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    Guide to Native Orchids of Victoria
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    Guide to Native Orchids of Victoria

    This comprehensive guide describes the 447 species of wild orchids that occur in Victoria, Australia. This region is one of the richest in the world for its diversity of temperate terrestrial orchids. Orchid diversity in Victoria spans some of the...
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    Guide to Venomous and Medically Important Invertebrates
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    Guide to Venomous and Medically Important Invertebrates

    Though many are harmless and even beneficial, invertebrates are some of the world's most feared and dangerous creatures.Guide to Venomous and Medically Important Invertebrates describes the health threats posed by invertebrate groups worldwide, from...
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    Managing Australia's Pest Animals
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    Managing Australia's Pest Animals

    Pest animals are just one of many factors that influence the desired outcome from managing natural resource based systems, whether for production or conservation purposes. Others factors include diseases, weeds, financial resources, weather and fire...
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    Ladybird Beetles of the Australo-Pacific Region
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    Ladybird Beetles of the Australo-Pacific Region

    True ladybirds, classified in the tribe Coccinellini, are easily recognisable by their relatively large and shiny bodies and contrasting colour patterns. They are one of the most widely studied groups of beetles, being of economic importance and used as...
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    Hawkmoths of Australia
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    Hawkmoths of Australia

    Hawkmoths are large charismatic insects with highly variable and colourful larvae. Some species are specialised in their habitat preferences, but others are widespread and often encountered in gardens. However, little is known about most species, and...
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    Taxonomy of Australian Mammals
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    Taxonomy of Australian Mammals

    Taxonomy of Australian Mammals utilises the latest morphometric and genetic research to develop the most up to date and comprehensive revision of the taxonomy of Australian mammals undertaken to date...
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    Australian Longhorn Beetles
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    Australian Longhorn Beetles

     Longhorn Beetles - Cerambycidae are one of the most easily recognised groups of beetles, a family that worldwide encompasses over 33,000 species in 5,200 genera. With over 1,400 species classified in 300...
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    Insects of Stored Grain

    This handy pocket guide allows the non-specialist to identify major insect and arachnid pests found in stored cereal grains, grain products and grain legumes. It describes most storage pests found worldwide rather than concentrating on Australia and...
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    Australian Falcons
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    Australian Falcons

    Falcons are stunning and iconic birds. Australia has six falcon species, with two endemic to the continent and two others endemic to the Australasian region. They are important indicators of the health of our ecosystems, due to their position at the top...
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    Coral Reefs of Australia
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    Coral Reefs of Australia

    Australia's coral reefs stretch far and wide, covering 50 000 square kilometres from the Indian Ocean in the West to the Pacific Ocean in the East. They have been viewed as a bedrock of coastal livelihoods, as uncharted and perilous nautical...
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    Animal Migrations
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    Animal Migrations

    Age range 6 to 9A reindeer treks a continent under unimaginable weather extremes. One tiny bird flies non-stop for nine days, while another flies from the north to south pole (and back!) every year. A whale swims around an entire hemisphere.Animal...
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    Beachcombing
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    Beachcombing

    If you've ever walked along a beach or rocky shore and peered, poked or wondered at the things cast upon it by the waves, this book is for you. Beaches are our windows to the ocean, and the objects we find on them tell stories about life, death and...
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    Feather and Brush
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    Feather and Brush

    Feather and Brush traces the history of bird art in Australia - from the simple engravings illustrating accounts of the earliest European voyages of discovery to the diversity of artwork available today. It explores the early European approach, in which...
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    Secretive Slime Moulds
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    Secretive Slime Moulds

    Since their discovery, the taxonomy and systematics of Australia's myxomycetes, an important yet cryptic group of microorganisms, not been published in Australia in a comprehensive manner, until now. Myxomycetes are now considered to be profoundly...
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    The Complete Field Guide to Dragonflies of Australia
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    The Complete Field Guide to Dragonflies of Australia

    Dragonflies and damselflies are conspicuous insects: many are large and brightly coloured. They are also valuable indicators of environmental wellbeing. A detailed knowledge of the dragonfly fauna is therefore an important basis for decisions about...
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    Guide to Native Orchids of NSW and ACT
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    Guide to Native Orchids of NSW and ACT

