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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...
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,...
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...
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...
Wild Places: Volume 6
Get back to nature and explore sites unspoilt by humankind with the latest addition to the Inspired Traveller's Guide series. We humans don't just love wild places. We need them;...
The Great Plant-Based Con: Why eating a plants-only diet won't improve
WINNER OF THE INVESTIGATIVE FOOD WORK AWARD AT THE GUILD OF FOOD WRITERS AWARDS 2023 'The most incredible book' Delia Smith 'Persuasive, entertaining and well researched' Sunday Times Plant-based is...
Climate Clangers: The Bad Ideas Blocking Real Action
The impacts of climate change keep getting worse, but the typical framing of the problem and the solutions so far being pursued are seriously insufficient. As a result, the steps...
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,...
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...
Uncommon Ground: Rethinking our relationship with the countryside
'A curious-minded and subtle intervention in the politics of the countryside' Sunday Times 'Galbraith spent three years investigating the truth about rural Britain and how we treat it. Uncommon Ground...
The Last Generation
Nature is fragile, environmentalists tell us. Not so. The truth is far more worrying. She is strong and packs a serious counter-punch. And it could be on the way. his...
Surviving White Island: An inspiring memoir of physical and mental
Surviving the unsurvivable. Healing from the unhealable. This is an inspiring memoir of physical and mental recovery, from someone who lived through the Whakaari White Island volcanic eruption. "I heard...
Here On Earth: An Argument For Hope
We stand at a crossroads, where comprehension of our place in nature - of our true abilities and of our history - is supremely important. We have formed a global...
My Plastic-Free Home: Simple Steps to Live More Sustainably
A beautiful, inspirational guide to keeping a sustainable home. Are you ready to create a sanctuary of sustainability? In a world overflowing with consumerism, it's easy to feel overwhelmed. But...
Emergency
Emergency is a novel about the dissolving boundaries between all life on earth. Stuck at home alone under lockdown, awoman recounts her 1990s childhood in rural Yorkshire. She watches a...
How to Keep Your Clothes Forever: Simple planet-friendly projects to
A practical guide to buying less and caring more for your clothing Leah Giblin grew up with the best dress-up collection, spending hours styling and playing with her siblings. She...
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 Climate Diplomat: A Personal History of the COP Conferences
'There is nobody better on climate change and international negotiations.' - Rt. Hon. Ed Miliband, Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero 'I have nothing but the deepest...
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...
Power Metal: The Race for the Resources That Will Shape the Future
The powerful ways the metals we need to fuel technology and energy are spawning environmental havoc, political upheaval, and rising violence - and how we can do better. An Australian...
Climate Action: A Campaign Manual for Greenhouse Solutions
In the USA, social movements succeeded in stopping 59 proposals to build new conventional (dirty) coal-fired power stations. In the UK, there was an extended campaign to stop the expansion...
The Philosopher Fish: Sturgeon, Caviar, and the Geography of Desire
A fascinating chronicle of a fast-disappearing fish and of the people whose lives and livelihoods depend on it Since the days of the Persian Empire, caviar has trumpeted status, wealth,...
The Lost Elms: A Love Letter to Our Vanished Trees - and the Fight to
For millennia, elms shaped our landscape and our folklore; then they started dying. Few young people have seen a mature elm tree. They once covered great swathes of Europe and...
The Smart Living Handbook - Creating a Healthy Home in an Increasingly
Is your home healthy? Would you know if it wasn't? This book is for those who are - renovating or building - a parent or expecting a baby - suffering...
The Climate Diplomat: A Personal History of the COP Conferences
'There is nobody better on climate change and international negotiations.' - Rt. Hon. Ed Miliband, Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero 'I have nothing but the deepest...
Treekeepers: The Race for a Forested Future
How the path from climate change to a habitable future winds through the world's forests In recent years, planting a tree has become a catchall to represent "doing something good...
The Good Bug: A Celebration of Insects (and What We Can Do to Protect
Following on from the success of The Good Bee , this beautifully illustrated celebration of insects by leading entomologist George McGavin highlights the pivotal role they play in our ecosystems,...
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...
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...
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...
Tree Stories: How trees plant our world and connect our lives
Trees have played countless roles in human history - by turns hopeful symbols of freedom, pioneering space travellers, keepers of ancient history and accessories to murder. From art to politics,...
The Curse of the Labrador Duck
The world's leading authority on the extinct Labrador Duck, Dr. Glen Chilton, shares the story of his frenzied obsession to reveal the histories behind the mysterious bird - a saga...
Earthshot: How to Save Our Planet
The Earthshot concept is simple: Urgency + Optimism = Action . We have ten years to turn the tide on the environmental crisis, but we need the world's best solutions...
Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?
'This is Bill McKibben at his glorious best. Wise and warning, with everything on the line. Do not miss it' Naomi Klein, author of This Changes Everything and The Shock...
Your Life Is Manufactured: How We Make Things, Why It Matters and How
From an award-winning and internationally-renowned expert, a wonderfully illuminating journey through the world of manufacturing and its transformational influence on our lives - and the world around us. 'Revelatory.' S...
The Darkest White: A Mountain Legend and the Avalanche That Took Him
From Eric Blehm, the bestselling author of The Last Season and Fearless , comes an extraordinary new book in the vein of Into the Wild, the story of the legendary...
The Darkest White: A Mountain Legend and the Avalanche That Took Him
"Eric Blehm offers an insightful perspective on how Craig Kelly became the effortless icon that we all revered as well as sobering details of how his heroic journey tragically ended....
Toward Zero Carbon: The Chicago Central Area DeCarbonization Plan
An examination and exploration of the issues that the Chicago Climate Action Plan (CCAP) deals with and how they may be implemented Chicago has long been a world leader in...
What the Wild Sea Can Be: Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for
LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2025 No matter where we live, 'we are all ocean people,' Helen Scales observes in her bracing yet hopeful exploration of the future...
What the Wild Sea Can Be: Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for
LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2025 No matter where we live, 'we are all ocean people,' Helen Scales observes in her bracing yet hopeful exploration of the future...
A Barrister for the Earth: Ten Cases of Hope for Our Future
Can a planet have legal rights? Could it be defended in a court of law? How do we redefine a 'right to life'? A revolution is taking place. Around the...
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...
Life As We Know It (Can Be): My Search for a World Worth Passing Down
Award-winning journalist and CNN chief climate correspondent Bill Weir takes readers through time and around our changing world to confront the biggest threats to life as we know it and...
Voices of the Rocks: A Scientist Looks at Catastrophes and Ancient
Twenty million years ago a meteorite weighing 10 billion tons and moving at least 50,000 mph smashed into the Earth just below the North Pole. It vapourized on impact, releasing...
Climate Change Begins at Home: Life on the Two-Way Street of Global
Climate change is one of the greatest threats that humankind faces in the 21st century. The next hundred years could see coastlines and islands submerged, and a surge in heatwaves,...
The National Trust: The First Hundred Years
The book titled The National Trust: The First Hundred Years by the author Merlin Waterson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Life: A Journey through Science and Politics
A renowned scientist and environmental advocate looks back on a life that has straddled the worlds of science and politics "Compelling. . . . [Ehrlich's] memoir includes remarkable stories of...