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The Alice Stories 1918: Our Australian Girl (4 book bind-up) (HB) by Davina Bell; Lucia Masciullo (Illustrator)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Children's Novel | Series: Our Australian Girl: 1918 Ser.
Four stories in one, all about Alice, a WWI-era girl who dreams of becoming a ballerina It's 1918 and Alice's deepest wish is to be a professional ballerina. But as World War One tears her family apart, a battle is being fought in her heart. Can Alice keep everyone together and still make her dreams ...Show more
The Australian Integrated School Dictionary and Thesaurus 3rd edition by Oxford Dictionary
$35.95 AUD
Category: Reference | Series: Australian Dictionaries/Thesauruses/Reference Ser.
Edited at the Australian National Dictionary Centre in Canberra, this innovative reference book is a dictionary and thesaurus in a single, easy-to-use volume.This new edition contains:Hundreds of new and revised entriesA new grammar and reference guide aligned to the Australian Curriculum - EnglishA new ...Show more
The Australian Soil Classification by R. F. Isbell; National Committee for Soil and Terrain Staff
$59.95 AUD
Category: Farming and Self Sufficiency | Series: Australian Soil and Land Survey Handbooks Ser.
The Australian Soil Classification provides both a framework for organizing knowledge about Australian soils and a means of communication among scientists and land managers. It is a general-purpose scheme that allocates soils to classes via a key. Classification is a basic requirement of all science and ...Show more
The Battle of Milne Bay (#24 Australian Army Campaigns) by Nicholas Anderson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Military | Series: Australian Army Campaigns Ser.
By 1942 the formidable Japanese military had conquered swathes of territory across south-east Asia and the Pacific Ocean. Despite its defeat at the Battle of Midway, Japan remained a potent enemy committed to the creation of a defensive arc to shield its captured possessions in the Pacific. The capture ...Show more
The Battle of Passchendaele (#28 Australian Army Campaigns) by Ian Finlayson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Military | Series: Australian Army Campaigns Ser.
The Battle for Passchendaele on 12 October 1917 was one of the epic struggles of the First World War.British Field Marshal Douglas Haig allocated II ANZAC Corps to capture Passchendaele village, with Major General Monash's 3rd Australian Division and the New Zealand Division leading the attack. For both ...Show more
The Battlefield of Imperishable Memory: Passchendaele and the ANZAC Legend by Matthew Haultain-Gall
$34.95 AUD
Category: Military | Series: Australian History Ser.
The Ypres salient 'was the favourite battle ground of the devil and his minions' wrote one returned serviceman after the First World War. Few who fought in the infamous third battle of Ypres – now known as Passchendaele – in 1917 would have disagreed. All five of the Australian Imperial Force's (AIF) in ...Show more
The Best Australian Science Writing 2018 by John Pickrell (Editor)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science | Series: The\Best Australian Science Writing Seri Ser.
This popular yearly anthology gives a snapshot of the very best science writing Australia has to offer, including everything from the most esoteric philosophical questions about ourselves and the universe, through to practical questions about the environment in which we live.Now in its eighth year, The ...Show more
The Best Australian Science Writing 2019 by Bianca Nogrady (Editor); Lisa Harvey-Smith (Foreword by)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science | Series: The\Best Australian Science Writing Seri Ser.
Good science writing makes us feel. It makes us delight in the discovery of a black hole munching on a star, laugh at the image of aliens puzzling over golf balls on the Moon, wonder at the mystery of the Spanish influenza's deadly rampage, grieve for baby shearwater chicks dying with plastic-filled sto ...Show more
The Best Australian Science Writing 2021 by Dyani Lewis (Editor); Cathy Foley (Foreword by)
$32.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science | Series: The\Best Australian Science Ser.
This much-loved anthology showcases the nation’s best science writing. New voices join prominent science writers and journalists, taking us to the depths of the ocean, the fuels of the future, and to the Ryugu asteroid and back. The anthology also takes us straight the heart of complex ethical dilemmas ...Show more
The Best Australian Science Writing 2022 by Ivy Shih (Editor); Norman Swan (Foreword by)
$32.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science | Series: The\Best Australian Science Writing Seri Ser.
What can a microbial gravesite on a moon teach us? Why are a group of scientists risking their life to safeguard a seed bank? How does a virus detective story show us why we need to be vigilant about the next disease outbreak? Great science writing compels us to pay attention to parts of the world often ...Show more
The Best Australian Science Writing 2023 by Donna Lu (Editor)
$32.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science | Series: The\Best Australian Science Ser.
The annual collection — now in its thirteenth year — celebrating the finest voices in Australian science writing.Should we alter animals’ DNA to save them from extinction? What secrets will old ice reveal to us about the Earth’s deep past? How is the world’s most expensive — and explosive — substance ma ...Show more
The Boat - Penguin Australian Classics by Nam Le
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Australian Classics
The Boat takes us from a tourist in Tehran to a teenage hit man in Colombia; from an aging New York artist to a boy coming of age in a small Victorian fishing town; from the city of Hiroshima just before the bomb is dropped to the haunting waste of the South China Sea in the wake of another war. Each st ...Show more