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Climate Change Eyewitness Guide
Kindersley Dorling

$19.95 – Paperback book / Dorling Kindersley

Help your child learn about climate change with this fact-packed guide, giant wall chart, interactive clipart CD and dedicated website.

From what's being done to stop pollution harming life on earth, to why rising sea le... Buy or find out more 


Climate Change
David Attenborough

$24.95 – Digital video disc / Time Life

"Sir David Attenborough undertakes a personal journey to discover how global warming is changing the planet he knows so well. Examining the evidence for this confusing phenomenon, Sir David finds out whats causing it and... Buy or find out more 



Climate Change Denial: Heads In The Sand
Haydn Washington And John Cook

$34.00 – Paperback book / Earthscan Pubn

This book shows how we can break through denial, accept reality, and thus solve the climate crisis. The authors examine the nature of climate change denial, its history, how we let denial prosper, and how we can roll bac... Buy or find out more 


Climate Capitalism Capitalism In The Age Of Climate Change
Lovins L Hunter And Cohen Boyd

$34.95 – Paperback book / Farrar Straus & Giro

HOW INNOVATORS, ENTREPRENEURS, AND COMPANIES ARE PROVING THAT YOU CAN PROFIT FROM SUSTAINABILITY

A decade after the publication of the seminal work Natural Capitalism, among the first books to link environmental challeng... Buy or find out more 



Feeling The Heat
Jo Chandler

$36.99 – Trade paperback / Melb Univ Press

In Feeling the Heat, journalist Jo Chandler sets out on a quest that takes her across the Antarctic ice, under the seas and through the tropical rainforests of far north Queensland. Her mission is to explore one of the d... Buy or find out more 


The No-Nonsense Guide To Climate Change
Danny Chivers

$17.95 – Paperback book / New Internationalist

Just as the need for action on climate change becomes more urgent and overwhelming, the campaign to deny that humans are causing it has gained more traction. This completely new book meets the sceptics head on, offering ... Buy or find out more 



The Rough Guide To Climate Change (Second Edition)
Robert Henson

$26.95 – Paperback book / Rough Guides

The Rough Guide to Climate Change gives the complete picture of the single biggest issue facing the planet. Cutting a swathe through scientific research and political debate, this completely updated 2nd edition lays out ... Buy or find out more 


Storms Of My Grandchildren: The Truth About The Coming Climate Catastrophe And Our Last Chance To Save Humanity
James Hansen

$24.99 – Paperback book / Bloomsbury

An urgent and provocative call to action from the world's leading climate scientist.

In Storms of My Grandchildren, Dr. James Hansen, the world's leading scientist on climate issues, speaks out for the first time with th... Buy or find out more 



Field Notes From A Catastrophe: A Frontline Report On Climate Change
Elizabeth Kolbert

$26.95 – Paperback book / Bloomsbury

The world has known about global warming since the late 1970s, yet little has been done to halt it. The threat, if we fail, is nothing less than catastrophe - the flooding of coastal communities, the extinction of specie... Buy or find out more 


Chilling Stars A New Theory Of Climate Change
Svensmark Henrik And Calder Nigel

$0.00 – Paperback book / Icon Books

The authors explain their theory that sub-atomic particles from exploded stars have more effect on the climate than manmade CO2. Their conclusion stems from Svensmark's research which has shown the previously unsuspected... Buy or find out more 



Scorcher: The Dirty Politics Of Climate Change
Clive Hamilton

$29.95 – Trade paperback / Black Inc

This is the book that blows the whistle on the politics of global warming in Australia. Why have our political leaders been so slow to act? Who are the fossil-fuel lobby groups who still set the policy agenda? How many d... Buy or find out more 


The Weather Makers: The History and Future Impact of Climate Change
Tim Flannery

$24.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing

What does climate change mean?

How will global warming affect our lives?

Is it the cause of wilder storms and more frequent droughts?

Are these events inevitable?

