Carlton South: Melbourne University Press, 2007. Octavo, paperback, black and white illustrations. Australia's long-unresolved forest conflict has been the make-or-break factor in federal elections, with both parties often arguing that the four-decade-old forest conflict has no practical solution. This work proposes a forest policy for Australia, calling on individuals in..... More
London: Harper Collins Publishers, 2011. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, line drawings. New Naturalist 116. In the past, emphasis has mainly been placed on ways to protect cultivated plants from attack or damage, nowadays our over-reliance on pesticides has been replaced by a far more enlightened approach to plant protection. While..... More
Brisbane: Department of Primary Industries, 2003. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, maps. The book is a valuable resource for graziers, land owners and managers, naturalists, conservationists, land care groups and anyone else interested in Australian vegetation. This book clearly describes and illustrates 240 plants of central Queensland so that they can..... More
St Louis: Missouri Botanical Garden, 1997. reprint). Octavo, dustwrapper, BRAND NEW. Edgar Anderson understood plants' fundamental relationship to man's life on Earth and his writings help us understand it by posing a series of questions. More
Clayton South: CSIRO Publishing, 2016. Quarto, laminated boards, colour photographs, maps. The book provides information on the habitat, distribution, foliage and fruits of 525 plant species. Central Queensland straddles the Tropic of Capricorn, although many of the plants in the book will also be found outside this area, as shown..... More
Kew: Royal Botanic Gardens, 2015. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs. Pollination Power is a visually spectacular insight into the hidden secrets of plant pollination, unravelling the deceit, tricks and rewards that plant bestow upon their pollinators. Throughout the book, full page colour photographs are accompanied with extended captions, telling the stories..... More
Edinburgh: Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh, 2003. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. This book for rhododendron lovers of all persuasions covers a broad range of topics presented at the Rhododendron Conference in 2002. The Conference, held at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, brought together scientists, horticulturists and rhododendron enthusiasts. The subjects covered..... More
Collingwood: CSIRO Publishing, 2013. Octavo, paperback, line drawings, maps. Volume 26 of the Flora of Australia series describes three families of plants, Meliaceae, Rutaceae and Zygophyllaceae, consisting of 61 genera and 588 species. Meliaceae is a largely tropical family and includes the well-known Toona ciliata, Red Cedar, as well as..... More
[East Lothian]: Author, 2014. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, line drawings. Aids in the identification of the 700 most common plant species found in Britain and Ireland. Also includes species that are conspicuous or useful ecological indicators. There is also a separate habitats section describing the flora, ecology and management of..... More
Oxford: John Beaufoy Publishing, 2010. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. This is an easy-to-use identification guide to 280 species of mushroom and toadstool most commonly found in Britain, Ireland, and other parts of Northern Europe. The user-friendly introduction includes an overview of distribution, habitats, mushroom structure and nomenclature. There is useful..... More
Oxford: John Beaufoy Publishing, 2012. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. A user-friendly introduction includes an overview of distribution, the anatomy of a mushroom, nomenclature and useful information on hunting for and cooking with mushrooms. The identification section then divides into three categories: edible mushrooms, inedible (but not poisonous) mushrooms, and poisonous..... More
Peterborough: Redfern Natural History Productions, 2016. Octavo, paperback, limp plastic, colour photographs, line drawings, maps. This fully illustrated guide to the carnivorous plants of Britain and Ireland features over 200 images and documents all recognised native species and their hybrids, as well as the non-native species that have become naturalised..... More
Dingwall: Sandstone Press, 2015. Small quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs, maps. In this book Clifton Bain focuses on the mixed oak, birch and other woodlands that line the west coasts of, north to south, Scotland, Northern England, Wales and Ireland. Correctly described as a rainforest, these trees take a higher rainfall..... More
Glen Forrest: Off Pen Publishing, 2012. Oblong format, laminated boards, colour photographs. A beautiful photographic book capturing the essence of spring in the south west of Western Australia. More
Irvington: Columbia University Press, 2002. Octavo, paperback, illustrations. With a lively, authoritative text and over 900 colour photographs, line drawings, and detailed maps, this is the ultimate compact field guide to trees of the Big Apple and the surrounding area. More
Clayton South: CSIRO Publishing, (2016. second edition). Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, maps. This book provides a comprehensive photographic guide to all plants known to occur in the bushlands of Kings Park and Bold Park. There are 778 species included, both native and introduced representing approximately one quarter of all the..... More
South Yarra: Pan Macmillan, 2016. Octavo, paperback, photographs, illustrations, maps. This meticulously researched biography tells the extraordinary story of Georgiana Molloy, one of Australia's first internationally successful female botanists. From the refined beauty of 19th century England and Scotland, to the dramatic landscape of the West Australian coast, Georgiana Molloy..... More
Kota Kinabalu: Natural History Publications/Royal Botanic Gardens, 2001. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs. The Plants of Mount Kinabalu provides an inventory of all vascular plants in the flora of Mount Kinabalu. Volume 4 contains historical aspects of plant collecting on Kinabalu, a biographical sketch of two of the most important collectors..... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. Octavo, laminated boards, black and white illustrations. In The emerald planet, David Beerling puts plants centre stage, revealing the crucial role they have played in driving global changes in the environment, in recording hidden facets of Earth's history, and in helping us to predict its..... More
London: John Wiley and Sons, 2010. Octavo, laminated boards, illustrations. Provides a comprehensive guide to temperate freshwater algae, with additional information on key species in relation to environmental characteristics and implications for aquatic management. The book uniquely combines practical material on techniques and water quality management with basic algal taxonomy..... More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. Octavo, paperback, illustrations. A fascinating and wide-ranging look at the natural history of flowers - how they look, what they do, and their often hidden interactions with the surrounding environment and other living organisms upon which they depend for their survival. More
New York: Parkstone Press, 2010. Small octavo, dustwrapper, colour Illustrations. This small format book is based on the work of Basilius Besler, the famous plant expert who, for the first time in history, described, painted and engraved over a thousand species of plants. More
Warsaw: WWF, 2005. Large octavo, paperback, colour photographs, other illustrations. This book adeptly describes the life after death of trees - an interesting and diverse life it turns out to be. While we humans are used to thinking about dead trees as a hazard or a waste, this book makes..... More
Portland OR: Timber Press, 2015. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs, maps. Steppes are giant grasslands, defined not only by their plants, but also by the geology and climate that created them. They comprise enormous areas on four continents and are where a huge number of staple crops and garden plants originated..... More
London: Manson Publishing, 2010. Quarto, laminated boards, colour photographs. Subject areas covered include ecology and conservation, tree anatomy and evolution, pathology, silviculture, propagation and surgery. The different chapters cover trees from various world habitats, from northern boreal and montane coniferous forests to tropical and subtropical rainforests. The book is fully..... More