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Marsupials of Australia: Kangaroos, Wallabies and Rat-Kangaroos by John Calaby; Tim Flannery; Rosemary Woodford Ganf (Artist)
Category: Nature | Series: Marsupials of Australia Ser.
This distinctive volume completes the artist's series Marsupials of Australia. It covers the superfamily of marsupials known as macropods, which range in size and habitat diversity from the largest marsupial of all, the Red kangaroo, to the smallest, the Musky rat-kangaroo. This is a signed edition of ...Show more
Now or Never: A Sustainable Future for Australia? by Tim Flannery
Category: Non-Fiction
Now or Neveris an essential book about the most urgent issue of our time- climate change. In it, Tim Flannery begins by discussing the idea of sustainability and asks whether humanity can rise to this challenge. He brings to life the latest climate science and its implications. And he discusses in fasci ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 31 - Now or Neve r: A Sustainable Future for Australia? by Tim Flannery
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
Sometime this century, after 4 billion years, some of Earth's regulatory systems will pass from control through evolution by natural selection, to control by human intelligence. Will humanity rise to the challenge? This landmark essay by Tim Flannery is about sustainability, our search for it in the twe ...Show more
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)
Category: Non-Fiction | 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
Sailing Alone Around The World by Slocum Joshua, Tim Flannery
Category: Travel
It remains one of the most thrilling and entertaining travel narratives of all time. Slocum writes of dangers and delights in encounters with Moorish pirates and Juan Fernandez islanders, tempests and languid seas, sharks and flying fish. In 1877, eighteen years before Slocum weighed anchor on his 74,00 ...Show more
Sensational Sharks by Tim Flannery, Emma Flannery
Category: Education
Sensational Sharks is the first book of a brand-new picture-book series from Team Flannery that deep-dives into some of the most beloved and surprising creatures around the world! Have you ever heard about the cookie-cutter shark, which bites out cookie-shaped morsels of flesh from much larger animals ...Show more
Sunlight and Seaweed - Argument for How by Tim Flannery
Category: Science
''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)
Category: Australiana
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
Category: Australiana
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
Category: Science
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 Eternal Frontier: an Ecological History of North America & Its Peoplles by Tim Flannery
Category: Non-Fiction
In the tradition of Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs and Steel, and Flannery's own best-seller, The Future Eaters, this is ecological history on a monumental scale. Tim Flannery has achieved something never before attempted: a history of the formation of North America as we know it today. The Eternal Frontie ...Show more
The Explorers: Text Classics by Tim Flannery
Category: Australiana | 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