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A Sand County Almanac
Oxford University Press, USA 1968; US$ 12.99First published in 1949 and praised in The New York Times Book Review as "a trenchant book, full of vigor and bite," A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Thoreau with an outspoken and highly ethical regard for America's relationship to the land. Written with an unparalleled understanding of the ways of... more...
How We Can Save the Planet
St. Martin's Press 2008; US$ 18.99An outstanding overview on global warming---and what we can do about it---from a distinguished world-class authority Climate change is the single biggest problem that humankind has ever had to face, as we continue with lifestyles that are way beyond the planet?s limits. In this book Mayer Hillman explains the real issues: what role technology... more...
Crested Geckos
BowTie Inc. 2012; US$ 8.95From choosing a pet to selecting a veterinarian to feeding, housing, breeding, and more, these books deliver the most helpful and up-to-date information available on popular reptiles and amphibians kept as pets. more...
The 2013 Voiceless Anthology
Allen & Unwin 2012; US$ 1.81A collection of the best entries in the inaugural Voiceless Writing Prize, designed to recognise the best Australian short fiction and non-fiction that has at its heart the place of animals in the world we have made. more...
Cities and Climate Change
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 44.95Climate change is one of the most significant global challenges facing the world today. It is also a critical issue for the world?s cities. Now home to over half the world?s population, urban areas are significant sources of greenhouse gas emissions and are vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. Responding to climate change is a profound... more...
Holy the Firm
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 10.99In 1975 Annie Dillard took up residence on an island in Puget Sound in a wooded room furnished with "one enormous window, one cat, one spider and one person." For the next two years she asked herself questions about time, reality, sacrifice death, and the will of God. In Holy the Firm she writes about a moth consumed in a candle flame, about a... more...
Galapagos at the Crossroads
National Geographic Society 2009; US$ 26.00As eloquent as it is alarming, Carol Ann Bassett?s portrait of today?s Galápagos depicts a deadly collision of economics, politics, and the environment that may destroy one of the world?s last Edens. For millions, the Galápagos Islands represent nature at its most unspoiled, an inviolate place famed for its rare flora and fauna. But soon today?s... more...
Beekeeping For Dummies
Wiley 2009; US$ 19.99Beekeeping For Dummies , 2nd Edition reviews the tools of the trade, including complete instructions for building and maintaining beehives; offers detailed and easy-to-follow guidelines for all phases of honey production--including harvesting, bottling, packaging and marketing your honey; explores theories into the recent unexplained collapse of colonies... more...
A Walk in the Woods
Crown Publishing Group 2010; US$ 7.99Back in America after twenty years in Britain, Bill Bryson decided to reacquaint himself with his native country by walking the 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail, which stretches from Georgia to Maine. The AT offers an astonishing landscape of silent forests and sparkling lakes--and to a writer with the comic genius of Bill Bryson, it also provides endless... more...
Mosses and Liverworts of Rainforest in Tasmania and South-eastern Australia
CSIRO Publishing 1995; US$ 23.95Mosses and liverworts inhabit a miniature world hidden in our rainforests and often go unnoticed. This book seeks to raise the reader's awareness of these plants and reveals their beauty in the book's many high quality colour photographs. A comprehensive introduction is provided along with specific notes on these plants. more...









