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Cave: Nature and Culture by Ralph Crane; Lisa Fletcher
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science | 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
Cosmogenic Radionuclides - Theory and Applications in the Terrestrial and Space Environments by Jürg Beer; Rudolf von Steiger; Ken McCracken; International Space Science Institute Staff
$260.00 AUD
$332.95 (21% off)
Category: Educational | Series: Physics of Earth and Space Environments Ser.
With a holistic view of the environment the authors show in this book how cosmogenic radionuclides can be used to trace and to reconstruct the history of a large variety of processes.
Ice: Nature and Culture by Klaus Dodds
$34.99 AUD
Category: No Category | 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: Vintage Classics | 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 Last Quarter of the Moon by Chi Zijian
$23.00 AUD
Category: Vintage Classics | 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 Earth: (Long Earth #1) by Terry Pratchett, Stephen Baxter
$19.99 AUD
Category: Sci Fi/Fantasy | Series: Long Earth Ser.
"1916-the Western Front. Private Percy Blakeney wakes up. He is lying on fresh spring grass. He can hear birdsong, and the wind in the leaves in the trees. Where has the mud, blood and blasted landscape of No Man's Land gone? 2015-Madison, Wisconsin. Cop Monica Jansson is exploring the burned-out home o ...Show more
The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono
$23.00 AUD
Category: Vintage Classics | Series: Vintage Earth Ser.
'And so, with great care, he planted his hundred acorns'In 1910, while hiking through the wild lavender in a wind-swept, desolate valley in Provence, a man comes across a shepherd called Elzéard Bouffier. Staying with him, he watches Elzéard sorting and then planting hundreds of acorns as he walks throu ...Show more
The Man with the Compound Eyes by Wu Ming-Yi
$23.00 AUD
Category: Vintage Classics | Series: Vintage Earth Ser.
'You must love the land, my children, and ring it in with your love' On the island of Wayo Wayo, every second son must leave on the day he turns fifteen as a sacrifice to the Sea God. Atile'i however is determined to defy destiny and become the first to survive. Across the sea, Alice Shih's life is inte ...Show more
The Mermaid of Black Conch by Monique Roffey
$23.00 AUD
Category: Vintage Classics | Series: Vintage Earth Ser.
Escape to the ocean with the entrancing, unforgettable winner of the Costa Book of the Year - as read on BBC Radio 4. 'Mesmerising' MAGGIE O'FARRELL 'A unique talent' BERNARDINE EVARISTO 'Wonderful' BRIDGET COLLINS 'Brilliant' CLARE CHAMBERS Near the island of Black Conch, a fisherman sings to himself w ...Show more
The Obelisk Gate (#2 The Broken Earth) by N. K. Jemisin
$23.00 AUD
Category: Sci Fi/Fantasy | Series: Broken Earth Trilogy Ser.
Winner of the 2017 Hugo Award for Best Novel Book 2 in the double Hugo-Award-winning trilogy The season of endings grows darker, as civilization fades into the long cold night. Essun has found shelter, but not her missing daughter. Instead there is Alabaster Tenring, destroyer of the world, with a reque ...Show more
The Overstory: The million-copy global bestseller and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction by Richard Powers
$23.00 AUD
Category: Vintage Classics | Series: Vintage Earth Ser.
'This is not our world with trees in it. It's a world of trees, where humans have just arrived'An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies, and is sent back into life by ...Show more
The Stone Sky (#3 The Broken Earth) by N. K. Jemisin
$23.00 AUD
Category: Sci Fi/Fantasy | Series: Broken Earth Trilogy Ser.
The shattering conclusion to the post-apocalyptic and highly acclaimed New York Times bestselling trilogy that began with The Fifth Season, winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 2016, and The Obelisk Gate, winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 2017. Winner of the Nebula Award for Best Novel ...Show more