Sixty Harvests Left: How to Reach a Nature-Friendly Future by Philip Lymbery
32.99 NZD
Category: Environment
'Powerful, purposeful and persuasive ... This book is transformative. We must read, mark and learn, fast' Michael Morpurgo'A call to action - to change our world from the ground up. A vitally necessary book' Isabella Tree'Philip Lymbery pulls no punches in cataloguing the calamitous mistakes we've made ...Show more
The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet by Leah Thomas
27.99 NZD
Category: Environment
A radical and empowering primer for the next generation of activists.
Swifts and Us: the Life of the Bird That Sleeps in the Sky by Sarah Gibson
24.99 NZD
Category: Environment
Swifts live almost entirely in the air. They eat, drink, sleep, mate and gather their nesting materials on the wing, fly thousands of miles across the world, navigating their way around storms, never lighting on tree, cliff or ground, until they return home with the summer. Sarah Gibson has written a f ...Show more
The Age of Seeds: How Plants Hacked Time and Why Our Future Depends on It by Fiona McMillan-Webster
39.99 NZD
Category: Environment
Plants evolved seeds to hack time. Thanks to seeds they can cast their genes forward into the future, enabling species to endure across seasons, years, and occasionally millennia. When a 2000-year-old extinct date palm seed was discovered, no one expected it to still be alive. But it sprouted a healthy ...Show more
Ocean: Exploring the Marine World by Phaidon Editors
99.99 NZD
Category: Environment | Series: Explorer Series
A richly illustrated celebration of the world's oceans and seas through art, history, oceanography, marine biology, and culture The latest instalment in the bestselling Explorer Series, Ocean takes readers on a journey across continents and cultures to discover the endless ways artists and image-makers ...Show more
This Fragile Earth by Susannah Wise
27.99 NZD
Category: Environment
'A remarkably original first novel, beautifully written, about a future that could be just around the corner' Julie Christie, oscar-winning star of Darling and Doctor Zhivago 'A very British disaster epic. Echoes of John Wyndham. Resonances for today' Steven Baxter, co-author of The Long Earth ' ...Show more
Farm - The making of a climate activist by Nicola Harvey
37.00 NZD
Category: Environment
Is it possible to survive as a new farmer and change the future of farming at the same time? For years we've been told that the food system is destroying the planet. That there are too many cows and tractors, too much fertiliser, too much waste, and that farmers and food manufacturers are polluting our ...Show more
Shark: Why We Need to Save the World's Most Misunderstood Predator by Paul De Gelder
37.99 NZD
Category: Environment
From shark attack survivor to the shark’s biggest advocate, Paul de Gelder tells us just why these majestic diverse animals need our help as much as we need them. Something happens to you the first time you dive with sharks… We have a perennial fascination with sharks. Portrayed in the media and popular ...Show more
Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in the Woods by Lyndsie Bourgon
37.99 NZD
Category: Environment
The tree was poached in a two-part operation. It was felled one night and taken another.Here was a murder mystery in the deep woods: who had taken the cedar, how had they done so, and - most importantly - why?__________A gripping account of the billion-dollar timber black market -- and how it intersects ...Show more
Rewilding the Sea: How to Save our Oceans by Charles Clover
40.00 NZD
Category: Environment
A landmark, inspiring book showing that the best way to protect our seas is to stand back and let nature repair the damage, from the Co-founder of Blue Marine Foundation and one of the leading figures in marine conservation.'A game-changer!' - Margaret Atwood, Twitter'Desperately needed' - Isabella Tree ...Show more
Pesticides and Health - How New Zealand Fails In Environmental Protection (BWB Texts) by Neil Pearce
14.99 NZD
Category: Environment | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: near fine
New Zealand has been one of the world's heaviest users of pesticides, including some contaminated with dioxin, a notorious toxic chemical. In this BWB Text a leading epidemiologist uses the example of dioxin to illustrate how badly New Zealand handles problems of environmental pollutants, and why we can ...Show more
Sweet in Tooth and Claw: Nature Is More Cooperative Than We Think by Kristin Ohlson
37.00 NZD
Category: Environment | Reading Level: near fine
A revelatory work about the many connections and helping behaviours among plants, fungi, microbes, and animals, and the implications of this reality for the way we manage our forests, wilderness areas, farmlands, waters, and even our cities.In Sweet in Tooth and Claw, Kristin Ohlson explores the subtle ...Show more