Australian Wildlife by PARISH Steve

$34.95 AUD

Category: Animals

This 2010 Whitley-Award-winning book for Popular Zoology is a full-co lour tribute to natural diversity and a journey into an exquisite galler y of Australian animal life. In Australian Wildlife, Steve Parish shares with you personally selected portraits that explain and exemplify his o ngoing passion f or all creatures great and small. Each spread, complemen ted by insightful text, highlights the incredible adaptability of nature and provides a fitting homage to the beauty of Australia's living herit age. ...Show more

Contented Bee by Organic Gardener Magazine

$35.00 AUD

Category: Animals | Series: ABC BOOKS

All the buzz on keeping backyard bees - an informative and inspirational handbook full of advice, experience and stories from experts and enthusiasts. With bees worldwide in deadly peril, Australians are keen to lend a helping hand. Keeping a hive or three has become a popular lifestyle trend - and it's more achievable than you might think.Whether you're in the inner city, suburbs or on acreage, keeping bees can be easy, low-fuss and fun for the whole family to get involved in - imagine bottling your very own honey! This lively guide features inspirational experiences and gorgeous photos from scores of enthusiasts across Australia who have sweetened their lives by keeping bees.Practical chapters by a range of experts give the low-down on getting started, caring for your bees, harvesting your honey and wax (with recipes), troubleshooting, what to plant to help out your little workers, and great information on the popular option of keeping native stingless bees.The Contented Bee will inspire you to help out the bees - and enrich your own life, too! ...Show more

Cyclops Toys Through Years by Marjory Fainges

$165.00 AUD

Category: Animals

Published in the UK in 1995. Arising from a project by the Quilters'' Guild in Britain to create a national index of quilts, this study records many different styles and traditions of quilt, and quilts with special associations. Discusses people involved in quilt making, and also topics such as patterns , applique, embellishment and embroidery, reading a quilt, and imported quilts. Includes over 170 colour illustrations and an index. ...Show more

GUNDOG TRAINING MADE EASY by BEGBIE ERIC

$36.95 AUD

Category: Animals

Nourishment - What Animals Can Teach Us about Rediscovering Our Nutritional Wisdom by Fred Provenza

$42.50 AUD

Category: Animals

Reflections on feeding body and spirit in a world of change Animal scientists have long considered domestic livestock to be too dumb to know how to eat right, but the lifetime research of animal behaviorist Fred Provenza and his colleagues has debunked this myth. Their work shows that when given a choic e of natural foods, livestock have an astoundingly refined palate, nibbling through the day on as many as fifty kinds of grasses, forbs, and shrubs to meet their nutritional needs with remarkable precision. In Nourishment Provenza presents his thesis of the wisdom body, a wisdom that links flavor-feedback relationships at a cellular level with biochemically rich foods to meet the body's nutritional and medicinal needs. Provenza explores the fascinating complexity of these relationships as he raises and answers thought-provoking questions about what we can learn from animals about nutritional wisdom. What kinds of memories form the basis for how herbivores, and humans, recognize foods? Can a body develop nutritional and medicinal memories in utero and early in life? Do humans still possess the wisdom to select nourishing diets? Or, has that ability been hijacked by nutritional "authorities"? Consumers eager for a "quick fix" have empowered the multibillion-dollar-a-year supplement industry, but is taking supplements and enriching and fortifying foods helping us, or is it hurting us? On a broader scale Provenza explores the relationships among facets of complex, poorly understood, ever-changing ecological, social, and economic systems in light of an unpredictable future. To what degree do we lose contact with life-sustaining energies when the foods we eat come from anywhere but where we live? To what degree do we lose the mythological relationship that links us physically and spiritually with Mother Earth who nurtures our lives? Provenza's paradigm-changing exploration of these questions has implications that could vastly improve our health through a simple change in the way we view our relationships with the plants and animals we eat. Our health could be improved by eating biochemically rich foods and by creating cultures that know how to combine foods into meals that nourish and satiate. Provenza contends the voices of "authority" disconnect most people from a personal search to discover the inner wisdom that can nourish body and spirit. That journey means embracing wonder and uncertainty and avoiding illusions of stability and control as we dine on a planet in a universe bent on consuming itself. ...Show more

The Cambridge Companion to Horseracing by Rebecca Cassidy

$34.95 AUD

Category: Horses

People have been racing horses for thousands of years, all over the world. Yet horseracing is often presented as an English creation that was exported, unaltered, to the colonies. This Companion investigates the intersection of racing and literature, art, history and finance, casting the sport as the pr oduct of cross-class, cosmopolitan and international influences. Chapters on racing history and the origins of the thoroughbred demonstrate how the gift of a fast horse could forge alliances between nations, and the extent to which international power dynamics can be traced back to racetracks and breeding sheds. Leading scholars and journalists draw on original research and firsthand experience to create portraits of the racetracks of Newmarket, Kentucky, the Curragh, and Hunter Valley, exposing readers to new racing frontiers in China and Dubai as well. A unique resource for fans and scholars alike, reopening essential questions regarding the legacy and importance of horseracing today. ...Show more

They're Racing at Manangatang - FIRM by Adam McNicol (Introduction by); Noel Butcher (Photographer); Andrew Chapman (Photographer); Jaime Murcia (Photographer)

$45.00 AUD

Category: Horses

A beautifully produced photo book celebrating 100 years of racing at Manangatang. Features the work of acclaimed documentary photographers Noel Butcher, Andrew Chapman and Jaime Murcia.

