829 Results: New & Used in Nonfiction Books in Alphington 3078, VIC (Page 6 of 35)

We do have future choices: Strategies for fundamentally changing the 21st century – Robert Theobald Very Good Condition Paperback 300 pages Publisher: Southern Cross University Press 1999 We do have future choices: Strategies for fundamentally changing the 21st century – Robert Theobald Pick up is free and easy. I’ll post 2 or 3 similar sized or smaller books in one Postpak for 1 postage charge if they fit. Australia Post standard: $11:60 Australia Post Express: $15:10 Posted recycled padd

Inside The Greening: 25 years Of The Australian Conservation Foundation – Beverley Broadbent Very Good Condition Paperback Some notes inside cover. 299 pages Publisher: Insite Press 1999 Inside The Greening: 25 years Of The Australian Conservation Foundation – Beverley Broadbent Pick up is free and easy. I’ll post 2 or 3 similar sized or smaller books in one Postpak for 1 postage charge if they fit. Australia Post standard: $11:60 Australia Post Express: $15:10 Posted recycled padded bags h

Last Chance – Larry J. Schweiger Like New Condition Hardcover. Small dust jacket tear on spine. 249 pages Publisher: Fulcrum Publishing 2009 Goodreads description: "This is an unabashed call to each and every American to moral duty for the future of life on earth," begins National Wildlife Federation president and CEO Larry J. Schweiger in this stirring exposé and call to action. Speaking to us not just as a conservation leader but also as an outdoor lover and a parent, Schweiger describes t

The Positive Deviant: Sustainability Leadership in a Perverse World – Sara Parkin Very Good Condition Hardcover Very small stain on middle pages. 316 pages Publisher: Earthscan 2010 Goodreads description: An economy low in carbon and high in life satisfaction will require thousands, if not millions of exceptional leaders. This book is the first to bring together sustainability knowledge with the leadership skills and tools to help you become one of those leaders. In it you will find everythi

Merchants Of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming – Naomi Oreskes & Erik M. Conway Like New Condition Hardcover 355 pages Publisher: Bloomsbury Press 2008 Goodreads description: The U.S. scientific community has long led the world in research on such areas as public health, environmental science, and issues affecting quality of life. Our scientists have produced landmark studies on the dangers of DDT, tobacco smoke, acid rain,

Scorcher: The Dirty Politics Of Climate Change – Clive Hamilton Like New Condition Paperback 266 pages Publisher: Publisher: Black Inc 2007 Goodreads description: This is the book that blows the whistle on the politics of global warming in Australia. Why have our political leaders been so slow to act? How have big corporations succeeded in preventing real action? Who are the "greenhouse mafia"? In Scorcher, Clive Hamilton reveals a shadow world of lobbyists and sceptics, spin and hidden ag

eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet – Bill McKibben Like New Condition Paperback 253 pages Publisher: Times Books 2010 Goodreads description: Our old familiar globe is suddenly melting, drying, acidifying, flooding, and burning in ways that no human has ever seen. We've created, in very short order, a new planet, still recognisable but fundamentally different. We may as well call it Eaarth. That new planet is filled with new binds and traps. A changing world costs large sums to def

Climate Code Red: The Case for Emergency Action – David Spratt & Philip Sutton Like New Condition Paperback 304 pages Publisher: Scribe Melbourne 2008 Goodreads description: Revealing extensive scientific evidence that the global warming crisis is far worse than officially indicated, this meticulously documented call-to-action argues that the planet is almost at the point of no return. From large ice sheets disintegrating and devastating losses of species to the promise that sea levels will

Booko description: A leading expert on climate change examines what the planet could look like in 2050 if carbon emissions are not reduced, highlighting different areas of the globe and how new weather patterns will affect them. Pick up is free and easy. I’ll post 2 or 3 similar sized or smaller books in one Postpak for 1 postage charge if they fit. Australia Post standard: $11:60 Australia Post Express: $15:10 Posted recycled padded bags have padding made from 100% recycled newspaper.

Making Peace With The Earth – Vandana Shiva Like New Condition Paperback 267 pages Publisher: Pluto Press 2013 Goodreads description: "One of the world's most prominent radical scientists."—Guardian Pitting humans against the earth, and placing them outside the earth community, is an outmoded, fossilised legacy of capitalist patriarchy and mechanistic thought that gave us fossil-fuel based industrialism and colonialism and is now imposing militarised growth on communities. If our species i

The Economics And Politics Of Climate Change – Dieter Helm and Cameron Hepburn (eds). Like New Condition Paperback 538 pages Publisher: Oxford University Press 2011 Goodreads description: The international framework for a climate change agreement is up for review as the initial Kyoto period to 2012 comes to an end. Though there has been much enthusiasm from political and environmental groups, the underlying economics and politics remain highly controversial. This book takes a cool headed lo

Bigger Or Better?: Australia’s population debate – Ian Lowe Like New Condition Paperback 202 pages Publisher: University of Queensland Press 2012 Goodreads description: A comprehensive and detailed analysis of the controversial debate about Australia’s population numbers, this book clarifies the subject and addresses the many misconceptions. It provides a historic account of Australia’s population growth and a study of official data while examining the components of that growth in detail, i

