Tells the tragic story of how, after Columbus' bold discovery of the Americas in 1492, the impact of European exploration and settlement was to prove fatal for many of the planet's most bizarre and extraordinary creatures....more details Format:Hardback Pages:184
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Tim Flannery
ISBN:9781459633650
A fabulous account of hunting, trapping recording mammal species in the Pacific Islands.Twenty-five years ago, a zoologist from the Australian Museum in Sydney set off to research the mammals of the Pacific Islands...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:448
Flannery ignites the population debate and asks how many people Australia can really support. He argues that there is no conflict between maintaining the highest standard of human rights and achieving an environmentally sustainable population for Australia....more details Format:Paperback
In the tradition of "Birth of Sydney", the award winning author has brought together a collection of stories describing the making of the great Southern city of Melbourne....more details Format:Paperback Pages:400
In 1835 John Batman sailed up the Yarra and was astonished by the beauty of the land. It was a temperate Kakadu, teeming with wildlife and with soils rich enough to spawn pastoral empires. With the discovery of gold...more details Format:Paperback Pages:416
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Tim Flannery
ISBN:9780802118523
In this, his most personal book yet, Tim Flannery draws on three decades of travel, research, and fieldwork to craft a love letter to his native land and one of its most unique and beloved inhabitants: the kangaroo. Crisscrossing the continent...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:258
In his most personal book yet, Tim Flannery, the internationally acclaimed author of"The Weather Makers," draws on three decades of travel, research...more details Format:Paperback Pages:258
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Tim Flannery
ISBN:9780141026947
Draws on three decades of extensive travel, research and field work to reveal the country's unique nature. The author shows how the kangaroo is inseparable from the environment that created it...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:272
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Tim Flannery
ISBN:9781920885441
A panoramic book about a scientist and a continent, a fascinating work of travel and natural history, oc contemporary culture and the patterns of history. It teaches us about the Australian outback - a land of subtlety and complexity...more details Format:Paperback Pages:304
A panoramic book about a scientist and a continent, a fascinating work of travel and natural history, of contemporary culture and the patterns of history. Flannery encounters ancient Aboriginal cultures...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:272
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Tim Flannery
ISBN:9781877008566
The sequel to Tim Flannery's The Future Eaters explores the creation of the North American continent, and the evolution of its modern landscape. Flannery describes the development of North America's flora...more details Format:Paperback Pages:424
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Tim Flannery
ISBN:9781876485726
In the tradition of his ground-breaking "The Future Eaters", Tim Flannery has written the first ever comprehensive ecological history of North America. From Alaska in the north to Panama in the tropical south...more details Format:Hardback Pages:424
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Tim Flannery
ISBN:9781921145957
An Explorer's Notebook is an exhilarating selection of Tim Flannery's essays and articles written over a period of twenty-five years. In them we see his evolution from the young scientist doing fieldwork in remote locations to the major thinker who has changed the way we all think about climate and the threat that global warming presents to our planet...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:304
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Tim Flannery
ISBN:9781921351655
An Explorer's Notebook is a fascinating and exhilarating selection of Tim Flannery's essays and articles written over two decades. In them we see his evolution from the young scientist conducting field work in remote locations to the influential commentator on climate change...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:304
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Tim Flannery
ISBN:9781876485221
The explorers of Australia tell an epic story of courage and suffering, of dispossession and conquest. This bestselling anthology, brilliantly edited and introduced by Tim Flannery...more details Format:Paperback Pages:400
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Tim Flannery
ISBN:9781417722945
A lively collection of extraordinary stories of adventure and discovery, The Explorers tells the epic saga of the conquest and settlement of Australia. Editor Tim Flannery selects sixty-seven accounts that convey the sense of wonder and discovery...more details
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Tim Flannery
ISBN:9781877069284
The story of how human beings have consumed the resources they need for their own future. The book examines the first Afro-Asian people to travel down the chain of islands to Australasia and how they :changed the flora and fauna...more details Format:Hardback Pages:424
Discovers the source of life and how it has developed into the wonder around us today. From ant-colonies to zinc mining, this book takes us on a journey around the world and from the top of the food-chain to the very chemicals of which we are made...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:336
