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This issue of Double Helix explores animal intelligence in all its forms. From understanding and speaking languages to playing, they are all signs of smarts! Swarming animals, such as ants and bees, have their own ingenuity too. Find …

It’s not just humans who use the internet – new smart devices are being connected every day. Check out our intro to the internet of things. Then, ponder if computers and artificial intelligence can be good or evil. And meet some Australian …

Chris Oxlade , Nik Neves

Upgrade your tech knowledge with this beautifully illustrated, inspirational, and accessible guide to the fascinating field of computing. From the simplest software to electronic brains, and from smartphone apps to social media and video …

Leeza Sipek , Matthew Sipek , Hazel Foote

Building your own home could save you thousands of dollars. The Owner Builder is an easy-to-understand, step-by-step guide for people who want to build their dream home in a financially responsible manner. From choosing a block of …

Erica McAlister with Adrian Washbourne

Insects are incredibly weird. Their morphology is about as alien to us as you can get without leaving this planet. They outnumber us 200 million to one. Before humans stamped their mark on this planet, insects had shaped it into the colourful …

Blake Chapman , Astred Hicks

Dive in to the incredible world of ocean animals! Ocean animals are truly awesome. They come in every size, colour and shape imaginable. They are also some of the weirdest, sneakiest and smartest animals on the planet! This …

Robin Brimblecombe , Kara Rosemeier

Positive energy homes enable people to live healthy and comfortable lives with energy left over to share. Creating a house you love that produces surplus energy is surprisingly easy with a thorough understanding of how buildings work and …

CSIRO Publishing

Ever wondered how vaccines work, why whales strand themselves or if luck exists? The Explainer: From Déjà Vu to Why the Sky Is Blue, and Other Conundrums is a collection of around 100 of the best articles published in ‘The Explainer’ …

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 …

Daphne C Elliott , William Elliott

Complete with colour illustrations and written in a conversational style, biochemist William Elliott unravels the mystery of life while revealing its majesty. How do chemical reactions occur? How do genes hold information? Why do our bodies …

Mark Sheppard

Essentials of Urban Design explains the fundamental concepts of urban design, providing the understanding and tools needed to achieve better design outcomes. It is equally useful for designing places and evaluating designs. Each …

DH Simmonds

The relationship between grain morphology and chemistry and the practical realities of milling, flour yield, dough properties and baking behaviour, are stressed and explained. The quality requirements of flours intended for bread-baking, …

Phil Cheney , Andrew Sullivan

Grassfires: Fuel, Weather and Fire Behaviour presents information from CSIRO on the behaviour and spread of fires in grasslands. This second edition follows over 10 years of research aimed at improving the understanding of the fundamental …

W J Lewis , D McE Alexander

Grafting and Budding is a comprehensive and clearly written, practical guide to all of the grafting and budding techniques any professional or home gardener is likely to need. The book begins with a brief history of the subject, …

Sophie Gillies , Karen Erasmus

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 …

This issue, we’re exploring engineering! Come with us as we meet engineers making bridges from spaghetti, and creating toys that change into robots. Still not sure what engineers do? We’ve got a great explainer for you! And for something …

Chiara Maria Petrone , Roberto Scandone , Alex Whittaker

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 …

Klaus J Puettmann , K David Coates , Christian Messier

The discipline of silviculture is at a crossroads. Silviculturists are under increasing pressure to develop practices that sustain the full function and dynamics of forested ecosystems and maintain ecosystem diversity and resilience while …

David D Lindenmayer , Mason M Crane , Damian D Michael , Esther E Beaton

Australia's little known woodlands once covered huge areas of the eastern side of our continent. Woodlands are distinguished from forests by the fact that their canopies do not touch, tree heights are usually lower and they usually have …

S S McIntyre , JG JG McIvor , KM KM Heard

In eastern Australia, grassy eucalypt woodlands have been under severe pressure from agricultural development, with problems of land degradation and species decline being most severe in the cropping lands of south-eastern Australia. …