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Quarterly Essay 48: After the Future by Tim Flannery; George Brandis (Contribution by); Chris Uhlmann (Contribution by); Mark Latham (Contribution by); Judith Brett (Contribution by); Jack Waterford (Contribution by); David Marr (Contribution by); Rachel Nolan (Contribution by)
$19.95 AUD
Category: Essays | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
When it comes to the natural world, Australia is home to a disproportionately large share of the world's riches. That means we Australians are caretakers of a unique natural heritage in a land which tolerates few mistakes. So how are we doing?In Quarterly Essay 48 Tim Flannery says: we're often failing ...Show more
Sunlight and Seaweed - Argument for How by Tim Flannery
$19.99 AUD
Category: Sustainability/Environment
''Sunlight and Seaweedis the beginning of a new way of helping the planet we live on.'' AU Review Acclaimed scientist Tim Flannery investigates exciting new technologies currently being developed to address our most pressing environmental threats in a book that presents a positive future for us and our ...Show more
Terra Australis: Matthew Flinders' Great Adventures in the Circumnavigation of Australia: Matthew Flinders' Great Adventures in the Circumnavigation of Australia by TIM FLANNERY (ed)
$24.95 AUD
Category: Australian | Reading Level: very good
First published in two-volumes in 1814, this is the enthralling account of the circumnavigation of Australia, by the man who gave our country its name. Edited and introduced by Tim Flannery, Terra Australis is a vital step toward a new understanding of our own history. Flinders tells of meeting and comm ...Show more
The Birth of Sydney by Tim Flannery
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian
The Birth of Sydney tells the story of the founding of one of the world's greatest cities. Tim Flannery's brilliant anthology reveals Sydney's strange and secret life from its unruly beginnings as a dump for convicts to its arrival as the 'queen of the south' a century later. In this compelling narrativ ...Show more
The Climate Cure: Solving the Climate Emergency in the Era of COVID-19 by Tim Flannery
$24.99 AUD
Category: Sustainability/Environment
Australians are witnessing an unprecedented government response to crisis-swift decisive action to avert catastrophe. And the advice of scientists has informed every step of the way. But for decades the advice of scientists on the impending catastrophe that climate change will bring has been ignored, di ...Show more
The Explorers: Text Classics by Tim Flannery
$12.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics
The explorers of Australia tell an epic story of courage and suffering, of dispossession and conquest, of a moving frontier between European invaders and the Aboriginal custodians of the continent. This compelling anthology documents almost four centuries of exploration and takes us into a world of dang ...Show more
The Mystery of the Venus Island Fetish by Dido Butterworth (Tim Flannery)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
"Painted in white, red and black ochre, the heart-shaped mask was one of the greatest creations of primitive man. The size of a dining table, it was carved with crazed, spiky lines that told of its maker's dangerous insanity. The nose, with its wide-open nostrils, sat above a great slash of a mouth fill ...Show more
The Weather Makers: The History and Future Impact of Climate Change by Tim Flannery
$24.95 AUD
Category: Sustainability/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
Throwim Way Leg: An Adventure by Tim Flannery
$24.95 AUD
Category: Australian | Reading Level: very good
'An enthralling introduction to the mountain people of New Guinea - unimaginably remote, charming, cunning, cruel, subtle and appealing - and to their magnificent land.' New York Times Book Review 'This book combines an irresistible author with an irresistible subject: Tim Flannery, a great zoologist an ...Show more
We are the Weather Makers by Tim Flannery
$16.95 AUD
Category: Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Tim Flannery dedicated the first edition of The Weather Makers to children: 'to all of their generation who will have to live with the consequences of our decisions.' Seventy percent of the people who are alive now will be alive in 2050. This is the date, many scientists agree, by which we have to cut o ...Show more
Weird, Wild, Amazing! (Explore Your World) by Tim Flannery
$34.99 AUD
Category: Travel | Series: Explore Your World
Get ready for a whole new look at the world around you. You're about to meet the weirdest, wildest and most amazing animals on the planet. Are zombie jellyfish real? Do frogs like opera? Which animals eat poop? (And more importantly, WHY?!) What's it like to wrestle a python? Buckle up - you're ...Show more
Weirdest Creatures in Time (Explore Your World) by Tim Flannery, Emma Flannery
$34.99 AUD
Category: Animals & Natural World | Series: Explore Your World
Get ready to go on a journey through time with real-life explorer and scientist, Professor Tim Flannery. You’re about to meet the weirdest, wildest and most amazing animals that have ever lived – and died! Could you outrun a T-rex? Can mushrooms talk to each other? Which dinosaur had a second brain n ...Show more