Spiders of the World - A Natural History by Ivy Ivy Press; Norman Platnick
$45.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
Bark spiders spin webs ten times stronger than Kevlar. Jumping spiders are capable of learning, recognizing, and remembering colors. Recluse spiders can tolerate six months of extreme drought and have a toxin-laden bite that can necessitate skin grafts. This title explores the huge diversity of spider ...Show more
Origin Story: A Big History Of Everything by David Christian
$28.00 NZD
Category: Natural History | Series: Australian
How did we get from the Big Bang to today's staggering complexity, in which seven billion humans are connected into networks powerful enough to transform the planet? And why, in comparison, are our closest primate relatives reduced to near-extinction?Big History creator David Christian gives the answers ...Show more
Life Between the Tides: In Search of Rockpools and Other Adventures Along the Shore by Adam Nicolson
$24.99 NZD
Category: Natural History
‘A remarkable and powerful book, the rarest of things … Nicolson is unique as a writer … I loved it’ EDMUND DE WAAL ‘Miraculous … An utterly fascinating glimpse of a watery world we only thought we knew’ PHILIP HOARE Few places are as familiar as the shore – and few as full of mystery and surprise. How ...Show more
Look Inside Volcanoes and Earthquakes by Laura Cowan
$22.99 NZD
Category: Natural History | Series: Look Inside
Have you ever wondered what it feels like to be in an earthquake, or close to a volcano when it erupts? With lots of flaps to lift, this book takes you on a tour of shaking cities and rumbling volcanoes to discover why these forces happen, how they shape our planet, and how people live in places where t ...Show more
Fathoms: The World in the Whale by Rebecca Giggs
$37.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
When writer Rebecca Giggs encountered a humpback whale stranded on her local beachfront in Australia, she began to wonder how the lives of whales reflect the condition of our oceans. Fathoms: The World in the Whale is “a work of bright and careful genius” (Robert Moor, New York Times bestselling author ...Show more
The Songs of Trees: Stories from Nature's Great Connectors by David George Haskell
$26.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
The acclaimed author of Pulitzer Prize finalist The Forest Unseen visits with nature's most magnificent networkers - trees.In The Songs of Trees, David George Haskell brings his acute powers of observation to the biological networks that surround all species, including humans. He visits a dozen trees ar ...Show more
Adriatic: A Concert of Civilizations at the End of the Modern Age by Robert D. Kaplan
$40.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
" An elegantly layered exploration of Europe's past and future . . . a multifaceted masterpiece."-The Wall Street Journal"A lovely, personal journey around the Adriatic, in which Robert Kaplan revisits places and peoples he first encountered decades ago."-Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk RoadsONE OF ...Show more
Environmental Defenders: Fighting for our natural world by Peart, Raewyn
$79.99 NZD
Category: Natural History
For over 50 years the Environmental Defence Society (EDS) has been at the forefront of protecting Aotearoa New Zealand’s natural environments.From the Think Big power projects of the 1970s, to coastal developments on pristine northland beaches and the destruction of the Mackenzie Country’s unique dr ...Show more