Form/Genre: Pictorial works

Collected here are stunning photographs of the National Trust's idiosyncratic gardens, accompanied by a light text meditating on the magic of the secret garden, and bringing in fascinating historical and botanical details. This book includes secret mazes, hidden corners, walled gardens, lost gard...

A fun, highly illustrated guide to what genes and DNA are, and how they work. What ARE genes? What do they do? How did DNA make EVERYTHING? Budding scientists, meet genes and DNA, the building blocks of ALL LIFE ON EARTH. Colourful illustrations, plenty of flaps, and lots of SILLINESS, make the ...

Everything from the natural beauty of the landscape to the ever-popular traditional arts and customs, as well as the high technology for which Japan is renowned the world over.

From a young age, Lilian was always sketching. After marriage in 1923 to Tom Iredale, they migrated to Australia. In the 1930s she provided 53 watercolour plates for a handbook of Australian birds. For the first time all 53 plates have been published.

This series for young school children focuses on the workings of different parts of the human body. In this title join the characters at Body Builders HQ meet Ian Struction, the Head Body Builder. It's his job to know the human body inside and out. With this instruction manual you will go on a jo...

Michael Wee persuaded his friend Tom Carment, to embark on some walks into wild Australia. Seven Walks is the companion book to their adventures and captures the feeling of heading out on foot along a narrow track, into a beautiful landscape.

Long ago, our planet had only one gigantic land mass. Then something monumental happened. That supercontinent ruptured and seven different worlds were born. Each of those worlds - or continents - evolved, and continues to evolve, its own way of life. From the jungle of the Congo or the majestic H...

Simultaneously published: Canberra : Australian War Memorial.

This title for young readers provides information on deep-water & ocean floor sharks & shares a shark divers experiences searching for and photographing them. Full of details of close encounters, near misses & amazing shark discoveries.

This title for school children introduces how evolution provides common traits for different animals, and the unique ways in which each uses them, from the shelled snail and turtle to the billed duck and platypus. It looks at the traits sone animals share in common plus the ways that different an...

'I'm passionate about Australia and how we all live within its vast surroundings. My visual storytelling is inspired by the everyday people and landscapes I encounter on my adventures'. In this celebration of Australian landscapes and interiors, photographer Kara Rosenlund explores the notion of ...

Trams were a central part of Sydney life for 100 years. Shooting through: Sydney by tram explores the history and demise of Sydney's trams from the first horse drawn trams in Pitt Street in 1861 to the last electric tram in 1961

This title for young children takes a close-up look at various Australian Native animals. Providing one feature as a clue, readers are given a chance to guess the Australian animal it relates to, and then find out how each feature helps the animal survive. Children will love the amazing photograp...

Once upon a simpler time, hand-painted and hand-crafted signs brought color and vibrancy to Australian towns and cities -- advertising everything from dining rooms, milk bars, and CWA halls to Peter's ice cream, oatmeal, stout, Chinese restaurants, and Shelley's famous drinks. Now faded and slowl...

The Sistine Chapel is the geographical and spiritual centre of the Vatican City, but it is also one of the most internationally famous artistic sites. Michelangelo's masterpieces make the Sistine Chapel the most visited place in the world, illustrated in detail, so the you can not only appreciate...

The story of the simple skateboard is part-thriller, part-underground, underdog success tale. Its chock-full of innovations, far-out graphic artistry, and ever-more-incredible hot-dogging feats

This practical geography book for secondary school students in years 7 to 10, will help introduce and develop fundamental geography skills. It combines topographical maps along with supporting explanatory text plus exercises to enable school students to understand the topic of geography in both a...

In Skulls, Winchester tells the rich and fascinating story of skulls, both human and animal, from every perspective imaginable: historical, biographical, cultural, and iconographic. The skulls are from the collection of Alan Dudley, a British collector

Nature photographers Stanley and Kaisa Breeden explore Australia's small animal life to reveal the wonder and beauty of looking closely into nature. Their specially developed digital photography techniques make it possible to see intriguing details.

A textual and visual tour of civilian, military, and commercial aviation from the earliest balloon flights to today's advanced aircraft. 100 maps as well as 200 related photographs, navigation charts, and historic artifacts, charts the history of flight