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Murray Long

Breeding Stud Sheep shows how to establish and manage a successful sheep stud. All aspects of stud breeding are covered, including where and how to buy your sheep, selecting the right breeding stock for your stud, flock management, …

EG Matthews , P Bouchard

In this beautifully illustrated volume on Australian tenebrionid beetles, higher-level groups are reviewed, keys provided to enable identification to genus and subgenus level, and notes provided on relationships, distribution and biology. …

Tom Grant , Dominic Fanning

Since it first became known to European scientists and naturalists in 1798, the platypus has been the subject of controversy, interest and absolute wonder. Found only in Australia, the platypus is a mammal that lays eggs but, like other …

Ted Henzell

Agriculture in Australia has had a lively history. The first European settlers in 1788 brought agricultural technologies with them from their homelands, influencing early practices in Australia. Wool production dominated the 19th century, …

L Zhang , GR Walker , M Fleming

This addition to The Basics of Recharge and Discharge series deals with the surface water balance approaches that form the traditional basis of hydrological investigations. It explores both field methods and modelling methods for …

John Gooderham , Edward R Tsyrlin

Freshwater macroinvertebrates provide a useful and reliable indicator of the health of our rivers, streams, ponds and wetlands. As environmental awareness within the community increases, there is an increasing interest in the need to assess …

Clive Trigg , Merle Trigg

The Brisbane Ranges area, situated 80 km west of Melbourne and 30 km north-west of Geelong, is extraordinarily rich in diversity. With basalt grasslands, heathy woodland, alluvial soils, buckshot gravel and granite rocks, it boasts more …

RW Fitzsimmons , CW Wrigley

This handbook provides a basis for checking the range of quality factors that can be judged by on-the-spot examination. When barley is being received at the silo or the malt-house, it is impractical and unnecessary to use the range of precise …

This issue, we’re discovering some incredible insects! Join us as we search for Christmas beetles and discover what it takes to name a species. If you’re looking for something more futuristic, why not learn about robot bees, or the Aussie …

Suzanne Houghton

Sparkling, brightly coloured Christmas beetles usually appear in the heat of December – a sign that the festive season has begun. But recently they have been hard to find. We aren’t seeing them in the eucalyptus trees, or dancing …

Packed with fun, exciting and quality articles, Double Helix promotes critical thinking and strengthens literacy skills while sparking an interest in science, technology, engineering and maths. Animals and technology join …

Barry W Butcher

The story of the Animal Health Research Laboratory must be seen against a background of rapid domestic, global and techno-scientific change. During its sixty year history, it made a crucial contribution to improving the standard of Australian …

S Beeton

Tourism, with its niche element of ecotourism, is one of Australia’s fastest growing industries, overtaking the traditional export items of coal, wheat and wool in export earnings. This book covers everything a person needs to think …

GI Pearman

It is important for the reader to understand clearly the objectives of these papers. They are not an attempt to provide accurate predictions of what is going to happen in Australia over the next few decades. Rather they represent sensitivity …

Mark Greenwood , Lucia Masciullo

On a quiet spring morning, something strange falls from the sky and lands on a small country town. Lucky watches as 'stars' rain down on the fields and farms, but just what are these unusual objects? And what will Lucky do with her own special …

Enid Mayfield

The Illustrated Garden Glossary is a comprehensive glossary of over 1000 terms related to gardening and horticulture, each supported by superb colour illustrations to aid understanding. The topics covered include plant classification, …

This issue, we’re celebrating the International Year of Glass! We’ve got plenty of breakthroughs in glass recycling and ‘unbreakable’ glass to report on. And innovation is important – Earth may be running out of sand. If that makes you want …

Join us as we gaze at the stars! This issue, we’re seeing into space with different eyes. Find out what the sky would look like if you had superpowers. We peer into our galaxy’s past as Kirsten Banks explains galactic archaeology. Plus, …

John Andrews

Bots and Bods explores the differences and the similarities between humans and robots. You’ll see the basic features of human bodies and how they are copied in bots. You’ll learn how movement happens, how the world is seen and sensed, …

Which animals in this issue of Double Helix can jump higher than the Sydney Harbour Bridge? All of them, because bridges can’t jump! You can read all about Australia’s amazing and weird wildlife in these pages. From sugar gliders …