Inside of this book, you will find the tools, both modern and indigenous, to understand and navigate the difficulties ahead as we learn to live with Earth’s internal and powerful forces.
How Animals and Plants Use Disguises and Deception
Seeing may be believing, but in nature not everything you see is always what it seems. From cryptic concealments to masquerades and flashy warnings, countless organisms utilise disguises to gain an advantage in their never-ending bid for survival. These remarkable adaptations, crafted by the uncompromising paintbrush of natural selection, have ......
A Journey Through Our Planet's Spectacular Ecology
This book is to open young readers’ minds to some of the main ecosystems which are found across our world. As we journey through our world’s different ecosystems and habitats, many of the occupant animals, plants and fungi will be briefly documented, each accompanied by a generalised conservation indicator.
Did you know that the world’s first astronomers were Indigenous Australians over 35,000 years ago? These Australians were the first humans to closely observe and note the movement of the planet and stars in space.
What a collection plants! From a carnivorous plant that catches rats, a skull-shaped flower, an electric blue begonia or a Darth Vader begonia, Even weirder - bat flowers, parasitic Rhizanthes, snake fruit, iridescent-leaved plants that shimmer blue, ancient dragon’s blood trees, ghost pipes.
This book takes explores the seemingly infinite scale, complexity and majesty of the Universe. The components of the solar system are systematically introduced covering the eight planets, the dwarf planets, the asteroid and Kuiper belt, and the Oort Cloud.The concluding chapters detail the exploration of Mars to date.on.
The Australian mainland is surrounded by over 8,000 islands, islets and rock stacks. These offers unique habitats for animals and plants, which has driven the evolution of thousands of species that occur nowhere else on Earth. Exploring the islands, via outstandingcontributions from key conservationists and 360 beautiful images.
The geography of Planet Earth is incredible. From lava lakes, rainbow mountains, auroras, lost world mountains, glowing bioluminescent waters, blood falls, mud volcanoes and blue holes in the ocean. An exploration of 36 extraordinary geographic. These geographic subjects remain little-known and little-documented in other works. Incredible Earth ......
Discover the amazing animals you have never heard of! - Iridescent-rainbow snakes to transparent ‘glass fish’, metre-long giant salamanders, flying frogs, poisonous birds, fish that crawl onto land & sea slugs that photosynthesise! What on Earth? explores over 90 groups of unusual creatures that will astound young readers interested in nature, ......