Tim F Flannery
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2006, c2005
Physical Desc
xv, 357 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sometime this century the day will arrive when the human influence on the climate will overwhelm all other natural factors. Over the past decade, the world has seen the most powerful El Nino ever recorded, the most devastating hurricane in two hundred years, the hottest European summer on record, and one of the worst storm seasons ever experienced in Florida. With one out of every five living things on this planet committed to extinction by the levels...
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[2012], c2011
Physical Desc
246 p. : col. ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A scientist credited with discovering more species than Darwin recounts the first major trips of his career, several expeditions to often remote Pacific islands where he found amazing animals, harsh weather, strange local taboos, and dense jungle.
Author
Publisher
Grove Atlantic
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (288 pages)
Language
English
Description
A tale of cave bears and comet strikes and a hundred million years of history by the bestselling author of Here on Earth : "Marvelous." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) In Europe: A Natural History , world-renowned scientist, explorer, and conservationist Tim Flannery applies the eloquent interdisciplinary approach he used in his ecological histories of Australia and North America to the story of Europe. He begins 100 million years ago, when...
Author
Series
Mysteries of nature trilogy volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Are trees social beings? In this international bestseller, forester and author Peter Wohlleben convincingly makes the case that, yes, the forest is a social network. He draws on groundbreaking scientific discoveries to describe how trees are like human families: tree parents live together with their children, communicate with them, support them as they grow, share nutrients with those who are sick or struggling, and even warn each other of impending...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.7 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
303 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Offers a look at the history of climate change, how it will unfold over the next century, and what we can do to prevent a cataclysmic future.
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Grove Atlantic hardcover editon.
Physical Desc
216 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Internationally bestselling author and renowned scientist Tim Flannery and his daughter, scientist Emma Flannery, deliver an informative-yet-intimate portrait of the megalodon, an extinct shark and the largest predator of all time. When Tim Flannery was a boy he found a fossilized tooth of the giant shark megalodon at a beach near his home in Australia. This remarkable find-the tooth was large enough to cover his palm-sparked an interest in paleontology...