Books
Aspects' prides itself on having Perth's best selection of gardening books, from Australian native flora through to garden design and propagation. Our selection also includes a wide range of books on travel, art and design, natural and cultural history, cooking, and Australian and children’s literature.
The Compost Coach Make compost, build soil and grow a regenerative garden - wherever you live! Sp...
The Compost Coach Make compost, build soil and grow a regenerative garden - wherever you live! Spin food waste and household carbon into garden gold, learn about how and why soil matters, and make climate activism an everyday mission, with compost coach Kate Flood. "The Compost Coach" is a colourful, comprehensive and accessible guide to creating the very best compost AKA garden gold. Kate is on a mission to empower readers to understand the small steps they can take every day to look after t...
$39.95
Family Road Trip GamesA Pocket Book of Games, Puzzles, Activities and Trivia to Play on the Go Br...
Family Road Trip GamesA Pocket Book of Games, Puzzles, Activities and Trivia to Play on the Go Bring the fun on your next road trip with this handy book, 'Family Road Trip Games', from beloved children's book author Jack Henseleit. Featuring over 60 new and classic games – and more than 150 brain-burning trivia questions – plus a top secret treasure hunt (yippee!), this is the definitive collection of games and puzzles for the whole family. Whether it's a fresh take on I Spy, an on-the-go sca...
$26.95
Pattern Pulse, Volume 2Exploring the Art of Australian Surface DesignersRachael King After the su...
Pattern Pulse, Volume 2Exploring the Art of Australian Surface DesignersRachael King After the success of 'Pattern Pulse', Rachael King has curated the artwork of another 100 Australian Surface Designers to release a second volume. Learn about why this corner of the art world is so dynamic, where continuously evolving digital processes allow manufacturers to print artwork on a vast array of surfaces. Dive into a glorious catalogue of colours and shapes created using analogue and digital tech...
$59.00
A Field Guide to the Eremophilas of Western Aus...
A Field Guide to the Eremophilas of Western Australia: Revised Second EditionAndrew Brown and Bev...
A Field Guide to the Eremophilas of Western Australia: Revised Second EditionAndrew Brown and Bevan Buirchell Eremophila species abound on desolate rocky hills, open spinifex plains, sparse woodlands, barren dry watercourses, and inland sand dunes that stretch to the horizon, where the only signs of human habitation are occasional fence lines, rusted remains of vehicles or rough winding tracks that meander into the distance. Aptly, their generic name, when translated, means “lover of lonely o...
$50.00
Nyoongar DictionaryRt. Rev. Bernard Rooney OSB, Emeritus Abbot of New Norcia The book includes a ...
Nyoongar DictionaryRt. Rev. Bernard Rooney OSB, Emeritus Abbot of New Norcia The book includes a comprehensive dictionary of the Nyoongar language focusing on what is now known as the northern dialect. Divided into two sections, NyoongarEnglish and EnglishNyoongar, the dictionary is the result of the author's own grassroots experience of Nyoongar as a spoken language and offers the fruits of his extensive research into the available written sources. These sources include published dictiona...
$13.50
Birds of the Perth HillsTalitha Huston Birds are plentiful and common in the Perth Hills. They ar...
Birds of the Perth HillsTalitha Huston Birds are plentiful and common in the Perth Hills. They are found in backyards, bushland, rivers and lakes. These birds thrive, living in the Jarrah-Marri forest, a type of eucalyptus forest, found only in the southwest of Western Australia. These birds range from honeyeaters to cockatoos, wrens, pigeons, thornbills, and many more. This book is not only an identification and information guide, it also includes photography tips for each bird. About the Au...
$29.95
The Compact Australian Bird Guide
The Compact Australian Bird GuideJeff Davies, Peter Menkhorst, Danny Rogers, Rohan Clarke, Peter ...
The Compact Australian Bird GuideJeff Davies, Peter Menkhorst, Danny Rogers, Rohan Clarke, Peter Marsack, Kim Franklin 'The Compact Australian Bird Guide' is an easy-to-use and beautifully illustrated quick identification guide to all bird species regularly occurring in Australia. The content has been carefully designed to provide the reader with key information to enable rapid identification of a bird, in a convenient form. Based on the award-winning 'The Australian Bird Guide', this compact...
$34.95
Noongar Boodja Waangkan: Noongar First WordsJayden Boundry, Illustrated by Tyrown Waigana Wandjoo...
Noongar Boodja Waangkan: Noongar First WordsJayden Boundry, Illustrated by Tyrown Waigana Wandjoo Noongar boodja - welcome to Noongar Country! Noongar is the language of the Noongar nation and is spoken by 14 different groups across the south-west corner of Western Australia. Written in Noongar and English, this fully illustrated collection of first Noongar words includes family, plants, animals, emotions, colours, numbers and more, with an audio link guide for pronunciation. ‘… a great way f...
$24.95
Earth and Fire: Modern potters, their tools, techniques and practicesTiffany Johnson and Kylie Jo...
Earth and Fire: Modern potters, their tools, techniques and practicesTiffany Johnson and Kylie Johnson Earth and fire represent the two elements that produce a ceramic object. Without the other they are simply components; together they create both practical objects and pieces of art. Working as both primer and inspiration, 'Earth and Fire' explores the techniques, practices and tools of over forty-five working ceramicists. Creating everything from woodfired and fine porcelain wares, sculpture...
$69.95
A Field Guide to the Flora of the Tarin Rock Re...
A Field Guide to the Flora of the Tarin Rock ReservesJolanda Keeble A guide to the flora of Tarin...
A Field Guide to the Flora of the Tarin Rock ReservesJolanda Keeble A guide to the flora of Tarin Rock Nature Reserve and Tarin Rock Water Reserve, located between Dumbleyung and Lake Grace, Western Australia, including information on fauna and fungi observed in the reserves. About the author:Born in the Netherlands, Jolanda has lived in Western Australia since 2004. Her career focused on environmental management, mainly of human-altered landscapes, but her passion lies with observing and doc...
$50.00
Australian Forest Woods: Characteristics, Uses and IdentificationMorris Lake A comprehensive guid...
Australian Forest Woods: Characteristics, Uses and IdentificationMorris Lake A comprehensive guide to 130 of the most significant Australian forest trees and their wood. The introductory sections introduce the reader to the uniqueness and usefulness of forest trees. The book examines the forest tree species and their wood with photographs, botanical descriptions and a summary of the characteristics of the wood. A section on wood identification includes fundamental information on tree growth a...
$69.95
Djerap: Noongar BirdsMaree Klesch (editor), Lois Spehn-Jackson (editor) 'Djerap' is an amazing re...
Djerap: Noongar BirdsMaree Klesch (editor), Lois Spehn-Jackson (editor) 'Djerap' is an amazing resource that has been a couple of years in the making. Djerap is a very significant publication because it is the first Noongar book to include the three contemporary Noongar dialects in one book. The cover shows the two moieties of the Noongar Nation; Waardong (Australian Raven) and Manatj (Western Long-billed Corella), representing Noongar people standing together to revive their language and cul...
$42.50