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Environmental Conservation & Protection eBooks

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  • Walking With Gorillas

    The Journey of an African Wildlife Vet

    by Dr. Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka ...
    An Inspiring Memoir, for Fans of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Frans De Waal.In her enchanting memoir, Dr. Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka, Uganda’s first wildlife veterinarian, tells the remarkable story from her animal-loving childhood to her career protecting endangered mountain gorillas and other wild animals. She is also the defender of people as a groundbreaking promoter of human public health and ... Read more

    $30.49 AUD $1.99 AUD

  • We Are the ARK

    Returning Our Gardens to Their True Nature Through Acts of Restorative Kindness

    by Mary Reynolds ...
    “Reynolds gives us a much-needed reason for hope. The gardener, the conservationist, the city planner, and the nature lover will all be inspired for this wonderful book shows how thousands of even small wildlife friendly gardens can provide habitat for embattled wildlife around the world.” —Jane Goodall, Phd, DBE, Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute & UN Messenger of PeaceIndividuals can’t save ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD

  • This Sacred Life

    Humanity's Place in a Wounded World

    by Norman Wirzba ...
    In a time of climate change, environmental degradation, and social injustice, the question of the value and purpose of human life has become urgent. What are the grounds for hope in a wounded world? This Sacred Life gives a deep philosophical and religious articulation of humanity's identity and vocation by rooting people in a symbiotic, meshwork world that is saturated with sacred gifts. The ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD

  • English Pastoral

    An Inheritance - The Sunday Times bestseller from the author of The Shepherd's Life

    by James Rebanks ...
    THE SUNDAY TIMES NATURE BOOK OF THE YEARThe new bestseller from the author of The Shepherd's Life'A beautifully written story of a family, a home and a changing landscape' Nigel SlaterAs a boy, James Rebanks's grandfather taught him to work the land the old way. Their family farm in the Lake District hills was part of an ancient agricultural landscape: a patchwork of crops and mead... ... Read more

    $16.99 AUD

  • Small Is Beautiful

    A Study of Economics as if People Mattered

    by E F Schumacher ...
    Small is Beautiful is E. F. Schumacher's stimulating and controversial study of economics and its purpose. This remarkable book examines our modern economic system - its use of resources and impact on how we live - questioning whether they reflect what we truly care about. The revolutionary ideas are as pertinent, inspirational and thought-provoking today as when they were first published in 1973. ... Read more

    $15.99 AUD

  • Orwell's Roses

    by Rebecca Solnit ...
    Roses, pleasure and politics: a fresh take on Orwell as an avid gardener, whose political writing was grounded in his passion for the natural world.'I loved this book... An exhilarating romp through Orwell's life and times' Margaret Atwood'Expansive and thought-provoking' IndependentOutside my work the thing I care most about is gardening - George OrwellInspired by her encounter with the su... ... Read more

    $17.99 AUD

  • The Anthropocene Reviewed

    The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller

    by John Green ...
    A deeply moving and mind-expanding collection of personal essays in the first ever work of non-fiction from #1 internationally bestselling author John GreenThe Anthropocene is the current geological age, in which human activity has profoundly shaped the planet and its biodiversity. In this remarkable symphony of essays adapted and expanded from his ground-breaking, critically acclaimed podcast, ... Read more

    $16.99 AUD

  • Journeys in the Wild

    From award-winning cameraman for David Attenborough's ‘A Life on Our Planet'

    by Gavin Thurston ...
    'Modest, down to earth and full of humour, this is one of the best books about filming I've ever read.' MICHAEL PALIN'Extraordinary: Gavin's easy prose and gasp-making encounters make for a gripping and very funny read. It's a rollercoaster ride with a complete professional. I loved it.' JOANNA LUMLEY'[Gavin is] a great cameraman with infinite patience, but also a writer with great powers of ... Read more

    $12.99 AUD

  • Hot Earth Dreams

    What if severe climate change happens, and humans survive?

    by Frank Landis ...
    What will the Earth look like if severe climate change happens, and humans survive?    It is not an easy question to contemplate, let alone answer. If severe climate change happens, the Earth will continue to warm for centuries after we've exhausted our fossil fuels. Civilization will shatter, the great artworks and monuments vanishing as cities fall into rubble and coasts disappear beneath rising ... Read more

    $27.80 AUD

  • The Hummingbird

    ‘Magnificent’ (Guardian)

    by Sandro Veronesi ...
    Translated by Elena Pala ...
    A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR THE GUARDIAN: 'DEEPLY PLEASURABLE'A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR THE SPECTATOR: 'WHAT A JOY''Magnificent' Guardian'A towering achivement' Financial Times'Inventive, bold, unexpected' Sunday Times'Everything that makes the novel worthwhile and engaging is here: warmth, wit, intelligence, love, d... ... Read more

    $15.99 AUD $12.99 AUD

  • Firestorm

    by Greg Mullins ...
    Greg Mullins followed his father into fighting bushfires – it was in the blood. He fought major fires around Sydney and the Blue Mountains for decades, and studied bushfires in Europe, Canada and the US. He risked his life in the 1994 Sydney fires and, later, during our catastrophic Black Summer of 2019–20. As a career firefighter, he worked his way up the ranks to become Commissioner of one of ... Read more

    $16.99 AUD

  • Banzeiro Òkòtó

    The Amazon as the Centre of the World

    Translated by Diane Whitty ...
    by Eliane Brum ...
    A confrontation with the destruction of the Amazon by a writer who moved her life into the heart of the forest.In lyrical, impassioned prose, Eliane Brum recounts her move from Sã o Paulo to Altamira, a city along the Xingu River that has been devastated by the construction of one of the largest dams in the world. In community with the human and more-than-human world of the Amazon, Brum seeks to ‘ ... Read more

