Browse by category
Australian Backyard Naturalist by Peter Macinnis
$29.95 AUD
Category: Children's & YA
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
Curious Minds - Australian Naturalists by Peter Macinnis
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
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
Mr Darwin's Incredible Shrinking World: Science and Technology in 1859 by Peter Macinnis
$29.95 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Across a huge range of endeavour, 1859 was the year of mega change. At the beginning of that year Charles Darwin published "The Origin of Species". By year's end, other people, discoveries and inventions had changed the world forever, and society was converging in a global culture. It was a different wo ...Show more
The Big Book of Australian History by Peter Macinnis
$39.99 AUD
Category: Children's & YA
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 Big Book of Australian History by Peter Macinnis
$39.99 AUD
Category: Children's & YA
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
$24.95 AUD
Category: Display & Gift
"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
0 - 5 of 6