Tim Flannery makes this urgent issue completely accessibl... Buy or find out more 



The Politics Of Climate Change
Anthony Giddens

$27.95 – Paperback book / Polity Press

Climate change differs from any other problem that, as collective humanity, we face today. If it goes unchecked, the consequences are likely to be catastrophic for human life on earth. Yet for most people, and for many p... Buy or find out more 


Building a New World Order: Sustainable Policies for the Future
Harald Muller

$29.99 – Paperback book / Haus Publishing

Peace and security are fundamental concepts for everyone involved in the struggle for sustainable development. But our world is shaped by different value systems, cultures and ideologies, as well as by faith, morals and ... Buy or find out more 



Poles Apart: Beyond the Shouting, Who's Right about Climate Change
Gareth Morgan and John McCrystal

$35.00 – Trade paperback / Scribe Publications

Gareth Morgan couldn't decide whether he believed in climate change or not, so he hired the best international scientists to answer his questions and these are his findings. Combined with anecdotes from his own recent tr... Buy or find out more 


Two Degrees Too High: Understanding the Copenhagen Summit
Yann Arthus-Bertrand

$29.95 – Paperback book / Abrams

2009 is a crucial year in the international effort to address climate change, culminating in the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, 7-18 December. In 2007, Parties agreed to shape an ambitious and ef... Buy or find out more 



Global Environmental Change and Human Security
Richard Matthew & Jon Barnett (et al)

$39.95 – Paperback book / Mit Press

In recent years, scholars in international relations and other fields have begun to conceive of security more broadly, moving away from a state-centered concept of national security toward the idea of human security, whi... Buy or find out more 


Storms of my Grandchildren: The Truth About the Coming Climate Catastrophe and our Last Chance to Save Humanity
James Hansen

$35.00 – Trade paperback / Bloomsbury

An urgent and provocative call to action from the world's leading climate scientist.

In Storms of My Grandchildren, Dr. James Hansen, the world's leading scientist on climate issues, speaks out for the first time with th... Buy or find out more 



Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis
Al Gore

$35.00 – Trade paperback / Bloomsbury

Al Gore offers a visionary blueprint of the changes that we should make as a world community in order to prevent the climate crisis from threatening human civilisation.

Al Gore has been a passionate advocate of action to... Buy or find out more 


The Vanishing Face of Gaia
James Lovelock

$29.95 – Trade paperback / Allen Lane

James Lovelock described his previous book, The Revenge of Gaia, as "a wake-up call for humanity". Stark though it was in many respects, in The Vanishing Face of Gaia, Lovelock says that though the weather currently seem... Buy or find out more 



A Blueprint For A Safer Planet
Nicholas Stern

$34.95 – Trade paperback / Bodley Head

Further substantial global warming is unavoidable and the risks to the natural world, the economy and our everyday lives are immense. The way we live in the next thirty years - how we invest, use energy, organise transpo... Buy or find out more 


Forecast - The Consequences of Climate Change, from the Amazon to the Arctic
Stephan Faris

$29.95 – Trade paperback / Scribe Publications

'An intelligent, nuanced report on the complex relationships between increasingly unstable weather patterns and politics, ecology and lifestyles.' (Publisher's Weekly)

'Bad news is good news if it gets us to act. Forecas... Buy or find out more 



Climate Code Red: The Case for Emergency Action
David Spratt & Phillip Sutton

$27.95 – Paperback book / Scribe Publications

In this meticulously documented call-to-action, David Spratt and Philip Sutton reveal extensive scientific evidence that the global warming crisis is far worse than official reports and national governments have indicate... Buy or find out more 


Our Changing Planet: The View from Space
Michael King

$39.95 – Hardcover book / Cambridge Univ Pres

Since their first launch in the 1960s, satellites have been used to observe the Earth at local, regional, and global scales, giving us unique insights into the often detrimental effects that human activity is having on o... Buy or find out more 



Reading the Land
Geoff Lacey

$39.95 – Paperback book / Aust Scholarly Pub

'Once when I was doing fieldwork on French Island, the ranger pointed out to me that around 1995 he noticed a striking change taking place in some of the island forests and woodlands. The dense heathy understorey had beg... Buy or find out more 


Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalists Guide to Global Warming
Bjorn Lomborg

$30.95 – Paperback book / Vintage

A startling book that reshapes the debate about global warming and offers a moderate approach to meeting its challenges. Bjorn Lomborg argues that many of the elaborate and expensive actions now being considered--the Kyo... Buy or find out more 



Boiling Point
Ross Gelbspan

$25.00 – Paperback book / Basic Books

If left unchecked, climate change will ultimately swamp every other issue facing us today. Indeed, what began as an initial response of many institutions--denial and delay--has now grown into a crime against humanity. In... Buy or find out more 


An Inconvenient Truth: Planetary Emergence of Global Warming
Al Gore

$35.00 – Trade paperback / Bloomsbury

The truth about the climate crisis is an inconvenient one that means we are going to have to change the way we live our lives. Our climate crisis may at times appear to be happening slowly, but in fact it has become a tr... Buy or find out more 



An Inconvenient Truth: Young Adult Edition
Al Gore

$24.95 – Paperback book / Bloomsbury

'Each one of us is a cause of global warming, but each of us can become part of the solution: in the decisions we make on what we buy, the amount of electricity we use, and how we live our lives.'



