Human Nature: Planet Earth in Our Time by Geoff Blackwell, Ruth Hobday
$70.00 NZD
Category: Environment | Reading Level: near fine
At a moment now being described as the age of Anthropocene, twelve of National Geographic's most influential photographers address the biggest questions on our time while sharing some of their greatest images. Humanity has reached a pivotal moment in time. With extinction looming over one million spec ...Show more
Know Your New Zealand Birds by Lynnette Moon; Geoff Moon
$40.00 NZD
Category: Environment | Reading Level: very good
Featuring 80 of New Zealand's best-known bird species, this book provides key facts on appearance, call, behaviour and nesting details that allow the layperson to identify common species.
Know Your New Zealand Native Plants by Lawrie Metcalf
$39.99 NZD
Category: Environment
New Zealand has a unique and attractive native plant life that is of interest to everyone from gardeners and trampers to students of botany and ecology. Lawrie Metcalf introduces a selection of the most interesting, iconic and important New Zealand plants, spanning latitudes from subtropical to temperat ...Show more
New Zealand Coastlines by Gillian Torckler, Daryl Torckler
$29.99 NZD
Category: Environment
A pictorial book of New Zealand’s coastlines, featuring the stunning images of innovative photography of Darryl Torckler, with text commentary from Gillian Torckler. Divided geographically, the photographed areas include:North: Bay of Islands to the Cape, down to 90-mile beach and Hokianga.East: from t ...Show more
New Zealand's Rivers - An Environmental History by Catherine Knight
$50.00 NZD
Category: Environment | Reading Level: Very Good
'New Zealand s Rivers: An environmental history' explores the relationship between New Zealanders and their rivers, explaining how they have arrived at a crisis point, where fresh water has become their most contested resource and many rivers are too polluted to swim in. Environmental historian Catherin ...Show more
Nga Uruora by Geoff Park
$35.00 NZD
Category: Environment | Series: VUP Classics | Reading Level: very good
Description: First published in 1995, Nga Uruora took the study of New Zealand's natural environment in radical new directions. Part ecology, part history, part personal odyssey, Nga Uruora offers a fresh perspective on our landscapes and our relationships with them. Geoff Park's research focuses on New ...Show more
No Place to Hide by James R. Flynn (University of Otago, New Zealand)
$30.00 NZD
Category: Environment
Millions of educated people all over the world feel powerless in the face of climate change and its consequences, partially because the literature on the environment is so vast it is difficult to know where to begin. This short book is intended to make their search for truth manageable It allows the rea ...Show more
Out of the Wreckage by George Monbiot
$19.00 NZD
Category: Environment
How can we rebuild our society? In Out of the Wreckage, George Monbiot outlines how both democracy and economic life can be radically reorganized from the bottom up, enabling us to take back control and overthrow the forces that have thwarted our ambitions for a better society. Book jacket.
Pesticides and Health - How New Zealand Fails In Environmental Protection (BWB Texts) by Neil Pearce
$17.99 NZD
Category: Environment | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: near fine
New Zealand has been one of the world's heaviest users of pesticides, including some contaminated with dioxin, a notorious toxic chemical. In this BWB Text a leading epidemiologist uses the example of dioxin to illustrate how badly New Zealand handles problems of environmental pollutants, and why we can ...Show more
Photographic Guide to Wildflowers of New Zealand by Geoff Brunsden; Liz Brunsden
$26.00 NZD
Category: Environment | Reading Level: very good
The sixth New Zealand title in this internationally acclaimed series of compact, easy-to-use guides which is the ideal car glovebox, pocket or backpack reference for all amateur botanists as well as anyone with an interest in natural history. A Photographic Guide To Wildflowers of New Zealand covers 125 ...Show more
Pitfall: The Race to Mine the World's Most Vulnerable Places by Christopher Pollon
$40.00 NZD
Category: Environment
A fascinating investigation into a wild industry and the global race to exploit our world's dwindling natural resources. The stakes couldn't be higher- How can we mine the metals we need without replicating the environmental and human rights abuses of the past? A global race is on to exploit the last bo ...Show more