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Tim Flannery
ISBN:9781921758720
We stand at a crossroads, where comprehension of our place in nature - of our true abilities and of our history - is supremely important. We have formed a global civilisation of unprecedented might...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:336
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Tim Flannery
ISBN:9781742149288
We stand at a crossroads, where comprehension of our place in nature-of our true abilities and of our history-is supremely important. We have formed a global civilisation of unprecedented might...more details Format:CD
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Tim Flannery
ISBN:9780802119766
Beginning at the moment of creation with the Big Bang, "Here on Earth" explores the evolution of a galactic cloud of dust and gas to a planet with a metallic core and early signs of life within a billion years of being created....more details Format:Hardcover Pages:316
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Tim Flannery
ISBN:9780802145864
Credited with discovering more species than Darwin, praised for his "ability to take complex ideas and--seemingly effortlessly-- make them accessible" ("Sydney Morning Herald")...more details Format:Paperback Pages:336
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Tim Flannery
ISBN:9781921656873
We stand at a crossroads, where comprehension of our place in nature—of our true abilities and of our history—is supremely important. We have formed a global civilisation of unprecedented might...more details Format:Hardback Pages:352
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Tim Flannery
ISBN:9781921656668
We stand at a crossroads, where comprehension of our place in nature—of our true abilities and of our history—is supremely important. We have formed a global civilisation of unprecedented might...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:352
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Tim Flannery
ISBN:9781742675817
We stand at a crossroads, where comprehension of our place in nature-of our true abilities and of our history-is supremely important. We have formed a global civilisation of unprecedented might...more details Format:Audio Book 7 Disc Set
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Tim Flannery
ISBN:9781742676654
We stand at a crossroads, where comprehension of our place in nature-of our true abilities and of our history-is supremely important. We have formed a global civilisation of unprecedented might...more details Format:CD-Extra
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Tim Flannery
ISBN:9781875696260
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...more details Format:Leather / fine binding Pages:274
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Tim Flannery
ISBN:9781400143863
The bestselling author of The Weather Makers returns to the subject of climate change with a thought-provoking and powerful argument for immediate global action and a wide range of innovative...more details Format:CD
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Tim Flannery
ISBN:9781863954297
Out of all the books on global warming . . . this is the best so far.' - The Age
Tim Flannery's Quarterly Essay was a national bestseller. Now or Never combines this landmark essay with nine responses to it by leading figures...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:192
In the third Quarterly Essay for 2008, Professor Tim Flannery investigates the latest climate science and the challenges facing Australia and the world. He looks at what the Rudd government needs to do if the nation is to play its part in averting a global catastrophe.
This is an essential intervention...more details Format:Paperback / softback
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Tim Flannery
ISBN:9780802145055
Out of all the books on global warming . . . this is the best so far.' - The Age
Tim Flannery's Quarterly Essay was a national bestseller. Now or Never combines this landmark essay with nine responses to it by leading figures...more details Format:Paperback Pages:192
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Tim Flannery
ISBN:9780802118981
In Now or Never, the internationally acclaimed author of The Weather Makers returns to the subject of climate change with a book that is at once a forceful call to action and a deeply (and often surprisingly) pragmatic road map toward sustainability. Utilizing the most up-to-the-minute data available...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:167
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Tim Flannery
ISBN:9781400113866
The bestselling author of The Weather Makers returns to the subject of climate change with a thought-provoking and powerful argument for immediate global action and a wide range of innovative...more details Format:CD
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Tim Flannery
ISBN:9781400163861
The bestselling author of The Weather Makers returns to the subject of climate change with a thought-provoking and powerful argument for immediate global action and a wide range of innovative...more details Format:CD
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Tim Flannery
ISBN:9781153162104
Publisher: New York Publication date: 1890 Subjects: Cricket Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes...more details Format:Paperback Pages:96
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Tim Flannery
ISBN:9781876485924
