The Environment

In 1972, The Limits to Growth introduced the idea that world resources are limited. Soon after, people became aware of the threats to the world's rainforests, the biggest terrestrial repositories...

From the New York Times -bestselling author of The Gutsy Girl , a funny, inspiring, deeply researched exploration into the science and psychology of the outdoors and our place in...

From the New York Times -bestselling author of The Gutsy Girl , a funny, inspiring, deeply researched exploration into the science and psychology of the outdoors and our place in...

A fascinating and beautifully illustrated journey across the world and through the centuries in search of the sea monster. 'They rave for food with unceasing frenzy, being always ahungered and...

EARTH THEN AND NOW records the dramatic way in which our planet has changed in just the past hundred years. It draws on the combined photographic archives of print, picture,...

The book titled The Spices of Life by the author Troth Wells. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

An exhilarating, suspenseful naval thriller set in the Second World War, as gripping as Nicholas Monsarrat's The Cruel Sea Now a major motion picture starring Tom Hanks. Set in the...

This is a controversial look at the events surrounding the Allied disaster of the battles of Savo Island and Guadalcanal, and the sinking of the "Canberra". Bruce Loxton (who served...

Australia is about to become the international focus for good food and style as the world wakes up to the renaissance which has taken place in the last decade. Just...

The Transition Timeline lightens the fear of our uncertain future, providing a map of what we are facing and the different pathways available to us. It describes four possible scenarios...

Begins with the three expeditions of John Franklin, England's most honored and respected Arctic explorer, and covers exploration and discovery of the Arctic and Antarctic regions through the present.

Qualitative research has seen a surge of growth during the past decade. This is in large part because positivist approaches have not yielded the kinds of results that had been...

'Immensely enjoyable... Ros's experiences are fascinating. She's clearly a woman and who doesn't let the obstacles life throws at her get her down' Chris Stewart, author of Driving Over Lemons...

The Art of Daryl Dickson is a celebration of her diverse style and beautiful work. From black-winged stilts to brushtail possums, see the variety and colour of Australian wildlife contained...

2012 is the 100th anniversary of the sinking of RMS Titanic, then the largest and most luxurious passenger liner the world had ever seen. Here is the complete story of...

The book titled Gods Earth by the author Paul Collin. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Barry Davies is the author of "Fire Magic" and "Going Hostile".

"Security and defence" provides a comprehensive in-depth study of Australia and the Asia--Pacific region, with a fresh approach which counters the traditional Euro- and American-centric view of strategy and defence...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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 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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

'Eminently readable' - The TLS Books of the Year, 2024 Ocean is an ambitious history of the pre-Columbian Atlantic Ocean, a story that begins with the formation of the mid-Atlantic...

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...

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...

The book titled Global Spin: the Corporate Assault on Environmentalism by the author Sharon Beder. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.