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Nature's Genius: Evolution's Lessons for a Changing Planet
A NEW SCIENTIST BEST POPULAR SCIENCE BOOK FOR 2025 'A book that shows how we might evolve to solve the problems we have caused our planet. Brilliantly written, surprising, inspiring...
Where the Earth Meets the Sky: A study of penguins, people and place
A stunning work of natural history, science, and polar travelogue, Where the Earth Meets the Sky is a chronicle of one conservation scientist's time in Antarctica, the most isolated place...
Economic Rationalism in Canberra: A Nation-Building State Changes its
Throughout the world since the 1970s, state and public sector reform has been driven by a conservative agenda emphasising notions of 'streamlining' and 'rationalisation'; Australia has been no exception. Michael...
The Upside of Down
Shows in lucid and compelling terms how breakdown looms when a society outgrows its capacity to sustain itself. Homer-Dixon argues we are equipped to avert disaster. Armed with hindsight, increasingly...
The Human Costs of Managerialism: Advocating the Recovery of Humanity:
The book titled The Human Costs of Managerialism: Advocating the Recovery of Humanity: by the author Stuart Rees. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...
Myths and Legends of the Pacific
The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest ocean in the world, covering nearly one-third of the earth's surface and containing more than half of its seawater. The Pacific Ocean...
First Day Around the World
From award-winning, New York Times bestselling author Ibi Zoboi and artist Juanita Londono, this lyrical celebration of the first day of school across every continent explores what going back to...
Voluntary Simplicity Second Revised Edition: Toward a Way of Life That
First published in 1981, VOLUNTARY SIMPLICITY was quickly recognized as a powerful and visionary work in the emerging dialogue over sustainable living. Now-more than twenty years later and with many...
The Telescope in the Ice: Inventing a New Astronomy at the South Pole
Located near the U. S. Amundsen-Scott Research Station at the geographic South Pole, IceCube is unlike most telescopes in that it is not designed to detect light. It employs a...
Reimagining the American Pacific: From South Pacific to Bamboo Ridge
An exploration of the "Pacific Rim" in the American imagination and of how the concept has been variously adapted and resisted in Hawaii, the Pacific Islands, New Zealand and Australia....
The Cancer Stage of Capitalism: From Crisis to Cure
The Cancer Stage of Capitalism is a modern classic of critical philosophy and political economy, renowned for its depth and comprehensive research. It provides a step-by-step diagnosis of the continuing...
Reef Life: An Underwater Memoir
Reef Life is a marine science memoir - the story of how Britain's pre-eminent marine conservation scientist, fell in love with coral reefs. Callum Roberts begins as a young university...
Battle at Sea: From Man-of-war to Submarine
The author concentrates on four key conflicts, Trafalgar, Jutland, Midway and the Battle of the Atlantic. He aims to take readers into the heart of the fighting and also to...
The Edge of the World: How the North Sea Made Us Who We Are
Michael Pye's The Edge of the World is an epic adventure: from the Vikings to the Enlightenment, from barbaric outpost to global centre, it tells the amazing story of northern...
The Mauritius Command (Aubrey-Maturin, Book 4)
Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are now widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. Captain Jack Aubrey is ashore on half-pay without a command - until...
War By Stealth
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The book titled War By Stealth by the author Powell, Alan. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
USS Yorktown (CV-10): Essex-Class Carrier in WWII, Korea, Vietnam,
This expanded 176-page volume in the Legends of Warfare series includes 350 images, making it one of the most comprehensive entries in the series to date. USS Yorktown (CV-10) is...
There Will Be Headwinds: Kayaking the Northwest Passage
Mark Agnew was part of the first team to ever kayak the north-west passage - spending 103 days in the Arctic. The infamous route between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans...
Building Drainage: An Integrated Design Guide
Good drainage contributes to the delivery of sustainable, innovative and resilient buildings, and is essential for our health and wellbeing. However, designers and architects can often leave drainage to be...
The Desert Swimmer: From severe depression on an outback sheep station
Brendan Cullen manages Kars Station, a 10,000-head sheep property 65 kilometres outside Broken Hill, New South Wales. In 2022, despite his nearest beach being more than 600 kilometres away, he...
The Gulf Theater, 1813-15
While most of the fighting of the War of 1812 raged along the Canadian border, the Gulf of Mexico eventually emerged as a critical battleground. The struggle for control of...
The Allied Air Campaign Against Hitler's U-boats: Victory in the
No weapon platform sank more U-boats in the Second World War than the Allied aircraft. Whether it was an American 'plane operating from American escort carriers, US aircraft from Royal...
