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Identifying New Zealand's insects, spiders and other land invertebrates is made simple with this guide. Includes over 300 life-size colour photographs. Accolades Shortlisted for New Zealand Post Children's Book Award: Non-Fiction Award 2000. Author Biography Andrew Crowe is a full-time author with...
A practical field guide to New Zealand's native edible plants. Over 190 trees, shrubs, herbs, ferns, mushrooms, lichens and seaweeds are described in detail in this useful and attractive book, with information on which part is edible and when, how plants have been utilised, particularly by Maori,...
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...
An essential guide to foraging in New Zealand. New Zealand is full of incredible, edible wild foods - fruit, fungi and seaweed; berries, herbs and more - you only need to know where to look and how to do it safely. Foraging New Zealand is the ultimate guide to unearthing more than 250 of our...
We inhabit a planet in peril. Our once temperate world is locked on course to become a hothouse entirely of our own making. Hothouse Earth: an Inhabitant's Guide provides a post-COP26 perspective on the climate emergency, acknowledging that it is now practically impossible to keep this side of the...
The definitive account of a hotly debated political project in MelbourneMelbourne's aborted East-West Link - the massive, multi-billion-dollar inner-city toll road project that promised to knit Melbourne closer together - was stymied from the start. Intense picketing and protests, multiple court...
A grand tour through the hidden realms of animal senses that will transform the way you perceive the world - from Pulitzer prize-winning journalist and bestselling author of I Contain Multitudes.'Wonderful, mind-broadening... a journey to alternative realities as extraordinary as any you'll find in...
Delightfully contrarian, this is the one book you need to read to understand our modern worldWe have never had so much information at our fingertips and yet most of us don't know how the world really works. This book explains seven of the most fundamental realities governing our survival and...
The landmark book that opened the world's eyes to the suffering of animals, fully rewritten and entirely updatedAnimal Liberation started a worldwide movement when it revealed the abuse of animals in factory farms and laboratories. It demonstrated that these and other practices were the cause of...
Learn the facts about recycling and discover the best way to make an impact Recycling is a simple action we can take that has an immediate positive effect. It keeps waste out of landfills, conserves natural resources, prevents pollution, and saves energy. Who wouldn’t want to do this? But...
By the Wainwright-Conservation-Prize-Winning Author of Rebirding Transform your understanding of the natural world forever and discover the wild forces that once supported Britain's extraordinary natural riches, and could again. Our precious archipelago is ravaged by climate change, bereft of...
The climate crisis threatens global social collapse within a generation. What to do? Common Sense for the 21st Century outlines how movements around the world now need to come together to start doing 'what works'. This means engaging in mass civil disobedience to make real change happen. This...
Spy satellites orbiting the moon. Space metals worth more than most countries GDP. People on Mars within the next ten years. This isnt science fiction. Its astropolitics. Humans are heading up and out, and weÂre taking our power struggles with us. Soon, what happens in space will shape human...
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...
In 1996, the first independent national report on the state of AustraliaÂs environment found that we faced serious problems. With increasing urgency, five subsequent reports declared those problems were all getting worse, each calling for immediate action to protect our future. The 2021 report...
Are you really what you eat? David R. Montgomery and Anne BiklĂŠ take us far beyond the well-worn adage to deliver a new truth: the roots of good health start on farms. What Your Food Ate marshals evidence from recent and forgotten science to illustrate how the health of the soil ripples through to...
Spin food waste and household carbon into garden gold, learn about how and why soil matters, and make climate activism an everyday mission, with compost coach Kate Flood.The Compost Coach is a colourful, comprehensive and accessible guide to creating the very best compost AKA garden gold. Kate is...
Nouvelles decouvertes scientifiques dans le bassin du Congo grâce a des collaborations internationales Le Congo est le deuxieme plus grand bassin fluvial du monde et abrite 120 millions d’habitants. La comprehension du cycle de l'eau, des sediments et des nutriments est importante car la...
Everyday Life Ecologies: Sustainability, Crisis, and Resistance is about those complex, sticky, but also open arrangements of bodies, objects, and plants that make up daily existence. The multiple and interlocking lines of a long capitalist crisis disrupt their normal flow: sometimes, they open...
"Readers should be inspired, informed, and ready to go." Booklist, Starred ReviewOffers 175 actions readers can take to create a more sustainable global environment. You care about the environment-the world you live in, and the world you are going to leave behind for future generations. Perhaps you...