An enthralling account of the circumnavigation of Australia, by the man who gave our country its name. Flinders tells of meeting and communicating with Aborigines...more details Format:Paperback Pages:312
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Tim Flannery
ISBN:9780802136992
Blending together the writings of early Australian settlers, leaders, journalists, and explorers, in The Birth of Sydney editor Tim Flannery constructs a compelling narrative history of the early life of one of the world's most fascinating metropolises...more details Format:Paperback Pages:320
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Tim Flannery
ISBN:9780141026930
Leads the reader on a 65-million-year quest to understand the formation of North America. From the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous Period...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:432
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Tim Flannery
ISBN:9780802138880
In The Eternal Frontier, world-renowned scientist and historian Tim Flannery tells the unforgettable story of the geological and biological evolution of the North American continent...more details Format:Paperback Pages:432
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Tim Flannery
ISBN:9780802137197
A lively collection of extraordinary stories of adventure and discovery, The Explorers tells the epic saga of the conquest and settlement of Australia. Editor Tim Flannery selects sixty-seven accounts that convey the sense of wonder and discovery...more details Format:Paperback Pages:400
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Tim Flannery
ISBN:9780802139436
Humans first settled the islands of Australia, New Zealand, New Caledonia, and New Guinea some sixty millennia ago, and as they had elsewhere across the globe...more details Format:Paperback Pages:432
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Tim Flannery
ISBN:9780802137463
In his many voyages, the Scottish-born sailor John Nicol (1755-1825) twice circumnavigated the globe, visiting every inhabited continent while participating in many of the greatest events of exploration and adventure of the eighteenth century. During his career Nicol battled pirates...more details Format:Paperback Pages:208
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Tim Flannery
ISBN:9780141026275
Tells the dramatic story of the earth's climate, of how it has changed, how we have come to understand it, and of what that means for the future. This narrative takes the reader on a journey into the past and around the globe...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:368
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Tim Flannery
ISBN:9780802142924
Sometime this century the day will arrive when the human influence on the climate will overwhelm all other natural factors. Over the past decade...more details Format:Paperback Pages:359
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Tim Flannery
ISBN:9781876485191
Throwim Way Leg is unputdownable, a book of wonder and excitement, of struggle and sadness, a love letter to Papua New Guinea and Irian Jaya.
This book brims with marvellous stories. Tim Flannery meets skilled hunters and befriends a shaman. He climbs mountains never before scaled by Europeans...more details Format:Paperback Pages:352
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Tim Flannery
ISBN:9780141031415
Presents the author's adventures, as he meets skilled hunters and befriends a shaman, climbs mountains, discovers new species and stumbles across the giant bones of extinct marsupials...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:336
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Tim Flannery
ISBN:9780642562135
In New Guinea Pidgin, throwim way leg means to go on a journey and it is Tim Flannery's invitation to join him on his breathtaking adventures through the jungles of Papua New Guinea and Irian Jaya. Flannery meets skilled hunters and befriends a shaman...more details Format:CD-Audio
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Tim Flannery
ISBN:9780802136657
Published to great acclaim and tremendous success on three continents, Throwim Way Leg is a thrilling blend of scientific discovery and high adventure. It takes you into the wilds with internationally renowned mammalogist Tim Flannery...more details Format:Paperback Pages:336
Tench, a humble captain-lieutenant of the marines, arrived on the First Fleet, and with his characteristic understanding...more details Format:CD-Audio
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Flannery Tim
ISBN:9781742335896
Edited and introduced by Tim Flannery
Tench, a humble captain-lieutenant of the marines, arrived on the First Fleet, and with his characteristic understanding...more details Format:CD-Extra
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ISBN:9781864826166
In this passionate book, Tim Flannery reminds us that climate connects us all, from the Arctic to the Outback. We influence our climate by how we use our fuels...more details Format:CD-Audio
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Tim Flannery
ISBN:9781921145346
Most of us suspect that climate change is happening, but is it a terrible threat to our world or an exaggerated beat up? Or is it something in between...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:288
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Tim Flannery
ISBN:9780733390906
Australian of the Year in 2007, Tim Flannery’s We Are the Weather Makers is essential listening for everyone from young adults to adults keen to learn the facts about climate change in a less scientific manner.
