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Animal Architects by Amy Cherrix; Chris Sasaki (Illustrator)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Children's & YA | Series: Amazing Animals Ser.
This fascinating nonfiction picture book about animal construction projects will captivate young scientists and naturalists--and have them looking for more in their own backyards Did you know the natural world is a construction zone? All over Earth, on land and at sea, animals are building the most ama ...Show more
Ape by John Sorenson
$29.95 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment | Series: Animal
New in Reaktion's burgeoning "Animal" series, "Ape" relates the situation of the non-human great apes (bonobos, chimpanzees, gibbons, gorillas and orangutans), discussing how humans have imagined them historically and in modern times. We are both fascinated and unnerved by these creatures who are so lik ...Show more
BEE by PRESTON CLAIRE
$38.95 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment | Series: Animal
The bee is not a domestic animal, yet our relationship with this creature is one of the longest-standing between humanity and any other species. Since the earliest times the unique manufacturing and architectural abilities of the bee and its remarkable social organization have been regarded as miraculou ...Show more
Bat by Tessa Laird
$24.99 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment | Series: Animal Ser.
Bats have been maligned in the West for centuries. Unfair associations with demons have seen their leathery wings adorn numerous evil characters, from the Devil to Bram Stoker's Dracula. But these amazing animals are ecological superheroes. Nectar-feeding bats pollinate important crops like agave; fruit ...Show more
Bee by Claire Preston
$24.99 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment | Series: Animal Ser.
Claire Preston's Bee tells the busy story of our long, complex relationship with this industrious, much-admired insect. Moving from ancient political descriptions to Renaissance debates about monarchy, to the conversion of the virtuous and civil bee into the dangerous swarm of the Hollywood horror flick ...Show more
Crow by Boria Sax
$24.99 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment | Series: Animal
This classic Reaktion title, now available in B-format, is a survey of crows, ravens, magpies, and their relatives in myth, literature, and life. It ranges from the raven sent out by Noah to the corvid deities of the Eskimo, to Taoist legends, Victorian novels, and contemporary films. It will be of inte ...Show more
Dingo: The Dog Who Conquered a Continent (The Animal Stars #6) by Jackie French
$14.99 AUD
Category: Children's & YA | Series: Animal Stars | Reading Level: 9+
Jackie French's critically acclaimed and best-selling ANIMAL STARS series looks at history through the eyes of an animal. Ages: 9-13 All of Australia's dingoes may be descended from one south-east Asian 'rubbish dog' who arrived here over 5,000 years ago. This is a story about the first dingo. It is als ...Show more
Dolphin by Alan Rauch
$24.99 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment | Series: Animal
From Flipper to SeaWorld, dolphins have long captured our hearts. We love these friendly, intelligent mammals, and they seem to return our feelings--they enjoy interacting with swimmers and have been known to encircle people under attack by sharks. Despite our familiarity with dolphins, though, we remai ...Show more
Donkey by Jill Bough
$29.95 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment | Series: Animal
From giving rides to children at the British seaside to pulling a plough in the poorest of countries, donkeys have served humans faithfully since the time of their domestication more than 10,000 years ago. Despite the critical role that they have played throughout human history, however, donkeys have of ...Show more
Endangered Animal Tales 1: Coco, the Fish with Hands by Aleesah Darlison
$19.99 AUD
Category: Children's & YA | Series: Endangered Animals Ser.
Come on a journey with Coco the spotted handfish as she searches for a mate and looks for a safe place to hatch her eggs. Go, Coco!Meet some of Australia's cutest and most vulnerable wildlife in the Endangered Animal Tales picture book series.
Falcon by Helen Macdonald
$39.95 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment | Series: Animal S.
A sacred god, a military tool, an erotic symbol: the falcon is a natural wonder of speed, power, beauty, and ferocity that has become embedded in human cultures in myriad ways. Helen Macdonald's Falcon examines the diverse symbolism and roles attached to the falcon throughout the centuries. Macdonald pr ...Show more
Falcon by Helen Macdonald
$21.99 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment | Series: Animal Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
Before best-selling author Helen Macdonald told the story of the goshawk in H Is for Hawk, she told the story of the falcon, in a cultural history of the masterful creature that can “cut the sky in two” with the “perfectly aerodynamic profile of a raindrop,” as she so incisively puts it. In talon-sharp ...Show more