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Cookbooks, Food & Wine
This social and historical exploration traces the history of sugarcane from its home in New Guinea to Shakespeare's England. Fascinating sugar lore and anecdotes are included, such as how Queen Elizabeth I became so partial... See More
Science & Math
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 thrown under horses to scare them; the next development was... See More
A history of rockets from their early Chinese origins to their modern use in the military, space exploration and commercial peacetime use. See More
Medical eBooks
Poisons permeate our world. They are in the environment, the workplace, the home. They are in food, our favorite whiskey, medicine, and well water. They have been used to cure diseases as well as incapacitate and kill. They... See More
Science & Math
This is a practical introduction to the art of curiosity across Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics, or STEAM to the cognoscenti. The book aims to nurture curiosity, wisdom and joy in learning. There are... See More
HistoryThe first British settlers invaded Australia in 1788, and for the first 50 years, there were significant numbers of convicts. Some of them escaped into the surrounding bush, but as they had no idea how to survive, they... See More
HistoryIn July 1942, a large and well-trained Japanese force landed at Buna, on the north coast of Papua, planning to capture Port Moresby by going over the Kokoda Track. This is the extraordinary story of a small force defeating a... See More
Science & MathPeople say history was invented to stop everything happening at the same time, but in 1859, something went wrong with that. Events, world-changing ones, bobbed up all over the place. In 1543, Copernicus and Vesalius... See More
History
Conservative politicians whine that standards are dropping, that children are no longer taught the important dates and names (presumably including the names of those conservative politicians). They want unquestioning and... See More
History
This is the revised 2022 edition. Australian children are taught that before 1851, nobody knew there was gold in Australia. Then Edward Hargraves discovered gold in New South Wales in 1851, and the rushes began. This is... See More
Sports & OutdoorsThis is the story of how the mob discovered lawn, about 1860, and so took up sport. Without the invention of the lawn mower, there would be no sports, no Olympics. In the olden days, "sport" meant cockfights, bear-baiting... See More
Oh Captain, my Captain, in Xanadu the word had gone around, yesterday upon a stair, Abou Ben Adhem, seated one day at the organ, gathered him rosebuds while he may in a rose red city, half as old as time. Did you get them... See More
Science & MathThese are my personal thoughts and footnotes, circling around a lovely place, North Head, at the entrance to Sydney Harbour. Less than 10 km from the central business district of a city of 5 million people, we have an island... See More
Children's eBooksOriginally published by the National Library of Australia in 2012, the first edition was the recipient of a Whitley Award from the Royal Zoological Society of NSW, and joint winner for the W.A. Premier's Book Award for... See More
HistoryBut this is New Holland... where the swans are black and the eagles white; where the kangaroo... has... three talons on its hind-legs, like a bird, yet hops on its tail; where the mole... lays eggs, and has a duck's bill... See More
HistoryColour edition. In 2010, the first edition of Australian Backyard Explorer was acclaimed by the Children's Book Council of Australia as the best information book of the year. Sadly, the publisher, the National Library of... See More
Children's eBooks
This book started when a young bureaucrat sat in a boring meeting, and began a stippled doodle, making tiny dots that became an eye, a head, and then a strange beast. He noticed that the bores on either side of him (there... See More
History
To dull Australian males of a certain political profile, the "explorers" were the great heroes, going out into the unmapped wilderness, and discovering things never before seen. In reality, everything out there was known by... See More
These are my personal thoughts and footnotes, circling around a lovely place, North Head, at the entrance to Sydney Harbour. Less than 10 km from the central business district of a city of 5 million people, we have an island... See More
Children's eBooks
As a child, my unscientific parents bought me a toy microscope, but they could offer no suggestions about things for me to look at. This book fills that very need for the next generation, gently offering ideas and... See More
Science & Math
This is a book for people who wonder why rocks are as they are. Here, among other everyday things, you will find tales of wells that go (slightly) uphill; rivers that flow underground; ancient recycling; rotten rocks; pretty... See More
Nonfiction
HistoryI am a scientist by training, and a writer of history by inclination (and going on reviews and awards that I get, I'm not a bad history writer, either). I bring robust scientific search and research methods to bear on... See More
Science & MathWe shall never get people whose time is money to take much interest in atoms. -- Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902), 'Notebooks'. The busy writer, the busy teacher, any communicator of science needs a work like this, to find... See More
Literature & FictionThe busy writer, the busy teacher, any communicator of science needs a work like this, to find that half-forgotten couplet or allusion. You can buy it in one of two ways: as a set of three volumes that may be bought... See More
Note: this is now available also as an Amazon paperback. The history of medicine is strewn with bizarre notions about what caused illness and death: the gods, witches, poisoners were all early targets. Later the doctrine of... See More