"The Weather Makers" tells the dramatic story of the earth's climate, of how it has changed, how we have come to understand it, and of what that means for the future. Tim Flannery's gripping narrative takes the reader on an extraordinary journey into the past and around the globe, bringing us closer to the science than ever before. Along the way he explodes the many illusions that have grown up around this subject.

The Weather Makers: Our Changing Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth

Science & Math

Tim Flannery

Earth Sciences

Penguin??Books

An account of the ecological history of North America over the last 65 million years, from the arrival of the largest asteroid ever to hit the Earth, through the evolution of North America's landscape, mountains, forests, prairies, volcanoes, and rivers, its climate and flora and fauna, and the Burgess shale, through the story of the Native Americans to the arrival of the European invaders.

The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples

History

Americas

Penguin

In his most thrilling and personal book, Tim Flannery writes a love letter to his homeland, drawing on three decades of extensive travel, research and field work to reveal its unique nature. Flannery shows how the kangaroo is inseparable from the environment that created it. And he reveals the vast continent to be a land of subtlety and complexity that becomes comprehensible to those who take the time to learn its hidden and ancient languages.

Country: A Continent, a Scientist and a Kangaroo

Australia & Oceania

The Hilarious, riveting and sometimes terrifying adventures of an Australian field bioligist in the jungles and mountains of New  Guinea, one of the last frontiers left on earth.  In New Guinea Pidgin, throwin way leg means to go on a journey. It describes the action of thrusting out your leg to take the  first step of what can be a long march.  Flannery observes the collision of cultures as Catholic missionaries seek to reform traditional beliefs and mining companies  exploit the huge gold and copper resources of the island.

Throwim Way Leg: An Adventure

Politics & Social Sciences

Anthropology

Penguin Books, Ltd.

Atmosphere of Hope: Solutions to the Climate Crisis

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

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Europe A Natural History

Allen Lane.

A Warning from the Golden Toad

Environment

Penguin Classics

What is our place on Earth? Are humans destined to become a footnote in history, or will we become stronger and wiser, and conquer our environmental problems? In this extraordinary story of our planet and our place upon it, Here on Earth discovers the remarkable source of all life and how it has developed into the wonder around us today. From ant-colonies to zinc mining, Tim Flannery takes us on a journey around the world and from the top of the food-chain to the very chemicals of which we are made, and explores how the fate of humanity is in our own hands.

Here on Earth: A Twin Biography of the Planet and the Human Race

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.

The Future Eaters

Social Sciences

Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd.

The Weather Makers

GROVE PRESS

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