Sweet in Tooth and Claw: Nature Is More Cooperative Than We Think by Kristin Ohlson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Nature
A revelatory work about the many connections and helping behaviours among plants, fungi, microbes, and animals, and the implications of this reality for the way we manage our forests, wilderness areas, farmlands, waters, and even our cities.In Sweet in Tooth and Claw, Kristin Ohlson explores the subtle ...Show more
The Age of Seeds: How Plants Hacked Time and Why Our Future Depends on It by Fiona McMillan-Webster
$34.99 AUD
Category: Nature
Plants evolved seeds to hack time. Thanks to seeds they can cast their genes forward into the future, enabling species to endure across seasons, years, and occasionally millennia. When a 2000-year-old extinct date palm seed was discovered, no one expected it to still be alive. But it sprouted a healthy ...Show more
Atlas of Extinct Animals by Radek Maly
$39.99 AUD
Category: Nature | Series: Large Encyclopedias of Animals Ser.
The first book in this series presents animals that once walked the Earth, but have vanished due to the actions of humankind. In this book, award-winning poet Radek Malý tells the stories of fortyone extinct species and studies the causes of their sad demise. The large-formatAtlas of Extinct Animals ...Show more
Tits, Boobies and Loons: And Others Birds Named by People Who Clearly Hate Birds by ROYALL, STUART
$22.99 AUD
Category: Nature
From the monotonous lark to the rough-faced shag, these poor birds have us all asking: ARE ORNITHOLOGISTS OK? Some people will literally name all the birds instead of going to therapy, and this book exposes all the weird and wonderful monikers these poor feathered creatures have been tarred with. From t ...Show more
Platypus Matters: The Extraordinary Lives of Australian Mammals by Jack Ashby
$34.99 AUD
Category: Nature
The platypus is an amazing animal – A mammal that lays eggs, produces venom and detects electricity. From the moment of its discovery, it has played a disruptive role in the narrative of evolution, and perhaps due to this rocky start, or to the lasting legacy of colonialism, most of us still know very l ...Show more
A Cloud A Day (HB) by Gavin Pretor-Pinney
$34.99 AUD
Category: Nature | Series: A\Day Ser.
Cloudspotter and bestselling author Gavin Pretor-Pinney delivers a moment of calm atmospheric contemplation to members of his Cloud Appreciation Society by sharing a cloud image and story every day. A Cloud a Day urges all of us to keep our heads in the clouds with 365 fascinating formations from his e ...Show more
Horridus: Journey of a Triceratops by Chris Flynn
$64.99 AUD
Category: Nature
What can a set of ancient bones tell us about the wonder and fragility of our world?Can a relic from the past give us a unique insight into how to approach the future?An exploration of the far-reaching cultural impact of Horridus, gathering together considered musings from celebrated cultural figures an ...Show more
Wombat Underground: A Wildfire Survival Story by Sarah L Thomson, Charles Santoso
$29.99 AUD
Category: Nature
Inspired by viral online stories during the 2019-2020 wildfires in Australia featuring wombats 'saving' other animals taking shelter in their burrows, here is a lyrical story about strangers in need of refuge.Up on the hill, Wallaby licks a puddle's last drop. Skink slips into the shade. Echidna hides i ...Show more
Rewilding Africa: Restoring the Wilderness on a War-ravaged Continent by Grant Fowlds, Graham Spence
$34.99 AUD
Category: Nature
Conservationist Grant Fowlds lives to save and protect Africa's rhinos, elephants and other iconic wildlife, to preserve their habitats, to increase their range and bring back the animals where they have been decimated by decades of war, as in Angola, Mozambique and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. ...Show more
The Living Planet: A Portrait of the Earth by David Attenborough
$22.99 AUD
Category: Nature
A new, fully updated narrative edition of David Attenborough's seminal biography of our world, The Living Planet. Nowhere on our planet is devoid of life. Plants and animals thrive or survive within every extreme of climate and habitat that it offers. Single species, and often whole communities adapt to ...Show more
Field Guide to Reptiles of NSW: Fourth edition by Glenn Ross; Shea Sadlier Gerry Swan
$45.00 AUD
Category: Nature
In this new fully updated edition, 'A Field Guide to Reptiles of New South Wales' you will find every gecko, flap-footed lizard, goanna, dragon, skink, snake and turtle known to live throughout the state’s many habitats. The guide narrows down the field of species identification to a manageable size for ...Show more
Dogs Gods by Tim Flach
$79.99 AUD
Category: Nature
In a remarkable series of original photographs, award-winning artist Tim Flach examines and celebrates the wonder of the dog. Drawing on access to some of the world's most prized dogs and breeds, along with insights into cutting-edge research on the human-dog relationship, Flach and writer Lewis Blackwe ...Show more