Periodic Tales: The Curious Lives of the Elements by Hugh Aldersey-Williams
$24.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science/Environment | Reading Level: very good
The phenomenal Sunday Times bestseller Periodic Tales by Hugh Andersey-Williams, packed with fascinating stories and unexpected information about the building blocks of our universe. Everything in the universe is made of them, including you. Like you, the elements have personalities, attitudes, talents, ...Show more
Mindfully Green: A Personal and Spiritual Guide to Whole Earth Thinking by Stephanie Gaza
$24.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science/Environment
We may try to live sustainably, but what is our personal connection with green living? And, particularly, what is my impact on the natural world? This personal perspective is the one thing missing from discussions about living sustainably.
The Weather Makers: The History and Future Impact of Climate Change by Tim Flannery
$29.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science/Environment
What does climate change mean? How will global warming affect our lives? Is it the cause of wilder storms and more frequent droughts? Are these events inevitable? Tim Flannery makes this urgent issue completely accessible. He tells the fascinating story of climate change over millions of years to help u ...Show more
Living in the Hothouse by Ian Lowe
$26.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science/Environment
In 1989 Ian Lowe published Living in the Greenhouse, one of the first books to be published in Australia on the greenhouse effect. Since then, the signs of global warming have become even more clear and more worrying to the international community, as demonstrated by the Kyoto Protocol. In Australia and ...Show more
Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis by Al Gore
$35.00 AUD
Category: Popular Science/Environment
Al Gore offers a visionary blueprint of the changes that we should make as a world community in order to prevent the climate crisis from threatening human civilisation.
The Legacy by David T. Suzuki
$26.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science/Environment
One of the planet's pre-eminent elders, in his lifetime Suzuki has witnessed an explosion of scientific knowledge and a huge change in our relationship with the planet - a tripling of the world's population, a greatly increased ecological footprint through the global economy, and an enormous growth in t ...Show more
Eating Animals (US edition) by Jonathan Safran Foer
$29.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science/Environment
Like many young Americans, Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his teenage and college years oscillating between enthusiastic carnivore and occasional vegetarian. As he became a husband, and then a father, the moral dimensions of eating became increasingly important to him. Faced with the prospect of bei ...Show more
Climate Change Begins at Home by Dave Reay
$49.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science/Environment
Cut Your Greenhouse Gas Emissions Today This book quantifies how and why every one of us can and must halt climate change by taking action at home, in the garden, on the way to work, in the office, on holiday, at the supermarket, the bank and event the funeral parlour. By 2050 one third of all spec ...Show more
A Dictionary of Weather by Storm Dunlop
$32.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science/Environment | Series: Oxford Paperback Reference
Containing illustrative examples of specific events and extremes, this comprehensive dictionary contains over 1,800 weather, forecasting, and climate terms. A black and white illustration section shows the main cloud types, as well as satellite images of weather systems. Weather records and climate data ...Show more
Dictionary of Weather by Storm Dunlop
$32.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science/Environment | Series: Oxford Paperback Reference
A new authoritative and comprehensive dictionary of weather, forecasting, and climate terms with illustrative examples of specific events and extremes. Find out where and when the world's largest hailstone fell or where the highest temperature was recorded using the list of weather records, and check cl ...Show more
Diet for a Dead Planet by Christopher D. Cook
$29.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science/Environment
If we are what we eat, then, as Chris Cook contends in this powerful look at the food industry, we are not in good shape. Mad Cow disease, bird flu epidemics, tainted meat scandals, and Mercury-laced fish - we are evidently surrounded by unsafe food. The planet itself is at risk from today's farming pra ...Show more
Lighter Footprint - Practical Gde by CROCOMBE Angela
$24.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science/Environment