Trees and their Bark, A Selection with Stories and Pictures by John and Bunny Mortimer
$20.00 NZD
Category: World Natural History | Reading Level: very good
The emphasis on Trees and their Bark is on the often unappreciated feature of tree bark. Using over 270 photos this book illustrates the wonderful range of colours and textures of bark on a selection of trees that grow in temperate climates. Many of these photos have been taken on travels in the USA, En ...Show more
Under the Surface: Fracking, Fortunes, and the Fate of the Marcellus Shale by Tom Wilber
$32.50 NZD
Category: World Natural History
Running from southern West Virginia through eastern Ohio, across central and northeast Pennsylvania, and into New York through the Southern Tier and the Catskills, the Marcellus Shale formation underlies a sparsely populated region that features striking landscapes, critical watersheds, and a struggling ...Show more
Visual Voyages: Images of Latin American Nature from Columbus to Darwin by Daniela Bleichmar
$89.99 NZD
Category: World Natural History
An unprecedented visual exploration of the intertwined histories of art and science, of the old world and the new From the voyages of Christopher Columbus to those of Alexander von Humboldt and Charles Darwin, the depiction of the natural world played a central role in shaping how people on both sides o ...Show more
Vulgar Wasp by Lester Phil
$30.00 NZD
Category: World Natural History
They're ranked one of the world's worst invasive species. They're often described as pure evil. People use petrol bombs, flamethrowers and shotguns on them in acts of vengeance. Wasps are feared and hated by many of us, with good reason - they sting. For anyone who is allergic to their venom, a sting ca ...Show more
Wai Pasifika - Indigenous Ways in a Changing Climate by David Young
$60.00 NZD
Category: Geology & Earth Sciences | Reading Level: near fine
Science can be as wondrous as the explanations that come out of earth-rooted cultures. Polynesians, like the inhabitants of Oceania generally, have always lived in a state of heightened awareness of the profundity and subtlety of natures moods and interrelationships. Theirs was a holistic view of the wo ...Show more
Waimakariri River And Catchment( 4 volumes) by Various Authors
$120.00 NZD
Category: Geology & Earth Sciences | Reading Level: very good
Wallace Darwin and the Origin of Species by James T. Costa
$99.00 NZD
Category: World Natural History
Charles Darwin is often credited with discovering evolution through natural selection, but the idea was not his alone. The naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace, working independently, saw the same process at work in the natural world and elaborated much the same theory. Their important scientific contributi ...Show more
Weather by Storm Dunlop
$25.00 NZD
Category: Art, Design & Photography
In the tradition of "Above the World" and "Inside the Body", this unique contemporary reference book takes the reader inside the weather as we experience it, from the outer atmosphere to under an umbrella. "Weather" explores not only the nature of extreme conditions such as hurricanes and tornadoes, but ...Show more
What Shrub Is That? by Stirling Macoboy
$19.50 NZD
Category: Botany | Series: The 'what' series
What shrub is that? This is a question all garden lovers are bound to ask when they first set eyes on a magnificent but unfamiliar specimen. It is a question this book can surely answer - for it contains over 1250 of the most useful and admired garden shrubs from all over the world, illustrated with big ...Show more