Wilderness - Celebrating Australia's Protected Places by Warner Design (Designed by, Cover Design by)
$75.00 AUD
Category: Environmental Studies
On a winter's day in 1976, a band of young conservationists gathered at the foot of Tasmania's highlands to create a new organisation, the Tasmanian Wilderness Society. The ensuing battle to save the Franklin River from being dammed for hydroelectricity changed Australian constitutional history and esta ...Show more
Burn Out The Endgame for Fossil Fuels by Dieter Helm
$53.99 AUD
Category: Environmental Studies | Reading Level: General Adult
An energy revolution is under way with far-reaching consequences for nations, companies, and the way we address climate change Low oil prices are sending shockwaves through the global economy, and longtime industry observer Dieter Helm explains how this and other shifts are the harbingers of a coming e ...Show more
The Ice at the End of the World - An Epic Journey into Greenland's Buried Past and Our Perilous Future by Jon Gertner
$22.99 AUD
Category: Environmental Studies
A riveting account of the explorers and scientists racing to understand Greenland's rapidly melting ice: a dramatic harbinger of climate change.
The Ice at the End of the World - An Epic Journey into Greenland's Buried Past and Our Perilous Future by Jon Gertner
$39.99 AUD
Category: Environmental Studies | Reading Level: near fine
Greenland: a remote, mysterious, ice-covered rock with a population of just 56,000, has evolved from one of earth's last physical frontiers to its largest scientific laboratory. Locked within that vast 'white desert' are some of our planet's most profound secrets. As the Arctic climate warms, and Gr ...Show more
Sunlight and Seaweed - Argument for How by Tim Flannery
$19.99 AUD
Category: Environmental Studies
''Sunlight and Seaweedis the beginning of a new way of helping the planet we live on.'' AU Review Acclaimed scientist Tim Flannery investigates exciting new technologies currently being developed to address our most pressing environmental threats in a book that presents a positive future for us and our ...Show more
The Edge of the Sea by Rachel Carson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Environmental Studies | Series: Canons Ser.
"The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place." A book to be read for pleasure as well as a practical identification guide, The Edge of the Sea introduces a world of teeming life where the sea meets the land. A new generation of readers is discovering why Rachel Carson's books have become corner ...Show more
Blood and Guts: Dispatches from the Whale Wars by Sam Vincent
$29.99 AUD
Category: Environmental Studies
I pull on my balaclava and step onto the bridge wing. It's loud outside: I can hear the rumbles of nine vessels' engines and the hiss of ten water cannons ... Suddenly the bridge is full of refugees from the upper deck. They are blocking my view out the back windows, but their faces - afraid, excited, a ...Show more
Your Planet Needs You!: an Everyday Guide to Saving the Earth by Bernadette Vallely; Amy Charuy; Bethan Stewart James
$29.99 AUD
Category: Environmental Studies
If there was ever a time to stand up for your planet, for Mother Earth, this is the time. But what are the most pressing environmental issues affecting us today? And what actions can you, as an individual, take to combat them? If you want to know what you can do, then this is the book for you. Your Pl ...Show more
This Is the Way the World Ends by Jeff Nesbit
$39.99 AUD
Category: Environmental Studies
The world itself won't end, of course. Only ours will: our livelihoods, our homes, our cultures. And we're squarely at the tipping point. Longer droughts in the Middle East. Growing desertification in China and Africa. The monsoon season shrinking in India. Amped-up heat waves in Australia. More intense ...Show more
Beyond Climate Grief: A journey of love, snow, fire and an enchanted beer can by Jonica Newby
$29.99 AUD
Category: Environmental Studies
How do we find courage when climate change overwhelms us emotionally?In this magical, often funny and deeply moving personal story, award-winning science reporter Jonica Newby explores how to navigate the emotional turmoil of climate change.After researching what global warming will do to the snow count ...Show more
We are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast by Jonathan Safran Foer
$35.00 AUD
Category: Environmental Studies
From the bestselling author of Eating Animals and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - a brilliant, fresh take on climate change and what we can do about it. Climate crisis is the single biggest threat to human survival. And it is happening right now. We all understand that time is running out - but do ...Show more
Tales of Two Planets: Stories of Climate Change and Inequality in a Divided World by John Freeman (Editor)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Environmental Studies
Building from his acclaimed anthology Tales of Two Americas, beloved writer and editor John Freeman draws together a group of our greatest writers from around the world to help us see how the environmental crisis is hitting some of the most vulnerable communities where they live. In the past five year ...Show more