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Animals Make Us Human by Leah Kaminsky; Meg Keneally
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science & Nature
Through words and images, writers, photographers and researchers reflect on their connection with animals and nature. They share moments of wonder and revelation from encounters in the natural world- seeing a wild platypus at play, an echidna dawdling across a bush track, or the inexplicable leap of a t ...Show more
Fire Flood and Plague: Australian Writers Respond to This Extraordinary Year by Sophie Cunningham ed.
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science & Nature
Writers, scientists, historians, journalists and commentators consider subjects as broad as culture and the arts, working as a doctor, travel, domestic violence, security, immigration, the death of a loved one, geopolitics, distance and zoom to ensure we never forget the experience of this pile-on of a ...Show more
On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal by Naomi Klein
$19.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs, Culture & Society
#1 New York Times and internationally bestselling author Naomi Klein makes the case for a Green New Deal in this "keenly argued, well-researched, and impassioned" manifesto (The Washington Post). An instant bestseller, On Fire shows Klein at her most prophetic and philosophical, investigating the clim ...Show more
Body Count: How Climate Change is Killing Us by Paddy Manning
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science & Nature
'Our house is on fire,' 16-year-old Swedish school strike activist Greta Thunberg told world leaders in 2019. Across an angry year of weather, Australians watched it in real-time: record heatwaves and worsening drought, unprecedented fish kills in the Murray-Darling Basin and devastating wildfires acros ...Show more
Object-oriented Ontology : A New Theory of Everything by Graham Harman
$19.99 AUD
Category: Theory | Series: Pelican Bks.
What is reality, really? Are humans more special or important than the non-human objects we perceive? How does this change the way we understand the world? We humans tend to believe that things are only real in as much as we perceive them, an idea reinforced by modern philosophy, which privileges us as ...Show more
The Glad Shout by Alice Robinson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
After a catastrophic storm destroys Melbourne, Isobel flees to higher ground with her husband and young daughter. Food and supplies run low, panic sets in and still no help arrives. To protect her daughter, Isobel must take drastic action. THE GLAD SHOUT is an extraordinary novel of rare depth and textu ...Show more
Flames of Extinction: The race to save Australia’s threatened wildlife by John Pickrell
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science & Nature
Over Australia's 2019–20 Black Summer bushfire season, scientists estimate that more than three billion native animals were killed or displaced. Many species — koalas, the regent honeyeater, glossy black cockatoo, the platypus — are inching towards extinction at the hands of mega-blazes and the changing ...Show more
Uninhabitable Earth: Story of the Future by David Wallace-Wells
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science & Nature
The signs of climate change are unmistakable even today, but the real transformations have hardly begun. We've been taught that warming would be slow-but, barring very dramatic action, each of these impacts is likely to arrive within the length of a new mortgage signed this year. What will it be like to ...Show more
Landscapes of Our Hearts by Matthew Colloff
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non- Fiction
On this ancient continent, waves of people have made their mark on the landscape; in turn, it too has shaped them. If we look afresh at our history through the land we live on, might Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians find a path to a shared future? An epic exploration of our relationship with th ...Show more
Beyond Climate Grief: A journey of love, snow, fire and an enchanted beer can by Jonica Newby
$29.99 AUD
Category: Mind Body Spirit
How do we find courage when climate change overwhelms us emotionally?In this magical, often funny and deeply moving personal story, award-winning science reporter Jonica Newby explores how to navigate the emotional turmoil of climate change.After researching what global warming will do to the snow count ...Show more
Human Flow - Stories from the Global Refugee Crisis by Weiwei Ai; Boris Cheshirkov (Editor); Ryan Heath (Editor); Chin-chin Yap (Editor)
$49.99 AUD
Category: Art & Photography
A powerful portrait of the greatest humanitarian emergency of our time, from the director of Human Flow In the course of making Human Flow, his epic feature documentary about the global refugee crisis, the artist Ai Weiwei and his collaborators interviewed more than 600 refugees, aid workers, politician ...Show more
Severance by Ling Ma
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Severance is a 2018 satirical science fiction novel by the Chinese-American author Ling Ma. It follows Candace Chen, an unfulfilled Bible designer, before and after Shen Fever slowly obliterates global civilization. Severance explores themes of nostalgia, modern office culture, monotony, and intimate re ...Show more
