Melbourne csiro publishing 2025 (13 risultati)

second edition),Octavo, paperback,180 pp.,colour photographs and illustrations. A practical and eye-opening field guide to the most common and useful edible weeds in Australia. An astonishing number of the plants we call 'weeds' are either edible or medicinal, and have deep and sometimes bizarre connections to human history. But…

second edition),Octavo, paperback,566 pp.,colour photographs, maps. WAS $50. From the eastern rainforests to the central deserts, Australia is home to some 900 species of birds. Finding Australian Birds covers over 400 birdwatching sites conveniently grouped into the best birding areas, from one end of the country to the other.…

Octavo, paperback,472 pp.,WAS $60. This 'ice-breaking' book collects the English words of the Antarctic and the Arctic for the first time. These words relate to weather, ice and snow, auroras, clothes, food, housing, social structures, wildlife, plants, politics, as well as many other aspects of polar life. The terms are present…

reprint).Octavo, paperback,452 pp.,colour photographs. This excellent field guide uses photographs of live animals to enable identification of commonly encountered spiders to the family level and, in some cases, to genus and species. Featuring over 1,300 colour photographs, this is the most comprehensive account of Australian sp…

third edition).Octavo, paperback,314 pp.,colour photographs, maps. An illustrated guide to the remarkable ecology and history of the Australian Alps National Parks. Australian Alps is a fascinating guide to Australiaâs highest mountains and the extraordinary diversity, rich heritage and precious resource of the Australian Alps N…

Quarto, laminated boards,312 pp.,colour photographs. It was a chance encounter in the forest with a purple mushroom that completely changed photographer Stephen Axfordâs view of the world. He became obsessed with documenting the largely unexplored kingdom of fungi and, alongside his partner, Catherine Marciniak, capturing the be…

Octavo, paperback,286 pp.,colour photographs, maps. A guide to the 121 species and subspecies of wattles found in Victoria and Tasmania. Wattles (Acacia) are among the most vibrant plants in the southern Australian bush, with their iconic yellow blooms particularly visible in late winter and spring. As the largest genus of flowe…

fourth edition).Octavo, paperback,521 pp.,colour photographs. Weeds of the South-East is a comprehensive identification guide to weeds found in the South-East region of Australia, covering the whole of Victoria, Tasmania and the Australian Capital Territory, the southern half of New South Wales and the south-eastern section of S…

Quarto, paperback,150 pp.,colour illustrations. A comprehensive glossary of over 1000 terms related to gardening and horticulture, each supported by superb colour illustrations to aid understanding. The topics covered include plant classification, morphology and growth; plants from seeds; propagation; soil; compost; planting sys…

second edition),Quarto, laminated boards,836 pp.,photographs and text illustrations. Provides up-to-date knowledge of Australian mammal medicine. This revised edition is a companion volume to Medicine of Australian Mammals, a text that remains relevant and current, although there have been significant advances in Australian mamm…

Quarto, laminated boards,244 pp.,textillustrations. This book presents a summation of over a century of natural product research in Australia, concerning plants that have been used customarily by First Scientists. It begins with a look into the history of ethnomedicine across the globe, focusing on the pharmacopeias of the West,…