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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: 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: The Weather Makers: The Past & Future Impact of Climate Change
By Tim Flannery
The last 10,000 years have been humanity's day in the sun: we planted the first crops, domesticated animals, and built the first civilisations – and all of this happened not once but many times independently in different parts of the world. But all that is about to change.

Our civilisation is facing its greatest threat – an unprecedented heating of our planet that looks set to destroy the...

The last 10,000 years have been humanity's day in the sun: we planted the first crops, domesticated animals, and built the first civilisations – and all of this happened not once but many times independently...
Published: 04/10/2005
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781920885847
RRP: $34.95
Book Cover:  Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Earth
By Dorling Kindersley

A breathtaking and inspirational exploration of planet Earth

From the fiery mass of the Earth's core to the tip of the highest ice-capped mountain, explore every aspect of our planet in awe-inspiring photographic detail with the Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Earth.



A breathtaking and inspirational exploration of planet Earth

From the fiery mass of the Earth's core to the tip of the highest ice-capped mountain, explore every aspect of our planet in awe-inspiring photographic...

Published: 09/06/2011
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9781405373692
RRP: $45.00
Book Cover:  Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Ocean
By Fabien Cousteau

Explore the last wilderness left on Earth, the Ocean – with this compact guide with a striking new series look

Explore the last wilderness left on Earth, the Ocean – with this compact guide with a striking new series look

Published: 28/01/2011
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9781405333085
RRP: $45.00
Book Cover:  Heaven & Earth: Unseen by the Naked Eye
By David Malin
An awe-inspiring voyage of discovery through the infinite world of science.
An awe-inspiring voyage of discovery through the infinite world of science.
Published: 01/02/2007
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780714847603
RRP: $35.00
Book Cover: The Field Guide to New Zealand Geology
By Jocelyn Thornton

This is the first field guide written for the general public and beginners in geology in New Zealand. Now fully revised and updated, it shows travellers in New Zealand something of the tremendous variety of our rocks, minerals and fossils and describes what to look for in many areas where rock formations are prominent. It covers the history of New Zealand from its beginnings on the sea floor some 600...

This is the first field guide written for the general public and beginners in geology in New Zealand. Now fully revised and updated, it shows travellers in New Zealand something of the tremendous variety...

Published: 29/05/2009
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143202592
RRP: $35.00
Book Cover:  Under the Sea-Wind
By Rachel L Carson

For the centennial of the birth of Silent Spring author Rachel Carson, a new edition of her groundbreaking paean to the sea

For the centennial of the birth of Silent Spring author Rachel Carson, a new edition of her groundbreaking paean to the sea

Published: 19/07/2007
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143104964
RRP: $9.95
Book Cover: The Tasman: Biography of an Ocean

I had the ambition to not only go as far as anyone had been before, but as far as it was possible for man to go. —Lieutenant James Cook, 1771

 

The mighty Tasman Sea casts a spell on all who venture into it. Here, for the first time, is a book that tells its remarkable life story, from its early origins to the multi-layered human experience of it . . . whenever...

I had the ambition to not only go as far as anyone had been before, but as far as it was possible for man to go. —Lieutenant James Cook, 1771

 

The mighty Tasman Sea casts a spell on all who...

Published: 02/08/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143011385
RRP: $49.95
Book Cover: The Log from the Sea of Cortez
In 1940, John Steinbeck set out on an expedition with his friend Ed Ricketts, the biologist on whom he based the character of Doc in Cannery Row . Taking a sardine boat, Western Flyer, out of Monterey, California, they embarked on a 4,000-mile trip into the Sea of Cortez that combined the scientific collection and observation of marine life with high adventure, philosophy, ethics and art. The log of...
In 1940, John Steinbeck set out on an expedition with his friend Ed Ricketts, the biologist on whom he based the character of Doc in Cannery Row . Taking a sardine boat, Western Flyer, out of Monterey...
Published: 05/02/2001
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141186078
RRP: $29.95
Book Cover: A Crack in the Edge of the World: The Great American Earthquake of 1906
By Simon Winchester
A burgeoning new city is built on the dreams of the American gold rush. It is also built upon a landscape that has been stretching, sliding and breaking apart for millennia. In 1906 the dreams of this city, came crashing down beneath the rippling wave of a horrifying earthquake that turned roads into great rippling rivers, that set buildings ablaze for days on end, that made homes collapse upon themselves...
A burgeoning new city is built on the dreams of the American gold rush. It is also built upon a landscape that has been stretching, sliding and breaking apart for millennia. In 1906 the dreams of this...
Published: 02/07/2007
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141016344
RRP: $26.95
Book Cover:  Dictionary of Geology: Penguin Reference
By Philip Kearey
The New Penguin Dictionary of Geology is the most extensive and authoritative guide to earth sciences available. Covering over 7,700 key terms, it explains not only the core vocabulary of 'the study of the solid earth' but also relevant terms from the related disciplines of astronomy, biology, environmental geoscience, chemistry and physics. The result is a wide-ranging and up-to-date dictionary that...
The New Penguin Dictionary of Geology is the most extensive and authoritative guide to earth sciences available. Covering over 7,700 key terms, it explains not only the core vocabulary of 'the study of...
Published: 17/01/2002
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140514940
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover: The Principles of Geology
By Charles Lyell

One of the key works in the nineteenth-century battle between science and Scripture, Charles Lyell's Principles of Geology (1830-33) sought to explain the geological state of the modern Earth by considering the long-term effects of observable natural phenomena. Written with clarity and a dazzling intellectual passion, it is both a seminal work of modern geology and a compelling precursor to Darwinism...

One of the key works in the nineteenth-century battle between science and Scripture, Charles Lyell's Principles of Geology (1830-33) sought to explain the geological state of the modern Earth by considering...

Published: 03/12/1997
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140435283
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover:  Ground Water Contamination: Transport and Remediation, Second Edition
Published: 08/09/1999
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780130138408
RRP: $199.95

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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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