A Change is Gonna Come by Angela Cushnie
$25.00 NZD
Category: Environment
A Change is Gonna Come is a story the whole family can learn from, and enjoy. Bernard Raupō Bittern III (or Boomer to his friends) is the self-appointed mayor of the Waipuna wetland community and an esteemed storyteller. Amongst the flax and bulrushes he makes an announcement to the wetland locals; grum ...Show more
Mirrors and Mazes: A Guide Through the Climate Debate by Howard Brady
$48.00 NZD
Category: Environment
Here is a book on climate written for people from all walks of life, not just science boffins. The reader is invited to enter the climate debate, likened to a twisting maze or hall of mirrors, with dead-ends, illusions, traps - that are the lies, misinformation, over-simplifications and false prophecies ...Show more
Monarchs of the Sea - The Extraordinary 500-Million-Year History of Cephalopods by Danna Staaf
$35.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
An epic and fun history spanning from the mollusks that invented swimming to the octopuses and other intelligent cephalopods of today. Before mammals, there were dinosaurs. And before dinosaurs, there were cephalopods--the ancestors of modern squid, octopuses, and more creatures--Earth's first truly su ...Show more
Wilding: The Return of Nature to a British Farm by Isabella Tree
$50.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
'The remarkable story of an astounding transformation' George Monbiot, author of Feral.In Wilding, Isabella Tree tells the story of the 'Knepp experiment', a pioneering rewilding project in West Sussex, using free-roaming grazing animals to create new habitats for wildlife. Part gripping memoir, part fa ...Show more
Climate Aotearoa: What's Happening and What We Can Do About It by Helen Clark
$37.00 NZD
Category: Environment
The science on climate change in Aotearoa New Zealand now and in the future, and what changes we all need to make. Contributions from a range of climate scientists and commentators Rob Bell, Jason Boberg, Adelia Hallett, Sophie Handford, Rhys Jones, Haylee Koroi, Matt McGlone, Jamie Morton, Rod Oram, Ji ...Show more
Living with the Climate Crisis - Voices from Aotearoa (BWB Texts) by Tom Doig (editor)
$18.00 NZD
Category: Environment | Series: BWB Texts
If much of the world can work together to beat a deadly pandemic, imagine what might happen if we turned our collective energy to tackling the climate crisis. The devastating summer of Australian bush fi res underlined the terrifying sense of a world pushed to the brink. Then came Covid-19, and with it ...Show more
The Brilliant Abyss: True Tales of Exploring the Deep Sea, Discovering Hidden Life and Selling the Seabed by Helen Scales
$24.99 NZD
Category: Rivers & Oceans
The deep sea is the last, vast wilderness on the planet. For centuries, myth-makers and storytellers have concocted imaginary monsters of the deep, and now scientists are looking there to find bizarre, unknown species, chemicals to make new medicines, and to gain a greater understanding of how this worl ...Show more
The Fragile Earth: Writing from the New Yorker on Climate Change by David Remnick (Editor); Henry Finder (Editor)
$40.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
A classic collection of the New Yorker's most urgent and groundbreaking reporting from the front lines of the climate emergency In 1989, just one year after climatologist James Hansen first came before a Senate committee and testified that the earth was now warmer than it had ever been in recorded histo ...Show more
Dirt to Soil by Gabe Brown
$40.00 NZD
Category: Environment
Gabe Brown didn't set out to change the world when he first started working alongside his father-in-law on the family farm in North Dakota. But as a series of weather-related crop disasters put Brown and his wife, Shelly, in desperate financial straits, they started making bold changes to their farm. Br ...Show more
Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World by Paul Stamets
$77.00 NZD
Category: Nature Writing
Mycelium Running is a manual for the mycological rescue of the planet. That's right: growing more mushrooms may be the best thing we can do to save the environment, and in this groundbreaking text from mushroom expert Paul Stamets, you'll find out how. The basic science goes like this: Microscopic cells ...Show more
Fifteen Million Years in Antarctica by Rebecca Priestley
$40.00 NZD
Category: Environment
Rebecca Priestley longs to be in Antarctica. But it is also the last place on Earth she wants to go. In 2011 Priestley visited the wide white continent for the first time, on a trip that coincided with the centenary of Robert Falcon Scott's fateful trek to the South Pole. For Priestley, 2011 was the ful ...Show more
How to Save the Planet - One Object at a Time by Tara Shine
$35.00 NZD
Category: Environment
At a time when many of us are becomingly increasingly aware of the impact that our lives have on the environment, we can still find the alternative consumer choices overwhelming or confusing, thanks to mixed messages, information overload, or a misplaced perception that 'greener' choices are more expens ...Show more