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Eucalyptus oil: Australia's natural wonder
By Peter S Abbott, Tegan Abbott. 2012
It's Australia's natural wonder. From leaving floors sparkling, to controlling dust mites, washing woollens and freshening pet areas, eucalyptus oil…
can help replace hundreds of commonly used household chemicals - providing a healthier, allergy-friendly and environmentally sound alternative. Eucalyptus Oil - Australia's Natural Wonder is both a must-have household guide and a fascinating insight into the history, production and uses of Australia's most versatile natural resource.Ian Clunies Ross: a biography
By Marjory O'Dea. 1997
Ian Clunies Ross was an Australian scientist and founder of the CSIRO, the man Sir Robert Menzies claimed was the…
greatest PR man that Australian science ever had. Langridge's biography celebrates his achievements and character.Sex, bombs and burgers: how war, porn and fast food created technology as we know it
By Peter Nowak. 2010
This book is a pacy, accessible history of technology based on fascinating research into the histories of all three industries…
and including extensive interviews with inventors, experts, academics, executives and commentators. It is also a chronicle of popular culture, chock-full of surprising 'fancy that?' moments. From cars to high-definition televisions, from website logins to microwave popcorn and slinkies, it reveals how our everyday lives have been shaped - hopefully for the most part indirectly - by war, porn and fast food.Agriculture in Australia: an introduction
By Peter Sale, L. R Malcom, Adrian R Egan. 1996
A key introductory text for agricultural students. Covers a broad range of agriculture topics to introduce students to agricultural practices,…
including: crops and pasture; animal production; farm management and economics; climate change and the future of farming.Rewire your brain: think your way to a better life
By John Boghosian Arden. 2010
"Rewire Your Brain focuses on the self-help applications and the ongoing research on the aging brain. Rewire Your Brain is…
also filled with practical suggestions and exercises to help the reader improve his or her memory and relationships--and overcome mild depression, anxiety issues, procrastination, and various other negative thought patterns. Each of the chapters in this book offer key components of the new developments in neuroscience and describe how to apply them to specific areas of one's life."--Provided by publisher.Beneath the bonnet: a history of Australian automotive parts manufacturers since 1896
By J. D Beruldsen. 1989
Stalingrad to Kursk: triumph of the Red Army
By Geoffrey Jukes. 2011
The epic battles fought at Stalingrad and Kursk were pivotal events in the war on the Eastern Front. After the…
catastrophic failure of the German offensives of 1942 and 1943, the Wehrmacht was forced onto the defensive. Never again would it regain the initiative against the seemingly inexhaustible forces of the Red Army. But how did this decisive shift in the balance of military power on the Eastern Front come about? This question has intrigued historians ever since. In this original and thought-provoking new study Geoffrey Jukes reconstructs Soviet strategy and operations at Stalingrad and Kursk in vivid detail. He looks behind the scenes at the workings of the Soviet high command, at the roles played by the principal Red Army generals, and at the overriding influence of Stalin himself. There is an equally acute insight into German war aims and military planning as Hitler's armies geared themselves up to launch a sequence of massive offensives that would have a decisive impact on the outcome of the war. This authoritative and highly readable reassessment of the turning point in the war on the Eastern Front is a major contribution to the debate about the reasons for the military defeat of Nazi Germany.An optimist's tour of the future: one curious man sets out to answer "what's next?"
