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Rocks and Fossils by Arthur B. Busbey 3rd; Robert R. Coenraads; David Roots; Paul Willis; Australian Geographic Staff
$34.99 AUD
Category: Nature and Science | Series: Australian Geograph Ser.
Illustrated guide to the world of geology and paleontology, looking at how the study of rocks and minerals reveals information about the Earth's history, touring some of the world's most notable sites, and offering details on various specimens and collecting.
Ruby and the Country Cousins (Our Australian Girl - Ruby #2) by Penny Matthews
$14.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Our Australian Girl Ruby #2
It's 1931 . . . and Ruby and her family have lost everything in the Great Depression. Leaving behind her dad, her school friends and everything she knows, Ruby must move to Kettle Farm to stay with her cousins. Life in the country is new and strange, and Ruby has never felt like such an outsider. Thankf ...Show more
Ruby of Kettle Farm (Our Australian Girl - Ruby #4) by Penny Matthews; Lucia Masciullo (Illustrator)
$14.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Our Australian Girl: 1930 Ser.
Follow Ruby and join her adventure in the final of four stories about a happy-go-lucky girl in a time of great change.It's 1931, and Kettle Farm is starting to feel like home, but Ruby is still desperately worried about her dad. He hasn't written for weeks, and nobody knows where he is. Will Dad ever co ...Show more
Spy vs Spy: The New Age of Espionage: Australian Foreign Affairs 9 by Jonathan Pearlman
$22.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: AUSTRALIAN FOREIGN AFFAIRS
The ninth issue of Australian Foreign Affairs explores the rapidly evolving espionage threat facing Australia as changes in technology enable malign actors to target individuals, officials, businesses and infrastructure.Spy vs Spy examines how Australian agencies can defend against this attempt to not o ...Show more
Stowaway to Botany Bay by Chrissie Michaels
$16.99 AUD
Category: Teenage | Series: My Australian Story
I dared not move... I was a bread stealer. A chicken feather villain. A salted mutton thief. I guiltily recalled the paper, the ink, the leather pouch I had stolen. And even though I had not intended it so... I was a stowaway. Julienne roams the fortress tunnels of Brest, France, cold, hungry and knowin ...Show more
The Best Australian Science Writing 2018 by John Pickrell (Editor)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Nature and Science | Series: The\Best Australian Science Writing Seri Ser. | Reading Level: 4 Science
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 2022 by Ivy Shih (Editor); Norman Swan (Foreword by)
$32.99 AUD
Category: Nature and 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 Bodysurfers - Penguin Australian Classics by Robert Drewe
$19.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Australian Classics
Set among the surf and sandhills of the Australian beach - and the tidal changes of three generations of the Lang family - this bestselling collection of short stories is an Australian classic. The Bodysurfers vividly evokes the beach, with the scent of the suntan oil, the sting of the sun and a lazy se ...Show more
The Citizens Who Vote (Democracy and the Australian Government) by Peter Turner
$29.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction | Series: Democracy and the Australian Government
What does it mean to be a citizen of Australia? Who are Australia's citizens? What rights do Australian citizens have? Who can become an Australia citizen? What happens at a citizenship ceremony? Find out the answers to these questions and many more in The Citizens Who Vote.Taking a fresh new approach t ...Show more
The Emperor's Grace: Untold Stories of the Australians Enslaved in Japan during World War II by Mark Baker
$34.95 AUD
Category: Miltary | Series: Australian History Ser.
The Emperor's Grace is the story of the men of "C" Force – the first contingent of Australian, British and Dutch POWs shipped from Singapore to Japan in November 1942 – who worked in the Kawasaki Shipyard in Kobe before the American firebombing campaign razed the city, and then the infamous Fukuoka coal ...Show more
The Good Country - The Djadja Wurrung, the Settlers and the Protectors by Bain Attwood
$26.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Australian History Ser.
Beyond the generalisations of national and colonial history, what can we know about how Aboriginal nations interacted with the British settlers who invaded their country, the men appointed by the imperial and colonial governments to protect them, and each other?In The Good Country Bain Attwood makes a m ...Show more
The Man from Snowy River by Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson; Annette MacArthur-Onslow (Illustrator)
$14.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books | Series: Australian Children's Classics Ser.
Banjo Paterson and Henry Lawson were writing for the Sydney Bulletin' in 1892 when they decided to have a duel of poetry. The idea was to increase the number of poems they could sell to the paper. It began in fun but later became bitter. Paterson wrote many poems and stories about his travels in the Out ...Show more