What do you think abou... Buy or find out more 


World Without Us
Alan Weisman

$27.95 – Paperback book / Virgin Publishing

What if mankind disappeared right now, forever … what would happen to the Earth in a week, a year, a millennium? Could the planet’s climate ever recover from human activity? How would nature destroy our huge cities and o... Buy or find out more 



Kyoto2: How To Manage The Global Greenhouse
Oliver Tickell

$39.95 – Paperback book / Zed Books

Tickell provides a blueprint for a global climate treaty. He documents the failings of the Kyoto protocol, then goes on to summarise the latest climate science, including the work of Hansen and his colleagues. The replac... Buy or find out more 


Hot Topic: How To Tackle Global Warming And Still Keep The Lights On
Gabrielle Walker And David King

$29.95 – Trade paperback / Bloomsbury

The Hot Topic is a collaborative work by one of the most respected scientists and one of the most dynamic writers in the field of climate change. Sir David King, world-renowned scientist and the Government's Chief Scient... Buy or find out more 



Climate Change What You Can Do About It
Holper Paul And Torok Simon

$29.95 – Trade paperback / Macmillan

We can all make a difference in lessening the severity and impact of climate change. This book, written by two leading science communicators in the field of climate change, takes you through the simple yet effective thin... Buy or find out more 


Ferocious Summer Palmers Penguins And The Warming Of Antarctica
Meredith Hooper

$19.95 – Trade paperback / Profile

The Antarctic Peninsula is for all of us an early warning system. This brilliant book tells the story of Antarctic warming and of how scientists are piecing together the jigsaw of causes and impacts, here in particular t... Buy or find out more 



Hot, Flat And Crowded
Thomas Friedman

$49.95 – Hardcover book / Allen Lane

Thomas L Friedman's The World is Flat was one of the biggest global bestsellers of any kind in 2005 and 2006. With his unique combination of analysis, reportage and call to action, Friedman now addresses the biggest cris... Buy or find out more 


Economics Of Climate Change: The Stern Review
Nicholas Stern

$99.95 – Paperback book / Cambridge Univ Pres

There is now clear scientific evidence that emissions from economic activity, particularly the burning of fossil fuels for energy, are causing changes to the Earth´s climate. A sound understanding of the economics of cli... Buy or find out more 



Atlas Of Climate Change: Second Edition
Kirsten Dow & Thomas Downing

$29.95 – Paperback book / Earthscan Pubn

Examines the possible impact of climate change on our ability to feed the world's people, avoid water shortages, conserve biodiversity, improve health, and preserve cities and cultural treasures. This atlas covers a rang... Buy or find out more 


Under A Green Sky: Global Warming, The Mass Extinctions Of The Past And What They Can Tell Us About Our Future
Peter D Ward

$27.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins

More than 200 million years ago, a cataclysmic event known as the Permian extinction destroyed more than 90% of all species and nearly 97% of all living things. Its origins have long been a puzzle for paleontologists, an... Buy or find out more 



A Question Of Balance: Weighing The Options On Global Warming Policies
William Nordhaus

$49.95 – Hardcover book / Yale Univ Pr

As scientific and observational evidence on global warming piles up every day, questions of economic policy in this central environmental topic have taken center stage. But as author and prominent Yale economist William ... Buy or find out more 


Climate Change Begins At Home: Life On The Two-Way Street Of Global Warming
Dave Reay

$29.95 – Paperback book / Palgrave

Climate change is one of the greatest threats that humankind faces in the twenty-first century. The next hundred years could see coastlines and islands submerged, and a surge in heat waves, hurricanes, droughts, floods a... Buy or find out more 



The Climate Change Challenge And The Failure Of Democracy
Shearman David Andsmith Joseph Wayne

$79.95 – Hardcover book / Greenwood Press

"In this book, Shearman and Smith present evidence that the fundamental problem causing environmental destruction - and climate change in particular - is the operation of liberal democracy. Its flaws and contradictions b... Buy or find out more 


Converging World
John Pontin

$35.00 – Trade paperback / Piatkus

Tells the story of one community's attempt to change their world for the better. This title presents a model of action for any individual or community concerned about climate change, environmental damage, social inequali... Buy or find out more 



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