Product Description: An international best seller embraced and endorsed by policy makers, scientists, writers and energy industry executives from around the world, Tim Flannery’s The Weather Makers contributed in bringing the topic of global warming to national prominence...read more

Product Description: In the tradition of Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel, The Eternal Frontier is ecological history on a monumental scale. One of the world's foremost paleontologists, Tim Flannery has undertaken a task of enormous ambition and accomplished something never before attempted: a history of the formation of North America as we know it today...read more

Richly illustrated with lifelike full-color paintings, a journey into the heart of the animal kingdom introduces ninety of the world's most unusual and amazing creatures--including the Hairy Seadevil, the Sulawesi Naked Bat, the Olm, the Indus River Dolphin, the Satyr Tragopan, and the Aye-Aye--and their behavior, evolutionary history, unique characteristics, and survival in the modern world.

Scattered throughout Sydney is a plethora of 19th and early 20th century sandstone architecture, hewn from the city's foundations. This series of superb colour photographs of these historical works is accompanied by essays written by Tim Flannery ... [etal.].

An illustrated journey through a lost world introduces readers to the many species of animals that have become extinct over the past five centuries as the result of European expansion into various regions of the world, including the great auk, Carolina parakeet, thylacine, passenger pigeon, Tasmanian wolf, and others.

An intriguing anthology of stories of adventure and discovery chronicles the conquest, colonization, and settlement of Australia in sixty-seven accounts that range from Willem Janz's 1606 bloody expedition of Cape York to Robyn Davidson's 1977 camelback ride through the wilderness Outback. Original. (view table of contents)

A narrative history of one of the world's great cities traces the development of Sydney, Australia, from its eighteenth-century origins as a remote penal colony of the British Empire to its role as the host of the 2000 Summer Olympic Games, documenting the colorful personalities, events, and institutions that have shaped the city. 25,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

The author, a worldrenowned mammalogist, invites readers on a fascinating journey to New Guinea in search of undocumented species, meeting tree kangaroos, 'extinct' bats, and vengeful cannibals along the way. Reprint.

A poignant journey into the enigmatic wilds of New Guinea details the author's friendship with a fabled warrior who commandeered the attack on colonial whites years ago and discusses the fate of the indigenous peoples as they confront technologically advanced industries. 15,000 first printing. Tour.

Product Description: An ecological history of Australasia, which describes how human beings have consumed the resources they would need for their own future since the first adventurers made their way from the Afro-Asian homeland to travel down the long chain of islands to Australasia.

Product Description: Stepping into the New Guinea rainforest is like entering a time machine, according to Tim Flannery. There, animals unknown anywhere else except as fossils continue to flourish within scarcely disturbed ecological communities. In this beautifully illustrated guide, Flannery presents the most complete information available about the natural history and systematics of New Guinea's unique mammals...read more