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* Further substantial global warming is unavoidable and the risks to the natural world, the economy and our everyday lives are immense. The way we live in the next thirty...

For nearly a year Sharyn Munro travelled through rural Australia, visiting the communities in coal-mining areas. She found a war zone. Here, literally at the coal-face, towns and districts are...

From the deserts of Chile, through the genetic wasteland of central Iowa, to the drowned land bridge of the Bering Sea, the author of House of Rain uncovers the cataclysms...

This manual is designed to satisfy the considerable and expanding need in the heritage field for a volume of practical, authoritative information on good management practice. Published at the initiative...

After the fierce warnings and grim predictions of The Weather Makers and An Inconvenient Truth, acclaimed journalist and national bestselling author Chris Turner finds hope in the search for a...

Professor Tony Ryan is the leader of 'Project Sunshine', a far-reaching project at the University of Sheffield that brings scientists together to find solutions to the world' s problems. From...

At 29, Tammie Matson has spent nearly half her life in Africa, her first love, working as a conservationist. But as her 30s approach, Tammie is conscious of not having...

A classic Gerald Durrell title reissued by Penguin to celebrate the centenary of his birth A classic Gerald Durrell title reissued by Penguin to celebrate the centenary of his birth...

The first full history for forty years of the development of nuclear power and the extraordinary minds behind it Henry Becquerel's accidental discovery, in Paris in 1896, of a faint...

This is a story of the vainglorious and often brutal attempt to control and harvest the Earth's most precious resource.

Climate change has arrived, and it's not going away. In the absence of effective world action, global warming is certain to continue. The Handbook is not another book about climate...

A captivating and urgent exploration of some of the world's most endangered foods, Eating to Extinction is a thrilling journey through the history of humankind's relationship with food, which reveals...

An increasing number of Australians want to be assured that the food and fibre being produced on this continent have been grown and harvested in an ecologically sustainable way. Ecologically...

Advances in Reintroduction Biology of Australian and New Zealand Fauna is a timely review of our understanding of translocation from an Australasian perspective, ensuring translocation becomes an increasingly effective conservation...

A new perspective on a diabolical problem. Climate change is one of the most polarising issues of our time, but it doesn't have to be that way. In Why We...

"It's not merely good, it's foundation-shaking." -Seth Godin From his unique vantage point as editor-in-chief of Make magazine, the hub of the do-it-yourself movement, Mark Frauenfelder takes readers on an...

When Lawrence Anthony learned that the northern white rhino, living in the war-ravaged Congo, was on the very brink of extinction, he knew he had to act. If the world...

The story of a farming community fighting to rehabilitate land degraded by more than a century of farming. Old Land, New Landscapes is the story of a farming community fighting...

Winner of the Whitley Award for Best Natural History Book 2022 A compelling, funny, first-hand account of Australia's wonderfully unique mammals and how our perceptions impact their future. Think of...

Don't just sit there, do something. But what? How Can I Stop Climate Change? explains what climate change is and what you can do to stop it. Written by the...

Acclaimed naturalist Alex Shoumatoff issues a worldwide call to protect the drastically endangered rainforests of Borneo In his eleventh book, but his first in almost two decades, seasoned travel writer...

'Consummate and thorough' - The Times 'Darkly entertaining' - The Spectator A superbly written work of narrative non-fiction by an exciting new talent, The Anti-Catastrophe League is a brilliant study...

What really makes a good place to live? Journeying around the world from Copenhagen to Bogota, Charles Montgomery shows that living in densely-populated cities can actually make us healthier, saner...

The mission of this book is to detail how to better harness the power of the products of photosynthesis to offset adverse climate change. Specifically, this book asserts that trees...

From the cypress swamps of Okefenokee to the marshes of San Francisco Bay and the pristine seclusion of Alaska's ANWR preserve, America's most treasured natural habitats have been protected as...

This compelling and insightful book serves as a timely reminder of what needs to be done and what can be done to keep Planet Earth alive. Planet Earth is the...

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...

Stronghold is Tucker Malarkey s enthralling account of an unlikely visionary, Guido Rahr, and his crusade to protect the world s last bastion of wild salmon. One of the most...

Shortlisted for the FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year award A renowned climate scientist shows how fossil fuel companies have waged a thirty-year campaign to deflect blame and responsibility and...

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...

Disappearing World uncovers the dramatic story behind over 100 of the most threatened World Heritage Sites. Sites of natural and cultural significance have been preserved as World Heritage Sites since...

This book addresses the ways in which human beings have changed and are changing the face of the earth, and the human role in natural processes and systems. The third...

"A compelling portrait of the future and vividly relates the big challenges facing the world now."-Jared Diamond, New York Times bestselling author of Collapse and Guns, Germs, and Steel The...

Transition economies allow the study of fundamental questions about the nature of markets. How do they arise and do they necessarily follow the same modus operandi as markets in other...

Climate change is one of the most pressing moral issues of our time, and at the same time one of the most divisive. Australian authors, Claire Dawson and Mick Pope...

In Climate Change: The Facts 2020 scientists, economists and other experts critique current climate science and the failings of key national and global climate organisations while advancing our understanding of...

Some animals were harmed in the making of this book. And they were delicious. A tie-in book to the television series Off the Radar, currently scheduled to be shown on...

The canary's death in a coalpit alerted miners to odourless, poisonous gases but does the decrease in songbirds in the northern hemisphere foreshadow an ecological collapse? In this book paleontologist...

The award-winning historian returns to Chernobyl to tell the gripping story of thirty-five days of war On 24 February 2022, the first day of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, armoured...

A riveting, revelatory account of how the climate emergency is changing us from the inside out It is now inarguable that climate change threatens the future of life on Earth....

'A passionate and informative demonstration of how mitigating climate change can be compatible with economic growth' - Professor Ross Garnaut, the Garnaut Climate Change Review 'Humanity's greatest challenge is to...

The ancient Greeks called it Gaia; the Romans Terra. We know it simply as Earth, the planet we call home. And what a planet it is. Formed around 4.6 billion...

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 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...

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....