The write-in Skills and Assessment Activity Books focus on working scientifically skills and assessment. They are designed to consolidate concepts learnt in class. Students are also provided with regular opportunities for reflection and self-evaluation throughout the book.

This BRAND NEW guide is directly linked to the new syllabus with every single dot point of the Preliminary Chemistry syllabus appearing in the margin of the book. Now in a full-colour format has even more features than before to help students succeed in Year 11. You can write in the guide, so your study is focused and your notes are structured! It includes up-to-date coverage of all the core topics.

Shortlisted for the 2012 Miles Franklin Award, PAST THE SHALLOWS is a powerful and hauntingly beautiful novel from an extraordinary new Australian writer who is compared with Cormac McCarthy and Tim Winton. 'If you read only one book this year, make sure it's this' Sunday Times 'I loved Past the Shallows' Kevin Powers, author of The Yellow Birds Everyone loves Harry. Except his father. Joe, Miles and Harry are growing up on the remote south coast of Tasmania. The brothers' lives are shaped by their father's moods - like the ocean he fishes, he is wild and unpredictable. He is a bitter man, with a devastating secret. Miles does his best to watch out for Harry, the youngest, but he can't be there all the time. Often alone, Harry finds joy in the small treasures he discovers, in shark eggs and cuttlefish bones. In a kelpie pup, a mug of hot chocolate, and a secret friendship with a mysterious neighbour. But sometimes small treasures, or a brother's love are not enough.