By Mark Stevenson. 2011
A guide to the future of civilization describes the author's travels in various world regions where he learned about climate-proof…
farming practices and breakthrough technologies with a potential for helping the world.A guide to climate change lunacy: Bad Forecasting, Terrible Solutions
By Mark Lawson. 2010
Activists and even some scientists will tell you that the science behind the expected major warming of the globe is…
rock solid. In fact, the projections of temperature increases in coming decades are based on entirely unproven forecasting systems which depend on guesses about crucial aspects of the atmosphere behaviour and the all-important oceans. In addition, these forecasts use carbon dioxide emission scenarios that have been generated by economic calculations rather than from science, and parts of which are already hopelessly wrong less than a decade after they were made.Bird minds: cognition and behaviour of Australian native birds
By Gisela Kaplan. 2015
In her comprehensive and carefully crafted book, Gisela Kaplan demonstrates how intelligent and emotional Australian birds can be. She describes…
complex behaviours such as grieving, deception, problem solving and the use of tools. Many Australian birds cooperate and defend each other, and exceptional ones go fishing by throwing breadcrumbs in the water, extract poisonous parts from prey and use tools to crack open eggshells and mussels. Kaplan brings together evidence of many such cognitive abilities, suggesting plausible reasons for their appearance in Australian birds. Bird Minds is the first attempt to shine a critical and scientific light on the cognitive behaviour of Australian land birds. In this fascinating volume, the author also presents recent changes in our understanding of the avian brain and links these to life histories and longevity. Following on from Kaplan's well-received books on the Australian Magpie and the Tawny Frogmouth, as well as two earlier titles on birds, Bird Minds contends that the unique and often difficult conditions of Australia's environment have been crucial for the evolution of unusual complexities in avian cognition and behaviour.About time: Einstein's unfinished revolution
By Davies, P. C. W. 1995
When Albert Einstein formulated his theory of relativity it brought about a revolution in our understanding of time, yet also…
presented a new set of mysteries. Einstein's time can be warped, leading to bizarre possibilities such as black holes and time travel, while making nonsense of our perception of a 'now' or a division of time into past, present and future.Fatal words: communication clashes and aircraft crashes
By Steven Cushing. 1997
On March 27, 1977, 583 people died when KLM and Pan Am 747s collided on a crowded, foggy runway in…
Tenerife, the Canary Islands. The cause, a miscommunication between the pilot and the air traffic controller. The pilot radioed, "We are now at takeoff," meaning that the plane was lifting off, but the tower controller misunderstood and thought the plane was waiting on the runway.Among the dead cities: was the allied bombing of civilians in WWII a necessity or a crime?
By A. C Grayling. 2006
Among the Dead Cities is both a lucid and revealing work of modern history and an urgent moral investigation. Grayling…
details the industrial nature of the area bombing in Germany, and also of the US bombing of Japan that culminated in the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He looks at the stands people took, both for and against, and crucially asks what are the lessons that we can learn for today about how people should behave in a world of tension and moral confusion, of terrorism and bitter rivalries."Our climate crisis may at times appear to be happening slowly, but it fact it is happening very quickly -…
and has become a true planetary emergency. The Chinese expression for crisis consists of two characters. The first is a symbol for danger ; the second is a symbol for opportunity. In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and more through it, we first have to recognize that we are facing a crisis. So why is that out leaders seem not to hear such clarion warnings? Are they resisting the truth because they know that the moment they acknowledge it, they will face a moral imperative to act? Is it simply more convenient to ignore the warnings? Perhaps, but inconvenient truths do not go away just because they are not seen. Indeed when they are not responded to, their significance doesn't diminish ; it grows."The fatal lodes: mining deaths in the Broken Hill district
By Stan Goodman. 2012
And now for something completely different
By Robyn Williams. 1995
The author has acted with the Monty Python crew, worked on the Snowy Mountains Scheme, been a TV stand-in for…
Tom Jones and even died and come back to life. Apart from that, he's a world renowned science broadcaster with a love of stories. Contains some coarse language.The offshore islanders
By Paul Johnson. 1972
Paul Johnson looks back on two thousand years of English history. He re-examines the story of how a small nation,…
living in a geographical backwater, evolved unique political and economic institutions, and imposed upon the wider world the matrix of modern industrial society.The Southern Cross story
By Charles Kingsford-Smith. 1978
Known affectionately as "The old bus", the "Southern Cross" was the most famous aeroplane of Australian aviation history, especially in…
connection with Kingsford-Smith's daring flights across the Pacific, the Atlantic and Australia.Don't touch that dial: hits 'n' memories of Australian radio
By Wayne Mac. 2005
Don't Touch That Dial chronicles Australian radio from the days when teenagers were first seduced by the new sounds of…
Top 40 pop and DJs in the late 1950s. It takes you on a journey where radio went from strength to strength on AM, then FM, introducing music, news, personalities, commentators and colourful characters several of whom became household names. Today, radio continues to mirror social change, just like it did in the 'swinging 60s'. But now it's so much more than just the latest top 40 hits and a few minutes of news on the hour. In Don't Touch That Dial Wayne Mac takes account of an entertainment phenomenon which has touched the lives of generations of Australians.The shearers
By Patsy Adam-Smith. 1982
A history of that independent army of men who tramped the great shearing routes of the out-back over the last…
150 years. It tells also of the others associated with the industry such as the musterers, rouseabouts, classers and property owners. But above all this records the skills, pride and hardships of the Australian shearer.