Flames of Extinction: The race to save Australia’s threatened wildlife by John Pickrell
$29.99 AUD
Category: Environment
Over Australia's 2019–20 Black Summer bushfire season, scientists estimate that more than three billion native animals were killed or displaced. Many species — koalas, the regent honeyeater, glossy black cockatoo, the platypus — are inching towards extinction at the hands of mega-blazes and the changing ...Show more
The Green Planet (HB) by Simon Barnes
$49.99 AUD
Category: Environment
Accompanying a major BBC series from the team behind Planet Earth II and presented by David Attenborough, a fascinating exploration of the hidden life of plants - by Sunday Times bestselling author Simon Barnes. There's something new under the sunPlants live secret, unseen lives - hidden in their magic ...Show more
Why You Should Give a F*ck About Farming by Gabrielle Chan
$34.99 AUD
Category: Environment
'Australia has no national food security policy. No national agriculture policy. We know what has been going on with water allocations and there is still no national response. Those with the means and access shop at farmer's market and order their brunch referring to the origins of their eggs, bacon, bu ...Show more
The Future We Choose: The Stubborn Optimist's Guide to the Climate Crisis by Christiana Figueres, Tom Rivett-Carnac
$24.99 AUD
Category: Environment
Climate change: it is arguably the most urgent and consequential issue humankind has ever faced. How we address it in the next thirty years will determine the kind of world we will live in and will bequeath to our children and to theirs. In The Future We Choose, Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Ca ...Show more
Signs and Wonders: Dispatches from a time of beauty and loss by Delia Falconer
$32.99 AUD
Category: Environment
The celebrated, Walkley Award-winning author on how global warming is changing not only our climate but our culture. Beautifully observed, brilliantly argued and deeply felt, these essays show that our emotions, our art, our relationships with the generations around us – all the delicate networks that ...Show more
Sunburnt Country: The History and Future of Climate Change in Australia by Joëlle Gergis
$34.99 AUD
Category: Environment
What was Australia's climate like before official weather records began? How do scientists use tree-rings, ice cores and tropical corals to retrace the past? What do Indigenous seasonal calendars reveal? And what do settler diary entries about rainfall, droughts, bushfires and snowfalls tell us about na ...Show more
Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming by Paul Hawken
$35.00 AUD
Category: Environment
For the first time ever, an international coalition of leading researchers, scientists and policymakers has come together to offer a set of realistic and bold solutions to climate change. All of the techniques described here - some well-known, some you may have never heard of - are economically viable, ...Show more
Climate Change Denial : Heads in the Sand by Haydn Washington
$34.95 AUD
Category: Environment
Humans have always used denial. When we are afraid, guilty, confused, or when something interferes with our self-image, we tend to deny it. Yet denial is a delusion. When it impacts on the health of oneself, or society, or the world it becomes a pathology. Climate change denial is such a case. Paradoxic ...Show more
Forces Of Nature by Brian Cox
$19.99 AUD
Category: Environment | Reading Level: very good
Sunday Times Bestseller A breathtaking and beautiful exploration of our planet, this groundbreaking book accompanies the BBC One TV series, providing the deepest answers to the simplest questions. How did life on Earth begin?What is the nature of space and time?What are the chances that we will discover ...Show more
Future Shock by Alvin Toffler
$14.99 AUD
Category: Environment
Examines the effects of rapid industrial and technological changes upon the individual, the family, and society.
The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans by David Abulafia
$69.99 AUD
Category: Environment
David Abulafia begins with the earliest of seafaring societies - the Polynesians of the Pacific, the possessors of intuitive navigational skills, long before the invention of the compass, who by the first century were trading between their far-flung islands. By the seventh century, trading routes stretc ...Show more