The Gardener's Year by Karel Capek
$10.00 NZD
Category: Gardening | Series: Modern Library | Reading Level: very good
A droll meditation on the passions and isiosyncracies fo gardeners by the notable dissident Czech novelist and playwright Karel Capek.
Horned Armadillos and Rafting Monkeys: The Fascinating Fossil Mammals of South America by Darin A Croft
$35.00 NZD
Category: Natural History | Series: Life of the Past | Reading Level: near fine
Plant Form - An Illustrated Guide to Flowering Plant Morphology by Adrian D Bell
$55.00 NZD
Category: Natural History | Reading Level: very good
Describes and illustrates major plant structures that can be seen with the naked eye or a hand lens. This book focuses on how plants grow. It includes information on plant morphology, more than 1000 line drawings, and various photographs. It is intended for students of botany and horticulture, enthusias ...Show more
In the Rainforest by Catherine Caufield
$8.00 NZD
Category: Natural History | Series: Picador Bks. | Reading Level: good-very good
Dry Store Room No. 1 - The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum by Richard Fortey
$10.00 NZD
Category: Natural History | Reading Level: good-very good
'Dry Store Room No. 1' is an intimate biography of the Natural History Museum, celebrating the eccentric personalities who have peopled it and capturing the wonders of scientific endeavour, academic rigour and imagination. Behind the public facade of any great museum there lies a secret domain: one of u ...Show more
The Parrot's Lament and Other True Tales of Animal Intrigue, Intelligence, and Ingenuity by Eugene Linden
$8.00 NZD
Category: Natural History | Reading Level: good
A gorilla shrewdly sells back a missing key chain to the highest bidder. An orangutan picks a lock to let himself out of his zoo enclosure and two elephants adopt a tag-team strategy to keep their handlers from putting them back into theirs. In The Parrot's Lament, noted environmentalist Eugene Linden o ...Show more
The Parrot Who Owns Me -The story of a relationship by Joanna Burger
$6.00 NZD
Category: Natural History | Reading Level: good
Seventeen years ago, when she adopted a neglected, orphaned thirty-year-old parrot named Tiko, the internationally renowned ornithologist Joanna Burger entered one of the most complex relationships of her life. Sullen and hostile when he entered Dr. Burger
Wind Gardens - How to Create Beautiful Gardens in Exposed Places by Jacob De Ruiter
$20.00 NZD
Category: Gardening | Reading Level: good-very good
How to Create Beautiful Gardens in Exposed Places
Megafauna -Giant Beasts of Pleistocene South America by Richard A. Farina; Sergio F Vizcaino; Gerry De Iuliis
$60.00 NZD
Category: Natural History | Reading Level: very good
More than 10,000 years ago spectacularly large mammals roamed the pampas and jungles of South America. This book tells the story of these great beasts during and just after the Pleistocene, the geological epoch marked by the great ice ages. Megafauna describes the history and way of life of these animal ...Show more
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals are? by Frans De Waal
$14.00 NZD
Category: Natural History | Reading Level: very good
What separates your mind from an animal's? Maybe you think it's your ability to design tools, your sense of self, or your grasp of past and future; all traits that have helped us define ourselves as the preeminent species on Earth. But in recent decades, these claims have been eroded, or disproven outri ...Show more
Gardening with New Zealand Plants, Shrubs & Trees by Muriel Fisher; E Satchell; Janet Watkins
$30.00 NZD
Category: Gardening | Reading Level: very good
Creepiest Crawly Critters by Tim Flannery; Emma Flannery
$20.00 NZD
Category: Children Non-fiction | Series: Explore Your World | Reading Level: near fine
Get ready to get up close and personal with the creepiest crawly critters with real-life explorer and scientist, Professor Tim Flannery. You may think you know all that's around you, but look closer and dig deeper -you'll discover a cast of the scariest (but very cool!) background characters in your lif ...Show more