At Dawn We Slept: Untold Story of Pearl Harbor
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The book titled At Dawn We Slept: Untold Story of Pearl Harbor by the author Gordon W. Prange. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...
Pacific Answers to Western Hegemony: Cultural Practices of Identity
The destruction of local identity through the relentless encroachment of a 'McDonald-ized' cultural imperialism is a global phenomenon. Yet the reactions of Pacific peoples to this Western hegemony are diverse...
Operation Drumbeat: Germany's First U-boat Attack Against the American
The dramatic national bestseller and remarkably exciting account of Germany's little-known U-boat campaign against merchant shipping along the North American Atlantic coast during the first six months of 1942."An absolutely...
A Better Legend: From the World War II Letters of Jack and Jane
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In the spring of 1987, a few weeks after her husband's death, Jane Weaver Poulton was rummaging through the sea chest Jack made on Tulagi Island and found a mass...
Wrecked: A Deep Dive into the World's Most Famous Shipwrecks
Take a journey deep below the waves, down to the seabed and explore some of the most famous shipwrecks, including the Titanic , the Odysseus and the Endurance ... There...
Who's Hiding in the Ocean?: A Spot and Match Game
AMAZING ILLUSTRATIONS: Explore Caroline Selme's intricately drawn underwater world, bursting with minute detail! ADDICTIVE GAMEPLAY: A matching game for the whole family with super-detailed underwater scenes that reward returning again...
Who Killed the Great Auk?
The Great Auk is one of the world's most famous extinct birds. It was undoubtedly a most curious creature: a flightless bird with tiny wings, it stood upright like a...
Boom, Bust, Boom: A Story about Copper, the Metal That Runs the World
For most of recorded history, copper has proven invaluable: not only did the ancient Romans build their empire on mining copper but Christopher Columbus protected his ships from rot by...
Beyond the Sea: From the Booker-winning author of Prophet Song
When fishermen Bolivar and Hector set sail from their South American village, they soon find themselves cast adrift in the Pacific Ocean by a sudden storm. As the days pass...
The Oak Papers
From one man's improbable dedication to a rural oak tree springs a subtle, intimate and moving meditation on humanity and our relationship to the natural world. Oaks are born and...
Air War Pacific
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The book titled Air War Pacific by the author Christopher Campbell. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Battle Story: Iwo Jima 1945
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On 19 February 1945, Operation Detachment began with US marine forces storming Iwo Jima, aiming to capture the island and its airfields. This was the first campaign on Japanese soil...
To the Ends of the Earth: The History of Polar Exploration
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The history of individual Polar expeditions has been told many times, but usually only as personal accounts of individual adventures. This misses the overall context of polar exploration - why...
To Hear The Trees Speak: A memoir of Nature, Resilience, and Deep
A sort of history of the world in ten iconic trees from around the world including the eucalyptus, the Baobab and the oak. A beautiful and moving account of our...
The Stolen Child: the gripping emotional thriller with a twist you'll
*The Irish Times No. 1 bestseller* *A Sunday Times best crime fiction of the year selection* *Winner of the Good Housekeeping Good Books Autumn Collection* 'One of the greatest twists...
First Day Around the World
From award-winning, New York Times bestselling author Ibi Zoboi and artist Juanita Londono, this lyrical celebration of the first day of school across every continent explores what going back to...
The Snow Fox and the Long, Long Night
As the nights in Svalbard grow dark, cold and endless, a young arctic fox called Rana plays in the snow. She spends all day following the tracks of a polar...
Sicilian Carousel
'A magician.' - The Times Despite decades spent poetically chronicling Mediterranean life in Rhodes, Cyprus and Corfu, celebrated travel writer Lawrence Durrell had never set foot on the largest island:...
The Penguin Book of Penguins: An Expert's Guide to the World's Most
A charming and beautifully illustrated book about the world's most beloved birds, written by a leading scientist at the British Antarctic Survey and illustrated by his wife. 'An ode to...
Penguins: The Ultimate Guide Second Edition
An acclaimed photographic guide to these marvelous and enigmatic birds-now in a new, updated edition Penguins are perhaps the most beloved birds. On land, their behavior appears so humorous and...
Pacific Empires
A new interest in European maritime exploration was aroused with the publication of the first volume of J. C. Beaglehole's edition of The Journals of Captain James Cook in 1955....
Beretara: Contemporary Pacific Art
Today, vibrant contemporary cultures are flourishing in the Pacific Islands. Instead of mimicking Western culture, artists there are leading the way. Discover the new art of the Pacific in this...