The Life of Birds by David Attenborough
$42.99 NZD
Category: Environment
A fully updated new edition of David Attenborough's bestselling classic. BIRDS. Over 9,000 species, the most widespread of all animals: on icebergs, in the Sahara or under the sea, at home in our gardens or flying for over a year at a time. Earthbound, we can only look and listen, enjoying their lightn ...Show more
Around the Ocean in 80 Fish and other Sea Life by Helen Scales
$60.00 NZD
Category: Environment
This is an inspiring tour of the world's oceans and 80 of its most notable inhabitants. Beautifully illustrated, the book includes fascinating stories of the fish, shellfish and other sea life that have somehow impacted human life - whether in our medicine, culture or folklore - in often surprising and ...Show more
Dust: The Story of the Modern World in a Trillion Particles by Jay Owens
$39.99 NZD
Category: Environment
DUST is unmistakably a major book in the making. This is a book with an extraordinary global story to tell, but - and - also with an ethical argument to advance. - Robert Macfarlane Four-and-a-half billion years ago, Planet Earth was formed from a vast spinning nebula of cosmic dust, the detritus left ...Show more
Nomad Century: How to Survive the Climate Upheaval by Gaia Vince
$50.00 NZD
Category: Environment
An urgent investigation of the most underreported, seismic consequence of climate change- how it will force us to change where - and how - we live. We are facing a species emergency. With every degree of temperature rise, a billion people will be displaced from the zone in which humans have lived for t ...Show more
The Trials of Life: A Natural History of Animal Behaviour by David Attenborough
$27.99 NZD
Category: Environment
The third and final updated edition of David Attenborough's classic Life trilogy. Life on Earth covered evolution, Living Planet , ecology, and now The Trials of Life tackles ethology, the study of how animals behave. 'This is, quite simply, the best thing I've ever done.' Sir David Attenborough on the ...Show more
A Photographic Guide to Ferns of New Zealand by Lawrie Metcalf
$27.99 NZD
Category: Environment | Reading Level: very good
Ferns occur in great abundance in New Zealand - there are nearly 200 native species alone occurring everywhere from the coast through to the country's alpine regions. Then there are the fern allies - including clubmosses and forkferns that have an even longer fossil history than ferns. However, most of ...Show more
A Photographic Guide to Fossils of New Zealand by Hamish Campbell; Alan Beu; James Crampton; Liz Kennedy; Marianna Terezow
$27.99 NZD
Category: Environment
A new addition to the popular New Holland series of natural history and science photographic guides, the thirteenth title focuses on plant and animal fossils commonly found in New Zealand. Fossils are the preserved remains of past life and are very much part of the natural environment in this country. T ...Show more
A Photographic Guide to Insects of New Zealand by Brian Parkinson
$27.99 NZD
Category: Environment | Series: Photographic Guide to | Reading Level: good
This new addition to a popular series recognises the fact that New Zealand is a fascinating arena of study for anyone with an interest in insect life, be it casual or academic. The country's long isolation from other land masses has led to a flowering of remarkable species including the world's heaviest ...Show more
A Photographic Guide to Reptiles & Amphibians of New Zealand by Tony Jewell
$28.00 NZD
Category: Environment | Series: Photographic Guide to | Reading Level: very good
Everyone has heard of the tuatara, New Zealand's unique 'living dinosaur'; but equally fascinating, if less well known, are the country's other reptiles. There are more than 65 species of lizards (including skinks and geckos), frogs and other reptiles and amphibians native to New Zealand, and scientists ...Show more