365 Ways to Change the World : How to make a difference - one day at a time by Michael Norton
$12.50 AUD
Category: Environment
The ultimate answer for anyone who has ever asked "how can I make a difference?", this ingenious handbook shows how the smallest actions can impact on your local community and the wider world. First published 2006.
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Environment | Series: Penguin Classics
Rachel Carson's Silent Spring was first published in three serialized excerpts in the New Yorker in June of 1962. The book appeared in September of that year and the outcry that followed its publication forced the banning of DDT and spurred revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and ...Show more
Requiem for a Species: Why We Resist the Truth About Climate Change by Clive Hamilton
$24.99 AUD
Category: Environment
We know how dire the future looks. We know how little time we have left to act. Yet we continue to ignore the warnings . One of Australia's sharpest thinkers explores the reasons why and offers his vison of our new future.
The Sea Around Us by Rachel Carson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Environment | Series: Canons Ser.
The Sea Around Us is one of the most influential books ever written about the natural world. In it Rachel Carson tells the history of our oceans, combining scientific insight and poetic prose as only she can, to take us from the creation of the oceans, through their role in shaping life on Earth, to wha ...Show more
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses by Robin Wall Kimmerer
$22.99 AUD
Category: Environment
Living at the limits of our ordinary perception, mosses are a common but largely unnoticed element of the natural world. Gathering Moss is a beautifully written mix of science and personal reflection that invites readers to explore and learn from the elegantly simple lives of mosses.In these interwoven ...Show more
The Last Elephants by Colin Bell; Don Pinnock
$50.00 AUD
Category: Environment
Amazing photographs of elephants accompany narratives from researchers, scientists, and conservationists celebrating elephants and calling for their preservation African savanna elephants--among the most magnificent and beloved of our fellow mammals--are an extraordinary, social, and intelligent species ...Show more
Making Peace with the Earth: Beyond Resource, Land and Food Wars by Shiva Vandana
$36.95 AUD
Category: Environment
In this compelling and rigorously documented exposition, Vandana Shiva demolishes the myths propagated by corporate globalisation in its pursuit of profit and power and shows its devastating environmental impact. Shiva argues that consumerism lubricates the war against the earth and that corporate c ...Show more
We Belong to Gaia by James Lovelock
$9.99 AUD
Category: Environment | Series: Penguin Non Fiction Classics
James Lovelock draws on decades of wisdom to lay out the history of our remarkable planet, to show that it is not ours to be exploited - and warns us that it is fighting back. Over the past 75 years, a new canon has emerged. As life on Earth has become irrevocably altered by humans, visionary thinkers a ...Show more
Soil Not Oil by Vandana Shiva
$29.95 AUD
Category: Environment
Climate change will dramatically alter how we live. It is already affecting the lives of the world's most vulnerable people. In Soil Not Oil, Vandana Shiva connects the food crisis, peak oil, and climate change to show that a world beyond a dependence on fossil fuel and globalisation is both possible an ...Show more
Lost Woods by Rachel Carson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Environment | Series: Canons Ser.
'Our origins are of the earth. And so there is in us a deeply seated response to the natural universe, which is part of our humanity.' Rachel Carson was one of the most important environmental thinkers and writers of the twentieth century. This collection brings together previously unpublished work, ess ...Show more
Thylacine: The History, Ecology and Loss of the Tasmanian Tiger by Gareth Linnard
$59.99 AUD
Category: Environment
Thylacine: The History, Ecology and Loss of the Tasmanian Tiger is a comprehensive exploration of this unique animal. Until the mid-20th century, the thylacine was the world’s largest carnivorous marsupial, and its disappearance has left many questions and contradictions. Alternately portrayed as both a ...Show more