In this passionate audio book...more details Format:CD-Audio
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Tim Flannery
ISBN:9780763636562
Every young person who cares about preserving the planet needs to know what's inside this book -- and follow the authors' call to action. First published for an adult readership...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:303
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Tim Flannery
ISBN:9780763646561
Every young person who cares about preserving the planet needs to know what's inside this book -- and follow the authors' call to action. First published for an adult readership...more details Format:Paperback Pages:303
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Tim Flannery
ISBN:9780642590367
Scientist Tim Flannery tells the fascinating story of climate spanning millions of years to help us understand the predicament we face. By burning fossil fuels we are increasing the levels of greenhouse gases in our atmosphere...more details Format:CD-Audio
The last 10,000 years have been humanity s day in the sun: we planted the first crops, domesticated animals, and built the first civilisations - and all of this happened not once but many times independently in different parts of the world...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:384
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Tim Flannery
ISBN:9781921351822
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...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:352
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Tim Flannery
ISBN:9781921145810
Anthology of the remarkable writings of the explorers of Australia from the seventeenth century to the present day. Dampier, Cook, Sturt, Mitchell and Wills as well as a host of other unforgettable travellers are here...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:304
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Tim Flannery (ed) Tench Watkin
ISBN:9781921520044
Watkin Tench sailed to Australia with the First Fleet in 1788. In his late twenties, a captain of the marines, he was insatiably curious about the new British colony of Australia. In his four years in the country...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:320
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Tim Flannery;Peter Schouten
ISBN:9780871137975
Since their emergence from Africa over fifty millennia ago, humans have radically altered the environment wherever they have gone, often at the cost of the animal kingdom. A Gap in Nature catalogs 104 creatures that have vanished from the face of the earth since 1492. Animals from every continent are represented -- American passenger pigeons...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:192
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Dr Tim Flannery
ISBN:9780642589996
Country is a panoramic tale of a scientist and continent. From Arnhem Land to Tasmania, from the Nullarbor to the Daintree, Tim Flannery describes his own passionate encounters with the land and its people. As he digs deeper into our country's past...more details Format:CD-Audio
Epic stories of courage and suffering, of dispossession and conquest, or a moving frontier between European invaders and the Aborigines who had been living on the Australian continent for thousands of years....more details Format:CD-Audio
Explores the rival voyages of naval captains Nicolas Baudin of France and Matthew Flinders of Britain, both of whom set out to map Australia and "advance the limits of science...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:512
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Tim Flannery;Michael L Swank MikeSwank
ISBN:9780880117579
If you handle any aspect of hiring, managing, or motivating staff, this unique resource can save you hours of frustration. Authored by two of the nation's premier athletic administrators...more details Format:Paperback Pages:176
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Tim Flannery;Drew De Carvalho
ISBN:9781419390685
Plot Description: Sometime this century the day will arrive when the human influence on the climate will overwhelm all other natural factors. Over the past decade...more details Format:CD
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Schouten Peter & Flannery Tim
ISBN:9781920885212
A new and exciting title for Christmas from the author and wildlife artist of the bestselling book A Gap in Nature....more details Format:Paperback Pages:224
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Flannery Tim (ed)
ISBN:9781876485450
The best-selling and spectacular anthology of writing about the creation of Australia's oldest city is now available in paperback. Superbly introduced by Tim Flannery...more details Format:Paperback Pages:368
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Flannery Tim (ed)
ISBN:9781876485238
In this spectacular and brilliant anthology Tim Flannery discovers, through the words of eyewitnesses, how Sydney started life in a storm in 1788 and through the next 100 years grew into one of the world's great cities. We hear the voices of Arthur Phillip...more details Format:Paperback Pages:368
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Timothy Flannery
ISBN:9781876334215
"Since the first brave adventurer left the great Afro-Asian homeland to travel down the long chain of islands to Australasia, human beings have consumed the resources they would need for their own future. Aborigines...more details Format:Paperback
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Timothy Flannery
ISBN:9780713999211
Taking us on a journey through history and around the globe, this book describes the wondrous diversity of the world's ecosystems, and explains how the great aerial ocean' unites us. It also reveals how the earth's climate has changed...more details Format:Hardback Pages:368