pythagoras's theorem is really true? Why is the 'angle in a semicircle' always 90 degrees? And how can tangents help determine the speed of a bullet? David Acheson takes the reader on a highly illustrated tour through the history of geometry, from ancient Greece to the pre...

Wander in and look about you as you stroll through five dazzling habitats, where life in all its variety abounds. Explore a rainforest, desert, coral reef, woodland and mountain range with breathtaking engraved illustrations which bring life to Earth’s wonder garden.

Our relationship to birds is different from our relationship to other wild creatures. We love to watch them, listen to them, keep them as pets, wear their feathers, even converse with them. Birds, Jim Robbins posits, have helped us in so many of our endeavours- learning to fly, clothing and feedi...