Super Fly - The Unexpected Lives of the World's Most Successful Insects by Jonathan Balcombe
$33.00 AUD
Category: Animals
From an expert in animal consciousness, a book that will turn the fly on the wall into the elephant in the room. For most of us, the only thing we know about flies is that they're annoying, and our usual reaction is to try to kill them. In Super Fly, the myth-busting biologist Jonathan Balcombe show ...Show more
How Birds Evolve: What Science Reveals about Their Origin, Lives, and Diversity by Douglas J. Futuyma
$50.00 AUD
Category: Animals
A marvelous journey into the world of bird evolutionHow Birds Evolve explores how evolution has shaped the distinctive characteristics and behaviours we observe in birds today. Douglas Futuyma describes how evolutionary science illuminates the wonders of birds, ranging over topics such as the meaning an ...Show more
Birding Without Borders - An Obsession, a Quest, and the Biggest Year in the World by Noah Strycker
$23.00 AUD
Category: Animals
In 2015, Noah Strycker set himself a lofty goal: to become the first person to see half the world's birds in one year. For 365 days, with a backpack, binoculars, and a series of one-way tickets, he traveled across forty-one countries and all seven continents, eventually spotting 6,042 species--by far th ...Show more
Bird by DK
$60.00 AUD
Category: Animals
Global in scope, this encyclopedia features a photographic catalogue of more than 1,270 bird species, making it a must-have for every avian enthusiastThe diversity and drama of the bird world is brought to breathtaking life in an encyclopedic new editionThis photographic guide to every bird order and fa ...Show more
Beasts Before Us: The Untold Story of Mammal Origins and Evolution by Elsa Panciroli
$35.00 AUD
Category: Animals
For most of us, the story of mammal evolution starts after the asteroid impact that killed the dinosaurs, but over the last 20 years scientists have uncovered new fossils and used new technologies that have upended this story.In Beasts Before Us, palaeontologist Elsa Panciroli charts the emergence of th ...Show more
Australian Birds in Pictures by Duade Matthew ; Paton Jones
$40.00 AUD
Category: Animals
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Avian Illuminations: A Cultural History of Birds by Boria Sax
$50.00 AUD
Category: Animals
An exquisitely illustrated journey through the complex and crucial relationship between humans and birds. Avian Illuminations examines the many roles birds have played in human society, from food, messengers, deities, and pets, to omens, muses, timekeepers, custodians, hunting companions, decorative mot ...Show more
Nests by Susan Ogilvy
$45.00 AUD
Category: Animals
A unique celebration of the architectural ingenuity of birds, by an acclaimed illustratorSusan Ogilvy started painting bird nests almost by accident. One day, while tidying up her garden after a storm, she found a chaffinch nest - a strange, sodden lump on the grass under a fir tree. She carried it insi ...Show more
A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century - Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life by Heather Heying; Bret Weinstein
$50.00 AUD
Category: Animals
A provocative exploration of the tension between our evolutionary history and our modern woes--and what we can do about it. We are living through the most prosperous age in all of human history, yet we are listless, divided, and miserable. Wealth and comfort are unparalleled, but our political landscape ...Show more
Faithful and Fearless: Portraits of Dogs by XAVIER BRAY
$63.00 AUD
Category: Animals
An engaging, richly-illustrated look at the special connection between people and their beloved pet. This is a wonderful overview of the remarkable range of dog portraits - there are no human sitters - produced over the last 250 years. It features well-known works such as Rosa Bonheur's Brizo, (one of t ...Show more
On Animals by Susan Orlean
$30.00 AUD
Category: Animals
A delightful and entertaining collection of a lifetime of musings, meditations and in-depth profiles about animals, by the bestselling author of The Orchid Thief and The Library Book.
Flight of the Budgerigar: An Illustrated History by Penny Olsen
$50.00 AUD
Category: Animals
The Budgerigar is arguably Australia’s best-known bird. At the same time, it is so ubiquitous that not everyone knows that it is Australian. Nor do many realise that the multicoloured bird that comes to mind — not to mention today’s super-sized, extravagantly coiffed show budgie — is as different from t ...Show more