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We Will Not Be Saved: A memoir of hope and resistance in the Amazon
REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK'An unforgettable memoir about fighting for your home and your heart.' - Reese Witherspoon (Reese's Book Club November '24 Pick)'Full of wisdom, sadness, flourishes of joy and...
Extinct: Artistic Impressions of Our Lost Wildlife
Australia is home to an incredible diversity of native animals. While Australian animals are among the most unique in the world, they are also among the most endangered, with hundreds...
Rocky Outcrops in Australia: Ecology, Conservation and Management
Rocky outcrops are landscape features with disproportionately high biodiversity values relative to their size. They support specialised plants and animals, and a wide variety of endemic species. To Indigenous Australians,...
Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live
In Never Home Alone , biologist Rob Dunn takes us to the edge of biology's latest frontier: our own homes. Every house is a wilderness -- from the Egyptian meal...
Natural Asset Farming: Creating Productive and Biodiverse Farms
Farm dams, creeklines, vegetation and rocky outcrops are natural assets that are essential for healthy, sustainable farms. Protecting and enhancing these elements of natural capital on farms not only supports...
The Ancients: Discovering the world's oldest surviving trees in wild Tasmania
In wild Tasmania there are trees whose direct ancestors lived with dinosaurs. Many of those alive today are thousands of years old, and some have been growing for ten millennia...
Silent Spring
'Carson's books brought ecology into popular consciousness' -- Daily Telegraph Now recognized as one of the most influential books of the twentieth century, SILENT SPRING exposed the destruction of wildlife...
Rag and Bone: A History of What We've Thrown Away
'Beautiful, like a muddy journey through time . . . a really important book' RAYNOR WINN, author of The Salt Path Lisa Woollett has spent her life combing beaches and...
Wildlife of the Box-Ironbark Country
Victoria's Box-Ironbark region is one of the most important areas of animal diversity and significance in southern Australia. The forests and woodlands of this region provide critical habitat for a...
Australasian Eagles and Eagle-like Birds
Eagles are awe-inspiring birds that have influenced much human endeavour. Australia is home to threeeagle species, and in Melanesia there are four additional endemic species. A further three large Australianhawks...
Optimism Over Despair
A new Penguin Special on the problems of the world and how to prepare for tomorrow -- from the greatest public intellectual of our times We have two choices. We...
Birds, Sex and Beauty: The extraordinary implications of Charles
In his new book, acclaimed science writer Matt Ridley looks to the peculiar mating rituals of birds to better understand the rich origins and ongoing significance of Darwin's sexual selection...
Coral Reefs of Australia: Perspectives from Beyond the Water's Edge
Australia's coral reefs stretch far and wide, covering 50 000 square kilometres from the Indian Ocean in the West to the Pacific Ocean in the East. They have been viewed...
Food for Life: Your Guide to the New Science of Eating Well
Your essential guide to eating well from the gut-health expert and publishing phenomenon 'Life-changing' DAVINA McCALL 'A must-read' Dr RUPY AUJLA 'Fascinating' NIGELLA LAWSON 'Empowering' LIZ EARLE **AS HEARD ON...
A Bat's End: The Christmas Island Pipistrelle and Extinction in
On the evening of 26 August 2009, the last known pipistrelle emerges from its day-time shelter on Christmas Island. Scientists, desperate about its conservation, set up a maze of netting...
The Precipice: Neoliberalism, the Pandemic and the Urgent Need for
An incredible, absorbing new collection of interviews on contemporary society from Noam Chomsky - 'the world's greatest public intellectual' Observer In this powerful collection of interviews, Noam Chomsky exposes the...
The Loneliest Polar Bear: A True Story of Survival and Peril on the
The heartbreaking and ultimately hopeful story of an abandoned polar bear cub named Nora and the humans working tirelessly to save her and her species, whose uncertain future in the...
Planet-Friendly Hacks: Simple Tips and Budget-Friendly Advice for
This handy guide is brimming with quick tips, life hacks and budget-friendly tricks to help you reduce your carbon footprint and live more sustainablyAn eco-friendly lifestyle is expensive and time-consuming,...
Weather: A Force of Nature
Weather collects some of the most breathtaking images from Weather Photographer of the Year, the annual competition held by The Royal Meteorological Society. Each image has been selected by a...
Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy
A dramatic, minute-by-minute account of one of the most shattering events of the Cold War, from an award-winning historian On the morning of 26 April 1986 Europe witnessed the worst...
The Ministry for the Future
ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE READS OF THE YEAR 'If I could get policymakers and citizens everywhere to read just one book this year, it would be Kim Stanley Robinson's...
When the Mountains Dance: Love, loss and hope in the heart of Italy
'In the wake of the strongest earthquake in Italy for nearly forty years and the many aftershocks that followed, Italians began speaking of the earth beneath our feet as la...
Slow Down: How Degrowth Communism Can Save the Earth
A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2024 'ACCESSIBLE AND CONVINCING' - SALLY ROONEY Capitalism by its very nature puts us at odds with the environment. Therefore, argues award-winning Japanese philosopher...
Crocodile Undone: The Domestication of Australia's Fauna
1Across the world, animals are being domesticated at an unprecedented rate and scale. But what exactly is domestication, and what does it tell us about ourselves? In this book, Marcus...
Guns, Germs and Steel: (Patterns of Life)
A series of special editions of the best popular science books to explore the patterns of our planet. Designed by Patternity, the award-winning creative studio and pattern consultancy. Read this...
Island in the Sun
A tale of friendship, courage and romance, the latest novel from bestselling author Katie Fforde is here. Dominica. A beautiful remote island where the sun shines and the living is...
Slow Down or Die: The Economics of Degrowth
One of the most deeply ingrained beliefs of our age is that perpetual economic growth is the solution to most, if not all, of society's problems. In Slow Down or...
The High Seas: Ambition, Power and Greed on the Unclaimed Ocean
THE IRISH TIMES BESTSELLER 'A comprehensive investigation of the staggering damage we have done to the world's oceans and its life forms' Observer 'A vital, fascinating, deeply researched exploration of...
A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future
The legacy-defining Sunday Times bestseller by Sir David Attenborough - now in paperback. With a new afterword, Why You Are Here- A speech on the opening of the COP26 climate...
Wild Cities: Discovering New Ways of Living in the Modern Urban Jungle
'Mind-shifting, heart-lifting' ISABELLA TREE 'Inspiring and essential' ALASTAIR HUMPHREYS 'As entertaining as it is enlightening' INDEPENDENT, Nature isn't a luxury, it's a necessity. But today the majority of the world's...
Intertidal: The hidden world between land and sea: SHORTLISTED FOR THE
'A wondrous work of walking, seeing and thinking' - Robert Macfarlane 'A startlingly brilliant and moving debut' - William Dalrymple A deep observation of coast and wetland, climate and self,...
Spoon-Fed: Why almost everything we've been told about food is wrong
One of the world's leading scientists of food and nutrition reveals why so much of the current advice about food and nutrition is dangerously inaccurate, misleading and often downright wrong....
Drought Country: The Dry Times That Have Shaped Australia
Droughts have lurked behind Australia's major nation-shaping moments from European settlement at Port Jackson to Federation. They have caused catastrophic damage to Aboriginal, colonial and modern societies and, of course,...
We Will Not Be Saved: A memoir of hope and resistance in the Amazon
'Nemonte's writing is as provocative as it is inspiring' EMMA THOMPSON ' One of the most effective leaders for indigenous rights and environmental justice' LAURENE POWELL JOBS 'I'm here to...
More and More and More: An All-Consuming History
A radical new history of energy and humanity's insatiable need for resources that will alter how we discuss climate change It has become habitual to think of our relationship with...
Grow Eco-gardening: Essential Know-how and Expert Advice for Gardening
No-fuss, accessible introduction to all aspects of sustainable and wildlife-friendly gardening. Garden in a more sustainable wildlife-friendly way. Ideal for first-time gardeners, Grow Eco-gardening contains everything you need to know...
The Falcon Thief: A True Tale of Adventure, Treachery, and the Hunt
A "well-written, engaging detective story" ( Kirkus Reviews, starred review) about a rogue who trades in rare birds and their eggs-and the wildlife detective determined to stop him. On May...
Billabong Boy
This is Arron's story, from a boy who loved to explore his local billabong to international award-winning speaker, and his struggles to keep balanced while being an inspiration to those...