Night Owls and Early Birds - Rhythms of Life on a Rotating Planet by Philippa Gander
$39.99 NZD
Category: Nature | Reading Level: near fine
How the rotations of planet Earth shape the lives of humans and other animals.Horseshoe crabs and hibernating squirrels. Jet-lagged pilots and space station astronauts. Night owls and early birds. All of life is profoundly shaped by the daily, monthly and yearly cycles of planet Earth.This book takes th ...Show more
Regenesis: How to Feed the World Without Devouring the Planet by George Monbiot
$30.00 NZD
Category: Nature
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
Rewild the World at Bedtime Hopeful Stories from Mother Nature (HB) by Emily Hawkins
$32.99 NZD
Category: Nature
These soothing stories teach kids about the projects that are rewilding the world with animals and saving our environment in the process. What is rewilding? It means bringing wildlife back to the places it once thrived. Humans have been polluting the Earth and damaging wildlife for many centuries. Now ...Show more
Rooted - Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature, and Spirit by Lyanda Lynn Haupt
$34.99 NZD
Category: Nature
NATIONAL BESTSELLER Deepen your connection to the natural world with this inspiring meditation, "a path to the place where science and spirit meet" (Robin Wall Kimmerer). In Rooted, cutting-edge science supports a truth that poets, artists, mystics, and earth-based cultures across the world have procl ...Show more
Soundings - Diving for stories in the beckoning sea by Kennedy Warne
$39.99 NZD
Category: Nature | Reading Level: near fine
For the past 40 years, Kennedy Warne, one of New Zealand's best-known nature writers and commentators, has been exploring the underwater world. His love of the ocean began as a small boy sailing and fishing with this father on the Hauraki Gulf and was further strengthened by a degree in marine biology. ...Show more
Takahe: Bird of Dreams by Alison Ballance
$59.99 NZD
Category: Nature
Takahe are ‘strange and wonderful avian beasts’, big purple-blue birds with a striking red beak and legs. Once thought extinct, they were famously rediscovered in 1946 by Invercargill doctor Geoffrey Orbell, who found a small population living in a remote valley in the Murchison Mountains of Fiordland. ...Show more
The Alarmist - Fifty Years Measuring Climate Change by Dave Lowe
$40.00 NZD
Category: Nature | Reading Level: very good
Alarmist (pre-2020): Someone who exaggerates a danger and so causes needless worry or panic. Alarmist (post-2020): Someone who justifiably raises the alarm about a global danger to Earth's biosphere. His research was urgent fifty years ago. Now, it’s critical. In the early 1970s, budding Kiwi scientist ...Show more
The Green Planet by Leisa Stewart-Sharpe
$24.00 NZD
Category: Nature
This is our Green Planet: a hidden world where plants care for other plants and can smell, taste, touch, hear and even . . . 'talk'.In the world of plants, time passes more slowly, but if we speed months into minutes we can peer into this hidden world and realise: it's a battleground. Plants are working ...Show more
The Hidden World - How Insects Sustain Life on Earth Today and Will Shape Our Lives Tomorrow by George McGavin
$36.99 NZD
Category: Nature
Insects conquered the Earth long before we did and will remain here long after we're gone. They outnumber us in the billions and are essential to many of the natural processes that keep us alive and that we take for granted. Yet, despite this, very few of us know much about the hidden world of insects ...Show more
The Power of Trees: How Ancient Forests Can Save Us If We Let Them by Peter Wohlleben
$40.00 NZD
Category: Nature
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 Science of the Ocean: The Secrets of the Seas Revealed by DK
$75.00 NZD
Category: Nature
Combining graceful design and beautiful imagery, this book provides an elegant introduction to ocean life and the ocean itselfDive into this uniquely elegant visual exploration of the seaAn informative and utterly beautiful introduction to marine life and the ocean environment, The Science of the Ocean ...Show more
The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth by Ben Rawlence
$30.00 NZD
Category: Nature
"Original and readable." --Financial Times' Best Environmental Books of 2022 "A superb, inspiring work." --Winner, Inaugural National Academies of Science Schmidt Awards for Excellence in Science Communications In the tradition of Elizabeth Kolbert and Barry Lopez, a powerful, poetic and deeply absorbin ...Show more