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The Vanishing Wild: Australian wildlife and the fight against extinction

Justine E. Hausheer

Award-winning science writer Justine E. Hausheer travels across the continent to meet Australia’s incredible native animals – and the innovative scientists working to give them a better future.

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Heart of Ice: A journey into Antarctica’s frozen realm

Acclaimed writer Joy McCann takes the reader on a compelling journey, navigating entangled stories of ice and rock, humans, animals and other species, through the prism of Antarctica’s ice.

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(Be)wilder: Journeys in Nature

Can our interactions with wildlife help answer life’s big questions? Acclaimed urban ecologist Darryl explores how people around the world interact with the natural world.

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Human/Nature: On life in a wild world

A lyrical work of creative nonfiction, Human/Nature is an exploration of how and why we think about the natural world the way we do.

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The Bee Squad: Boosting biodiversity in your neighbourhood

Judy Friedlander

The Bee Squad is jam-packed with fun adventures and hands-on projects to help kids boost biodiversity in their neighbourhood.

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John Busst: Bohemian artist and saviour of reef and rainforest

A rich biography of artist-turned-environmental campaigner John Büsst.

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Getting to Know the Birds in Your Neighbourhood: A Field Guide

Interested in birds but don’t know where to start? Overwhelmed by the bird guides? Want to know more about the birds you see around you? Then this is the book for you!

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Dr Rip’s Essential Beach Book: Everything you need to know about surf, sand and rips

Australia’s leading beach scientist shares everything you need to know about how beaches work and how to swim safely, with examples from Australia and across the globe.

The Plant Thieves: Secrets of the herbarium

Prudence Gibson

The Plant Thieves reveals remarkable stories from the National Herbarium of New South Wales – its people, its archives and its most guarded specimens.

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Underground Lovers: Encounters with fungi

Underground Lovers brings us down to earth, magnifier in hand, to dwell with fungal allies and aliens, discover how fungi hold forests together, and why humans are deeply entwined with these unruly renegades of the subterrain.

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Living Democracy

Whether you’re a concerned community member, or someone who is already active in social or environmental campaigning, this book will inspire and inform you, and get you fired up to co-create a common, more equitable future.

The Bondi to Manly Walk

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Wounded Country: The Murray–Darling Basin – a contested history

Quentin Beresford

Beyond Climate Grief

How do we find courage when climate change overwhelms us emotionally?

Flames of Extinction

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 climate behind them.

Living with the Anthropocene

Edited by Mr Cameron Muir, Kirsten Wehner, Jenny Newell

Personal and urgent, this is a literary anthology for our age, the age of humans.

The Ways of the Bushwalker

Whether you are inclined to put on your walking boots and pack your sleeping bag, or would rather stay in a luxury hut, this surefooted and witty book reveals how the ordinary act of walking can become extraordinary.

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?

An epic journey of discovery into the heart of a vast and contested Australian wilderness.

What does a full-blown Fire Age look like? We are about to find out, and Australia will feel the looking-glass transition from an ice world to a fire world more fully and suddenly than elsewhere.

Rebecca Prince-Ruiz, Joanna Atherfold Finn

'I'm going plastic free next month, who wants to join me?'

Adani and the War Over Coal

Quentin Beresford

Coal is the political, economic and cultural totem for debates about climate change. Yet Australian politicians have had a love affair with coal, which has helped lock our politics – and our country – into the fossil fuel age.

In the beginning, there was the river — before the beach, before the drain, before the dredging, before the dams, before numerous other actions that altered the stream.

David Suzuki, Ian Hanington

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.

Elizabeth Tynan

*Winner of the Prime Minister's Literary Award for Australian History 2017*

On Track: Searching out the Bundian Way

On Track tells the story of John Blay's long-distance search for the Bundian Way, an important Aboriginal pathway between Mt Kosciuszko and Twofold Bay near Eden on the New South Wales far south coast. The 360-kilometre route traverses some of the nation's most remarkable landscapes, from the highest place on the continent to the ocean.

The Rise and Fall of Gunns Ltd

Quentin Beresford

Fearless and forensic in its analysis, the book shows that Tasmania's decades-long quest to industrialise nature fails every time. But the collapse of Gunns is the most telling of them all.

Transport Fuels from Australia's Gas Resources

Professor Robert Clark, Mr Mark J Thomson Dr

The transport sector in Australia depends heavily on imported oil-based fuels. With this comes the ever-present risk of oil supply shortages. But Australia is gas-rich and oil-poor, so it makes practical sense to assess how our own gas resources can be used to produce these fuels.

Curating Sydney

Jill Bennett, Saskia Beudel

What happens when artists are asked the questions usually addressed to planners and administrators?

Conservation in a Crowded World

Edited by John Merson, Rosie Cooney, Paul Brown

This book addresses some key questions for the sustainable use of natural environments: What should be conserved and who decides? Is 'use' compatible with conservation, and under what circumstances? Are trade-offs between conservation and development necessary? How do we find those elusive 'win-win' solutions?

Sustainable House

Whether you're planning to build or renovate, whether you live in an apartment or a house, Sustainable House

Sustainable Freshwater Aquacultures

Nick Romanowski