What's Your Dog Telling You? Australia's Best-Known Dog Communicator Explains Your Dog's Behaviour by Martin McKenna
Category: Nature
After helping thousands of people improve their dogs' behaviour, Martin 'The Dog Man' McKenna believes the real problem is the same as it's always been - despite centuries of sharing our lives with each other, we humans still can't truly understand or communicate with dogs. This book will change that. W ...Show more
Pet Rescue's Amazing Dog Stories by Vickie Davy
Category: Nature
Every dog has a tale ...This uplifting collection brings together over 100 original stories of canine survival, loyalty and unconditional love. These dogs have overcome troubled backgrounds to bring joy, companionship and adventure to the lives of their new families. There's Fudge, who braved a house fi ...Show more
The Secret Language of Kittens: The Body Language of Young Cats by Tammy Gagne
Category: Nature
Kittens are not cats. They have their own very specific needs and challenges. They may scratch furniture, chew on cords, and just generally cause trouble - all while looking adorably innocent. Their first year will be one in which they learn how to use a litter box; that nipping at hands and feet is not ...Show more
Snakes and Other Reptiles of Australia by Gerry Swan
Category: Nature | Series: Green Guide Ser.
This text is intended for readers who do not know anything about snakes and other reptiles, but would like to find out about them. The book introduces all major reptile groups including snakes, crocodiles, turtles and lizards, with an emphasis on those species that the amateur naturalist and nature-love ...Show more
A Sting in the Tale : My Adventures with Bumblebees by Dave Goulson
Category: Nature
A Sunday Times bestsellerShortlisted for the 2013 Samuel Johnson PrizeDave Goulson has always been obsessed with wildlife, from his childhood menagerie of exotic pets and dabbling in experimental taxidermy to his groundbreaking research into the mysterious ways of the bumblebee and his mission to protec ...Show more
Corvus: A Life With Birds by Esther Woolfson
Category: Nature
"A satisfying read from a masterful stylist, this will appeal to any fan of nature writing or personal essays." --Publishers Weekly (starred review) Ever since her daughter rescued a fledgling rook several years ago, Esther Woolfson has been fascinated with corvids, the bird group that includes crow ...Show more
Mindful Thoughts for Birdwatchers by Adam Ford
Category: Nature | Series: Mindful Thoughts Ser.
Noticing and appreciating the awesome nature of birdlife is a spiritually affirming activity-reconnecting us to the natural world each and every day. Mindful Thoughts for Birdwatchers presents a meaningful flock of enriching thoughts on the interconnectedness of nature in this delightfully illustrated ...Show more
The Last Wilderness - A Journey into Silence by Neil Ansell
Category: Nature
Neil Ansell's THE LAST WILDERNESS is a mesmerising book on nature and solitude by a writer who has spent his lifetime taking solitary ventures into the wild. For any readers of the author's previous book, DEEP COUNTRY, Robert Macfarlane's THE OLD WAYS or William Atkins THE MOOR. Shortlisted for the 201 ...Show more
Return of the Sea Otter - The Story of the Animal That Evaded Extinction on the Pacific Coast by Todd McLeish
Category: Nature
Sea otters-the adorable, furry marine mammals that are native to the Pacific coastline from California to Alaska and beyond-are making a comeback. Nearly hunted to the point of extinction in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, these animals are a key indicator species of the health of the coastal e ...Show more
A Bright Future - How Some Countries Have Solved Climate Change and the Rest Can Follow by Joshua S. Goldstein; Staffan A. Qvist (Introduction by); Steven Pinker (Foreword by)
Category: Nature
The first book to offer a proven, fast, inexpensive, practical way to cut greenhouse gas emissions and prevent catastrophic climate change. As climate change quickly approaches a series of turning points that guarantee disastrous outcomes, a solution is hiding in plain sight. Several countries have ...Show more
The Great Naturalists by Robert Huxley
Category: Nature
From Classical times to the 19th century, the great quest to discover and define the intoxicating diversity of the natural world attracted a host of intrepid thinkers and explorers. Aristotle and Linnaeus set out to classify nature; Joseph Banks and von Humboldt made perilous journeys to collect and rec ...Show more
Sea Fever: A Seaside Companion: from buoys and bowlines to selkies and setting sail by Meg Clothier, Chris Clothier
Category: Nature
Everything you need to know about the sea and shore, from high tides to half-hitches.