The World Until Yesterday – Jared Diamond Like New Condition Paperback 430 pages Publisher: Cambridge University Press 2008 Goodreads description: Nature and Power traces the expanding scope of environmental action over the course of from initiatives undertaken by individual villages and cities, environmental policy has become a global concern. Efforts to steer human use of nature and natural resources have become complicated, as Nature and Power shows, by particularities of culture and by

Fifty Key Thinkers On The Environment – Joy A. Palmer (ed). Like New Condition Paperback 321 pages Publisher: Routledge 2001 Goodreads description: Fifty Key Thinkers on the Environment is a unique guide to environmental thinking through the ages. Joy A. Palmer, herself an important and prolific author on environmental matters, has assembled a team of thirty-five expert contributors to summarise and analyse the thinking of fifty diverse and stimulating figures – from all over the world and f

Understanding The Environment: Bridging the Disciplinary Divides – Q. Grafton, L. Robin, R. Wasson (eds). Like New Condition Paperback 229 pages Publisher: UNSW Press 2005 Goodreads description: Brings together some of the world’s leading environmental researchers in the life sciences, physical sciences, social sciences and humanities to bridge the disciplinary divides in understanding the environment. Pick up is free and easy. I’ll post 2 or 3 similar sized or smaller books in one Postpak

Deep Ecology – Michael Tobias (ed). Very Good Condition Vinyl covered paperback. 296 pages Publisher: Avant Books 1985 Booko description: Book by Murray Bookchin, James Dickey, Galway Kinnell, Paolo Soleri, Arne Naess, Eric Davis Pick up is free and easy. I’ll post 2 or 3 similar sized or smaller books in one Postpak for 1 postage charge if they fit. Australia Post standard: $11:60 Australia Post Express: $15:10 Posted recycled padded bags have padding made from 100% recycled newspaper.

The Ragged Edge Of The World: Encounters at the Frontier Where Modernity, Wildlands, and Indigenous Peoples Meet – Eugene Linden Like New Condition Paperback 259 pages Publisher: Plume Printing 2012 Goodreads description: A noted environmental writer relives his experiences of how earth's far corners have yielded to or resisted modernity. For forty years Eugene Linden has explored global environmental issues in books and for publications ranging from National Geographic and Time to Foreig

Green Power: The environment movement in Australia – Timothy Doyle Like New Condition Paperback 246 pages Publisher: UNSW Press 2000 Goodreads description: A book that intermeshes the theories of social movements and non-government organisations with everyday events occurring in the environmental movement in Australia. The book's focus is on non-institutional politics, considering informal networks and groups as well as more formal non-government organisations. Pick up is free and easy. I’l

The Green City – N. Low, B. Gleeson, R. Green, D. Radovic Like New Condition Paperback 247 pages Publisher: UNSW Press 2005 Goodreads description: A team of city-building professionals explain in straightforward terms how the idea of ecological sustainability can be embodied in the everyday life of homes, communities and cities to make a better future. The book considers - and answers - three What does the global agenda of sustainable development mean for the urban spaces where most people

Nature And Power: A Global History of the Environment – Joachim Radkau Like New Condition Paperback 430 pages Publisher: Cambridge University Press 2008 Goodreads description: Nature and Power traces the expanding scope of environmental action over the course of from initiatives undertaken by individual villages and cities, environmental policy has become a global concern. Efforts to steer human use of nature and natural resources have become complicated, as Nature and Power shows, by parti

Law In Commerce: Second edition – Brendan Sweeney & Jennifer O’Reilly Very Good Condition Paperback. 411 pages Publisher: LexisNexis Butterworths 2004 Contents: The Australian Legal System; Consumer Law: Making the Law - Liability for Defective Products; Contract Law: Making the Contract - Offer and Acceptance; Business Structures and Obligation: Agency, Partnerships, Introduction to Company Law, Introduction to Trusts. Pick up is free and easy. I’ll post 2 or 3 similar sized or smaller

Climate Wars: The Fight For Survival As The World Overheats – Gwynne Dyer Like New Condition Paperback. 297 pages Publisher: OneWorld 2011 Goodreads description: An essential, terrifying, and insightful analysis of a world plunging into crisis arrives in mass market paperback. Dwindling resources. Massive population shifts. Natural disasters. Any of the expected consequences of climate change could - as Gwynne Dyer argues - tip the world towards chaos and conflict. Bold, unflinching and b

Australian Environmental Policy 2 – K. J. Walker K. Crowley (eds). Like New Condition Vinyl covered paperback. 322 pages Publisher: UNSW Press 1999 Australian Environmental Policy 2: Contemporary Studies. Studies in Decline and Devolution. A textbook of readings Pick up is free and easy. I’ll post 2 or 3 similar sized or smaller books in one Postpak for 1 postage charge if they fit. Australia Post standard: $10:70 Australia Post Express: $13:70 Posted recycled padded bags have padding ma

Ozone Diplomacy – Richard Benedick Very Good Condition Vinyl covered paperback. 300 pages Publisher: Harvard University Press 1991 Goodreads description: The Montreal Protocol on Substances That Deplete the Ozone Layer, adopted in 1987 and revised in 1990, saved life on Earth from possible destruction - the first time that the international community faced such a global threat. Ambassador Richard Benedick, who was the chief U.S. negotiator of this treaty, combines science, politics, econ