Finding Australian Birds: A Field Guide to Birding Locations by Tim Dolby; Rohan Clarke
$49.95 AUD
Category: Environment & Wildlife
From the eastern rainforests to central deserts, Australia is home to some 900 species of birds. This book covers over 400 Australian bird watching sites conveniently grouped into the best birding areas, from one end of the country to the other. This includes areas such as Kakadu in the Top End and rock ...Show more
A Guide to the Beetles of Australia by George Hangay
$49.95 AUD
Category: Environment & Wildlife
Winner of the 2010 Whitley Medal A Guide to the Beetles of Australia provides a comprehensive introduction to the Coleoptera - a huge and diverse group of insects. Beetles make up 40 per cent of all insects known to science. The number of described beetle species in the world - around 350 000 - is more ...Show more
Field Guide to Reptiles of Victoria (PB) by A. John Coventry; Peter Robertson
$49.99 AUD
Category: Environment & Wildlife
Victoria's reptile population is not often encountered by urban dwellers, with many species rare or threatened. You may have glimpsed a skink darting into the undergrowth, a snake slithering along a walking path or a blue-tongued lizard sunning itself near your garden shed. Yet the turtles, skinks, geck ...Show more
Sunburnt Country: The History and Future of Climate Change in Australia by Joëlle Gergis
$34.99 AUD
Category: Environment & Wildlife
What was Australia's climate like before official weather records began? How do scientists use tree-rings, ice cores and tropical corals to retrace the past? What do Indigenous seasonal calendars reveal? And what do settler diary entries about rainfall, droughts, bushfires and snowfalls tell us about na ...Show more
Ocean's EndTravels Through Endangered Seas by Colin Woodard
$39.99 AUD
Category: Environment & Wildlife
The Black Sea is already dead. Because of sea-level rise, an entire nation in the South Pacific, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, is being washed away. Throughout the Caribbean Sea, vast stretches of coral reef-called the "rainforests of the ocean" because of their diversity of life-are dying at in ...Show more
How to Give Up Plastic by Will McCallum
$29.99 AUD
Category: Environment & Wildlife
As read by James Corden, Fearne Cotton, Jim Chapman and Dougie Poytner. 'We have a responsibility, every one of us' David Attenborough Around 12.7 million tonnes of plastic are entering the ocean every year, killing over 1 million seabirds and 100,000 marine mammals. By 2050 there could be more plastic ...Show more
Haeckel's Art Forms from the Ocean by Ernst Haeckel
$39.99 AUD
Category: Environment & Wildlife | Series: Dover Electronic Clip Art
The tiny single-celled organisms known as radiolarians (or radiolaria) develop beautiful, intricate mineral skeletons that cover ocean floors throughout the world. This CD-ROM set offers digital versions of the rare and distinctive artwork found in German biologist/artist Ernst Haeckel's hard-to-find 18 ...Show more
Whales: An Illustrated Celebration by Kelsey Oseid
$29.50 AUD
$32.99 (10% off)
Category: Environment & Wildlife
A gorgeously illustrated, entertaining, and educational guide to the wonderful whales, dolphins, and porpoises of the world. Some of the world's most fascinating and beloved animals, cetaceans have captivated the human imagination for centuries. Whales: An Illustrated Celebration explores the most i ...Show more
Novacene: Coming Age by James Lovelock
$29.99 AUD
Category: Environment & Wildlife
James Lovelock, creator of the Gaia hypothesis and the greatest environmental thinker of our time has produced an astounding new theory about future of life on Earth. He argues that the anthropocene - the age in which humans acquired planetary-scale technologies - is, after 300 years, coming to an end. ...Show more
Extraordinary Insects: Weird. Wonderful. Indispensable. The Ones Who Run Our World by Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson
$29.99 AUD
$32.99 (9% off)
Category: Environment & Wildlife
A journey into the weird, wonderful and truly astonishing lives of the small but mighty creatures who keep the world turning. Out of sight, underfoot, unseen beyond fleeting scuttles or darting flights, insects occupy a hidden world, yet are essential to sustaining life on earth. Insects influence our e ...Show more
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
$24.99 AUD
Category: Environment & Wildlife | Reading Level: very good
Called the work of "a mesmerizing storyteller with deep compassion and memorable prose" (Publishers Weekly) and the book that, "anyone interested in natural history, botany, protecting nature, or Native American culture will love," by Library Journal, Braiding Sweetgrass is poised to be a classic of nat ...Show more
A Field Guide to the Mammals of Australia by Peter Menkhorst
$56.99 AUD
Category: Environment & Wildlife
This fully revised and updated edition of A Field Guide to the Mammals of Australia is the only comprehensive guide to identifying all 382 species of mammals known in Australia. This book provides concise and accurate details of the appearance, diagnostic features, distribution, habitat, and key behavio ...Show more