100 Australian Birds by Georgia Angus
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science and Nature
100 Australian Birds is a beginner's guide to the world of birdwatching. From the outside, this strange hobby of birdwatching appears to consist of sizeable camera lenses, khaki pants that are pulled up too high, and gruelling treks in pursuit of rare bird species. But for those who haven't been scared ...Show more
The Australian Bird Guide: Revised Edition by Peter Menkhorst, Danny Rogers, Rohan Clarke
$49.99 AUD
Category: Science and Nature | Series: CSIRO
A new in-depth field guide to Australian birds The Australian avifauna is large, diverse, and spectacular, reflecting the continent's impressive habitats and evolutionary history. Looking at more than 900 species, The Australian Bird Guide is the most comprehensive field guide on Australian birds avail ...Show more
Future Sea - How to Rescue and Protect the World's Oceans by Deborah Rowan Wright
$24.95 AUD
Category: Science and Nature
A counterintuitive and compelling argument that existing laws already protect the entirety of our oceans--and a call to understand and enforce those protections.The world's oceans face multiple threats: the effects of climate change, pollution, overfishing, plastic waste, and more. Confronted with the i ...Show more
The Internet of Animals: Discovering the Collective Intelligence of Life on Earth by Martin Wikelski
$36.99 AUD
Category: Science and Nature
For readers of An Immense World, this thrilling book unveils a new scientific technology that tracks animal movements from space and 'could fundamentally reshape the way we understand the role of mobility on our changing planet'. -The New York Times Animal senses are finely tuned to their environments. ...Show more
Deep Water: The World in the Ocean by James Bradley
$36.99 AUD
Category: Science and Nature
Through history, science, nature writing, and environmentalism, Deep Water invites you to explore the deepest recesses of our natural world. 'Teeming with mysteries, wonders and heartbreaking facts, this beautiful, lucid hymn to the sea is a reminder of what we still have, what we stand to lose, and why ...Show more
Wild about Noosa by Tony Wellington (Photographer)
$50.00 AUD
Category: Science and Nature
Wild About Noosa celebrates the diverse range of wildlife that resides in the Noosa area. With superb colour photographs and text by former Noosa Mayor Tony Wellington, this book is a passionate ode to a much-loved locale. Noosa has enjoyed over half a century of pioneering conservation effort, with the ...Show more
Understanding How Science Explains the World by Kevin McCain
$22.95 AUD
Category: Science and Nature
All people desire to know. We want to not only know what has happened, but also why it happened, how it happened, whether it will happen again, whether it can be made to happen or not happen, and so on. In short, what we want are explanations. Asking and answering explanatory questions lies at the very ...Show more
Exotic Vetting: What Treating Wild Animals Teaches You about Their Lives by Romain Pizzi
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science and Nature
Anaesthetising a fish, x-raying a frog and hospitalising a walrus are all in a day's work for the world's wildest veterinarian. Travelling from the rainforests of Sierra Leone to the jungles of Borneo, Romain Pizzi has caught, anaesthetised, diagnosed, operated on, medicated, and then released some of t ...Show more
The Zoologist's Guide to the Galaxy: What Animals on Earth Reveal About Aliens and About Ourselves by Arik Kershenbaum
$39.99 AUD
Category: Science and Nature
We are unprepared for the greatest discovery of modern science. Scientists are confident that there is alien life across the universe yet we have not moved beyond our perception of 'aliens' as Hollywood stereotypes. The time has come to abandon our fixation on alien monsters and place our expectations o ...Show more
Landscapes of Our Hearts: Reconciling People and Environment by Matthew Colloff
$26.99 AUD
Category: Science and Nature
'Compelling, multifarious and essential.'- Don Watson'Drink in its wisdom.'- Andrew Leigh MPWINNER OF 2021 NSW PREMIER'S HISTORY AWARDOn this ancient continent, waves of people have made their mark on the landscape; in turn, it too has shaped them.If we look afresh at our history through the land we liv ...Show more