    This comprehensive guide describes the 582 species of wild orchids that occur in NSW and the ACT. This region covers the richest area for wild orchids in Australia and includes over 500 species of seasonal ground orchids and 62 species of evergreen tree...
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    Plants of Subtropical Eastern Australia
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    Plants of Subtropical Eastern Australia

    Plants of Subtropical Eastern Australia describes the rich flora of this biogeographically distinct region located on the east coast of Australia, covering the north coast of New South Wales and South-East Queensland. This guide presents a selection of...
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    How Birds Behave
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    How Birds Behave

    Birds are intelligent, sociable creatures that exhibit a wide array of behaviours - from mobbing and mimicking to mating and joint nesting. Why do they behave as they do? Bringing to light the remarkable actions of birds through examples from...
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    Photographic Field Guide to Australian Frogs
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    Photographic Field Guide to Australian Frogs

    Australia is home to more than 240 species of frogs, many of which cannot be found anywhere else in the world. The Photographic Field Guide to Australian Frogs provides readers with the tools to confidently identify 242 species and five recognised...
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    Wild Mushrooming
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    Wild Mushrooming

    *Longlisted for the Indie Book Awards 2022: Illustrated Non-Fiction**Longlisted for the ABIA Book Awards 2022: Small Publishers' Adult Book of the Year*Fungi are diverse, delicious and sometimes deadly. With interest in foraging for wild food on...
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    Australian Bird Names
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    Australian Bird Names

    This Second Edition of Australian Bird Names is a completely updated checklist of Australian birds and the meanings behind their common and scientific names, which may be useful, useless or downright misleading! For each species, the authors examine the...
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    Birds of Prey of Australia
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    Birds of Prey of Australia

    Raptors are popular and iconic birds, and are important ecologically, with some species listed as threatened. Yet they are among the most difficult birds to identify. This fully updated Third Edition of the popular and award-winning field guide Birds of...
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    Darwin's Fossils
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    Darwin's Fossils

    Charles Darwin's voyage on the HMS Beagle was a journey that would revolutionise our understanding of the natural world and our place in it.The magisterial work it spawned, The Origin of Species, is widely associated with the flora and fauna of the...
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    The Allure of Fungi
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    The Allure of Fungi

    Although relatively little known, fungi provide the links between the various organisms and ecosystems that underpin our functioning planet. The Allure of Fungi presents fungi through multiple perspectives those of mycologists and ecologists,...
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    Birds in Their Habitats
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    Birds in Their Habitats

    This is a book of the discovery of birds and the places they live. Everywhere we go there are birds, and they all have mysteries to be unravelled. These mysteries include the way they look, from bizarre to apparently mundane, why they live where they...
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    Secret Lives of Carnivorous Marsupials
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    Secret Lives of Carnivorous Marsupials

    Most living carnivorous marsupials lead a secretive and solitary existence. From tiny insect eaters to theformidable Tasmanian Devil, Secret Lives of Carnivorous Marsupials offers rare insight into the history andhabits of these creatures from their...
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    Insects of South-Eastern Australia
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    Insects of South-Eastern Australia

    Insects of South-Eastern Australia is a unique field guide that uses host plants and behavioural attributes as the starting point for identifying insects. Richly illustrated with colour photographs, the different species of insects found in Australia's...
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  • Introduced Dung Beetles in Australia
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    Introduced Dung Beetles in Australia

    This field guide to introduced dung beetles in Australia covers all species found in Australia, including two newly introduced species. It will enable farmers, Landcare workers and the interested public to identify and learn about the...
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    Reptiles of Victoria
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    Reptiles of Victoria

    Winner of the 2019 Whitley Award for Natural HistoryVictoria's reptile population is not often encountered by urban dwellers, with many species rare or threatened. You may have glimpsed a skink darting into the undergrowth, a snake slithering along a...
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    Horti-Curious Horti-Curious
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    Horti-Curious

    This wonderfully diverse collection of facts, figures and foliage is a celebration of plants, gardens and gardening. All things horticultural can be found here, from the phantasmagorical to the practical and everything in between. Delve into the...
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    The Pocket Book of Insect Anatomy

