829 Results: New & Used in Nonfiction Books in Alphington 3078, VIC (Page 7 of 35)

Living In The Hothouse – Ian Lowe Like New Condition Paperback. 232 pages Publisher: Scribe Publications 2005 Goodreads description: The signs of global warming have become even clearer and more worrying to the international community, as demonstrated by the Kyoto Protocol. This book tells us how global warming is affecting Australia. 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

What Do Greens Believe? – Joe Smith Like New Condition Paperback. 107 pages Publisher: Granta Books 2006 Goodreads description: Greens are driven by a concern with the fate of future generations and the natural world on which we all depend. They argue that theirs is the only way of ensuring the survival of a sustainable planet. The case they make is powerful, emotive, urgent and politically controversial. In the space of a couple of decades, Greens have shaped an influential movement. I

Here On Earth: A New Beginning – Tim Flannery Like New Condition Paperback. 314 pages Publisher: Allen Lane 2010 Goodreads description: Beginning at the moment of creation with the Big Bang, Here on Earth explores the evolution of Earth from a galactic cloud of dust and gas to a planet with a metallic core and early signs of life within a billion years of being created. In a compelling narrative, Flannery describes the formation of the Earth’s crust and atmosphere, as well as the transfo

The Legacy – David Suzuki Like New Condition Hardcover 109 pages Publisher: Allen & Unwin 2010 Goodreads description: The culmination of David Suzuki's knowledge and wisdom and his legacy for generations to come. If he had to sum up all that he has learned in one last lecture, what would David Suzuki say? In this expanded version of the lecture that he delivered in December 2009 and that will be released as a film in 2010, Suzuki, one of the planet's preeminent elders, explains how we got

Why We Argue About Climate Change – Eric Knight Very Good Condition Paperback 145 pages Publisher: Redback 2013 Goodreads English description: A new perspective on a diabolical problem. Climate change is one of the most polarising issues of our time, but it doesn't have to be that way. In Why We Argue about Climate Change, Eric Knight unpicks the misconceptions that keep us arguing about, and stop us seeing, the true nature of the problem - and its solutions. Why can't we learn anything a

Green Is Good: An Insider's Story of the Battle for a Green Australia – Jeff Angel Like New Condition Paperback 310 pages Publisher: ABC Books 2008 Goodreads description: For over three decades, Jeff Angel has been on the frontline of Australia s most important environmental battles. From the green movement s modern beginnings and major campaigns such as saving the rainforests and the Snowy River, through to combating air pollution, scrutinising the Green Olympics and the issues facing us t

Environmental Politics And Institutional Change – Elim Papadakis Like New Condition Paperback. Crease in cover. 240 pages Publisher: Cambridge University Press 1996 Goodreads description: Environmentalism is one of the major issues of our time. A key question is how responsive are Australian institutions to the challenges posed by environmental issues? This book focuses on how effectively political institutions and organisations are able to address concerns about the deterioration of the

Sustainable Energy Solutions for climate change – Mark Diesendorf Like New Condition Paperback. 356 pages Publisher: UNSW Press 2014 Goodreads description: Renewable energy expert Mark Diesendorf issues a powerful challenge in this clear and comprehensive guide to the technology and policies we need to adopt to ensure an ecologically sustainable energy future for the planet. Sustainable Energy Solutions for Climate Change brings together the science, technology, economics and policy issue

A Mind Of Its Own: How Your Brain Distorts and Deceives – Cordelia Fine Like New Condition Paperback 241 pages Publisher: W. W. Norton and Company 2006 Booko description: A delightfully unsparing look into what your brain is doing behind your back. In recent years, we've heard a lot about the extraordinary workings of our hundred-billion-celled brain: its amazing capacities to regulate all sensation, perception, thinking, and feeling; the power to shape all experience and define our identi

Darwin's Cathedral – David Sloan Wilson Like New Condition Paperback 268 pages Publisher: The University of Chicago Press 2003 Goodreads description: One of the great intellectual battles of modern times is between evolution and religion. Until now, they have been considered completely irreconcilable theories of origin and existence. David Sloan Wilson's Darwin's Cathedral takes the radical step of joining the two, in the process proposing an evolutionary theory of religion that shakes both

The Happiness Trap – Russ Harris Like New Condition Paperback 271 pages Publisher: Constable and Robinson 2008 Goodreads description: Are you, like millions of Americans, caught in the happiness trap? Russ Harris explains that the way most of us go about trying to find happiness ends up making us miserable, driving the epidemics of stress, anxiety, and depression. This empowering book presents the insights and techniques of ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy) a revolutionary new psycho

Running With The Pack – Mark Rowlands Like New Condition Paperback 218 pages Publisher: Granta Publications 2013 Goodreads description: 'Most of the serious thinking I have done over the past twenty years has been done while running.' Mark Rowlands has run for most of his life. He has also been a professional philosopher. And for him the two - running and philosophising - are inextricably connected. In Running with the Pack he tells us about the most significant runs of his life - from the

