Land's Edge: A Coastal Memoir by Tim Winton
$29.95 AUD
Category: Environment
In this record of a life-long love affair with the sea, Tim Winton's prose ripples, shimmers and surges with awe and respect for how the ocean has not only sustained him physically and emotionally but determined the very rhythms of his life.' Fiona Capp, The Age On childhood holidays to the beach the su ...Show more
Firestorm by Greg Mullins
$34.99 AUD
Category: Environment
Combines thrilling stories of what it's like to be on the front line of Australia's first giga-fire with the hard truths of human-caused climate change, and what we do about it. Greg Mullins followed his father into fighting bushfires - it was in the blood. He fought major fires around Sydney and the Bl ...Show more
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
What We Need to Do Now - A Green Deal to Ensure a Habitable Earth by Chris Goodall
$24.99 AUD
Category: Environment
What We Need To Do Now sets out a comprehensive programme of action to counter the threats to our environment. The book emphasises the importance, and relative simplicity, of decarbonising our energy supply but also stresses that this is a small part of the switch to a sustainable planet. Among many oth ...Show more
Food Fix - How to Save Our Health, Our Economy, Our Communities, and Our Planet - One Bite at a Time by Mark Hyman
$32.99 AUD
Category: Environment
Our most powerful tool to reverse the global epidemic of chronic disease, heal the environment, reform politics, and revive economies is food. What we eat has tremendous implications not just for our waistlines, but also for the planet, society, and the global economy. What we do to our bodies, we do to ...Show more
Wild Cities by Ben Lerwill
$29.99 AUD
Category: Environment
Picture a city. What do you see? Traffic and tower blocks? Or maybe you imagine something a little . . . wilder? These are the astonishing stories of the animals who are adapting to live in our urban world - and how you can help them to thrive. From the pitter patter of city penguins, to the screech o ...Show more
Ancient Bones - UnEarthing the Astonishing new story of how we became human by Madelaine Bohme; Rüdiger Braun; Florian Breier
$35.00 AUD
Category: Environment
A leading paleontologist discovers the missing link in human evolution.Somewhere west of Munich, Madelaine B hme and her colleagues dig for clues to the origins of humankind. What they discover is beyond anything they imagined- the fossilised bones of Danuvius guggenmosiignite a global media frenzy. Thi ...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
Here On Earth: An Argument for Hope by Tim Flannery
$24.99 AUD
Category: Environment
Tim Flannery's first major book since The Weather Makers charts the history of life on our planet. Here on Earth, which draws its points of departure from Darwin and Wallace, Lovelock and Dawkins, is an extraordinary exploration of evolution and sustainability. Our success as a species has had disastrou ...Show more
Life: Selected Writings by Tim Flannery
$39.99 AUD
Category: Environment | Reading Level: near fine
Tim Flannery is one of the world's great thinkers, environmental scientists and writers. Sir David Attenborough once described him as being 'in the league of the all-time great explorers like Dr David Livingstone.' This definitive collection of his work brings together thirty years of essays, speeches a ...Show more
On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal by Naomi Klein
$19.99 AUD
Category: Environment
#1 New York Times and internationally bestselling author Naomi Klein makes the case for a Green New Deal in this "keenly argued, well-researched, and impassioned" manifesto (The Washington Post). An instant bestseller, On Fire shows Klein at her most prophetic and philosophical, investigating the clim ...Show more
Climate Justice: A man-made problem with a feminist solution by Mary Robinson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Environment
The antidote for your climate change paralysis. --Sierra MagazineAn urgent call to arms by one of the most important voices in the international fight against climate change, sharing inspiring stories and offering vital lessons for the path forward. Holding her first grandchild in her arms in 2003, Ma ...Show more