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100 Discoveries: The Greatest Breakthroughs in History by Peter Macinnis
Category: History
Presents the greatest 100 breakthroughs in science and technology, medicine and the major areas of human endeavour over the past ten thousand years.
Australian Backyard Earth Scientist by Peter Macinnis
Category: Children's Educational
Find out where rain comes from and what geysers look like! Read about soil becoming too salty and why greenhouse gases are increasing. Did you know that fog is a cloud sitting on the ground and that ice can tell you about the environment of millions of years ago? And what is lightning anyway? Australian ...Show more
Australian Backyard Explorer (PB) by Peter Macinnis
Category: Children's Educational
Australian Backyard Explorer tells the stories of many intrepid individuals who explored the Australian continent in the first 120 years of European settlement. It includes little known explorers as well as the old favourites, such as James Cook, Edward John Eyre, Robert OHara Burke and William John Wil ...Show more
Australian Backyard Naturalist by Peter Macinnis
Category: Children's Educational
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
Big Book of Australian History by Peter Macinnis
Category: Children's Educational
This is the second edition of The Big Book of Australian History, awarded ‘Notable Book’ by the Children’s Book Council of Australia in 2014. Drawing on the impressive collections of the National Library of Australia, this comprehensive book provides children with an interesting and engaging overview of ...Show more
Curious Minds - Australian Naturalists by Peter Macinnis
Category: Animals & Nature
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
Kokoda Track: 101 Days by Peter Macinnis
Category: Children's
An extraordinary story of a small force defeating a much larger one. It is the tale of 550 men of the 39th Militia Battalion. In eight short and brutal weeks, these soldiers slowed, and eventually stopped the advance of 6000 experienced Japanese troops of the Nankai division across the massive Owen Stan ...Show more
Mr Darwin's Incredible Shrinking World: Science and Technology in 1859 by Peter Macinnis
Category: Science
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
Not Your Usual Bushrangers by Peter Macinnis
Category: Australian History
Take a journey with one of Australia's most accessible history and science writers into an early Australia that extends beyond the Wild Colonial Boy and the Kelly Gang.Discover the endearing Moondyne Joe and Diver Fitzgerald, scallywags rather than villains, as well as some who affected a gentlemanly fr ...Show more
Rockets: Sulfer, Sputnik and Scramjets by Peter Macinnis
Category: Science
A history of rockets from their early Chinese origins to their modern use in the military, space exploration and commercial peacetime use Our story starts around 700 BC when the Chinese used a form of gunpowder to fumigate their houses. The first real rockets were gunpowder filled sections of bamboo ...Show more