Environmental science, engineering & technology

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Book Cover:  Slow Death by Rubber Duck: How the Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Life Affects our Health
By Rick Smith & Bruce Lourie

'Why don't we experiment on ourselves?'

When leading environmentalists Rick Smith and Bruce Lourie decided to tell the story of pollution in our modern world by using their own bodies as laboratories, they could not have known what they were about to discover.

They ingested and inhaled a host of things that surround us all the time, from mercury-laden tuna to flame-retardant chemicals in clothes and...

'Why don't we experiment on ourselves?'

When leading environmentalists Rick Smith and Bruce Lourie decided to tell the story of pollution in our modern world by using their own bodies as laboratories...

Published: 25/10/2009
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780702237645
RRP: $34.95
Book Cover: The Green Year: 365 Small Things You Can Do to Make a Big Difference
By Jodi Helmer

Big problems call for small solutions.

Climate change, pollution, energy dependence – all big problems.   But if enough of us make lots of little changes in the way we live, we can turn the tide on those problems.

The Green Year is your guide to taking one small step every day toward becoming part of the solution.   For each day of the year it offers one simple inexpensive activity...



Big problems call for small solutions.

Climate change, pollution, energy dependence – all big problems.   But if enough of us make lots of little changes in the way we live, we can turn the...

Published: 09/02/2009
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781592578290
RRP: $18.95
Book Cover: The Myth of Solid Ground: Earthquakes, Prediction and the Fault Line    Between Reason and Faith
By David Ulin

Earthquakes are one of the great unsolved geological mysteries. Attempts to predict them have ranged from studies of California's fault lines by USGS geologists to the work of an odd assortment of psychics and apocalyptics who base their sometimes startlingly accurate forecasts on everything from changes in the earth's magnetic fields to the behavior of whales.

Earthquakes are one of the great unsolved geological mysteries. Attempts to predict them have ranged from studies of California's fault lines by USGS geologists to the work of an odd assortment of psychics...

Published: 01/03/2007
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143035251
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover:  Here On Earth: An Argument for Hope
By Tim Flannery

We stand at a crossroads, where comprehension of our place in nature—of our true abilities and of our history—is supremely important. We have formed a global civilisation of unprecedented might, driven forward by the power of our minds—a civilisation which is transforming our Earth. We are masters of technology, and of comprehension, but it's what we believe that may, from now on...

We stand at a crossroads, where comprehension of our place in nature—of our true abilities and of our history—is supremely important. We have formed a global civilisation of unprecedented might...

Published: 03/10/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921758720
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover:  Here On Earth: An Argument for Hope
By Tim Flannery

We stand at a crossroads, where comprehension of our place in nature—of our true abilities and of our history—is supremely important. We have formed a global civilisation of unprecedented might, driven forward by the power of our minds—a civilisation which is transforming our Earth. We are masters of technology, and of comprehension, but it's what we believe that may, from now on...

We stand at a crossroads, where comprehension of our place in nature—of our true abilities and of our history—is supremely important. We have formed a global civilisation of unprecedented might...

Published: 27/09/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921656668
RRP: $34.95
Book Cover:  Here On Earth: An Argument for Hope
By Tim Flannery

We stand at a crossroads, where comprehension of our place in nature—of our true abilities and of our history—is supremely important. We have formed a global civilisation of unprecedented might, driven forward by the power of our minds—a civilisation which is transforming our Earth. We are masters of technology, and of comprehension, but it's what we believe that may, from now on...

We stand at a crossroads, where comprehension of our place in nature—of our true abilities and of our history—is supremely important. We have formed a global civilisation of unprecedented might...

Published: 21/09/2010
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9781921656873
RRP: $49.95
Book Cover:  We are the Weather Makers
By Tim Flannery
Tim Flannery dedicated the first edition of The Weather Makers to children: 'to all of their generation who will have to live with the consequences of our decisions.' Seventy percent of the people who are alive now will be alive in 2050. This is the date, many scientists agree, by which we have to cut our carbon emissions by 70%.

Since its publication in September 2005, The Weather Makers has had a...

Tim Flannery dedicated the first edition of The Weather Makers to children: 'to all of their generation who will have to live with the consequences of our decisions.' Seventy percent of the people who...
Published: 31/07/2006
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921145346
RRP: $16.95

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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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