A Brush with Birds: Stories and Art by a Passionate Animal Conservationist (HB) by Richard Weatherly
$65.00 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
A Brush with Birds celebrates the exquisite artworks and incredible life of one of the world's finest bird painters, Richard Weatherly OAM.A skilled falconer and artist, Richard has spent more than fifty years observing birds and their natural habitats around the world, from Antarctica to Zimbabwe to Ne ...Show more
The Australian Bird Guide: Revised Edition by Peter Menkhorst, Danny Rogers, Rohan Clarke
$49.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History | 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
Field Guide to Reptiles of Victoria (PB) by A. John Coventry; Peter Robertson
$49.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
Victoria's reptile population is not often encountered by urban dwellers, with many species rare or threatened. You may have glimpsed a skink darting into the undergrowth, a snake slithering along a walking path or a blue-tongued lizard sunning itself near your garden shed. Yet the turtles, skinks, geck ...Show more
Plants of the Victorian High Country: A Field Guide for Walkers by John Murphy, Bill Dowling
$39.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
* Simple keys for each group* High quality color photographs allow easy identification* Contains a glossary of terms and list of plants by familyThis book will allow anyone with little botanical knowledge to identify plants that they are most likely to encounter while walking in Victoria's High Country. ...Show more
Guide to Native Bees of Australia by Terry Houston
$49.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
Bees are often thought of as yellow and black striped insects that live in hives and produce honey. However, Australia's abundant native bees are incredibly diverse in their appearance and habits. Some are yellow and black but others have blue stripes, are iridescent green or wasp-like. Some are social ...Show more
Global Warming and Climate ChangeWhat Australia Knew and Buried...Then Framed a New Reality for the Public by Maria Taylor
$43.00 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
1988: coming to grips with a terrifying global experiment The Toronto conference statement made it clear that climate change would affect everyone. It called greenhouse gas atmospheric pollution an 'uncontrolled, globally pervasive experiment whose ultimate consequences could be second only to nuclear w ...Show more
Rocky Outcrops in Australia: Ecology, Conservation and Management by Michael, Damian
$49.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
Rocky outcrops are landscape features with disproportionately high biodiversity values relative to their size. They support specialised plants and animals, and a wide variety of endemic species. To Indigenous Australians, they are sacred places and provide valuable resources. Despite their ecological an ...Show more
The Body Keeps the Score: Mind, Brain and Body in the Transformation of Trauma by Bessel Van Der Kolk
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History | Reading Level: good-very good
The effects of trauma can be devastating for sufferers, their families and future generations. Here one of the world's experts on traumatic stress offers a bold new paradigm for treatment, moving away from standard talking and drug therapies and towards an alternative approach that heals mind, brain and ...Show more
A Field Guide to Spiders of Australia by Robert Whyte, Greg Anderson
$49.95 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
Australians have a love-hate relationship with spiders. Some spiders, such as the Redback and the Sydney Funnelweb, inspire fear. Yet Peacock Spiders, with their colourful fan-spreading courtship dances, have won rapturous appreciation worldwide.A Field Guide to Spiders of Australia uses photographs of ...Show more