51 Puppy Tricks by Kyra Sundance

$34.99 AUD

Category: Animals

51 Puppy Tricks gives puppy owners the tools they need to teach behaviors and tricks to their puppy through step-by-step instructions and photographs. Most other puppy training books focus on curbing bad behavior. Some have training, but only the most basic tricks. Kyra’s curriculum differs from that of 101 Dog Tricks in that the instructions are geared for the less mature dog. Young puppies are not yet well-tuned to humans, and respond better to a clicker than to a voice. Also, young puppies have so few skills that everyone benefits from a technique called “shaping” which breaks a behavior into minute steps for easier learning. And, of course, puppies receive extra gentle care when we teach, focused more on instilling a love of learning and a communication pathway rather than accomplishing the goal behavior. ...Show more

A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings by Helen Jukes

$35.00 AUD

Category: Animals

'This book has found a special place in my heart. It's as strange, beautiful and unexpected, as precise and exquisite in its movings, as bees in a hive. I loved it' HELEN MACDONALD, author of H IS FOR HAWK 'Everyone should own A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings ... Jukes is a gloriously gifted writer an d her book ought to become a key text of this bright moment in our history of nature writing' Observer 'Written finely and insightful' Guardian   A fascinating, insightful and inspiring account of a novice beekeeper's year of keeping honeybees, which will appeal to readers of H is For Hawk and The Outrun. Entering her thirties, Helen Jukes feels trapped in an urban grind of office politics and temporary addresses - disconnected, stressed. Struggling to settle into her latest job and home in Oxford, she realises she needs to effect a change if she's to create a meaningful life for herself, one that can accommodate comfort and labour and love. Then friends give her the gift of a colony of honeybees - according to folklore, bees freely given bring luck - and Helen embarks on her first full year of beekeeping. But what does it mean to 'keep' wild creatures? In learning about the bees, what can she learn of herself? And can travelling inside the hive free her outside it?   A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings is at once a fascinating exploration of the honeybee and the hive, the practices of honey-gathering and the history of our observation of bees; and a beautifully wrought meditation on responsibility and care, on vulnerability and trust, on forging bonds and breaking new ground. 'This is classic modern nature-writing; a synthesis of scientific learning, observation and the author's response. And like all good nature writing, it also - quietly, clearly and insistently - requires us, too, to respond' Countryfile Magazine 'An intimate exploration of the heart and home, and a tantalising glimpse into an alien culture. A brave and delicate book, rich and fascinating' Nick Hunt, author of Where the Wild Winds Are 'Subtly wrought personal journey into the art and science of beekeeping' nature 'A mesmeric, lovely, quietly powerful book. A gentle but compelling account of the redemption that comes from relationship and attention' Charles Foster, author of Being a Beast 'A profound, funny and sometimes deeply moving book that describes a year of inner city bee keeping, while dancing between the history of bees and us and what it means to be human in our modern world'  Julia Blackburn, author of Threads: The Delicate Life of John Craske 'A very human story about the aliens gathering  in her back garden - bees, fascinating but almost unknowable. Their wildness and her duty to them help open up a desk rat's uninspiring life to all the possibilities of love, care, connection and sheer wonder. It is a lovely, entirely personal journey into the very heart of the hive' Michael Pye 'I raced through this really terrific, down-to-earth read. The existential threat to our entire ecosystem posed by the problems facing bees can be hard to grasp, but Helen manages to make this a very personal, human story that, hopefully, might inspire others to action' Luke Turner, The Quietus ...Show more

An Essential Guide to Choosing Your Marine Tropical Fish by Dick Mills

$16.95 AUD

Category: Animals | Series: Tankmaster Ser.

An Introduction to Marine Life by Robin Wilson

$29.95 AUD

Category: Animals | Series: Museum Victoria Field Guide

For many people, the first experience of marine environments is amazement at the bewildering variety of life in the oceans. Sea anemones and corals, sea stars and sea urchins, octopuses and squids are just a few marine creatures that we never encounter on land or in freshwater. Many other creatures are even less familiar, and it is often difficult for those interested in marine life to learn more about them. The aim of this introductory book is to introduce the diversity of life in the seas and to help newcomers to marine biology recognise the main kinds of marine organisms. The examples selected, focus on Victoria and southern Australia. The emphasis is on animals and plants that are commonly seen by divers, snorkellers, beachcombers, rock poolingers, and by anyone with an interest in marine life. ...Show more

At the Track by Barry Wood

$29.99 AUD

Category: Horses

Following the best-selling Off the Track comes At the Track -- a romp of intrigue, fascination, failures and great track triumphs. Join brothers Barry and Alan Wood as they once again explore the wonderful world history of horse racing. Includes the great thoroughbreds, the colourful personalities and t he champions. ...Show more