Tim Flannery: 24 books
Sunlight and Seaweed
An Argument for How to Feed, Power and Clean Up the World
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
‘Sunlight and Seaweed is the beginning of a new way of helping the planet we live on.’ AU Review
Acclaimed scientist Tim Flannery investigates exciting new technologies currently being developed to address our most pressing environmental threats in a book that presents a positive future...
Quarterly Essay 48 After the Future
Australia's New Extinction Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2012
Australia is home to many animals and plants found nowhere else on earth, making Australians caretakers of a unique heritage in a land that tolerates few mistakes. Yet, in After the Future, Tim Flannery shows that this country is now on the brink of a new wave of extinctions, which threatens to leave...
Au plus secret des îles
Aventures dans le Pacifique
Language: French
Release Date: February 5, 2015
Le grand biologiste Tim Flannery a parcouru les îles tropicales du Pacifique Sud-Ouest pendant plus d’une décennie à la recherche de marsupiaux, de chauves-souris et d’autres petits mammifères que l’on ne rencontre nulle part ailleurs sur notre planète. Plusieurs de ces îles étaient pour...
An Explorer's Notebook
Essays on Life, History, and Climate
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
An invaluable collection of think pieces from a climate change expert and the author of the #1 international bestseller The Weather Makers.
Tim Flannery is one of the world’s most influential scientists, a foremost expert on climate change credited with discovering more species than Charles...
Terra Australis: Text Classics
Matthew Flinders' Great Adventures in the Circumnavigation of Australia
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
In this edited selection of his journals, Matthew Flinders, Australia's greatest navigator and the man who named our island continent, describes in captivating detail his epic mission to map our shores between 1796 and 1803.
Edited and introduced by Tim Flannery, Terra Australis is a vital...
Atmosphere of Hope
Searching for Solutions to the Climate Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
The author of the #1 bestseller, The Weather Makers, pens “a brilliant examination of where we are with climate change and where we might be able to go” (The National Observer, Vancouver).
Almost two decades ago, Tim Flannery’s #1 international bestseller, The Weather Makers, was one of...
Quarterly Essay 9 Beautiful Lies
Population and Environment in Australia
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2003
In the first Quarterly Essay of 2003, Tim Flannery launches an attack on the various lies that we tell ourselves about our resources, our past and our future. The lie of terra nullius that made us ignore the Aborigines' knowledge of the environment. The lie of the Snowy Mountains Scheme that did untold...
Throwim Way Leg
Tree-Kangaroos, Possums, and Penis Gourds: On the Track of Unknown Mammals in Wildest New Guinea
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
From the bestselling author of The Weather Makers: “An enthralling introduction to the mountain people of New Guinea . . . and to their magnificent land” (The New York Times Book Review).
A world expert on the fauna of New Guinea with twenty new species and over seven books to his credit,...
The Weather Makers
How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
The #1 international bestseller on climate change that’s been endorsed by policy makers, scientists, writers, and energy executives around the world.
Tim Flannery’s The Weather Makers contributed in bringing the topic of global warming to worldwide prominence. For the first time, a scientist...
Quarterly Essay 31 Now or Never
A Sustainable Future for Australia?
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
Sometime this century, after 4 billion years, some of Earth's regulatory systems will pass from control through evolution by natural selection, to control by human intelligence. Will humanity rise to the challenge? This landmark essay by Tim Flannery is about sustainability, our search for it in the...
by Tim Flannery
Language: French
Release Date: May 28, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: May 28, 2015
" Nous n'héritons pas de la terre de nos ancêtres, nous l'empruntons à nos enfants. "
Avec une rapidité inédite et folle, l'humanité a grillé les ressources planétaires, gâché les milieux naturels et déstabilisé avec une insouciance coupable des équilibres environnementaux complexes ;...
Here on Earth
A Natural History of the Planet
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
From the internationally acclaimed scientist, explorer, and conservationist comes an awe-inspiring account of earth’s evolution.
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...
Now or Never
Why We Must Act Now to End Climate Change and Create a Sustainable Future
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
A forceful call to climate change action and a pragmatic roadmap toward sustainability from the internationally acclaimed author of The Weather Makers**.**
Utilizing the most up-to-the-minute data available, Tim Flannery offers a guided tour of the environmental challenges we face and their potential...
Im Reich der Inseln
Meine Suche nach unentdeckten Arten und andere Abenteuer im Südpazifik
Language: German
Release Date: February 21, 2013
Indiana Jones meets Charles DarwinKämpfe mit Schlangen, Geisterbeschwörungen, kulinarische Herausforderungen und unbekannte Tierarten – der große Forscher und Umweltaktivist Tim Flannery blickt zurück und erzählt sehr persönlich von seinen abenteuerlichen Reisen, die er als junger Wissenschaftler...
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