A Warning from the Golden Toad by Tim Flannery
13.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Penguin Green Ideas
Taking us on an extraordinary journey into the past and around the globe, from coral reefs to the North Pole, deserts to rainforests, Tim Flannery tells the story of the earth's climate, and how we have changed it.
What I Stand for Is What I Stand On (Penguin Green Ideas series) by Wendell Berry
13.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Penguin Green Ideas
From the ravages of the global economy to the great pleasures of growing a garden, these powerful essays represent a heartfelt call for humankind to mend our broken relationship with the earth, and with each other.
Man's War Against Nature (Penguin Green Ideas series) by Rachel Carson
13.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Penguin Green Ideas
Here, with the precision of a scientist and the simplicity of a fable, she reveals how man-made pesticides have destroyed wildlife, creating a world of polluted streams and silent songbirds.
Food Rules: An Eater's Manual (Penguin Green Ideas series) by Michael Pollan
13.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Penguin Green Ideas
Eat food. Mostly plants. Not too much. Using those seven words as his guide, Michael Pollan offers this indispensable handbook for anyone concerned about health and food. Simple, sensible and easy to use, Food Rules is a set of memorable adages or 'personal policies' for eating wisely, gathered from a w ...Show more
Think Like a Mountain by Aldo Leopold
13.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Green Ideas
In this lyrical meditation on the American wilderness, Leopold considers the different ways humans shape the natural landscape, and describes for the first time the far-reaching phenomenon now known as 'trophic cascades'.
The Mind of God: Popular Penguins by Paul Davies
14.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Paul Davies' The Mind of God is a scientific search for the meaning of the universe. Ranging across the cosmos, Davies explores the origin of the universe, the laws of nature, mathematics, the beginning and end of everything. Ultimately, he seeks to provide a glimpse the meaning of it all. This is a boo ...Show more
My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
14.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
My Family and Other Animalsis the bewitching account of a rare and magical childhood on the island of Corfu by treasured British conservationist Gerald Durrell. Escaping the ills of the British climate, the Durrell family - acne-ridden Margo, gun-toting Leslie, bookworm Lawrence and budding naturalist G ...Show more
The Beautiful and Damned by F Scott Fitzgerald
14.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Popular Penguins
The Beautiful and Damned By F. Scott Fitzgerald This political novel presents sexual, as well as parliamentary, politics. It contains some of Meredith's best writing, and some of his most sensitive portrayals of women. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Librar ...Show more
Generals Die in Bed: War Popular Penguins by Charles Yale Harrison
14.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguins | Series: War Popular Penguins Ser.
All war is hell. But for troops serving in World War I, it was the bloodiest trench warfare ever known. GENERALS DIE IN BED is a first-hand account of one young man catapulted from new recruit to walking wounded on the Western Front.From day one, he's surrounded by mud and fear. Artillery whistles down ...Show more
The Penguin Book of Dragons by Scott G. Bruce
35.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguins
Two thousand years of legend and lore about the menace and majesty of dragons, which have breathed fire into our imaginations from ancient Rome to Game of Thrones A Penguin Classic The most popular mythological creature in the human imagination, dragons have provoked fear and fascination for their letha ...Show more
The Penguin Book of Oulipo - Queneau, Perec, Calvino and the Adventure of Form by Philip Terry (Editor)
26.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Lovers of word games and literary puzzles will relish this indispensable anthology.' - The Guardian 'At times, you simply have to stand back in amazement.' - Daily Telegraph 'Philip Terry's collection is packed with fabulous, wide-ranging work that displays the full ingenuity, brio and originality of O ...Show more
The Haunted Hotel by Wilkie Collins
14.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
"An eminent doctor is visited by a desperate woman with a question- am I evil, or insane? When the letters from Italian servant to his wife in London suddenly cease, she is convinced he has been murdered. In the darkened bedroom of a mouldering palazzo by the Grand Canal, an English lord sickens and sud ...Show more