Coral Reefs: A Natural History by Charles Sheppard
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Category: Nature and Science
Corals are among the most varied lifeforms on Earth, ranging from mushroom corals and leather corals to button polyps, sea fans, anemones, and pulse corals. Bridging the gap between plant and animal, these marine invertebrates serve as homes to reef fish and share symbiotic relationships with photosynth ...Show more
A Field Guide to the Mammals of Australia by Peter Menkhorst
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Category: Plants and Animals
This fully revised and updated edition of A Field Guide to the Mammals of Australia is the only comprehensive guide to identifying all 382 species of mammals known in Australia. This book provides concise and accurate details of the appearance, diagnostic features, distribution, habitat, and key behavio ...Show more
Inner Worlds Outer Spaces by Ceridwen Dovey
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Category: Nature and Science | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
What does it feel like to be passionate about your daily work? How do people find their way into fascinating, unusually fulfilling careers, even against the odds? Space lawyers and bibliotherapists; euthanasia activists and women's rugby champions; shark experts and solar power visionaries; a master per ...Show more
The Moral Landscape by Sam Harris
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Category: Nature and Science
In this highly anticipated new book, the bestselling author of The End of Faith and Letter to a Christian Nation call for an end to religion's monopoly on morality and human values. The End of Faith ignited a worldwide debate about the validity of religion. In the aftermath, Sam Harris discovered that ...Show more
The Plant Thieves: Secrets of the herbarium by Prudence Gibson
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Category: Nature and Science
The Plant Thieves reveals remarkable stories from the National Herbarium of New South Wales — its people, its archives and its most guarded specimens.Who gets to collect plants, name them, propagate them, extract their chemicals, sell them and use them? Whose knowledge is it? And what can the people tha ...Show more
The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard
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Category: Nature and Science | Reading Level: good-very good
A beloved multidisciplinary treatise comes to Penguin Classics Rare is the work of philosophy that invites both the casual reader and the academic. Rare, too, is the text so universal that luminaries across an array of fields lay claim to it. Yet, that is precisely the case with Gaston Bachelard’s The P ...Show more
Chariots of the Gods? by Erich von Daniken
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Category: Nature and Science
All over the world there are fantastic ruins and objects which cannot yet be explained by conventional theories. Erich von Daniken's book, which has sold 11 million English language copies, comes up with some controversial explanations.
Vesper Flights - New and Collected Essays by Helen Macdonald
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Category: Nature and Science | Reading Level: very good
Animals don't exist to teach us things, but that is what they have always done, and most of what they teach us is what we think we know about ourselves. From the internationally acclaimed author of H is for Hawk comes Vesper Flights, a transcendent collection of essays about the human relationship to th ...Show more
Photographic Guide to Common Australian Trees by Denise Grieg
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Category: Nature and Science | Series: Photographic Guides Ser.
A photographic guide to over 200 Australian trees. For each species there is a colour photograph, and facts listed include measurement, habitat, abundance and distribution, as well as a description. The guide should be suitable for both beginners and the more knowledgeable.
In Plain Sight: An Investigation into UFOs and Impossible Science by Ross Coulthart
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Category: Nature and Science
An award-winning journalist investigates a story largely ignored by mainstream media but right there, in front of our eyes ... Investigative journalist Ross Coulthart has been intrigued by UFOs since mysterious glowing lights were reported near New Zealand's Kaikoura mountains when he was a teenager. Th ...Show more
Nature's Temples: A Natural History of Old-Growth Forests Revised and Expanded by Joan Maloof
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Category: Nature and Science
An impassioned case for the importance of ancient forests and their preservation Standing in an old-growth forest, you can instinctively sense the ways it is different from forests shaped by humans. These ancient, undisturbed ecosystems are increasingly rare and largely misunderstood. Nature's Templ ...Show more
Toxic: The Rotting Underbelly of the Tasmanian Salmon Industry by Richard Flanagan
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Category: Nature and Science
Is Tasmanian salmon one big lie? In a triumph of marketing, the Tasmanian salmon industry has for decades succeeded in presenting itself as world’s best practice and its product as healthy and clean, grown in environmentally pristine conditions. What could be more appealing than the idea of Atlantic sal ...Show more