Green Guide: Parrots of Australia by Terence Lindsey
$19.99 AUD
Category: Natural Science | Series: Australian Green Guides
Information is organized simply, with individual species entries describing key characteristics such as where they are found, food requirements and behavioural habits. Each entry is accompanied by colour photographs and, where appropriate, distribution maps. A key feature of the text is the "gee whiz" s ...Show more
Life on the Rocks Building a Future for Coral Reefs by Juli Berwald
$27.99 AUD
Category: Natural Science
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORKER AND BOOKLISTThe story of the urgent fight to save coral reefs, and why it matters to us allCoral reefs are a microcosm of our planet- extraordinarily diverse, deeply interconnected, and full of wonders. When they're thriving, these fairy gardens hidden ben ...Show more
Mountains Of The Mind: A History Of A Fascination by Robert Macfarlane
$24.99 AUD
Category: Natural Science
Mountains of the Mind is a beautifully written synthesis of climbing memoir and cultural history. Once we thought monsters lived there. In the Enlightenment we scaled them to commune with the sublime. Soon, we were racing to conquer their summits in the name of national pride.In this ground-breaking, cl ...Show more
On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
$14.99 AUD
Category: Natural Science | Series: Evergreens Ser.
When Darwin set sail at the end of 1831, it was only with a vague notion that all life forms, both present and extinct, were more strongly related than the Christian version of the world's creation purported them to be. During his five-year voyage of research and discovery on board HMS Beagle, and later ...Show more
Photographic Guide to Seashore by Keith Davey
$22.99 AUD
Category: Natural Science | Series: Photographic Guides Ser.
A companion for those who wish to visit Australia's ocean shores at low tide to identify the creatures found there. It provides identification of 250 common species found between the low-tide and high-tide mark on rocky shores, as well as a sample of some sand and muddy shore inhabitants.
Sentient: What Animals Reveal About Our Senses by Jackie Higgins
$22.99 AUD
Category: Natural Science
<b>'Spellbinding . . . More than any other book, [Sentient] has made me think differently about the world this year.' </b><b>– <i>Financial Times</i> Best Books of the Year</b> <b>'Lyrical and lucid . . . </b><b>Higgins makes popular science accessib ...Show more
Summertime: Reflections on a Fractured Future by Danielle Celermajer
$24.99 AUD
Category: Natural Science
Philosopher Danielle Celermajer's story of Jimmy the pig caught the world's attention during the Black Summer of 2019-20. Gathered here is that story and others written in the shadow of the bushfires that ravaged Australia. In the midst of the death and grief of animals, humans, trees and ecologies Cele ...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: Natural Science
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
The Bird Way A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think by Jennifer Ackerman
$35.00 AUD
Category: Natural Science
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Genius of Birds, a radical investigation into the bird way of being, and the recent scientific research that is dramatically shifting our understanding of birds -- how they live and how they think. 'There is the mammal way and there is the bird way.' Thi ...Show more
The Botany of Desire - A plant's-eye view of the world by Michael Pollan
$24.99 AUD
Category: Natural Science
A fascinating journey into the art of botany that combines the narrative of The Tulip with the science writing of Genome. A farmer cultivates genetically modified potatoes so that a customer at Mcdonald's half a world away can enjoy a long, golden french fry. A gardener plants tulip bulbs in the autumn ...Show more
The Field Guide to the Birds of Australia 9th Edition by G Pizzey, F Knight, S Pizzey
$49.99 AUD
Category: Natural Science
Bird guide that records the various species and population distribution of birds in Australia, first published in 1980. This 7th edition includes over 750 revised distribution maps, over 2500 large individual bird portraits and revisions to 26 colour plates, including 5 species illustrated for the first ...Show more
The Hidden Life of Trees - What They Feel, How They Communicate - Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben
$32.99 AUD
Category: Natural Science
Are trees social beings? In this international bestseller, forester and author Peter Wohlleben convincingly makes the case that, yes, the forest is a social network. He draws on groundbreaking scientific discoveries to describe how trees are like human families: tree parents live together with their chi ...Show more