If You Love This Planet: A Plan to Save the Earth by Helen Caldicott
27.99 NZD
Category: Environment
From the leader and spokeswoman of the antinuclear movement comes a revised and updated edition of this groundbreaking, widely acclaimed classic. Exploring dangerous global trends such as ozone depletion, global warming, toxic pollution, food contamination, and deforestation, Helen Caldicott presents a ...Show more
Coral : A Pessimist in Paradise by Steve Jones
29.99 NZD
35.00 (14% off)
Category: Environment
While writing this book, Steve Jones had beside him the coral brooch that his sea captain grandfather brought back across the Indian Ocean. This simple object is a starting point for a dazzling narrative that touches on a number of the most important issues facing us today. Following in the footsteps of ...Show more
Dead Seas: How the Fish on Our Plates is Killing Our Planet by Taras Grescoe
27.99 NZD
Category: Environment
There's simply no limit to the sins people will commit for a tasty meal. The Japanese are notorious for their trade in bluefin tuna, while newlyweds in Bangkok, Shanghai and Singapore devour a gelatinous soup made from poached abalone and fins hacked from living sharks. But surely there's no need for yo ...Show more
Last Chance To See.... by Douglas Adams & Mark Carwardice
24.99 NZD
29.95 (16% off)
Category: Environment
The record of an odyssey by a zoologist and a zoologically-innocent comic novelist. It began in 1985 with a search for a rare lemur in Madagascar and went on to include expeditions which witnessed fruitbats, man-eating lizards, gorillas, a blind dolphin and the most inept parrot, the kakapot.
Coral: A Pessimist in Paradise by Steve Jones
39.99 NZD
Category: Environment | Reading Level: very good
While writing this book, Steve Jones had beside him the coral brooch that his sea captain grandfather brought back across the Indian Ocean as a gift for his wife. This simple object is a starting point for a dazzling narrative that touches on a number of the most important issues facing us today. Follow ...Show more
The Evolutionary World by Geerat J. Vermeij
65.00 NZD
Category: Environment
"The Evolutionary World" presents a new argument for evolution's broader importance. Adaptation plays a role not only in the development of new species but the development of human civilization, and by understanding how evolutionary theory has played out in areas such as our economic system, our prepara ...Show more
Disappearing Destinations: 37 Places in Peril by Kimberly Lisagor
29.99 NZD
Category: Environment
A beautiful and memorable look at some of the most gorgeous endangered places on the planet. Machu Picchu is a mesmerizing, ancient Incan city tucked away in the mountains of Peru, but it is rapidly being worn down by the thousands of feet treading across its stones. Glacier National Park is a destinat ...Show more
The Ambonese Curiosity Cabinet by Georgious Everhardus Rumphius
130.00 NZD
Category: Environment
G. E. Rumphius, also known as the "Indian Pliny", was one of the great tropical naturalists of the seventeenth century. Born in Germany, he spent most of his life in the employ of the Dutch East India Company, stationed on the island of Ambon in eastern Indonesia. He wrote two major works; this one, the ...Show more
Debating the Earth: The Environmental Politics Reader by John Dryzek
75.95 NZD
Category: Environment | Reading Level: near fine
Debating the Earth brings together over 40 essential readings which illustrate the diversity of political responses to environmental issues. They are organized in a way that emphasizes the differences and debates across the various schools of thought on environmental affairs and there is a mixture of cl ...Show more
Ethical Eating : How to Make Food Choices That Won't Cost the Earth by Angela Crocombe
28.00 NZD
Category: Environment
A timely and powerful investigation of the food choices we make every day. These days most people want to live as lightly as possible on our precious planet. What we choose to eat is a very basic decision, yet it has huge implications - for the sustainability of species, for the quality of the environme ...Show more
On Borrowed Time : Australia's Environmental Crisis and What We Must Do About it by David Lindenmayer
39.95 NZD
Category: Environment
The author, one of Australia's leading authorities on biodiversity, presents a vivid picture of our current environmental position and warns that in almost every area of our natural world we are in imminent peril. First published 2007.