Deakin Lectures 2010 Books

The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning
The author's Gaia theory, the idea that our planet is a living, self-regulating system, has transformed the way we see our planet and what is now happening to it. In this book, he distils a lifetime's wisdom and observation of the...
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Requiem for a Species: Why We Resist the Truth About Climate Change
Around the world only a few have truly faced up to the facts about global warming. This book is about why we have ignored those warnings, so that now it is too late. And it is about the 21st-century consequences of these failures,...
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Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet
In The End of Nature, Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about global warming. Those warnings went mostly unheeded; now, he argues, we need to acknowledge that we've waited too long, and that massive change is...
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The Sixth Wave: How to Succeed in a Resource-Limited World
Five waves of innovation, beginning with the Industrial Revolution, have each transformed society, economies and industry. The fifth wave was dominated by information and communications technology but its peak is beginning to...
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The Climate Crisis: An Introductory Guide to Climate Change
This book provides a concise and accessible overview of what we know about ongoing climate change and its impacts, and what we can do to confront the climate crisis. Highly illustrated in full colour, it lucidly presents...
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Challenged by Carbon: The Oil Industry and Climate Change
Offering a unique geological perspective on the oil industry's impact on climate change, Bryan Lovell describes the gradual greening of the oil industry over the last decade. Challenging established prejudices, he outlines a new...
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Too Smart for our Own Good: The Ecological Predicament of Humankind
This book explains our ecological predicament by contextualising it against the first scientific theory of humankind's development, drawing on evolution theory, biology, anthropology, archaeology, economics, environmental science...
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A Blueprint for a Safer Planet: How We Can Save the World and Create Prosperity
droughts occur in Australia and Darfur... Further substantial climate change is unavoidable and the risks to the natural world, the economy and our everyday lives are immense. Here Lord Stern, a world leading authority on...
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The Big Picture: Reflections on Science, Humanity and a Quickly Changing Planet
Two internationally renowned environmentalists present key issues which will face us today: from the problems of suburban sprawl and options for transportation to how we can protect the earth's biodiversity.
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Sustainability by Design: A Subversive Strategy for Transforming Our Consumer Culture
Challenges conventional understandings of 'solving' environmental problems and offers a radically new set of strategies to attain sustainability. This book identifies problematic cultural attributes, such as the unending...
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Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why The World Needs A Green Revolution - and How We Can Renew Our Global Future
Climate change and rapid population growth mean that it's no longer possible for businesses, or the rest of us, to keep doing things the same old way. Things are going to have to change - and fast. This book provides a strategy...
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Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization
A different energy economy is emerging at a pace and on a scale we could not have imagined. This book explores both the nature of this transition and how it will affect our lives.
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Reclaiming Patriotism: Nation-Building for Australian Progressives
Reclaiming Patriotism explores the intertwining concepts of patriotism and Australian national identity. It challenges Australian progressives to speak a new language of nation building politics. Grounded in political philosophy...
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What We Leave Behind
An impassioned critique of the way we handle our waste.
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One World
Considers the ethical issues surrounding globalisation. The key debates, Singer argues, cut across national boundaries. He addresses each vital issue from an ethical perspective and offers alternatives to the state-centric...
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The Ethics of What We Eat
The authors have discovered the link between food choices and human health, animal suffering and environmental degradation could shock and challenge you. Contains essential information on ethical, but practical shopping and...
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The Weather Makers: Our Changing Climate and what it means for Life on Earth
Tim Flannery makes this urgent issue completely accessible. He tells the fascinating story of climate change over millions of years to help us understand the predicament we face. But burning fossil fuels we are increasing the...
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The Garnaut Climate Change Review
The Garnaut Climate Change Review is one of the most important reports to be published in Australia for many years and examines the impacts of climate change on the Australian economy, the costs of adaptation and mitigation, and...
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Climate Code Red
In this call to action, David Spratt and Philip Sutton reveal extensive scientific evidence that the global warming crisis is far worse tahn official reports and national governments have indicated, and that we are almost at the...
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Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet
An eye-opening and vital account of the future of our earth, and our civilisation, if current rates of global warming persist, by the highly acclaimed author of 'High Tide'.
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Future Eaters
The story of how human beings have consumed the resources they need for their own future. The book examines the first Afro-Asian people to travel down the chain of islands to Australasia and how they changed the flora and fauna,...
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How Are We To Live?: Ethics in an Age of Self-Interest
This assessment of human nature and society suggests that people who take an ethical approach to life often escape from the trap of meaninglessness so prevalent in modern society, finding instead a deeper satisfaction in what they...
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Throwim Way Leg: An Adventure
Tim Flannery's bestselling account of his adventures in Papua New Guinea. Join Tim Flannery, one of the world's greatest scientist- writers on his unforgettable journey into the heart of a mysterious land. 2004-5 HSC Advanced...
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The Eternal Frontier: an Ecological History of North America & Its Peoplles
The sequel to Tim Flannery's The Future Eaters explores the creation of the North American continent, and the evolution of its modern landscape. Flannery describes the development of North America's flora, and the immigration of...
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Feeding the Planet - Environmental Protection Through Sustainable Agriculture
Almost a billion people all over the earth suffer from hunger and malnutrition. Many of them are starving while the world's population continues to grow dramatically. The population in the industrialized nations, whose hunger is...
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Why We Disagree about Climate Change: Understanding Controversy, Inaction and Opportunity
Mike Hulme provides a unique insider's account of climate change and the diverse ways in which it is understood. He uses different standpoints from science, economics, faith, psychology, communication, sociology, politics and...
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The State of the Earth: Environmental Challenges on the Road to 2100
Our activities have threatened the survival of many plants and animals, created scarcities in cultivatable soils and water needed for irrigation, used up a large share of fossil fuels, polluted air and water, and most likely...
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Clean Industrial Revolution: Growing Australian Prosperity in a Greenhouse Age
The race is on to find ways to reduce our impact on the environment. Ben McNeil shows us how we can make the most of our natural advantages and how Australian businesses can benefit economically when adapting to the new...
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Now or Never
Tim Flannery's Quarterly Essay was a national bestseller. Now or Never combines this landmark essay with nine responses to it by leading figures, and Flannery's reply. The result is an essential short book about the most urgent...
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Cradle to Cradle
In this visionary book, chemist Michael Braungart and architect William McDonough challenge this status quo and put forward a manifesto for an intriguing and radically different philosophy of environmentalism. Reduce, reuse,...
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We are the Weather Makers
Most of us suspect that climate change is happening, but is it a terrible threat to our world or an exaggerated beat up? Or is it something in between, an issue that humanity must eventually face, but not yet? Ages 12+
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