The Backyard Goat: An Introductory Guide by Sue Weaver
Category: Nature
Goats aren't just for farmers anymore. More and more people are keeping goats as pets. They're also choosing to raise them for milk and fibre and are keeping them as pack goats, and companion animals. With minimal space and housing needs, goats are a practical choice for people with small backyards who ...Show more
Storey's Guide to Raising Rabbits by Bob Bennett
Category: Nature
"Storey s Guide to Raising Rabbits" is as essential to the owner of pet rabbits as it is to the farmer raising rabbits for meat or fur. Breed selection, year-round care and feeding, safe housing, humane handling, and disease prevention and treatment are all addressed.This is the classic, comprehensive, ...Show more
Storey's Guide to Raising Ducks by Dave Holderread
Category: Nature
This guide gives both the novice and experienced livestock farmer information on selection, housing, behaviour, space requirements, breeding and birthing techniques, feeding, health concerns, and remedies for illness. It also covers the business side of raising ducks.
Wild Babies by Traer Scott
Category: Nature
Bestselling author and photographer Traer Scott captures the magic and wonder of a young animal's first weeks of life in this heartwarming collection of photographs. Featuring portraits of more than 30 baby animals, Wild Babies provides a glimpse into the rarely seen world of newborn creatures. From ram ...Show more
The Plot Chickens by Mary Jane & Herman Auch
Category: Nature
Henrietta loves to read. When she clucks buk, buk, buk at the library, the librarian knows exactly what to recommend. Then Henrietta decides to write a book. With the help of her three aunties, she hatches a plot. But when Henrietta publishes her story, the critics say she's laid an egg! Is this the end ...Show more
Turning to Stone by Marcia. Bjornerud
Category: Nature
Rocks are the record of our creative planet reinventing itself for four billion years. Nothing is ever lost, just transformed.Marcia Bjornerud's life as a geologist has coincided with an extraordinary period of discovery. From an insular girlhood in rural Wisconsin, she found her way to an unlikely care ...Show more
Most Delicious Poison: From Spices to Vices - The Story of Nature's Toxins by Noah Whiteman
Category: Nature
A deadly secret lurks within our kitchens, medicine cabinets and gardens. Scratch beneath the surface of a coffee bean, a red pepper flake or an apple seed, and we find a bevy of strange chemicals. We use these to greet our days (caffeine), titillate our tongues (capsaicin) and even kill our enemies (cy ...Show more
Urban Jungle: Nature and the City from the Stone Age to the Climate Emergency by Ben Wilson
Category: Nature
An eye-opening and urgent re-examination of nature in our cities, from the Sunday Times bestselling winner of the Somerset Maugham Awards. Our modern-day cities might seem to represent our separation from the natural world. In fact, as Ben Wilson reveals in this captivating re-examination of urban land ...Show more
Humane Home - Easy Steps for Sustainable and Green Living by Sarah Lozanova
Category: Nature
Create your own unique sustainable home and life with tools, tips, and inspiration from The Humane Home. Sarah Lozanova shows us how to evaluate all the ways our lifestyle and living choices can be more sustainable, from powering our homes to the food we consume and the air we breathe. Small steps empow ...Show more
Beetles of Australia - Reed Concise Guide by Paul Zborowski
Category: Nature
This is the ultimate keep-in-your-pocket guide to Australian beetles. It may be diminutive in size but it punches well above its weight in terms of usefulness, being packed with more than 200 images covering many of the species and families most likely to be encountered in Australia. The book includes a ...Show more
Wood in Winter by JOHN LEWIS-STEMPEL
Category: Nature
One for those of us who love tales of the natural world, and who enjoy seasonal woodland walks when things lie deep and crisp and even. John Lewis-Stempel's The Wood in Winter is a beautiful piece of nature writing about the life of a wood in bleak midwinter, tying in old festivals and traditions which ...Show more
Australian Birds of Prey in Flight: A Photographic Guide by Richard Seaton; Mat Gilfedder; Stephen Debus
Category: Nature
Identify the eagles, hawks, kites and falcons flying high above you with this photographic guide. Birds of prey spend most of their time in flight and, when viewed from the ground, they are notoriously hard to identify. Australian Birds of Prey in Flight is a photographic guide to the eagles, hawks, kit ...Show more