Farmers or Hunter-gatherers?: The Dark Emu Debate by Peter Sutton & Keryn Walshe
$34.99 AUD
Category: Environment & Wildlife
An authoritative study of pre-colonial Australia that dismantles and reframes popular narratives of First Nations land management and food production. Australians' understanding of Aboriginal society prior to the British invasion from 1788 has been transformed since the publication of Bruce Pascoe's Da ...Show more
Questions raised by Quolls by Harry Saddler
$32.99 AUD
Category: Environment & Wildlife
When Harry Saddler first encountered a quoll while camping as a boy, he was struck by the beauty of the timid creature who had emerged from the bush, sniffing for dinner. As Harry frantically snapped a photo, the agile-spotted quoll stole his fruitcake and disappeared into the undergrowth. That blurry ...Show more
Beachcombing: A Guide to Seashores of the Southern Hempishere by Ceridwen Fraser
$27.99 AUD
Category: Environment & Wildlife
If you’ve ever walked along a beach or rocky shore and peered, poked or wondered at the things cast upon it by the waves, this book is for you. Beaches are our windows to the ocean, and the objects we find on them tell stories about life, death and dynamic processes in the sea. Learn about how waves, cu ...Show more
Australian Geographic A Naturalist's Guide to the Reptiles of Australia: 2/e by Peter Rowland, Chris Farrell
$24.99 AUD
Category: Environment & Wildlife | Series: Naturalist's Guide
High quality photographs from Australia's top nature photographers are accompanied by detailed species descriptions, which include nomenclature, size, distribution, habits, and habitat. The user-friendly introduction covers the threats to reptiles, types of habitat, anatomy of reptiles, and details of o ...Show more
The Heartbeat of Trees: Embracing Our Ancient Bond with Forests and Nature by Peter Wohlleben
$29.99 AUD
Category: Environment & Wildlife
In an era of mobile phone addiction and ever-expanding cities, many of us fear we've lost our connection to nature - but Peter Wohlleben is convinced that age-old ties linking humans to the natural world remain alive and intact. Whether we observe it or not, our blood pressure stabilises near trees, the ...Show more
My Forests: Travels with Trees by Janine Burke
$39.99 AUD
Category: Environment & Wildlife
The narratives in My Forests are a pleasure to read; like strolling down a meandering track through the trees, you never quite know what you'll discover around that next bend.Travel the ancient Incense Road with the Biblical Magi. Enjoy the dancing Olive groves of Tuscany and read of 'sleeping' Silver B ...Show more
Flames of Extinction: The race to save Australia’s threatened wildlife by John Pickrell
$29.99 AUD
Category: Environment & Wildlife
Over Australia's 2019–20 Black Summer bushfire season, scientists estimate that more than three billion native animals were killed or displaced. Many species — koalas, the regent honeyeater, glossy black cockatoo, the platypus — are inching towards extinction at the hands of mega-blazes and the changing ...Show more
Birds of Prey of Australia - A Field Guide 3ed. by Stephen Debus
$44.99 AUD
Category: Environment & Wildlife
Provides a field guide to Australia's iconic raptors and a handbook of our current knowledge. Raptors are popular and iconic birds, and are important ecologically, with some species listed as threatened. Yet they are among the most difficult birds to identify. This fully updated Third Edition of the pop ...Show more
What If We Stopped Pretending? by Jonathan Franzen
$12.99 AUD
Category: Environment & Wildlife
The climate crisis is here. Our chance to stop it has come and gone, but this doesn't have to mean the world is ending. 'Today, the scientific evidence verges on irrefutable. If you're younger than sixty, you have a good chance of witnessing the radical destabilization of life on earth--massive crop fa ...Show more
Heaven and Earth: Global Warming -The Missing Science by Ian Plimer
$39.95 AUD
Category: Environment & Wildlife | Reading Level: very good
Climate, sea level, and ice sheets have always changed, and the changes observed today are less than those of the past. Climate changes are cyclical and are driven by the Earth's position in the galaxy, the sun, wobbles in the Earth's orbit, ocean currents, and plate tectonics. In previous times, atmosp ...Show more
Dead in the Water: A very angry book about our greatest environmental catastrophe. . . the death of the Murray-Darling Basin by Richard Beasley
$22.99 AUD
$29.99 (23% off)
Category: Environment & Wildlife
Full-throated and provocative, this is a very personal battle cry to save our most precious natural resource. 'I LOVE IT.' Peter FitzSimons'With a deft mixture of outrage, humour and in-depth knowledge, only Beasley could make water policy a page turner.' Craig Reucassel'It's great to shed some more l ...Show more
Thrifty Household: More Than 1000 Budget-Friendly Hints and Tips for a Clean, Waste-free, Eco-friendly Home by Country Women's Association Victoria
$24.99 AUD
Category: Environment & Wildlife
A modern classic for a new generation looking for environmentally friendly, thrifty, tried and true solutions for tackling everyday household tasks.