The Power of Trees: How Ancient Forests Can Save Us If We Let Them by Peter Wohlleben
44.99 NZD
Category: Environment
The follow-up to the international bestseller The Hidden Life of Trees, offering compelling insights into the lungs of our planet and the fragility of our intertwined futures. Trees can survive without humans, but we can't live without trees. Even if human-caused climate change devastates our plant, tr ...Show more
The Forest Wars: The ugly truth about what's happening in our tall forests by David Lindenmayer
37.99 NZD
Category: Environment
Lifts the lid on destruction of native forests by government corporations and logging industry that is making bushfires worse, killing wildlife and costing taxpayers millions, for the sake of woodchips for export. Since colonisation, Australia has been frantically logging our native forests as if our l ...Show more
Under The Stars - A Journey into Light by Matt Gaw
29.99 NZD
Category: Environment | Reading Level: very good
Light pollution is everywhere. Not only is it damaging to humans and to wildlife, disrupting our natural rhythms, but it obliterates the subtler lights that have guided us for millennia. Moonlight, starlight, the ethereal glow of snow in winter ... When you turn off the electricity, other forms of light ...Show more
Milk: The truth, the lies and the unbelievable story of the original superfood by Matthew Evans
37.99 NZD
Category: Environment
A powerful, entertaining and, at times, eviscerating commentary on the most controversial of original superfoods. Milk. It's in our coffee, on our cereal. We see it in processed form - yoghurt, butter, cheese, skimmed and lactose free. It's there in almond form, or made from oats or soy, and is as laude ...Show more
Extraordinary Insects: Weird. Wonderful. Indispensable. the Ones Who Run Our World by Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson
24.99 NZD
Category: Environment
A journey into the weird, wonderful and truly astonishing lives of the small but mighty creatures who keep the world turning. Out of sight, underfoot, unseen beyond fleeting scuttles or darting flights, insects occupy a hidden world, yet are essential to sustaining life on earth. Insects influence our ...Show more
Platypus Matters: The Extraordinary Story of Australian Mammals by Jack Ashby
27.99 NZD
Category: Environment
Winner of the Whitley Award for Best Natural History Book 2022A compelling, funny, first-hand account of Australia's wonderfully unique mammals and how our perceptions impact their future.Think of a platypus: they lay eggs (that hatch into so-called platypups), they produce milk without nipples and veno ...Show more
Regenesis: How to Feed the World Without Devouring the Planet by George Monbiot
29.99 NZD
Category: Environment
Winner of the 2022 Orwell Prize for Journalism / A Sunday Times (London) Bestseller / Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize for Writing on Conservation "George Monbiot is one of the most fearless and important voices in the global climate movement today." --Greta Thunberg For the first time in millen ...Show more
Tree Stories: How trees plant our world and connect our lives by Stefano Mancuso
32.99 NZD
Category: Environment
The remarkable stories of trees that have shaped human history - from the wooden ladder that solved a crime to France's revolutionary Liberty Trees. Trees have played countless roles in human history - by turns hopeful symbols of freedom, pioneering space travellers, keepers of ancient history and acces ...Show more
Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid by Thor Hanson
24.99 NZD
Category: Environment
A fascinating insight into climate change biology around the globe, as well as in our own backyards. Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid is the first major book by a biologist to focus on the fascinating story of how the natural world is adjusting, adapting, and sometimes measurably evolving in respons ...Show more
Erosion - Essays of Undoing by Terry Tempest Williams
37.99 NZD
Category: Environment
Fierce, timely, and unsettling essays from an important and beloved writer and conservationist Terry Tempest Williams's fierce, spirited, and magnificent essays are a howl in the desert. She sizes up the continuing assaults on America's public lands and the erosion of our commitment to the open space ...Show more
The Book of Vanishing Species: Illustrated Lives and fungi on Earth by Beatrice Forshall
42.99 NZD
Category: Environment
Our Earth is more beautiful and more diverse than we can possibly conceive of. The Book of Vanishing Species is a stunning homage to the planet's most mysterious, bizarre and wondrous creatures and plants. Their stories are captivating, from the eyeless and tiny dragonlike olm to the hawksbill turtle, w ...Show more
Ahuahu: A Conservation journey in Aotearoa New Zealand by David Towns
79.99 NZD
Category: Environment
Aotearoa New Zealand is renowned among biologists worldwide for spectacular ecological restoration work over the last 50 years, through advances in pest eradication and native species translocation. This book documents the development of these world-leading technologies. It uses examples from throughout ...Show more