Portland OR: Timber Press, 2015. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs. Highly photographic, this book reveals that there is much more to a seed than the plant it will someday become. Seeds, seedheads, pods, and fruits have their own astounding beauty that rivals, and sometimes even surpasses, the beauty of flowers. In..... More

Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, 2021. illustrations, maps, photographs. Describes the ecological history of food production systems in Australia, showing how Aboriginal food systems collapsed when European farming methods were imposed on bushlands. The industrialised agricultural systems that are now prevalent across the world require constant input of finite resources, and continue..... More

BirdLife International, 2009. Quarto, paperback, colour photographs, maps. There is a summary in English at the front of the book, however the content is in Chinese. The IBA Directory for mainland China is the most comprehensive inventory of key sites for biodiversity in the country. China is one of the..... More

London: A & C Black, 2009. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, maps. Shorebirds, or waders, are a very popular group of birds among birders of all standards, though their identification is often a challenge. Covering all the species of the northern hemisphere, this new photographic guide provides all the information a...... More

Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs, maps. Illustrated with maps, colour photographs, and graphics, this reference offers a comprehensive status report on the world's 60,000 parks, nature reserves, and other land and marine areas designated as protected areas. It offers an overview of what these protected..... More

Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1998. Octavo, laminated boards, colour photographs. More

London: Penguin Books, 2016. Octavo, dustwrapper, text illustrations. This book tells the story of how one man's mad mission became one of the best-loved places in the world. The creation of a zoo in Dickensian London, when only one other existed across the world, is a story of jaw-dropping audacity..... More

London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs. "Saltmarshes are often remote, inhospitable places, neither land nor sea, as hard to pin down as they are to navigate. In this saline odyssey, Clive Chatters has explored his favourite creeks, pools and mudflats to bring us an absorbing celebration of the..... More

London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014. Octavo, paperback, photographs, illustrations. This book by Nicola Chester is an accessible and lively account of an intriguing and much-loved animal that, surprisingly, is still endangered and rarely seen despite a recent resurgence that has seen it expand from the remote British countryside and into cities..... More

Walnut Creek: Left Coast Press, 2014. Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs, diagrams. Two experienced exhibit designers take you through the detailed process of design and installation of natural history exhibitions. The authors introduce the history and function of natural history museums and their importance in teaching visitors the basic..... More

Beijing: China Ornithological Society, 2007. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. China Bird Report 2006 incorporates bird records from 22 Provinces, five Autonomous Cities, 4 municipalities and one Special Administrative Region (but does not include records from Hong Kong or Taiwan), rendering it structurally comparale to the reports of the previous two..... More

Glasgow: Harper Collins Publishers, (2003. third edition). Octavo, laminated boards, colour plates, text illustrations. Includes a general introduction to insects. For each order, there is an introduction to key features and details of biology, and a further key to the insect families. The 60 colour plates illustrate 778 commonly found..... More

Kent Town: State Herbarium of South Australia, 2015. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, text illustrations. Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens Supplement 3 (2015). The State Herbarium of South Australia has now published the first part of Bob Chinnock’s revision of weedy cacti in Australia. More