    $13.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • On Our Watch

    The Race To Save Australia's Environment

    by Nicola Markus ...
    Our stewardship of this country's natural assets over the past two hundred years has been appalling, and on the current trajectory of careless environmental pillaging, further massive decline would be a certainty … The future of the environment is being decided on our watch … Australia faces unique conservation challenges that most Australians do not know enough about. On Our Watch is an attempt ... Read more

    $19.99 AUD

  • The Great Barrier Reef

    Wildlife in Pictures

    by JOHN PATERSON ...
    The complexity of coral reef ecosystems is not surprising given the great length of time that these ecosystems have been in existence. While the shallow water distribution of coral reefs has varied with the alternation of glacial and interglacial periods, in their broad biological form, coral reefs have existed since the Precambrian and reefs similar to present reefs have existed for around 50 ... Read more

    $4.00 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Falter

    Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?

    by Bill McKibben ...
    A powerful call to arms from an eminent environmentalistThirty years ago, environmentalist Bill McKibben’s bestselling The End of Nature – long regarded as a classic – was the first book to alert us to global warming. Now, in Falter, he suggests that the human game may have begun to play itself out. Climate change, robotics and artificial intelligence may spell the end of humanity as we know it. ... Read more

    $16.99 AUD

  • The Llama of Death

    by Betty Webb ...
    Book 3 - Gunn Zoo Series
    Zookeeper Theodora "Teddy" Bentley takes Alejandro, the Gunn Zoo llama, to a Monterey Bay area Renaissance Faire. Soon after, Teddy stumbles upon the still-warm body of the Reverend Victor Emerson, owner of the local wedding chapel. He is dressed in his royal robes as Henry VIII. At first it appears as if Alejandro stomped the man to death, but a closer look reveals a crossbow dart in the man's ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD

  • Spoon-Fed

    Why almost everything we’ve been told about food is wrong, by the #1 bestselling author of Food for Life

    by Tim Spector ...
    THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERThe ground-breaking exploration of food myths from Tim Spector, creator of the COVID Symptom Study app.'Hugely enjoyable' Michael MosleyIs breakfast really the most important meal of the day?Is there any point in counting calories?Is there any evidence that coffee is bad for us?Through his pioneering research, Professor Tim Spector busts these and... ... Read more

    $16.99 AUD

  • Kin

    Thinking with Deborah Bird Rose

    Edited by Thom van Dooren, Matthew Chrulew ...
    The contributors to Kin draw on the work of anthropologist Deborah Bird Rose (1946–2018), a foundational voice in environmental humanities, to examine the relationships of interdependence and obligation between human and nonhuman lives. Through a close engagement over many decades with the Aboriginal communities of Yarralin and Lingara in northern Australia, Rose’s work explored possibilities for ... Read more

    $31.99 AUD

  • This Changes Everything

    Capitalism vs. the Climate

    by Naomi Klein ...
    From Naomi Klein, author of the #1 international bestsellers, The Shock Doctrine and No Logo, a must-read on how the climate crisis needs to spur transformational political changeWe seem to have given up on any serious effort to prevent catastrophic climate change. Despite mounting scientific evidence, denialism is surging in many wealthy countries, and extreme fossil-fuel extraction gathers pace. ... Read more

    $16.99 AUD

  • Underland

    A Deep Time Journey

    by Robert Macfarlane ...
    Follow Robert Macfarlane to the furthest corners of the globe....A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2019WINNER OF THE STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2020'You'd be crazy not to read this book' The Sunday TimesA Guardian Best Book of the 21st CenturyIn Underland, Robert Macfarlane takes us on... ... Read more

    $16.99 AUD

  • Plant Based Diet: The 101 Best Whole Foods To Prevent Disease And Live Longer

    by Health Research Staff ...
    One of the biggest problems in the diets of most people today is the fact that so much of our food consumption comes from processed meats and packaged foods. Not only will this cause the body’s natural pH balance to shift, setting you up for problems, but it’s also going to cause you to place a high number of toxins in your body that will end up damaging your organs, causing blood sugar ... Read more

    $1.25 AUD

  • Black Summer

    Stories of loss, courage and community from the 2019-2020 bushfires

    Edited by Michael Rowland ...
    Told by ABC journalists who were on the ground and broadcasting during our worst ever fire season, spearheaded by Michael RowlandThe bushfires that burnt across Australia from June 2019 to February 2020 were unprecedented. By the time the rains came, they had devoured more than 18 million hectares of bush and farm land, destroyed nearly 3000 homes, claimed the lives of 33 people, killed about a ... Read more

    $16.99 AUD

  • My Family and Other Animals

    by Gerald Durrell ...
    series The Corfu Trilogy
    My Family and Other Animals is the first book in The Corfu Trilogy, the inspiration for ITV's The Durrells.The bewitching account of a rare and magical childhood on the island of Corfu by treasured British conservationist Gerald DurrellEscaping the ills of the British climate, the Durrell family - acne-ridden Margo, gun-toting Leslie, bookworm Lawrence and budding naturalist Gerry, along with ... Read more

    $14.99 AUD

  • Toxic

    The Rotting Underbelly of the Tasmanian Salmon Industry

    by Richard Flanagan ...
    In a triumph of marketing, the Tasmanian salmon industry has for decades succeeded in presenting itself as world’s best practice and its product as healthy and clean, grown in environmentally pristine conditions. What could be more appealing than the idea of Atlantic salmon sustainably harvested in some of the world’s purest waters?But what are we eating when we eat Tasmanian salmon?Richard ... Read more

    $14.99 AUD