Nature Is Never Silent by Madlen Ziege
$37.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
For readers of Entangled Life and The Hidden Life of Trees, a fascinating journey into the world of plants and animals, and the ways they communicate with each other.For readers of Entangled Life and The Hidden Life of Trees, a fascinating journey into the world of plants and animals, and the ways they ...Show more
The Lonely Islands: The Evolutionary Phenomenon That is New Zealand by Terry Thomsen
$39.99 NZD
Category: Natural History
From kiwi to tree fern, and weta to tuatara, this is the story of how animal and plant life came to New Zealand and how they have evolved. It presents a historical perspective on a range of debates and events that changed accepted thinking. Fossil and sub-fossil discoveries, the acceptance of plate tect ...Show more
The Natural History Book: The Ultimate Visual Guide to Everything on Earth by DK
$75.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
A beautiful guide to Earth's wildlife and natural history, including its rocks, minerals, animals, plants, fungi, microorganisms and more!Introducing The Natural History Book - a complete guide to the nature and wildlife of our world and written by a worldwide team of natural history experts. In the 11 ...Show more
The Social Lives of Animals: How Co-operation Conquered the Natural World by Ashley Ward
$27.99 NZD
Category: Natural History
Everything you ever wanted to know about how animals live together, and what that means for us 'Any writer who can evoke the existential sadness of a lonely cockroach, or make krill thrilling, or describe a snorkelling colleague being engulfed in a "gargantuan cetacean bum detonation" is a real gift to ...Show more
Into the Forest by Susan Tyler Hitchcock
$77.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
For millennia, trees have offered renewal and inspiration. They have provided for humanity on every level, from spiritual sanctuary to the raw material for our homes, books, and food. In this beautiful and revealing book, National Geographic combines legendary photography with cutting-edge science to il ...Show more
Butterflies of the South Pacific by Brian and Hamish Patrick
$49.99 NZD
Category: Natural History | Reading Level: Near Fine
A beautiful and highly portable illustrated guide to the butterflies of New Zealand, Hawaii, Fiji, Kiribati, Tuvalu, French Polynesia and other Pacific Islands. Features life-size and enlarged reproductions. The book also investigates the extraordinary migrations butterflies have achieved across vast oc ...Show more
I Met Lucky People: The Story of the Romani Gypsies by Yaron Matras
$24.99 NZD
$50.00 (50% off)
Category: Natural History
Their own origins myths put them at the scene of the Crucifixion, deprived of a home of their own, doomed to a life of wandering, and granted by God the right to steal from other people in order to survive. In the Middle Ages, it was believed they had come out of Egypt. And yet their language shares a n ...Show more
Polluted Inheritance : New Zealand's Freshwater Crisis by Mike Joy
$14.99 NZD
Category: Natural History | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: Very Good
New Zealand's dairy industry is big business. But what are the hidden - and not so hidden - costs of intensive farming? Evidence presented here by ecologist Mike Joy demonstrates that intensive dairy farming has degraded our freshwater rivers, streams and lakes to such a degree that we face an environ ...Show more
Murder Most Florid - Inside the Mind of a Forensic Botanist by Mark Spencer
$39.99 NZD
Category: Natural History
Dr Mark Spencer is a forensic botanist - in other words, he helps police with cases where plants can unlock clues to solve crimes, from murder and rape to arson and burglary. Murder Most Florid is an enthralling, first-person account that follows Mark's unconventional and unique career, one that takes ...Show more
Sweet in Tooth and Claw: Nature Is More Cooperative Than We Think by Kristin Ohlson
$37.00 NZD
Category: Natural History | Reading Level: near fine
A revelatory work about the many connections and helping behaviours among plants, fungi, microbes, and animals, and the implications of this reality for the way we manage our forests, wilderness areas, farmlands, waters, and even our cities.In Sweet in Tooth and Claw, Kristin Ohlson explores the subtle ...Show more
New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity: 1-3 Vol Set: Kingdom Animalia by Dennis P. Gordon
$35.00 NZD
$89.99 (61% off)
Category: Natural History | Series: Vol 1-3 set
This volume is the first of three that provides a complete review and inventory of New Zealand's entire living and fossil biodiversity. More than 220 New Zealand and overseas specialists have collaborated to produce the most comprehensive book of its kind in the world. Together, the three volumes will l ...Show more
Natural History of Banks Peninsula by Hugh Wilson
$30.00 NZD
Category: Canterbury & Christchurch
Banks Peninsula, treasured by Christchurch city dwellers, peninsula residents and visitors from afar, is a unique volcanic landform jutting eastwards into the Pacific from the otherwise unsurprising Canterbury Plains. Once forested from side to side, and from sea to summits, the land was stripped of nea ...Show more