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Air - Nature and Culture by Peter Adey
$34.99 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment | Series: Earth Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Outside of yoga class, we don’t pay too much attention to the air we take in every day. Long one of the essential elements to life on earth--from the atmospheric composition that gave life to the coal-forming forests some three hundred million years ago to the air that fuels our most important technolog ...Show more
Cave: Nature and Culture by Ralph Crane; Lisa Fletcher
$29.99 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment | Series: Earth Ser.
Shortlisted for the Tratman Award 2015 To enter caves is to venture beyond the realm of the everyday. From huge vaulted caverns to impassable, water-filled passages; from the karst topography of Guilin in China to the lava tubes of Hawaii; from tiny remote pilgrimage sites to massive tourism enterprise ...Show more
Coal: Nature and Culture by Ralph Crane
$34.99 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment | Series: Earth Ser.
While concerns about climate change have focused negative attention on the coal industry in recent years, as descendants of the industrial revolution we have all benefitted from the mining of the black seam. Coal has influenced significantly the course of human history and our social and natural environ ...Show more
Glacier - Nature and Culture by Peter G. Knight
$34.99 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment | Series: Earth Ser.
As major actors in the unfolding drama of climate change, glaciers feature prominently in Earth's past and its future. Wherever on the planet we live, glaciers affect each of us directly. They control the atmospheric and ocean circulations that drive the weather; they supply drinking and irrigation wate ...Show more
Ice: Nature and Culture by Klaus Dodds
$34.99 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment | Series: Earth Ser.
In Ice, Klaus Dodds provides a wide-ranging exploration of the cultural, natural, and geopolitical history of this most slippery of subjects. Beyond Earth, ice has been found on other planets, moons, and meteors--and scientists even think that ice-rich asteroids played a pivotal role in bringing water t ...Show more
Solar by Ian McEwan
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Earth Ser.
'Beard sank into a gloom of inattention, not because the planet was in peril - that moronic word again - but because someone was telling him it was with such enthusiasm'Michael Beard is a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. A compulsive womaniser, Beard finds his fifth marriage ...Show more
The History of Middle Earth (Book 10): Morgoth's Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien
$22.99 AUD
Category: Special Orders | Series: History of Middle-Earth Ser.
The first of two companion volumes which documents the later writing of The Silmarillion, Tolkien's epic tale of war. After the The Lord of the Rings was at last achieved, J R R Tolkien turned his attention once again to 'the Matter of the Elder Days'. The text of the Annals of Aman, the 'Blessed Land' ...Show more
The Last Kids on Earth and the Midnight Blade (#5) HB by Max Brallier; Douglas Holgate
$22.99 AUD
Category: Children's & YA | Series: The\Last Kids on Earth Ser.
Surviving their first winter after the Monster Apocalypse was no easy feat, yet Jack and his buddies waste no time springing to action against some of the nastiest, most evil monsters around. When Jack discovers his Louisville Slicer has new, otherworldly powers, he's thrown into epic training to find o ...Show more
The Last Kids on Earth and the Skeleton Road by Max Brallier; Douglas Holgate (Illustrator)
$28.00 AUD
Category: Special Orders | Series: The\Last Kids on Earth Ser.
Now a major Netflix series! 'Terrifyingly fun! Max Brallier's The Last Kids on Earth delivers big thrills and even bigger laughs.' Jeff Kinney, author of Diary of a Wimpy Kid. Wimpy Kid meets The Walking Dead in this hilarious series packed with monsters and zombies. Jack Sullivan, Quint Baker, June ...Show more
The Last Quarter of the Moon by Chi Zijian
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Earth Ser.
'A long-time confidante of the rain and snow, I am ninety years old. The rain and snow have weathered me, and I too have weathered them'. At the end of the twentieth-century an old woman sits among the birch trees and thinks back over her life, her loves, and the joys and tragedies that have befallen he ...Show more
The Long Mars: (Long Earth #3) by Terry Pratchett, Stephen Baxter
$19.99 AUD
Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy | Series: The\Long Earth Ser. | Reading Level: General Adult
2040-2045- In the years after the cataclysmic Yellowstone eruption there is massive economic dislocation as populations flee Datum Earth to myriad Long Earth worlds. Sally, Joshua, and Lobsang are all involved in this perilous work when, out of the blue, Sally is contacted by her long-vanished father an ...Show more
The Long Mars (The Long Earth #3) by Terry Pratchett; Stephen Baxter
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy | Series: Long Earth Ser.
2040. The Long Earth is in chaos. . . . The cataclysmic Yellowstone eruption is shutting down civilization. Whole populations flee to the relative safety of myriad stepwise Earths. Sally Linsay, Joshua Valiente, and Lobsang have all been involved in the perilous post-eruption clean-up. But Joshua face ...Show more