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Croc College volume 3
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English
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The students learn about life and death on the farm as baby crocodiles hatch in their hands and they have to kill an adult. Repeated fumbling in roping practice leaves John livid with everyone and Lyn's frustration with diminutive Renee reaches boiling po
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Decoding Danger volume 3
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English
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More than any other place on Earth, Australia is a land shaped by fire. As the firestorms that threaten Australia intensify, how can we use science and new technology to stay safe in the future?
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She investigates how the latest work in psychology and brain science helps explain why some us are risk avoiders and learns from an Australian woman, who's climbed Everest twice, the surprising truth about what really goes on inside the mind of someone deciding whether to risk it.
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Chemical World volume 3
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English
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If the history of earth were condensed into 24 hours - humans would have existed for just two seconds. In that short time we've disrupted the chemical systems that sustain all life on our planet. This is the story of our chemically induced crises - and how, if we're to avoid dire consequences, chemistry must be at the core of the solutions.
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Croc College volume 5
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English
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Scientists from the University of Queensland come to the farm to practice artificial insemination techniques. Lyn tells the other students her heart-breaking secret and says she is considering a future in the crocodile industry. John reveals which two stu
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Croc College volume 4
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English
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Renee catches a croc three times her size but Ryan is struggling. John takes Renee and Ryan on an overnight trip where they must share a motel room with crocodiles and the chance to go to Kakadu is on everyone's mind.
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Australia's Wild Treasures volume 2
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English
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The magnificent rock that is Uluru is an icon of wild Australia - remote, untamed, and mysterious. However, as Aaron Pedersen explains, The Red Centre with its arid deserts hold much more than meets the eye.
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China Century volume 3
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English
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China's return to imperial power after a century of humiliation.
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Australia's Wild Treasures volume 5
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English
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The Daintree Rainforest has one of the highest rates of biodiversity on Earth. In ANCIENT RAINFORESTS, Aaron Pedersen explains how this oldest rainforest on Earth is a window into an Australia that has otherwise vanished.
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Decoding Danger volume 1
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English
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Australia is home to some of the deadliest predators in the world. The island continent is notorious for playing host to the most venomous snakes, the most deadly crocodiles, spiders and jellyfish.
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Croc College volume 2
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English
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Renee is on the lookout for a missing croc. The men mess up their top-jaw roping practice and they have a runaway croc on their hands. Lyn tells John her tragic secret.
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Becoming Superhuman volume 1
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English
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Doctor Jordan Nguyen is a biomedical engineer. Riley Saban is a 13 year old with cerebral palsy. Together they develop extraordinary, cutting edge technology that gives Riley superhuman powers.
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China Century volume 4
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English
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After 150 years of British occupation, Hong Kong was returned to China in 1997. We examine how the territory has always been defined by the contest of influence between China and the West and how that tension plays out today.
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China Century volume 2
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English
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The story of China's meteoric economic growth and its earth-shattering repercussions.
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Decoding Danger volume 2
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English
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Australia is shaped by great storms, extreme heat, and an epic cycle of boom and bust. Life on the island continent has evolved accordingly, to survive drought and flooding rains. How can we learn to survive and thrive?
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Chemical World volume 2
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English
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The story of the cutting-edge breakthroughs that revealed the chemical building blocks of life, and how we're using this knowledge of our innermost chemistry to understand the chemistry of love and parenthood, help combat previously untreatable diseases, and reverse the inevitable declines of age
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Croc College volume 6
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English
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John takes Lyn and Luke to Kakadu where they raid nests and catch a four and a half metre male croc for research. Lyn returns to the place where her 11-year old granddaughter was taken by a croc and is finally at peace.
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China Century volume 5
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English
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The world's greatest rivalry began with hope and idealism. What went wrong?
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Croc College volume 1
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English
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Six Australians embark on one of the most thrilling and dangerous training courses Australia has to offer - saltwater crocodile wrangling - and are immediately thrown in at the deep end when an emergency at the farm means they have to help separate two giant males who are up for a blue.