Banksias: Second Edition (hardcover)

Alex George

Bloomings Books

Mediterranean gardening offers a way of living in harmony with the earth without contrived effects or heavy spending. Born of long human experience on the land, it is frugal and fruitful, serves many purposes and gives many pleasures, year-round. Today, it adapts easily to our growing ecological awareness, to individual creativity and community sharing. Above all, it perpetuates a long-standing partnership between human beings and their environment, tested in Mediterranean countries for millennia. Mediterranean cooking grew from peasant roots but has become fashionable today all over the world without loss of local diversity. More than a mere trend, it has been widely adopted because of its underlying, enduring practices: it is seasonal, local, healthy and flavourful, economical but capable of great refinement. Mediterranean gardening has much the same base and similar benefits. Like the cuisine, Mediterranean gardening offers an approach that can be adapted to all climates and budgets, for better, sustainable living in harmony with the environment.

Mediterranean Gardens

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Louisa Jones

Gardening & Landscape Design

Biography of Australia's First Natural Historian. A unique volume about a pirate who collected plant specimens as his booty! The enigma that was William Dampier has puzzled historians for centuries.

William Dampier in New Holland: Australia's First Natural Historian: Australia's First Natural Historian

History

George, Alex S.

Australia & Oceania

As their neighborhoods are blitzed by indiscriminate development bewildered suburbanites ask: How did we end up in this mess? With historical insight and characteristic candor Miles Lewis shows how planners and politicians have ignored the aspirations of many Melburnians, in Australia. Suburban Backlash is a cautionary tale that should be widely heeded.

Suburban backlash: The battle for the world's most liveable city

Arts & Photography

Lewis, Miles

Architecture

Swift, sleek, predatory and breathtakingly beautiful in action, birds of prey have always had a fascination for man. In Eagles Hawks and Falcons of Australia, David Hollands has achieved his goal of finding studying and photographing all twenty-four diurnal birds of prey in Australia. This comprehensive and authoritative work is divided into three sections: THE ESSAYS – written to capture the spirit of each bird as well as to present the ornithological facts; THE FIELD GUIDE – designed to summarize the facts likely to be used in the field, including many new observations previously unpublished; THE COLOR PLATES – over one hundred and fifty superb photographs depicting each species in a dramatic and original format, taken both at the next and in flight. This magnificent book is essential reading for all raptor enthusiasts and for every serious ornithologist. For this second edition of Eagles Hawks and Falcons of Australia, David Hollands has revised the whole text and made additions to several chapters, based on recent field expeditions. The color sections have been expanded to make room for a number of new photographs. This new edition of Eagles Hawks and Falcons of Australia comes after a long period of being out-of-print. David is now retired from medical practice and working on three new titles.

Eagles Hawks and Falcons of Australia

Science & Math

Hollands, David

Biological Sciences

Beth Chatto's Gravel Garden : Drought-Resistant Planting Throughout the Year

Beth Chatto

A collection of Tommy Garnett's writings from The Age, with illustrations by botanist Professor Turner, and illuminating commentaries by Professor Seddon. Some of Australia's best gardening and environmental writing by men who helped create a new environmental ethos.

From the Country

Garnett, T R

Trees of History & Romance: Essays from a Mount Wilson Garden

Reference

Michael Pembroke

Words, Language & Grammar

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