Evolution For Everyone: How Darwin’s Theory Ca Change the Way We Think About Our Lives – David Sloan Wilson Like New Condition Hardcover 290 pages Publisher: Delacorte Press 2007 Goodreads description: What is the biological reason for gossip? For laughter? For the creation of art? Why do dogs have curly tails? What can microbes tell us about morality? These and many other questions are tackled by renowned evolutionist David Sloan Wilson in this witty and groundbreaking new book. With stor

Earth Masters: Playing God with the climate – Clive Hamilton Like New Condition Paperback. 247 pages Publisher: Allen & Unwin 2013 Goodreads description: This book goes to the heart of the unfolding reality of the twenty-first century: international efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions have all failed, and before the end of the century Earth is projected to be warmer than it has been for 15 million years. The question “can the crisis be avoided?” has been superseded by a more frigh

How To Dunk A Doughnut: The Science Of Everyday Life – Len Fisher Very Good Condition Vinyl covered Hardcover. Former library book 285 pages Publisher: Arcade Publishing 2003 Goodreads description: From "the man who put the fun into physics" (International Herald Tribune), an entertaining and accessible look at the science behind our daily activities. 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 st

The Challenge Of Things: Thinking Through Troubled Times – A. C. Grayling Like New Condition Hardcover 297 pages Publisher: Bloomsbury 2015 Goodreads description: A. C. Grayling's lucid and stimulating books, based on the idea that philosophy should engage with the world and make itself useful, are immensely popular. The Challenge of Things joins earlier collections like The Reason of Things and Thinking of Answers, but this time to collect Grayling's recent writings on the world in a ti

The Chrysalis Economy – John Elkington Like New Condition Hardcover 284 pages Publisher: Capstone 2001 Goodreads description: Based on first-hand experience, The Chrysalis Economy explores some extraordinary cases of corporate metamorphosis as we begin the long haul from today¹s Caterpillar Economy to tomorrow¹s Butterfly and Honeybee Economies. John Elkington looks over the shoulders of business leaders and boards as they build the values-based platforms essential for sustainable value cre

The Silence Of Animals: On Progress And Other Myths – John Gray Like New Condition Hardcover 227 pages Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2013 Goodreads description: A searching, captivating look at the persistence of myth in our modern world "By nature volatile and discordant, the human animal looks to silence for relief from being itself while other creatures enjoy silence as their birthright." In a book by turns chilling and beautiful, John Gray continues the thinking that made his Straw Dogs

End Game: Tipping Point For Planet Earth? – Anthony D. Barnosky, Elizabeth A. Hadly Very Good Condition Hardcover 264 pages Published by William Collins 2015 Goodreads description: In 'End Game', world-renowned scientists Anthony Barnosky and Elizabeth Hadly draw on their work to explain the growing threats to humanity as the planet edges towards a resource war for remaining space, food, oil and water. And as they show, these wars are not the nightmares of a dystopian future but are alrea

Selfie: How we became so self-obsessed and what it is doing to us – Will Storr Like New Condition Hardcover 398 pages Publisher: Picador 2017 Goodreads description: We live in the age of the individual. We are supposed to be slim, prosperous, happy, extroverted and popular. This is our culture’s image of the perfect self. We see this person everywhere: in advertising, in the press, all over social media. We’re told that to be this person you just have to follow your dreams, that our poten

The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life And Freedom On Death Row – Anthony Ray Hinton Very Good Condition Hardcover 255 pages Published by St. Martins Press 2018 Goodreads description: A powerful, revealing story of hope, love, justice, and the power of reading by a man who spent thirty years on death row for a crime he didn't commit. In 1985, Anthony Ray Hinton was arrested and charged with two counts of capital murder in Alabama. Stunned, confused, and only twenty-nine years old, Hinton k

A Guide For The Perplexed – E. F. Schumacher Like New Condition Paperback 166 pages Publisher: Vintage Classics 2011 Goodreads description: The author of the world wide best-seller, Small Is Beautiful, now tackles the subject of Man, the World, and the Meaning of Living. Schumacher writes about man's relation to the world. man has obligations - to other men, to the earth, to progress and technology, but most importantly himself. If man can fulfill these obligations, then and only then can

Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals – John Gray Like New Condition Paperback 245 pages Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2003 Goodreads description: Straw Dogs is a work of philosophy, which sets out to challenge our most cherished assumptions about what it means to be human. From Plato to Christianity, from the Enlightenment to Nietzsche, the Western tradition has been based on arrogant and erroneous beliefs about human beings and their place in the world. Philosophies such as liber

Thomas Pogge And His Critics – Alison M. Jaggar (ed). Like New Condition Paperback 272 pages Publisher: Polity Press 2010 Goodreads description: The massive disparity between the relative wealth of most citizens in affluent countries and the profound poverty of billions of people struggling elsewhere for survival is morally jolting. But why exactly is this disparity so outrageous and how should the citizens of affluent countries respond? Political philosopher, Thomas Pogge, has emerged as