Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning

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Book Cover:  Tubes: Behind the Scenes at the Internet

You write an email. You hit send. It appears ten thousand miles away. How did that happen?

In April 2011, a seventy-five year old woman deprived Armenia of its internet access when she sliced through a buried cable with her garden spade. That January, Egyptian authorities simply switched off 70% of the country's internet connections in an attempt to quell a revolution. In 2009, a squirrel chewed through...

You write an email. You hit send. It appears ten thousand miles away. How did that happen?

In April 2011, a seventy-five year old woman deprived Armenia of its internet access when she sliced through a...

Published: 25/07/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780670918980
RRP: $27.99
Book Cover: The Penguin Book of the Ocean
A hymn to the mystery, beauty and majesty of the ocean, and to the poets and explorers it has inspired.
A hymn to the mystery, beauty and majesty of the ocean, and to the poets and explorers it has inspired.
Published: 25/10/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781926428161
RRP: $35.00
Book Cover:  Fallout from Fukushima
By Richard Broinowski
Published: 26/09/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781922070166
RRP: $27.95
Book Cover:  Rainforest Country
By Stanley Breeden & Kaisa Breeden

For more than twenty years Kaisa and Stan Breeden have lived in the rainforest of northeast Queensland and seen its wonders unfold.  The rainforest is also where they developed and refined their photographic techniques.  This book is their intimate and affectionate portrait of Australia's tropical rainforest and its variety of life.

For more than twenty years Kaisa and Stan Breeden have lived in the rainforest of northeast Queensland and seen its wonders unfold.  The rainforest is also where they developed and refined their photographic...

Published: 21/03/2012
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9781921888601
RRP: $75.00
Book Cover: The Conundrum: how scientific innovation, increased efficiency, and goodintentions can make our energy and climate problems worse
By David Owen

The Conundrum is a mind-changing manifesto about the environment, efficiency, and the real path to sustainability.

The Conundrum is a mind-changing manifesto about the environment, efficiency, and the real path to sustainability.

Published: 17/02/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921844829
RRP: $19.95
Book Cover:  Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools, Including the Author, Who Went in Search of Them
By Donovan Hohn

A revelatory tale of science, adventure, and modern myth.

When the writer Donovan Hohn heard of the mysterious loss of thousands of bath toys at sea, he figured he would interview a few oceanographers, talk to a few beachcombers, and read up on Arctic science and geography. 'But questions can be like ocean currents: wade in too far, and they carry you away.' Hohn's accidental odyssey pulls him into...

A revelatory tale of science, adventure, and modern myth.

When the writer Donovan Hohn heard of the mysterious loss of thousands of bath toys at sea, he figured he would interview a few oceanographers...

Published: 01/08/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921844348
RRP: $35.00
Book Cover:  Plastic: A Toxic Love Story
By Susan Freinkel

Plastic built the modern world. Where would we be without bike helmets, toothbrushes, babies bottles and pacemakers? But a century into our love affair with plastic, we're starting to realise it's not such a healthy relationship. Plastics draw on dwindling fossil fuels, leach harmful chemicals, litter landscapes, and destroy marine life. As journalist Susan Freinkel points out in this engaging and...

Plastic built the modern world. Where would we be without bike helmets, toothbrushes, babies bottles and pacemakers? But a century into our love affair with plastic, we're starting to realise it's not...

Published: 02/05/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921758485
RRP: $34.95
Book Cover: The Third Man Factor: the secret to survival in extreme environments
By John Geiger

The Third Man Factor presents an astonishing idea: that people at the very edge of death, often adventurers or explorers, detect an unseen being beside them who encourages them to make one final effort to survive.

The Third Man Factor presents an astonishing idea: that people at the very edge of death, often adventurers or explorers, detect an unseen being beside them who encourages them to make one final effort...

Published: 30/08/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921656637
RRP: $25.95
Book Cover:  Climate Wars: The Fight for Survival as the World Overheats
By Gwynne Dyer

From one of the world's great geopolitical analysts, here is a terrifying glimpse of the none-too-distant future, when climate change will force the world's powers into a desperate struggle for advantage and even survival.

From one of the world's great geopolitical analysts, here is a terrifying glimpse of the none-too-distant future, when climate change will force the world's powers into a desperate struggle for advantage...

Published: 30/08/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921640711
RRP: $29.95
Book Cover:  Deep Future: The Next 100,000 Years of Life on Earth
By Curt Stager

In this major new book, paleoclimatologist Curt Stager vividly shows how what we do to the environment in the 21st century will affect the next 100,000 years of life on this planet.

In this major new book, paleoclimatologist Curt Stager vividly shows how what we do to the environment in the 21st century will affect the next 100,000 years of life on this planet.

Published: 02/05/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921640469
RRP: $32.95
Book Cover:  How to Cool the Planet: Geoengineering and the Audacious Quest to Fix Earth's Climate
By Jeff Goodell

When Jeff Goodell first encountered the term 'geo-engineering', he had a vague sense that it involved outlandish schemes to counteract global warming. As a journalist, he was deeply sceptical. But he was also intrigued. The planet was in trouble. Could geo-engineers help?

When Jeff Goodell first encountered the term 'geo-engineering', he had a vague sense that it involved outlandish schemes to counteract global warming. As a journalist, he was deeply sceptical. But he was...

Published: 28/06/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921640568
RRP: $35.00
Book Cover:  Poles Apart: Beyond the Shouting, Who's Right About Climate Change?
By Gareth Morgan & John McCrystal

GLOBAL WARMING – the result of human activity or just another environmentalist bandwagon?

