The Rising Tide: Among the Islands and Atolls of the Pacific Ocean by Tom Bamforth
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Category: Science & Nature
Vanuatu. The Cook Islands. Fiji. The names evoke white-sand beaches, swaying palms and lazy holidays. But in reality, these idyllic places are tropical maelstroms of global realpolitik, caught between the world's superpowers and former colonial masters. Collectively the Pacific nations, which form one t ...Show more
Animals in the Anthropocene - Critical Perspectives on Non-Human Futures by Human Animal Research Network Editorial Collective (Editor)
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Category: Science & Nature
Much of the discussion on the Anthropocene has centred upon anthropogenic global warming and climate change and the urgency of political and social responses to this problem. Animals in the Anthropocene: critical perspectives on non-human futures shows that assessing the effects of human activity on the ...Show more
Dear Grandpa Why by John L. Read
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Category: Science & Nature
Edward Thompson Mobsby, father of twin baby girls, volunteered for war service and was shot down by the Japanese in New Guinea in 1942. John Read's quest for an apology for the death of his grandfather took him and his family from suburban Australia to a startling discovery in the mighty Owen Stanley Ra ...Show more
Among the Pigeons: Why Our Cats Belong Indoors by John L. Read
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Category: Science & Nature
During the last century, global domestic cat numbers rocketed past 200 million, along with a surge in cat diseases and numbers of feral cats and sick, injured and malnourished cats. Cat shelters are overflowing. Hundreds of thousands of cats are euthanised every year by despondent animal welfare workers ...Show more
Upturn: A Better Normal after COVID-19 by Tanya Plibersek (Editor)
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Category: Science & Nature
If you had asked most people a year ago, they would have told you there was no way that school children could shift overnight to online learning; that it was impossible for banks to offer mortgage holidays; impossible to double unemployment benefits; impossible to house rough sleepers or put a hold on e ...Show more
Fire - A Brief History (Second Edition) by Pyne, Stephen J
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Category: Science & Nature
Over vast expanses of time, fire and humanity have interacted to expand the domain of each, transforming the earth and what it means to be human. In this concise yet wide-ranging book, Stephen J. Pyne?named by Science magazine as ?the world?s leading authority on the history of fire??explores the surpri ...Show more
Living with the Anthropocene: Love, Loss and Hope in the Face of Environmental Crisis by Cameron Muir (Editor); Jennifer Newell (Editor); Kirsten Wehner (Editor)
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Category: Science & Nature
Australia — and the world — is changing. On the Great Barrier Reef corals bleach white, across the inland farmers struggle with declining rainfall, birds and insects disappear from our gardens and plastic waste chokes our shores. The 2019–20 summer saw bushfires ravage the country like never before and ...Show more
The Best Australian Science Writing 2020 by Sara Phillips (Editor)
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Category: Science & Nature
The annual collection – now in its tenth year – celebrating the finest voices in Australian science writing.Can fish feel pain? Does it matter if a dingo is different from a dog? Is there life in a glob of subterranean snot? Science tackles some unexpected questions. At a time when the world is buffeted ...Show more
Windfall: Unlocking a Fossil-Free Future by Ketan Joshi
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Category: Science & Nature
We've had a decade of distraction and inaction on climate change, but what made things go so very wrong in Australia? And what can the rest of the world learn from our mistakes – and opportunities? In Windfall, renewable energy expert Ketan Joshi examines how wind power inspired the creation of a weird, ...Show more
Cosmic Chronicles - A user's guide to the Universe by Fred Watson
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Category: Science & Nature | Series: Users Guide to the Universe - Australian
Are we alone in the universe? Where didthe moon come from? How do we know what stars are made of? Could there reallybe a future in asteroid mining? In CosmicChronicles, Fred Watson - Australia'sAstronomer-at-Large and bestselling author - explores the hottest topics inspace science and astronomy. Watso ...Show more
Feeding the Birds at Your Table: A guide for Australia by Darryl Jones
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Category: Science & Nature | Series: Guide for Australia
Feeding the Birds at Your Table is designed to provide detailed, comprehensive advice and suggestions for people wishing to feed wild birds in Australia from their own backyards and balconies. Millions of Australians feed wild birds in their gardens. Yet there is currently little information or advice o ...Show more
Diving for Seahorses by Hilde Østby; Ylva Østby
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Category: Science & Nature
What makes us remember? Why do we forget? And what, exactly, is a memory? Diving for Seahorses answers these questions and more, offering an illuminating look at one of our most fascinating faculties: our memory. Sisters Hilde and Ylva Østby - one an acclaimed writer the other a neuropsychologist-skilfu ...Show more