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Man's War Against Nature by Rachel Carson
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $12.64In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.With the precision of a scientist and the simplicity of a fable, Rachel Carson reveals how man-made pesticides... -
What I Stand for Is What I Stand On by Wendell Berry
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $12.64In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.From the ravages of the global economy to the great pleasures of growing a garden, Wendell Berry's powerful essays... -
The Climate Book by Greta Thunberg 9780141999043
RRP: $46.20Booksplease Price: $32.91*A Times, Financial Times, Observer and Nature Book of the Year*'Spectacular ... this work is planetary in scale' Independent'It offers real, rich hope' Observer, Books of the YearWe still have time... -
The Most Dammed Country in the World by Dai Qing
RRP: $10.48Booksplease Price: $8.63In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.The courageous, unflinching speeches and writings collected in The Most Dammed Country in the World detail the... -
Kings of the Yukon: An Alaskan River Journey by Adam Weymouth
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38**Winner of the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award 2018 and the Lonely Planet Adventure Travel Book of the Year 2019**'Weymouth combines acute political, personal and ecological... -
No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference by Greta Thunberg 9780241514573
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $12.64In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.No One is Too Small to Make a Difference collects Greta Thunberg's history-making speeches, from addresses at... -
There is No Point of No Return by Arne Naess
RRP: $10.48Booksplease Price: $8.63In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.Emphasizing joy in the world, human cooperation and the value of all living things, this selection of Arne Naess'... -
Think Like a Mountain by Aldo Leopold
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $12.64In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.In this lyrical meditation on America's wildlands, Aldo Leopold considers the different ways humans shape the... -
An Idea Can Go Extinct by Bill McKibben
RRP: $10.48Booksplease Price: $8.63In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.An Idea Can Go Extinct is Bill McKibben's impassioned, groundbreaking account of how, by changing the earth's... -
Confessions of a Radical Industrialist: How Interface proved that you can build a successful business without destroying the planet by Ray Anderson
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.87In 1994, Ray Anderson felt a 'spear in the chest': he realised that his company, billion-dollar carpeting manufacturer Interface, Inc, was plundering the environment with its unsustainable business... -
Small World, Big Ideas: Eco-Activists for Change by Satish Kumar
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.98Small World, Big Ideas collects twelve of the most inspiring and courageous activists together to share their stories and present an inspiring vision of what each of us can do to build a better world... -
Lowly Origin: Where, When, and Why Our Ancestors First Stood Up by Jonathan Kingdon
RRP: $94.50Booksplease Price: $77.55Our ability to walk on two legs is not only a characteristic human trait but one of the things that made us human in the first place. Once our ancestors could walk on two legs, they began to do many... -
The Best Australian Science Writing 2011 by Stephen Pincock 9781742233000
Booksplease Price: $38.18From the elemental forces that drive our expanding universe to the delicate hairs on the back of your neck, science offers talented writers the kind of scope that other subjects simply can't match... -
The Wisdom of Farmers: What We Can Learn from the Land by John Connell 9781805464235
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38'There is hard-won wisdom here, and good cheer, and a reminder that the world is much wider, older and more interesting than you'd think' BILL McKIBBEN'Kind, wise and immensely readable' TIM... -
The Gargoyle by Zana Fraillon 9780734421241
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.05He's old, this gargoyle. Very old. Older than me. Older than anyone. He looks tired. If I had a seat, I would give it to him.He shuffles past me and stands near the door and watches the city smushing... -
The Best Australian Science Writing 2014 by Ashley Hay 9781742234182
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $29.69The annual collection celebrating the finest Australian science writing of the year.Why are Sydney's golden orb weaver spiders getting fatter and fitter? Could sociology explain the recent upsurge in... -
Mammals of the South-West Pacific by Tyrone Lavery
RRP: $283.50Booksplease Price: $249.84Islands are special because they promote unique forms of life, and large proportions of the species they hold are found nowhere else on Earth. The mammals of the South-west Pacific are no exception,... -
The Great Forest: The rare beauty of the Victorian Central Highlands by David Lindenmayer 9781760879822
RRP: $83.90Booksplease Price: $52.75The city of Melbourne lies on the edge of a vast plain surrounded by a green and blue mountainous rim, whose hills and peaks are home to the magnificent Mountain Ash, the tallest flowering plant on... -
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They CommunicateA Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben 9781771642484
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.00"A paradigm-smashing chronicle of joyous entanglement that will make you acknowledge your own entanglement in the ancient and ever-new web of being."--Charles Foster, author of Being a Beast Are... -
The Book Family Robinson by Jonathan Emmett 9781800781313
RRP: $14.68Booksplease Price: $11.45A bookish family shipwrecked on a treasure island faces off against a fearsome pirate crew. The keen-reading Robinsons set out to sea, their boat barely afloat with all their books, until a storm... -
The Social Behavior of Older Animals by Anne Innis Dagg 9780801890505
Booksplease Price: $80.51How do young and old social animals view each other? Are aged animals perceived by others as weaker? Or wiser? What is the relationship between age and power among social animals? Taking a cue from... -
