Natural History

Backyard Insects, Second edition [PB] Available
Paul Horne and Denis Crawford
Love them or fear them, we can't avoid insects.

Daniel Solander: Collected Correspondence 1753-1782 [HB] Available
Edited and translated by Edward Duyker and Per Tingbrand
Foreword by Alan Frost
Some 180 letters written either by or to the Swedish naturalist and pioneer are reproduced here.
Miegunyah

The Evolution Revolution: Design Without Intelligence [PB] Available
Ken McNamara & John Long
Impeccably researched, remarkably readable and punctuated with good humour, The Evolution Revolution puts a human face on the enterprise of palaeontology.

The Flight of the Emu: A Hundred Years of Australian Ornithology 1901-2001 [HB] Available
Libby Robin
Awards: Winner, Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2003: Science Writing
The Flight of the Emu tells the story of Australian birding in the twentieth century.

Grevillea: Proteaceae: A Taxonomic Revision [HB] Available
D. J. McGillivray assisted by R. O. Makinson
Foreword by J. R. Poynter A. O.
The first definitive scientific survey of the third largest Australian flowering plant genus.
Miegunyah

The Insects of Australia: A Textbook for Students and Research Workers, Volume 1 [HB] Available
CSIRO
Awards: Royal Zoological Society of NSW Whitley Award 1992
Australian Society of Indexers Medal 1992

The combined work of over seventy leading scholars, each an authority in his or her field.

The Insects of Australia: A Textbook for Students and Research Workers, 2 Volume Set [HB] Available
CSIRO
Awards: Royal Zoological Society of NSW Whitley Award 1992
Australian Society of Indexers Medal 1992

The combined work of over seventy leading scholars, each an authority in his or her field.

The Insects of Australia: A Textbook for Students and Research Workers, Volume 2 [HB] Available
CSIRO
Awards: Royal Zoological Society of NSW Whitley Award 1992
Australian Society of Indexers Medal 1992

The combined work of over seventy leading scholars, each an authority in his or her field.

A Light History of Hot Air [HB] Available
Peter Doherty
From a life lived on three continents Doherty has collected a vast repertoire of information on illumination, hot air and burning, and presented it in a narrative written with great style, intimate with stories, concerned with the world around him, and the simple beauty of science.

Name That Flower: The Identification of Flowering Plants, Second Edition [PB] Available
Ian Clarke and Helen Lee
A wonderfully clear, concise guide to identifying flowering plants in an extended and updated edition.

Nature's Argonaut: Daniel Solander 1733-1782 [HB] Available
Edward Duyker
Awards: Shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Literary Awards, Australian History Prize 1999
This is the first full biography of an important eighteenth-century naturalist, a colleague of Banks on the Endeavour.
Miegunyah

Reading the Garden, formerly Gardening Nation [PB] Available
Katie Holmes, Susan K. Martin & Kylie Mirmohamadi
Reading the Garden explores our deep affection for gardens and gardening and illuminates their numerous meanings and uses.

Soil Science: An Introduction [PB] Available
G. W. Leeper and N. C. Uren
Soil science now reaches out to secondary and tertiary students of ecology, geography and environmental science, as well as farmers.