His interest piqued by the profound policy implications of global warming, and by evidence he'd seen on his motorcycle tour of the world, Gareth Morgan decided to find out the answer to the above question.



GLOBAL WARMING – the result of human activity or just another environmentalist bandwagon?

His interest piqued by the profound policy implications of global warming, and by evidence he'd seen on his...

Published: 31/07/2009
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921640094
RRP: $35.00
Book Cover:  Burn: The Epic Story of Bushfire in Australia: with an introduction on the Black Saturday fires
By Paul Collins

'Dry heat and hot, dry winds worked upon a land already dry, to suck from it the last, least drop of moisture. Men who had lived their lives in the bush went their ways in the shadow of dread expectancy. But though they felt the imminence of danger they could not tell that it was to be far greater than they could imagine. They had not lived long enough.'

- Report of the Royal Commission into the bushfires...

'Dry heat and hot, dry winds worked upon a land already dry, to suck from it the last, least drop of moisture. Men who had lived their lives in the bush went their ways in the shadow of dread expectancy...

Published: 28/09/2009
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921640186
RRP: $42.95
Book Cover:  Emergency
By Neil Strauss

Terrorist attacks. Natural disasters. Domestic crackdowns. Economic collapse. Riots. Wars. Disease. Starvation.

What can you do to prepare for when it all hits the fan?

You can learn to be self-sufficient and survive outside the system.

'I've started to look at the world through apocalypse eyes.' So begins Neil Strauss' thrilling new book: one of the most original and provocative narratives of the...

Terrorist attacks. Natural disasters. Domestic crackdowns. Economic collapse. Riots. Wars. Disease. Starvation.

What can you do to prepare for when it all hits the fan?

You can learn to be self-sufficient...

Published: 30/03/2009
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921520587
RRP: $34.95
Book Cover: The Water Dreamers: The Remarkable History of Our Dry
By Michael Cathcart

The ways Australians live and think have been shaped by water — or rather by the lack of it.

The Water Dreamers tells the story of the settlement of Australia and how our culture has been shaped by the scarcity of water and by the need to fill the imagined silence of the continent with the sounds of civilisation. It's the story of who we are today as much as a history of how the country grew...

The ways Australians live and think have been shaped by water — or rather by the lack of it.

The Water Dreamers tells the story of the settlement of Australia and how our culture has been shaped...

Published: 03/08/2009
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921520648
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover:  1788
By Watkin Tench & Flannery Tim

Watkin Tench sailed to Australia with the First Fleet in 1788. In his late twenties, a captain of the marines, he was insatiably curious about the new British colony of Australia. In his four years in the country, he wrote two books about the early settlement which were bestsellers in their day. These are A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay (1789) and An Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson...

Watkin Tench sailed to Australia with the First Fleet in 1788. In his late twenties, a captain of the marines, he was insatiably curious about the new British colony of Australia. In his four years in...

Published: 05/01/2009
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921520044
RRP: $25.95
Book Cover:  Walking the Camino: a Modern Pilgrimage to Santiago
By Tony Kevin
In May 2006, armed only with a small rucksack and a staff, Tony Kevin, an overweight, sedentary, 63-year-old former diplomat, set off on an eight-week trek across Spain. But this was not just a very long walk - it was a pilgrimage.

From Granada, in the southeast, to Santiago de Compostela, in the far northwest, Tony followed the Via Mozarabe and the Via de la Plata, two of the many pilgrim trails that...

In May 2006, armed only with a small rucksack and a staff, Tony Kevin, an overweight, sedentary, 63-year-old former diplomat, set off on an eight-week trek across Spain. But this was not just a very long...
Published: 30/06/2008
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921372339
RRP: $26.95
Book Cover:  Climate Code Red: the Case for Emergency Action
By David Spratt & Phillip Sutton

This meticulously documented call-to-action reveals extensive scientific evidence that the global warming crisis is far worse than officially indicated - and that we're almost at the point of no return.

Serious climate-change impacts are already happening: large ice-sheets are disintegrating, sea-level rises will reach 5 metres this century, and we are seeing devastating species loss.

This meticulously documented call-to-action reveals extensive scientific evidence that the global warming crisis is far worse than officially indicated - and that we're almost at the point of no return...

Published: 27/06/2008
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921372209
RRP: $27.95
Book Cover: The Last Whale
By Chris Pash

A timely reminder of how far we've come since the days of routine slaughter, of how hard conservationists fought to bring it to an end, and how vigilant we must be in making sure that the dark days of whaling are behind us forever.' - Tim Winton

A timely reminder of how far we've come since the days of routine slaughter, of how hard conservationists fought to bring it to an end, and how vigilant we must be in making sure that the dark days of...

Published: 29/09/2008
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921361326
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover: The Weather Makers
By Tim Flannery
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 accessible. He tells the fascinating story of climate change over millions of years to help us understand the predicament we face. By burning fossil fuels we are increasing the levels...

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...

Published: 29/09/2008
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921351822
RRP: $24.95

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21 May 2012
2012 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) - winners

The Australian Book Industry Awards were held in Sydney on Friday night. It was a great night for Penguin with our books taking the top honors in four book categories including the prestigious Book of the Year. Congratulations also to Peg McColl, Kate McCormack and the rights team who won the International (Rights) Award for the second year running for Paul French's book Midnight in Peking. United Book Distributors were again named Distributor of the Year.

Illustrated Book of the Year

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