Life in the Undergrowth by David Attenborough Productions Ltd. 9780563522089 [USED COPY]
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $5.82David Attenborough reveals a secret universe it is teeming with life and is all around us, yet we never see it. It is the world of the very small, and it is a world of sex, drugs and violence. ... -
Life and Death Decisions: Saving lives in extreme circumstances Dr Lachlan McIver 9781913068882
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.23'HONEST, POWERFUL AND RIVETING'Levison Wood, author of The Art of Exploration'JUST BRILLIANT...THE BOOK OF THE DECADE'Tim Flannery, former Australian of the Year'WOW. A HUGELY IMPORTANT AND ENJOYABLE... -
Seasick: Ocean Change and the Extinction of Life on Earth by Alanna Mitchell 9780226532585
Booksplease Price: $65.02We have long lorded over the ocean. But only recently have we become aware of the myriad life-forms beneath its waves. We now know that this delicate ecosystem is our life-support system - that it... -
Wodge and Friends: Take the Stage: Wodge and Friends #2 by Carol Ann Martin 9781760505653
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.09At the bottom of Miss Heatherbell's garden lives the last Wodge in the world. Nancy and Dom's photographer father is in the Antarctic, and Nancy and Dom are not. They're staying with the eccentric... -
The Mystery in the Garden: Wodge and Friends #1 by Carol Ann Martin
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.09There was a wild and secret place at the bottom of Miss Heatherbell's garden. It had been forgotten for years until we found it. Nancy and Dom's photographer father is going to the Antarctic to hang... -
Diary of a Young Naturalist by Dara McAnulty 9781908213792
RRP: $33.60Booksplease Price: $21.40Winner of the 2020 Wainwright Prize, Diary of a Young Naturalist chronicles the turning of Dara McAnulty's world, from spring to summer, autumn to winter, on his home patch, at school, in the wild... -
Into the Clear Blue Sky: The Path to Restoring Our Atmosphere Rob Jackson 9780241505656
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $34.69'Argues persuasively . . . nothing less than eye-opening' Financial TimesCan we really restore the earth's atmosphere within our lifetime?Whether through sustainable technologies such as fossil-free... -
Ancient Bones: Unearthing the Astonishing New Story of How We Became Human by Madelaine Böhme
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $30.43"Splendid and important... Scientifically rigorous and written with a clarity and candor that create a gripping tale... [Boehme's] account of the history of Europe's lost apes is imbued with the... -
Ancient Bones: Unearthing the Astonishing New Story of How We Became Human by Madelaine Boehme
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $20.75"Splendid and important... Scientifically rigorous and written with a clarity and candor that create a gripping tale... [Boehme's] account of the history of Europe's lost apes is imbued with the... -
In Praise of Floods: The Untamed River and the Life It Brings James C. Scott 9780300278491
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $37.80James C. Scott reframes rivers as alive and dynamic, revealing the consequences of treating them as resources for our profit Rivers, on a long view, are alive. They are born; they change and shift... -
The Annihilation of Nature: Human Extinction of Birds and Mammals by Gerardo Ceballos 9781421417189
RRP: $48.30Booksplease Price: $46.52Gerardo Ceballos, Anne H. Ehrlich, and Paul R. Ehrlich serve as witnesses in this trial of human neglect, where the charge is the massive and escalating assault on living things. Nature is being... -
Into the Clear Blue Sky: The Path to Restoring Our Atmosphere by Rob Jackson 9780141996141
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70THE TIMES BEST SCIENCE BOOK OF 2024WINNER OF THE BLUE PLANET PRIZE 2025'Argues persuasively . . . nothing less than eye-opening' Financial TimesCan we really restore the earth's atmosphere within our... -
Bones, Rocks and Stars: The Science of When Things Happened by C. Turney 9780230551947
RRP: $69.30Booksplease Price: $37.15What is the Turin Shroud? When were the Pyramids built? Why did the dinosaurs die out? How did the Earth take shape? With questions like these, says Chris Turney, time is of the essence. And... -
Feed-in Tariffs: Accelerating the Deployment of Renewable Energy by Miguel Mendonca
RRP: $107.08Booksplease Price: $95.82A feed-in tariff is a renewable energy law that obliges energy suppliers to buy electricity produced from renewable resources at a fixed price, usually over a fixed period - even from householders... -
The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey by Spencer Wells 9780691176017
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $26.67Around 200,000 years ago, a man--identical to us in all important respects--lived in Africa. Every person alive today is descended from him. How did this real-life Adam wind up father of us all? What... -
Mammoths, Sabertooths, and Hominids: 65 Million Years of Mammalian Evolution in Europe by Jordi Agusti 9780231116411
RRP: $79.80Booksplease Price: $66.36Mammoths, Sabertooths, and Hominids takes us on a journey through 65 million years, from the aftermath of the extinction of the dinosaurs to the glacial climax of the Pleistocene epoch; from the rain... -
Coral Reefs: A Natural History by Corals Russell Kelley 9780691198682
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $48.03An illustrated look at corals and the reefs they build around the world, and the causes and dire consequences of their rapid disappearanceCorals are among the most varied lifeforms on Earth, ranging... -
Platypus Matters: The Extraordinary Story of Australian Mammals by Jack Ashby
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.02Winner of the Whitley Award for Best Natural History Book 2022 A compelling, funny, first-hand account of Australia's wonderfully unique mammals and how our perceptions... -
Transcendence: How Humans Evolved through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time by Gaia Vince
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38* A TIMES BEST SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR *From the prize-winning author of Adventures in the Anthropocene, the astonishing story of how culture enabled us to become the most successful species on...