A New Zealand Handbook of Bulbs and Perennials by Hugh Redgrove
$25.00 NZD
Category: Gardening | Reading Level: very good
A Thousand Barrels a Second: The Coming Oil Break Point and the Challenges Facing an Energy Dependent World by Peter Tertzakian
$14.00 NZD
Category: Ecology | Reading Level: very good
The Coming Oil Break Point and the Challenges Facing an Energy Dependent World In 2006, world oil consumption will exceed one thousand barrels per second. The news marks an important change that will have a far-reaching impact on world economies, investments, and business profitability. In A Thou ...Show more
The Water Dreamers : The Remarkable History of our Dry Continent by Michael Cathcart
$12.00 NZD
Category: Ecology | Reading Level: very good
The story of the settlement of Australia and how our culture has been shaped by the scarcity of water and by the need to fill the imagined silence of the continent with the sounds of civilisation. It's the story of who we are today as much as a history of how the country grew. From the moment the First ...Show more
The World Is Blue: How Our Fate and the Ocean's Are One by Sylvia A. Earle
$14.00 NZD
Category: Ecology | Reading Level: very good
A Silent Spring for our era, this eloquent, urgent, fascinating book reveals how just 50 years of swift and dangerous oceanic change threatens the very existence of life on Earth. Legendary marine scientist Sylvia Earle portrays a planet teetering on the brink of irreversible environmental crisis.
John James Audobon: The Birds of America, Christie's, Houston October 15 and 16, 1982
$18.00 NZD
Category: Natural History | Reading Level: very good
In the Presence of Grizzlies: Sharing Our World with the Great Bear by Doug Peacock; Andrea Peacock
$12.00 NZD
Category: Natural History | Series: Lyons Press Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Winner of ForeWord Magazine's 2006 Gold Award for Nature Book of the Year The most comprehensive and compelling chronicle of human-grizzly-bear interactions ever written, In the Presence of Grizzlies (formerly published as The Essential Grizzly) examines the fragile bond between ourselves and the quinte ...Show more
The Peregrine Falcons by Alice Schick; Peter Parnall (Illustrator)
$15.00 NZD
Category: Natural History | Reading Level: good
Eucalyptus for Wood Production by W. E. Hillis and A. G. Brown (Editors)
$40.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
Subjects: Eucalypts. Cultivation. Australia. Eucalyptus - Australia. | Forests and forestry - Economic aspects.
In the Arms of Africa: The Life of Colin M. Turnbull by Roy Richard Grinker
$16.00 NZD
Category: Natural History | Reading Level: very good
Colin Turnbull made a name for himself with The Forest People, his acclaimed study of African Pygmies. His second book, however, The Mountain People, ignited a swirl of controversy within anthropology and tainted Turnbull's reputation as a respected anthropologist.In this scrupulously researched biograp ...Show more
Why the Wild Things Are: Animals in the Lives of Children by Gail F. Melson
$14.00 NZD
Category: Natural History | Reading Level: very good
Whether they see themselves as King of the Wild Things or protector of Toto, children live in a world filled with animals--both real and imaginary. From Black Beauty to Barney, animal characters romp through children's books, cartoons, videos, and computer games. As Gail Melson tells us, more than three ...Show more
Stinging Trees and Wait-a-Whiles: Confessions of a Rainforest Biologist by William F. Laurance
$15.00 NZD
Category: Natural History | Reading Level: very good
The last traces of Australia's tropical rainforest, where the southeasterly winds bring rain to the coastal mountains, contain a unique assemblage of plants and animals, some primitive, many that are found nowhere else on earth. And fifteen years ago, they also contained Bill Laurance, a budding ecologi ...Show more