Europe: A Natural History by Tim Flannery
$34.99 AUD
Category: LAND/ENVIRONMENT | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
It is hard to overstate just how unusual Europe was towards the end of the age of the dinosaurs. It was a dynamic island arc whose individual landmasses were made up of diverse geological types, including ancient continental fragments, raised segments of oceanic crust, and land newly minted by volcanic ...Show more
Landscapes of Our Hearts by Matthew Colloff
$34.99 AUD
Category: LAND/ENVIRONMENT
On this ancient continent, waves of people have made their mark on the landscape; in turn, it too has shaped them. If we look afresh at our history through the land we live on, might Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians find a path to a shared future? An epic exploration of our relationship with th ...Show more
False Alarm - How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet by Bjorn Lomborg
$45.00 AUD
Category: LAND/ENVIRONMENT
The New York Times-bestselling "skeptical environmentalist" argues that panic over climate change is causing more harm than goodHurricanes batter our coasts. Wildfires rage across the American West. Glaciers collapse in the Artic. Politicians, activists, and the media espouse a common message: climate c ...Show more
Secret Network of Nature by Peter Wohlleben
$29.99 AUD
Category: LAND/ENVIRONMENT
'Peter Wohlleben doesn't merely look, he sees. Let's all learn as much from him as we can, and quickly.'Rosamund Young, author of THE SECRET LIFE OF COWSDid you know that trees can influence the rotation of the earth?Or that wolves can alter the course of a river?Or that earthworms control wild boar pop ...Show more
Losing Earth: The Decade We Could Have Stopped Climate Change by Nathaniel Rich
$32.99 AUD
Category: LAND/ENVIRONMENT | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
By 1979, we knew all that we know now about the science of climate change - what was happening, why it was happening, and how to stop it. Over the next ten years, we had the very real opportunity to stop it. Obviously, we failed. Nathaniel Rich's groundbreaking account of that failure - and how tantali ...Show more
Superpower: Australias Low Carbon Opportunity by Ross Garnaut
$22.99 AUD
Category: LAND/ENVIRONMENT | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
'The fog of Australian politics on climate change has obscured a fateful reality- Australia has the potential to be an economic superpower of the future post-carbon world.'-Ross Garnaut We have unparalleled renewable energy resources. We also have the necessary scientific skills. Australia could be the ...Show more
Worlds Most Endangered by Sophie McCallum
$29.99 AUD
Category: LAND/ENVIRONMENT
World's Most Endangered offers a fascinating facts and mind-blowing information on some of the world's rarest creatures. It focuses on 25 species of mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians which are classified as Critically Endangered by the WWF and IUCN. Each account begins with stunning photograph ...Show more
Life: Selected Writings by Tim Flannery
$39.99 AUD
Category: LAND/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
Summertime: Reflections on a Fractured Future by Danielle Celermajer
$24.99 AUD
Category: LAND/ENVIRONMENT
Philosopher Danielle Celermajer's story of Jimmy the pig caught the world's attention during the Black Summer of 2019-20. Gathered here is that story and others written in the shadow of the bushfires that ravaged Australia. In the midst of the death and grief of animals, humans, trees and ecologies Cele ...Show more
An Extraordinary Land: Discoveries and Mysteries from Wild New Zealand by Peter Hayden
$9.99 AUD
Category: LAND/ENVIRONMENT
New Zealand is an extraordinary land. It has been called ‘the closest thing to life on another planet’ and ‘a planetary lifeboat’. The main reason behind our uniqueness is that our islands have remained an isolated outpost for life in the midst of the ocean. This isolation has been a huge advantage. It ...Show more
Hazelwood by Tom Doig
$34.99 AUD
Category: LAND/ENVIRONMENT | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
Early in the afternoon of 9 February 2014, during the worst drought and heatwave south-eastern Australia had experienced in over a century, two separate bushfires raged towards the massive Hazelwood open-pit brown-coal mine, near Morwell in the Latrobe Valley. The fires overwhelmed local fire-fighting e ...Show more
Apocalypse Never Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All by Michael Shellenberger
$34.99 AUD
Category: LAND/ENVIRONMENT
Climate change is real but it's not the end of the world. It is not even our most serious environmental problem. Michael Shellenberger has been fighting for a greener planet for decades. He helped save the world's last unprotected redwoods. He co-created the predecessor to today's Green New Deal. And h ...Show more