    Insects live alongside us in great profusion. Their importance to the ecosystems of our world, and to our own survival, cannot be overstated. But it can be challenging to relate to them as fellow living beings when their body’s structure and function are...
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    The Pocket Book of Bird Anatomy

    What is a bird? Which anatomical traits are unique to birds and in what ways are birds diverse? Where do birds fit in the diversity of life on earth? The Pocket Book of Bird Anatomy includes a range of beautiful and intricate anatomical diagrams with...
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    Complete Guide To Australian Frogs
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    Complete Guide To Australian Frogs

    Australia is home to some of the world’s most unique frogs, from colourful burrowing frogs, to frogs with ‘hip-pockets’ and even some that can turn their stomach into a womb. A Complete Guide to Frogs of Australia provides a detailed account of all 246...
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    AUS Incredible Insects (HB)
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    AUS Incredible Insects (HB)

    A 2022 Whitley award winner for zoological literature (Children's Natural History category). Explore modern Australian insects, non-insect hexapods and life cycles. Their importance of insects to the ecosystems of our world, and to our own survival,...
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    World's Most Incredible Animals
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    World's Most Incredible Animals

    Encounter the most incredible animals in the world with this easy-to-read, all-in-one reference book! You’ll meet the deadliest, weirdest, most endangered and most extreme animals from every corner of the globe, including Asia’s bengal tiger, North...
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    For The Love of Birds
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    For The Love of Birds

    Georgina Steytler, one of Australia’s most gifted wildlife photographers, is passionate about birds and conservation. In this stunning collection of her work over the last decade, her poetic images portray birds as individuals, each with a character of...
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    Weather Journal
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    Weather Journal

    Whether marvelling at the beauty of an outback sunset or battening down against the terror of an approaching cyclone, Australians share a deep, instinctive fascination with the weather. The Australian Geographic Weather Journal offers the opportunity to...
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    Creatura
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    Creatura

    Bec Crew is a Sydney-based science communicator with a love for weird and wonderful animals. From strange behaviours and special adaptations to newly discovered species and the researchers who find them, her topics celebrate how alien yet relatable so...
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    Aus Most Dangerous Animals
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    Aus Most Dangerous Animals

    Collecting together the animals from beloved Australian Geographic series Australia’s Most Dangerous, this hard-cover book profiles Australia’s deadliest animals. We’ve got the world’s most venomous snake; the deadliest jellyfish, spider and octopus; the...
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  • World's Most Extreme
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    World's Most Extreme

    Animals, of course, come in all shapes and sizes with all manner of talents. But did you know how extreme they can be? Do you know which bird laid the heaviest egg ever recorded, how large the biggest frog in the world is or where to find a baby bird...
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  • Killer OZ
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    Killer OZ

    Our unique plants and animals are one of the many reasons people visit our country. Australia has more than 27,700 plant species, 378 mammal species, 828 bird species, 4000 fish species, 140 snake species, two crocodile species and around 50 types of...
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  • World's Most Freaky
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    World's Most Freaky

    Now you see it, now you don't! Explore some of the intriguing ways animals disguise themselves. A fish that breathes air? Australia has one of the world’s most unusual fish. Discover the amazing habits of the malleefowl as it works hard, and cleverly, to...
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  • Worlds Most Deadly
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    Worlds Most Deadly

    If you go down to the woods today, you’re in for a big surprise! So stay in and read about the nasties you’ll find there: from North America’s grizzly bears to Europe’s wolves. In Africa, stay clear of the black mamba’s ‘kiss of death’, and in South...
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  • Australia's Most Adventurous
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    Australia's Most Adventurous

    You'll be awestruck by the achievements of these amazing Australians! They've climbed the highest mountains, trekked across frozen valleys and sailed solo around the world. They've endured blizzards, bullets, searing desert sands and icy shark-infested...
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  • Australia's Most Extreme
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    Australia's Most Extreme

    The creatures in this book are the superheroes of Australia’s animal world, beating all the records when it comes to size, speed, strength, and survival. What animal runs so fast it goes blind? Which creature has a tongue that weighs as much as an...
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