Design: Building on Country (First Knowledges) by Alison Page, Paul Memmott
$24.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: First Knowledges
Aboriginal design is of a distinctly cultural nature, based in the Dreaming and in ancient practices grounded in Country. It is visible in the aerodynamic boomerang, the ingenious design of fish traps and the precise layouts of community settlements that strengthen social cohesion. Alison Page and Paul ...Show more
Living on Earth: Life, Consciousness and the Making of the Natural World by Peter Godfrey-Smith
$34.99 AUD
Category: Environment
Peter Godfrey-Smith, the scuba-diving philosopher, examined the evolution of sentience in Other Minds. In Metazoa he asked how that consciousness shaped and was shaped by animal bodies. Now, in Living on Earth, he takes that line of questioning a step further, asking, how has life shaped and been shaped ...Show more
Spell Of The Sensuous: Perceptions by David Abram
$27.99 AUD
Category: Environment
David Abram draws on sources as diverse as the philosophy of Merleau-Ponty, Balinese shamanism, Apache storytelling, and his own experience as an accomplished sleight-of-hand magician to reveal the subtle dependence of human cognition on the natural environment. He explores the character of perception a ...Show more
First Knowledges Country: Future Fire, Future Farming by Bruce Pascoe, William Leonard Gammage
$24.99 AUD
Category: Environment | Series: First Knowledges
What do you need to know to prosper as a people for at least 65,000 years? The First Knowledges series provides a deeper understanding of the expertise and ingenuity of Indigenous Australians. For millennia, Indigenous Australians harvested this continent in ways that can offer contemporary environmen ...Show more
AI Needs You: How We Can Change AI's Future and Save Our Own by Verity Harding
$39.99 AUD
Category: Environment
A humanist manifesto for the age of AI Artificial intelligence may be the most transformative technology of our time. As AI’s power grows, so does the need to figure out what—and who—this technology is really for. AI Needs You argues that it is critical for society to take the lead in answering this urg ...Show more
Just Cool It : The Climate Crisis and what we can do, a Post-Paris Agreement by David Suzuki; Ian Hanington
$27.99 AUD
Category: Environment
A resounding post-Paris Agreement wake-up call about the urgency of the climate crisis that offers a range of practical solutions - and above all, hope. Climate change is the most important crisis humanity has faced, but we still confront huge barriers to resolving it. So, what do we do, and is there ho ...Show more
The Times Reference Atlas of the World [Ninth Edition] by Times Atlases
$65.00 AUD
Category: Environment
Eighth edition of this popular atlas from the prestigious and authoritative Times Atlas range. Latest satellite images and fascinating historical maps. This world atlas contains the breadth, scale and detail to make it an ideal reference resource for school, home and business. The atlas has been brought ...Show more
Bush Life: Stories from the beating heart of rural Australia by Beauty in the Bush Collective
$49.99 AUD
Category: Environment
There's an authenticity to bush life - an appreciation of raw beauty, simple rituals and genuine people. A grit and resilience that's both bolstering and invigorating. In their first book, the Beauty in the Bush Collective share the homes, work and play that make up the lives of those living in the bus ...Show more
Latitude: The Astonishing Adventure that Shaped the World by Nick Crane
$32.99 AUD
Category: Environment
By knowing the shape of our earth we can create maps, survive the oceans, follow rivers, navigate the skies, and travel across the globe. This is the story of our world, of how we discovered what no one thought possible - the shape of the earth. A thrilling and page-turning account of the first major e ...Show more
Breaking Point: The Future of Australian Cities by Peter Seamer
$32.99 AUD
Category: Environment | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
The way we plan and build cities in Australia needs to change. Australia's population is growing- between 2017 and 2046 it is projected to increase by 11.8 million, the equivalent of adding a city the size of Canberra each year for thirty years. Most of this growth will occur in the major cities, and ...Show more
Sunlight and Seaweed - Argument for How by Tim Flannery
$19.99 AUD
Category: 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
Signs and Wonders: Dispatches from a time of beauty and loss by Delia Falconer
$32.99 AUD
Category: Environment
The celebrated, Walkley Award-winning author on how global warming is changing not only our climate but our culture. Beautifully observed, brilliantly argued and deeply felt, these essays show that our emotions, our art, our relationships with the generations around us – all the delicate networks that ...Show more