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This is the story of how an ordinary bloke from the bush became the key figure in a movement that would change the shape of Australian cities and bring about lasting political and legal reform. This is the story of the house that Jack Mundey built. Mundey overturned the bulldozer mentality of the 1960s and 1970s and made Australians value heritage.

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The apparently excellent safety record with nuclear weapons has led scholars, policy-makers, and the public alike to believe that nuclear arsenals can serve as a secure deterrent for the foreseeable future. This book challenges such optimism.

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The human impact on Earth's climate is often treated as a hundred-year issue lasting as far into the future as 2100, the year in which most climate projections cease. In The Long Thaw, David Archer, one of the world's leading climatologists, reveals the hard truth that these changes in climate will be "locked in," essentially forever. If you think

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A new edition of a classic book on viral catastrophes--the Spanish flu, the Avian flu, and now, Covid-19

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The Road to Botany Bay

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This book is about how a new form of social contract, which we call the spatial contract, can help revitalize the economies of the basic things that matter - the core systems which build and provision the settlements human beings call home. -- .

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Develops a general theory to explain the facts of island biogeography which builds on the first principles of population ecology and genetics to explain how distance and area combine to regulate the balance between immigration and extinction in island populations.

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This book tells the fascinating success story of saving the flightless Woodhen of Lord Howe Island. This unique large rail, an iconic and highly endangered Australian bird, was at the very brink of extinction with just 15 individuals found in 1980, when bold and risky actions were taken to save it.

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How vegan ethics can improve the lives of everyone

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A global journey through the science and wonder of the oceans

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Explains why an awareness of Earth's temporal rhythms is critical to planetary survival and offers suggestions for how to create a more time-literate society.

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The shocking expose of an inquiry into South Africa's lion business.

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Wild by nature - radical sustainability skills and ideas for a post-industrial future

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The vast deserts of Outback Australia hold many secrets, but there is one great mystery which stands out among all others the mystery of the lost Leichhardt expedition. In April 1848 Ludwig Leichhardt and six other men set out westward from the Queensland frontier, heading for Swan River settlement in Western Australia. They never arrived. Somewher

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Many people have a love of maps. But what lies behind the process of map-making Here is an accessible and enlightening guide to the sometimes hidden techniques of map-making through the centuries.

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A detailed introduction to what is known and unknown about wildfire spread and its behaviours.

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This work covers a collection of essays whose subjects range from the Ord River in the far north-west to Antarctica in the south, from the centre to the coast, the prehistoric to the present. Its terrain is both environmental and cultural, political and poetic.

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We are using resources future generations will need, damaging environmental systems and compromising social stability by increasing the gap between rich and poor. Pre-eminent scientist and environmentalist Ian Lowe tackles this problem head on and offers far-reaching solutions to our environmental and social crisis.

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Can civilisation survive the 21st century Ian Lowe thinks we have a chance, but we have to act now, across the board. Collected here are Lowe's views on the environment, culture, science, politics, education, technology and Australia's economy, along with new pieces on Copenhagen 2009 and Australia's chance for survival in this new century.

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Mixing memoir, travel and popular science, Adventures in Volcanoland is written with warmth and lyricism and a captivating fascination with these mountains of fire that will show how they have and continue to shape our planet, and its future.