Map Reading: The Nobel Lecture and Other Writings by Abdulrazak Gurnah
22.99 AUD
Category: Essays
'One of the world's most prominent postcolonial writers - He has consistently and with great compassion penetrated the effects of colonialism and its effects on the lives of uprooted and migrating individuals' Anders Olsson, chairman of the Nobel CommitteeDelivered in London on 7 December 2021, 'Writing ...Show more
Tree Stories: How trees plant our world and connect our lives by Stefano Mancuso
29.99 AUD
Category: Environment
The remarkable stories of trees that have shaped human history - from the wooden ladder that solved a crime to France's revolutionary Liberty Trees. Trees have played countless roles in human history - by turns hopeful symbols of freedom, pioneering space travellers, keepers of ancient history and acces ...Show more
Soil: The incredible story of what keeps the earth, and us, healthy by Matthew Evans
34.99 AUD
Category: Environment
'A love letter to Mother Earth and entertaining must-read that goes to the heart of our survival' Charles Massy, author of Call of the Reed Warbler. What we do to the soil, we do to ourselves. Soil is the unlikely story of our most maligned resource as swashbuckling hero. A saga of bombs, ice ages and c ...Show more
Race for Tomorrow: Survival, Innovation and Profit on the Front Lines of the Climate Crisis by Simon Mundy
34.99 AUD
Category: Environment
Climate change isn’t just transforming our physical environment, it’s permanently shifting the landscape of energy, farming, technology and business. It’s eroding ancient ways of life, shaking up global finance and driving a historic new wave of mass migration. In this extraordinary journey across twent ...Show more
Our Place in Nature: Selected Writings by Various, Zachary Seager
22.99 AUD
Category: Environment | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
With the natural world increasingly under threat, Our Place in Nature explores one of the most topical issues of our day; our appreciation of nature and recognition of our place in it.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, pocket-sized classics with ribbon markers. These beauti ...Show more
In Praise of Paths: Walking through Time and Nature by Torbjørn Ekelund
29.99 AUD
Category: Environment
"What [Ekelund is] addressing is the intention to walk one's way to meaning: the walk as spiritual exercise, a kind of vision quest... A key strategy for finding ourselves, then, is to first get lost."--The New York Times Book Review An ode to paths and the journeys we take through nature, as told by ...Show more
Fire Country: How Indigenous Fire Management Could Help Save Australia by Victor Steffensen
32.99 AUD
Category: Environment
Delving deep into the Australian landscape and its alarming state of devastation, Fire Country is a powerful account from Indigenous land management expert Victor Steffensen on how the revival of Indigenous fire practices, including what's called 'cool burns', could restore our country. Fire Country o ...Show more
Earth Detox: How and Why we Must Clean Up Our Planet by Julian Cribb
21.95 AUD
Category: Environment
Every person on our home planet is affected by a worldwide deluge of man-made chemicals and pollutants - most of which have never been tested for safety. Our chemical emissions are six times larger than our total greenhouse gas emissions. They are in our food, our water, the air we breathe, our homes an ...Show more
Country Matters - A Countryside Companion, from Chickens and Chainsaws to Meadows and Mushrooming by Meg Clothier; Jonny Clothier
39.99 AUD
Category: Environment
A delightful guide to the countryside: full of fascinating facts, local lore and useful advice
Carbon City Zero - A Collaborative Game: Can You Work Together for a Carbon Neutral Future? by Possible; Rami Niemi (Illustrator)
55.00 AUD
Category: Environment
PLAY AND LEARN: learn about climate action as you play this new board game for all the family SCREEN-FREE FUN for 2-4 players aged 8 and up SOMETHING TO TREASURE: this is a quality product made to last, with bespoke illustration and stylish packaging (on FSC stocks)Carbon City Zero is a collaborative c ...Show more
The Shrinking Nation by Graeme Turner
32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
How Australia became less than it was, and how it can once again be more than it is.Over the past two decades, Australia has been experiencing a sustained period of accelerated socio-cultural change, accompanied by existential threats from natural disasters and the Covid pandemic, and punctuated by repe ...Show more
Provocateur: A Life of Ideas in Action by Clive Hamilton
34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
Clive Hamilton has spent a life asking why. In his unique memoir, Provocateur, he shows us why questioning the status quo matters, how powerful arguments can change the country, and how the life of ideas in action actually works. From why climate change matters to how we understand ourselves as Austral ...Show more