The Wisdom Of Dogs: by Alex Cearns
$24.99 AUD
Category: Nature
Everyone's best friend just happens to be your best therapist Move over, Socrates and Plato! In this heartwarming guide to living your best life, award-winning photographer Alex Cearns shares the sage advice of our four-legged furry gurus. Their profound insights and goofy enthusiasm will remind you to ...Show more
From the Wild: An Essential Companion to Identifying, Cooking and Enjoying Common Wild Plants for Health and Healing by Heidi Merika
$49.99 AUD
Category: Nature
Discover the healing power of wild plants as food and herbal medicine with these delicious plant-based recipes for health and wellbeing.
Feathered Freaks: A compendium of the world's weirdest birds by Declan Peckman
$24.99 AUD
Category: Birds
A photographic collection of glorious avian oddities.A visual guide to the most eccentric creatures of the skies, Feathered Freaks captures the most bizarre and beautiful feathered friends from across the globe.From the jaw-dropping red throat of the magnificent frigatebird to the peculiar plumage of th ...Show more
Living on Earth: Life, Consciousness and the Making of the Natural World by Peter Godfrey-Smith
$34.99 AUD
Category: Environment
Peter Godfrey-Smith, the scuba-diving philosopher, examined the evolution of sentience in Other Minds. In Metazoa he asked how that consciousness shaped and was shaped by animal bodies. Now, in Living on Earth, he takes that line of questioning a step further, asking, how has life shaped and been shaped ...Show more
Humpback Highway: Diving Into the Mysterious World of Whales by Vanessa Pirotta
$32.99 AUD
Category: Nature
I entered the water quietly and saw two humpback whales sleeping diagonally in the distance. Two school buses just hanging in space ... Acclaimed wildlife scientist Vanessa Pirotta has been mugged by whales, touched by a baby whale and covered in whale snot. In Humpback Highway, Pirotta’s enthusiasm an ...Show more
Turning to Stone by Marcia. Bjornerud
$34.99 AUD
Category: Nature
Rocks are the record of our creative planet reinventing itself for four billion years. Nothing is ever lost, just transformed.Marcia Bjornerud's life as a geologist has coincided with an extraordinary period of discovery. From an insular girlhood in rural Wisconsin, she found her way to an unlikely care ...Show more
Feijoa: A Story of Obsession and Belonging by Kate Evans
$34.99 AUD
Category: Environment
Inspired by a personal obsession with this singular exotic fruit, Feijoa is a sweeping, global tale about the dance between people and plants - how we need each other, how we change each other, and the surprising ways certain species make their way into our imaginations, our stomachs, and our hearts. ...Show more
Earth: Over 4 Billion Years in the Making by Chris Packham
$55.00 AUD
Category: Environment
‘Combines the natural history of programmes such as David Attenborough’s Planet Earth with the planetary focus of Brian Cox’s Universe’ Guardian A beautiful, full colour book to accompany the 5 part BBC TV series telling the most important story of all, the deep history of our own planet. With the trade ...Show more
Nursery Earth - The Hidden World of Baby Animals and the Amazing Ingenuity of Life by Danna Staaf; Richard Strathmann (Foreword by)
$32.99 AUD
Category: Nature
Entire ecosystems rest on the shoulders (or tentacles, or jointed exoskeletons) of animal babies; it's time we paid them more attention. In Nursery Earth, researcher Danna Staaf invites readers to explore these tiny, secret lives, revealing some of nature's strangest and most ingenious workings. A salam ...Show more
The Known Unknowns: The Unsolved Mysteries of the Cosmos by Lawrence M. Krauss
$22.99 AUD
Category: Astronomy
Our understanding of ourselves and the cosmos has advanced immeasurably over the last five hundred years of modern science, yet many fundamental mysteries of existence persist. How did our Universe begin, if it even had a beginning? How big is it? What's at the bottom of a black hole? How did life on Ea ...Show more
Nature's Sexual Spectrum by Josh L. Davis
$29.99 AUD
Category: Nature
Nature’s Sexual Spectrum is a celebration of the astonishing diversity of sexual behaviour, biology and reproduction found in nature. From penguins to primates, same-sex behaviours and courtship are more widespread in the natural world than many people realise, while how nature organises sex is not alwa ...Show more
Infinite Life: A Revolutionary Story of Eggs, Evolution and Life on Earthscien by Jules Howard
$32.99 AUD
Category: Nature
If you think of an egg, what do you see in your mind’s eye? A chicken egg, hardboiled? A slimy mass of frogspawn? Perhaps you see a human egg cell, prepared on a microscope slide in a laboratory? Every egg there has ever been, is an emblem of survival. Yet the evolution of the animal egg is the dramatic ...Show more