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Australian Book Retailer of the Year 2021
Colin Tudge
What is a tree? As this celebration of the trees shows, they are our countryside; our ancestors descended from them; they gave us air to breathe. This title explores the…
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Argues that, contrary to many popular ideas, humans are naturally cooperative not selfish, and that the universe is more than just ‘stuff’ for us to use at will.
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A blend of history, science, philosophy,and environmentalism, The Tree is an engaging and elegant look at the life of thetree and what modern research tells us about their…
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‘This is an extraordinary fossil’ Sir David Attenborough
A completely fresh-and urgently needed-approach to all our food problems, both global and individual.
Originally published: Consider the birds: who they are and what they do. London: Allen Lane, 2008.
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This work describes the results that can be achieved by tampering with genetic material, from ensuring that a male rather than a female child is born, to genetically re-shaped plants…
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Offers an account of the events that made our world the place it is - geologically, climatically and ecologically.
All too plausibly, it seems, popes and scientists are warning us of impending collapse-yet humanity and our fellow creatures could still be looking forward to a long and glorious future…
This is an account and reference source of all creatures, alive and extinct. Using classification to show all the principal groups to which living creatures belong, this takes us into…
Explores the variety, secret history and hidden importance of birds around the world. Revealing everything from why birds sing to how they fly, think, bond and survive, from how they…
Colin Tudge coined the expression Enlightened Agriculture to describe agriculture that is expressly designed to provide everyone, everywhere, with food of the highest standard, nutritionally and gastronomically, without wrecking the…
