Wine Dogs Australia 4 by MCGILL, CRAIG
$35.00 AUD
Category: Natural History
Introducing the fourth Australian edition of the bestselling Wine Dogs series. This latest book is a larger coffee-table format and is jam-packed with stunning shots and facts about our favourite canines among the vines, barrels and tasting rooms from all around Australia. "Wine Dogs is the perfect anti ...Show more
Cats in Australia - Companion and Killer by John C. Z. Woinarski; Sarah M. Legge; Chris R. Dickman
$59.99 AUD
Category: Natural History
Across the world, cats are loved as pets or are kept or tolerated for their role in controlling some animal pests. But cats, both pets and feral, also kill many native animals and this toll can be enormous. Cats have been remarkably successful in Australia, spreading pervasively across the continent and ...Show more
A Plea for the Animals by Matthieu Ricard
$34.99 AUD
Category: Natural History
Every cow just wants to be happy. Every chicken just wants to be free. Every bear, dog, or mouse experiences sorrow and feels pain as intensely as any of us humans do. In a compelling appeal to reason and human kindness, Matthieu Ricard here takes the arguments from his best-sellers Altruism and Happine ...Show more
Cats vs Dogs - 99 Scientific Answers to Weird and Wonderful Questions about Animals by New Scientist
$24.99 AUD
Category: Natural History
Informative, surprising and hilarious, New Scientist tackles questions about the animal kingdom from readers in the magazine's popular 'Last Word' column. This book brings together the best of the bunch:Why do millipedes have so many legs?Will we ever speak dolphin?Do geese always fly in a V formation?A ...Show more
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: The Untold Story of a Lost World by Steve Brusatte
$32.99 AUD
Category: Natural History | Reading Level: very good
"THE ULTIMATE DINOSAUR BIOGRAPHY," hails Scientific American: A thrilling new history of the age of dinosaurs, from one of our finest young scientists. Now a New York Times bestseller! "This is scientific storytelling at its most visceral, striding with the beasts through their Triassic dawn, Jurassic d ...Show more
The Deep by Alex Rogers
$32.99 AUD
Category: Natural History
There's so much we don't know about what lies deep beneath the ocean's surface - and the time to find out is growing increasingly precious . . . Professor Alex Rogers is one of the world's leading experts in marine biology and oceanology, and has spent his life studying the deep ocean - and in particul ...Show more
Cats - An Anthology of Stories and Poems by Mark Bryant
$24.99 AUD
Category: Natural History
From beautiful lyrics to madcap waggery, from the prime suspect in a partridge killing in ancient Greece to the medieval monk's cat Pangur Bán and encompassing odes, fables, stories, limericks, songs, nursery rhymes and more, Mark Bryant has compiled a wonderfully evocative collection of writing of all ...Show more
Bee Quest by Dave Goulson
$39.99 AUD
Category: Natural History
A hunt for the world's most elusive bees leads Dave Goulson from the Salisbury plains to the Sussex hedgerows, from Poland to Patagonia. Whether he is tracking great yellow bumblebees in the Hebrides or chasing orchid bees through the Ecuadorian jungle, Dave Goulson's wit, humour and deep love of nature ...Show more
Cat Body Language: 100 Ways To Read Their Signals by Trevor Warner
$14.99 AUD
Category: Natural History
Cat Body Language looks at all the postures cats are likely to adopt in and around the home, both with other cats and with their owners. Using the psychology of cat behaviour, it explains how a cat is likely to react in stressful situations, such as during a visit to the vet, when it is ill, and before ...Show more
A Photographic Field Guide to the Birds of the Australian High Country by Neil Hermes
$45.00 AUD
Category: Natural History
The Australian High Country is located in the south-east of the continent, and extends from the Wollemi National Park and the Blue Mountains to the west of Sydney, through the Kosciuszko and Alpine National Parks and south-west into Victoria, almost to the edge of Melbourne. It includes Canberra and ...Show more
Dead Zone - Where the Wild Things Were by Philip Lymbery
$24.99 AUD
Category: Natural History | Reading Level: very good
A tour of some of the world's most iconic and endangered species, and what we can do to save them. Climate change and habitat destruction are not the only culprits behind so many animals facing extinction. The impact of consumer demand for cheap meat is equally devastating and it is vital that we confro ...Show more
The Man Who Climbs Trees by James Aldred
$29.99 AUD
Category: Natural History
'The wide horizontal branches stretched away from me to curl up like the giant fingers of an enormous cupped hand. I slid back into the centre of its protective palm and waited for my heart to slow. After a while the small herd of Fallow deer I had been following emerged from the trees, carefully pickin ...Show more