This book is an introduction to the archaeology of Australia from prehistoric times to the eighteenth century AD. It is the only up-to-date textbook on the subject and is designed for undergraduate courses, based on the author's considerable experience of teaching at the Australian National University. Lucidly written, it shows the diversity and colourfulness of the history of humanity in the southern continent. The Archaeology of Ancient Australia demonstrates with an array of illustrations and clear descriptions of key archaeological evidence from Australia a thorough evaluation of Australian prehistory. Readers are shown how this human past can be reconstructed from archaeological evidence, supplemented by information from genetics, environmental sciences, anthropology, and history. The result is a challenging view about how varied human life in the ancient past has been.

Archaeology of Ancient Australia

History

Hiscock, Peter

Australia & Oceania

Routledge

Hundreds of different aquarium plants are illustrated in color with detailed descriptions of each plant, its common name, botanical designation, and information on its growth cycle and general care. A brand-new title in the growing Mini Encyclopedia Series for aquarium hobbyists, this book helps aquarium owners plan, create, and maintain a colorful and interesting environment for fish and aquatic life. Each volume provides in-depth information and instruction on a specific subdivision of fish keeping. Complementing the text are sets of illustration panels filled with full-color photos, each with its own detailed and instructive caption. The team of authors, all recognized aquarium experts, show readers how to set up an aquarium, select species, and maintain an optimal environment for the tank's aquatic and plant life. Approximately 250 color photos and illustrations in each volume.

Aquarium Plants: Comprehensive coverage, from growing them to perfection to choosing the best varieties.

Sports & Outdoors

Sourcebooks

Discusses the factors that contribute to water quality, recommends ways to establish and maintain filtration systems in aquariums, and describes the best water conditions for different types of aquarium fish.

A Practical Guide to Creating and Maintaining Water Quality (Tankmaster Books)

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Pets & Animal Care

Barrons Educational Series. Inc.

The correct choice of aquarium plants helps to keep water clean and oxygenated, while also adding an element of beauty to the tank. Here is advice on plant selection and maintenance for various types of aquarium. Aquarium hobbyists improve their skills by studying the clearly captioned, step-by-step, full-color photos on every page of Tankmasters Books. These books. show—rather than merely tell—how to maintain colorful and interesting fish tanks, with every page literally filled with photos and other illustrations. All have detailed and instructive captions. Each book focuses on a different aspect of either freshwater or marine aquarium maintenance, and explains everything from fish and plant varieties to bubblers, filters, and other aquarium accessories. More than 200 illustrations in each book.

A Practical Guide to Choosing Aquarium Plants (Tankmasters Series)

This heavily illustrated volume will prove a blessing to every aquarium hobbyist who has had to settle for superficial plant descriptions in general fish-keeping books. It presents a detailed A-to-Z directory covering hundreds of aquarium plants with high quality color photos and succinct profiles of each plant. Information includes the plant's common name, botanical designation, growth cycle, and general description. The book's additional sections offer details on how to grow and propagate aquatic plants, and how to protect them from parasites and other problems. This handsome volume features approximately 450 color photos and illustrations.

Encyclopedia of Aquarium Plants

This lavishly photo-filled volume demonstrates that having an aquarium to be proud of means much more than keeping fish in a glass tank. The aquarium enthusiast who takes his hobby seriously reproduces a part of the aquatic natural environment in miniature inside his home. Author Peter Hiscock offers practical instructions on setting up a freshwater tropical aquarium. He describes substrate, aquarium plants, and appropriate combinations of fish. Much of this book focuses on fish and plant life in nature, and then offers details on replicating natural settings in the aquarium. Both plants and fish varieties are shown in vivid color photos and described in detail. More than 450 color photos and illustrations.

Aquarium Designs: Inspired by Nature

B E S Pub Co

The allure of the natural aquarium is that it is both a spectacularly beautiful and all-natural environment - the ideal backdrop for an aquarium of colorful fish . The plants and accessories needed to create a natural aquarium are more abundant than ever, giving aquarium hobbyists may more choices. This book explores the full range of natural aquarium possibilities, and with its abundance of full-color photos and drawings makes setting up and lm maintaining the design of choice as simple(and successful) as possible.

Creating a Natural Aquarium (Interpet Handbooks)

Reference

Howell Book House

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Archaeology of Ancient Australia

Archaeology of Ancient Australia

Aquarium Plants: Comprehensive coverage, from growing them to perfection to choosing the best varieties.

A Practical Guide to Creating and Maintaining Water Quality (Tankmaster Books)

A Practical Guide to Choosing Aquarium Plants (Tankmasters Series)

Encyclopedia of Aquarium Plants

Aquarium Designs: Inspired by Nature

Creating a Natural Aquarium (Interpet Handbooks)

Archaeology of Ancient Australia

Archaeology of Ancient Australia