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The Spirit of Green: The Economics of Collisions and Contagions in a Crowded World by William D. Nordhaus
$29.99 AUD
Category: Climate
From a Nobel Prize-winning pioneer in environmental economics, an innovative account of how and why "green thinking" could cure many of the world's most serious problems — from global warming to pandemicsSolving the world's biggest problems — from climate catastrophe and pandemics to wildfires and corpo ...Show more
What If We Stopped Pretending? by Jonathan Franzen
$12.99 AUD
Category: Climate
The climate crisis is here. Our chance to stop it has come and gone, but this doesn't have to mean the world is ending. 'Today, the scientific evidence verges on irrefutable. If you're younger than sixty, you have a good chance of witnessing the radical destabilization of life on earth--massive crop fa ...Show more
Dead in the Water: A Very Angry Book about Our Greatest Environmental Catastrophe... the Death of the Murray-Darling Basin by Richard Beasley
$29.99 AUD
Category: Climate
Full-throated and provocative, this is a very personal battle cry to save our most precious natural resource. 'I LOVE IT.' Peter FitzSimons'With a deft mixture of outrage, humour and in-depth knowledge, only Beasley could make water policy a page turner.' Craig Reucassel'It's great to shed some more l ...Show more
The Edge of Memory - Ancient Stories, Oral Tradition and the Post-Glacial World by Patrick Nunn
$29.99 AUD
Category: Natural History
We all know those stories that have been told in our families for generations. The ones that start 'Have I ever told you about your great-great-uncle...?' In some cultures these stories have been passed down for thousands of years and often reveal significant information about how the surrounding envi ...Show more
Peregrine, The by J. A. Baker
$27.99 AUD
Category: Natural History | Reading Level: very good
Reissue of J. A. Baker's extraordinary classic of British nature writing, with an exclusive new afterword by Robert Macfarlane. Despite the association of peregrines with the wild, outer reaches of the British Isles, The Peregrine is set on the flat marshes of the Essex coast, where J A Baker spent a lo ...Show more
How to Talk about Climate Change in a Way That Makes a Difference by Rebecca Huntley
$32.99 AUD
Category: Climate
A toolkit for understanding our emotional responses to climate change and how we can have meaningful conversations across dividing lines. 'The antidote to climate anxiety is action. Make your first action reading this book.' OSHER GUNSBERG'Rebecca Huntley has given us a great gift: an essential guide to ...Show more
The Abundance by Annie Dillard
$22.99 AUD
Category: Natural History | Series: Canons
Annie Dillard has spent a lifetime examining the world around her with eyes wide open, drinking in all things intensely and relentlessly. Whether observing a sublime lunar eclipse or a moth consumed in a candle flame, the trembling of lily pads on a pond or hundreds of red-winged blackbirds taking fligh ...Show more
Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters by Annie Dillard
$22.99 AUD
Category: Natural History | Series: Canons
In Teaching a Stone to Talk, Annie Dillard fixes her entrancing gaze and powerful sense of wonder on the natural world. Whether watching a sublime lunar eclipse or locking eyes with a wild weasel, Dillard captures the grand and miniature miracles of our universe. Annie Dillard is one of the most respect ...Show more
The Human Swarm - How Our Societies Arise, Thrive, and Fall by Mark W. Moffett
$24.99 AUD
Category: Natural History
The epic story and ultimate big history of how human society evolved from intimate chimp communities into the sprawling civilizations of a world-dominating species If a chimpanzee ventures into the territory of a different group, it will almost certainly be killed. But a New Yorker can fly to Los An ...Show more
Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life by Peter Godfrey-Smith
$19.99 AUD
Category: Natural History | Reading Level: very good
'Brilliant' GuardianWaterstones Non-Fiction Book of the Month (March) SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE What if intelligent life on Earth evolved not once, but twice? The octopus is the closest we will come to meeting an intelligent alien. What can we learn from the encounter? In ...Show more
Our Only Home by Dalai Lama XIV
$29.99 AUD
Category: Climate
Saving the environment is our collective duty. With each passing day, climate change is causing Pacific islands to disappear into the sea, accelerating the extinction of species at alarming proportions and aggravating a water shortage that has affected the entire European continent. In short, climate ch ...Show more
Metazoa : the Evolution of Animals, Minds, Consciousness and Sleep by Peter Godfrey-Smith
$32.99 AUD
Category: Natural History
From the human being to the octopus, the shark to the humble sea squirt, all animals are physical beings made up entirely of cells. And yet they can think, to varying degrees. How did this come to be? How did a mind first grow from the matter that is the body? And at what stage did that clump of cells b ...Show more