Birds of Prey of Australia: A Field Guide by Stephen Debus
$39.95 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment
This book is an illustrated field guide to diurnal raptors, a bird group that many people find among the most difficult birds to identify. Raptors are popular and iconic birds, and important ecologically as well as in legislation, with some species listed as threatened. Birds of Prey of Australia will e ...Show more
In Defence of Dogs: Why Dogs Need Our Understanding by John Bradshaw
$22.99 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment
John Bradshaw is one of the world's leading dog experts, and In Defence of Dogsgives us a uniquely authoritative insight into what dogs would ask us for, if only they knew how. The dog has been mankind's faithful companion for tens of thousands of years, yet today finds itself in crisis throughout the w ...Show more
Drawn from Paradise The Discovery, Art and Natural History of the Birds of Paradise by Sir David Attenborough
$59.99 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment
Drawn from Paradise is David Attenborough's journey through the cultural history of the birds of paradise, one of the most exquisite and extravagant, colourful and intriguing families of birds. From the moment they were introduced to the European mind in the early sixteenth century, their unique beauty ...Show more
The Field Guide to the Birds of Australia 9th Edition by G Pizzey, F Knight, S Pizzey
$45.00 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment | Reading Level: General Adult
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
What Dogs Want by ARDEN MOORE
$16.95 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment
A visual guide to understanding your dog's every move. A highly visual guide, What Dogs Want interprets all the postures, expressions, sounds, and actions exhibited by your dog. Discover what your dog is trying to say when his ears are down, when his tail is flicking, and when he is growling. For each ...Show more
Flood Country: An Environmental History of The Murray-Darling Basin by Emily O'Gorman
$49.95 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment
Floods in the Murray-Darling Basin are crucial sources of water for people, animals and plants in this often dry region of inland eastern Australia. Even so, floods have often been experienced as natural disasters, which have led to major engineering schemes. Flood Country explores the contested and com ...Show more
A Celebration of Wattle : Australia's National Emblem by Maria Hitchcock
$29.95 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment
Wattle is the best known and most loved of all our native flora. However, few Australians are aware of the important part wattle has played in the nations history and continues to play in bringing us together in good times and bad as a symbol of our being Australian. A Celelebration of Wattle is a revis ...Show more
The Moral Lives of Animals by Dale Peterson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment
Wild elephants walking along a trail stop and spontaneously try to protect and assist a weak and dying fellow elephant. Laboratory rats, finding other rats caged nearby in distressing circumstances, proceed to rescue them. A chimpanzee in a zoo loses his own life trying to save an unrelated infant who h ...Show more
Fifty Minerals That Changed the Course of History by Eric Chaline
$35.00 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment | Reading Level: very good
Using the word 'minerals' in its broadest sense, Fifty Minerals that Changed the Course of History features the metals, alloys, rocks, organic minerals, and gemstones that humans have used as the building blocks of their material cultures. From flint and obsidian to bronze and iron, it explores the root ...Show more
Killing the Earth to Save it: How Environmentalists are Ruining the Planet, Destroying the Economy and Stealing Your Jobs by James Delingpole
$29.95 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment
Carbon taxes won't make the slightest difference to climate change, so why are we introducing them? Polar bear populations are on the increase, so why are we worrying about them? Global warming is better than global cooling, so why are we trying to stop it? James Delingpole has all the answers - and the ...Show more
Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle by Thor Hanson
$21.99 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment
Now in paperback, this is Thor Hanson's critically-acclaimed natural and cultural history of nature's finest invention. Feathers are an evolutionary marvel: aerodynamic, insulating, and beguiling. Their story begins in the Jurassic period and leads through the development of flight to high fashion - fro ...Show more
Mosquito by Richard A. Jones
$24.99 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment | Series: Animal
Lots of insects suck blood, but one species above all others has a reputation for this, out of all proportion to its size: the mosquito. Due to the diseases they carry and inject, mosquitoes are responsible for more human deaths than any other animal. The most deadly of these diseases is malaria, which ...Show more