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The Future Eaters - An Ecological History of the Australasian Lands and People by Tim Flannery
Category: Science
This is the story of how human beings have consumed the resources they need for their own future. It examines the original "future eaters" who were the first people to leave the Afro-Asian homeland and travel down the chain of islands to Australasia and became the Aboriginal, Maori and other Polynesian ...Show more
The Hidden Life of Trees - What They Feel, How They Communicate - Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben; Tim Flannery (Foreword by); Jane Billinghurst (Translator)
Category: Science
The first book in New York Times bestselling author Peter Wohlleben's The Mysteries of Nature Trilogy. Book two, The Inner Life of Animals, is available now, and the third book, The Secret Wisdom of Nature, is coming in Spring 2019. Are trees social beings? In this international bestseller, forester an ...Show more
The Mystery of the Venus Island Fetish by Dido Butterworth (Tim Flannery)
Category: Fiction
"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
Category: Non-Fiction
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
The Weather Makers: The Past and Future Impact of Climate Change by Tim Flannery
Category: Non-Fiction
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 us un ...Show more
Throwim Way Leg: An Adventure by Tim Flannery
Category: Travel
'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
Category: Education
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! Desert - Exploring the World's Incredible Drylands by Tim Flannery; Sam Caldwell (Illustrator)
Category: Education
Are zombie ants real? How high can an armadillo jump? What's it like to wrestle a python? Tim Flannery has the answers. In this informed and accessible book, he introduces some of the most spectacular and unusual creatures in our planet's deserts and grasslands with in-depth and often-bizarre facts. Fla ...Show more
Weird, Wild, Amazing! (Explore Your World) by Tim Flannery
Category: Education | 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
Weird, Wild, Amazing! Forest - Exploring the Incredible World in the Trees by Tim Flannery; Sam Caldwell (Illustrator)
Category: Education
Can spiders fly?Are dire wolves real?Do chameleons practice magic?Tim Flannery has the answers. In this informed and accessible book, he introduces some of the most spectacular and unusual creatures in Earth's forests with in-depth and often bizarre facts. Flannery ties together concepts of climate chan ...Show more
Weird, Wild, Amazing! Sky - Exploring the Incredible World in the Clouds by Tim Flannery; Sam Caldwell (Illustrator)
Category: Education
Can owls swim? Do woodpeckers eat wood? Are vampire bats real? Tim Flannery has the answers. In this informed and accessible book, he introduces some of the most spectacular and unusual creatures soaring through Earth's skies with in-depth and often-bizarre facts. Flannery ties together concepts of clim ...Show more