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Australian Backyard Earth Scientist by Peter Macinnis
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
Find out where rain comes from and what geysers look like! Read about soil becoming too salty and why greenhouse gases are increasing. Did you know that fog is a cloud sitting on the ground and that ice can tell you about the environment of millions of years ago? And what is lightning anyway? Australian ...Show more
Australian Backyard Naturalist by Peter Macinnis
$29.95 AUD
Category: Nature
This book is written by Peter Macinnis, the recipient of the Eve Pownall award in the 2010 Children's Book Council of Australia Awards for the sister publication, Australian Backyard Explorer. In Australian Backyard Naturalist, Peter enthusiastically explores the animals that inhabit the places in which ...Show more
Big Book of Australian History by Peter Macinnis
$39.99 AUD
Category: Children's Books
This is the second edition of The Big Book of Australian History, awarded ‘Notable Book’ by the Children’s Book Council of Australia in 2014. Drawing on the impressive collections of the National Library of Australia, this comprehensive book provides children with an interesting and engaging overview of ...Show more
Curious Minds - Australian Naturalists by Peter Macinnis
$39.99 AUD
Category: Nature
Curious Minds: The Discoveries of Australian Naturalists looks at the long line of naturalists who have traversed Australia in search of new plants and animals. Identifying and classifying the unfamiliar plants and animals was their biggest challengethe early ones were frequently wrong but later natural ...Show more
The Big Book of Australian History (PB) by Peter Macinnis
$39.99 AUD
Category: Young Reader Non-Fiction
Did you know that, in 1934, the ABC developed `synthetic¿ cricket, in which radio broadcasters gave a ball-by-ball description of the game, using sound effects to simulate the sound of bat on ball and the applause of the crowd? The Big Book of Australian History features stunning images from the collect ...Show more
The Speed of Nearly Everything : From Tobogganing Penguins to to Spinning Neutron Stars by Peter Macinnis
$24.94 AUD
Category: Science
"The Speed of Nearly Everything" is a fascinating almanac of facts, statistics and stories about the speed of virtually everything. Speed records; comparative speeds; relative speeds; optimal speeds; fastest speeds; slowest speeds; human, animal, mechanical and natural speeds are gathered together in an ...Show more
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