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  • Australia's War Against Rabbits

    The Story of Rabbit Haemorrhagic Disease

    by Brian Douglas Cooke ...
    The management of wild rabbits is a vexing problem worldwide. In countries such as Australia and New Zealand, wild rabbits are regarded as serious pests to agriculture and the environment, while in many European countries they are considered an important hunting resource, and are a cornerstone species in Mediterranean ecosystems, modifying habitats and supporting important predator populations ... Read more

    $90.99 CAD

  • New Public Governance

    A Regime-Centered Perspective

    by Douglas Morgan, Brian Cook ...
    Written by scholars who have been at the forefront of the NPG debate as well as by scholar-practitioners, this book provides lessons learned from experience on how networked, contract-based and partnership-centered approaches to government can be undertaken in ways that preserve the values at the center of the American constitutional and political system. ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

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  • Essential Oils for Dogs: Natural Remedies and Natural Dog Care Made Easy

    Includes Essential Oils for Puppies and K9's

    by Stacey Moore ...
    "Essential Oils for Dogs: Natural Remedies and Natural Dog Care Made Easy" carries the reader into the world of essential oils. After a working definition is provided, the author then goes into detail about the various uses of essential oils in the care of man's best friend. Essential oils are typically used by people who don't want to use chemically based treatments to cure certain problems. It ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Life in a Gall

    The Biology and Ecology of Insects that Live in Plant Galls

    by Rosalind Blanche ...
    What are plant galls and how are they caused? This book introduces the Australian native insects that induce galls on plants and the plant species that host them. It explores the ways the insects have adapted to living part of their lives in the confined spaces of galls, and describes the strategies employed by different insect groups to find a suitable site to induce a gall, obtain food, mate and ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Managing Australia's Pest Animals

    A Guide to Strategic Planning and Effective Management

    by Mike Braysher ...
    Pest animals are but one of many factors that influence the desired outcome from managing natural resource based systems, whether for production or conservation purposes. Others include diseases, weeds, financial resources, weather and fire management. To be effective, an integrated and systematic approach is required, and the principles and strategic approach outlined in this book can also be ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • Australian Longhorn Beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) Volume 1

    Introduction and Subfamily Lamiinae

    by Adam Slipinski, Hermes Escalona ...
    Longhorn Beetles — Cerambycidae are one of the most easily recognised groups of beetles, a family that worldwide encompasses over 33,000 species in 5,200 genera. With over 1,400 species classified in 300 genera, this is the sixth largest among 117 beetle families in Australia. These beetles often attack and kill living forest or orchard trees and develop in construction timber (like European House ... Read more

    $167.99 CAD

  • The Ecological World View

    Edited by Charles Krebs ...
    This new textbook fills an important niche by offering a lively overview of the principles of ecology for a broad range of university-level science and biology courses. Written for those who need to understand key ecological concepts but may specialise in other fields, it is filled with many vivid examples of topical issues and current events. The Ecological World View briefly covers the history ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

  • Monitoring Threatened Species and Ecological Communities

    Edited by Sarah Legge, Natasha Robinson, Benjamin Scheele, David Lindenmayer, Darren Southwell, Brendan Wintle ...
    Monitoring is integral to all aspects of policy and management for threatened biodiversity. It is fundamental to assessing the conservation status and trends of listed species and ecological communities. Monitoring data can be used to diagnose the causes of decline, to measure management effectiveness and to report on investment. It is also a valuable public engagement tool. Yet in Australia, ... Read more

    $59.99 CAD

  • Biological Control of Weeds in Australia

    Edited by Jim Cullen, Mic Julien, Rachel McFadyen ...
    Biological control of weeds has been practised for over 100 years and Australia has been a leader in this weed management technique. The classical example of control of prickly pears in Australia by the cactus moth Cactoblastis cactorum, which was imported from the Americas, helped to set the future for biocontrol of weeds in many countries. Since then there have been many projects using Classical ... Read more

    $225.99 CAD

  • A Less Green and Pleasant Land

    Our Threatened Wildlife

    by Norman Maclean ...
    Disentangling the facts from the hype, this 'Domesday book' of the British and Irish countryside offers a definitive and up-to-date survey of the state of our wildlife today. Norman Maclean, editor of the bestselling Silent Summer, examines the latest findings of Britain and Ireland's top wildlife experts and interprets them for a wider audience. Each chapter provides reliable estimates of animal ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Practical Conservation Biology

    by David Lindenmayer, Mark Burgman ...
    Practical Conservation Biology covers the complete array of topics that are central to conservation biology and natural resource management, thus providing the essential framework for under-graduate and post-graduate courses in these subject areas. Written by two of the world’s leading environment experts, it is a ‘must have’ reference for environment professionals in government, non-government ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

  • Jobs for the Boys

    Patronage and the State in Comparative Perspective

    by Merilee Grindle ...
    Patronage systems in the public service are universally reviled as undemocratic and corrupt. Yet patronage was the prevailing method of staffing government for centuries, and in some countries it still is. In Jobs for the Boys, Merilee Grindle considers why patronage has been so ubiquitous in history and explores the political processes through which it is replaced by merit-based civil service ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD