Tim Flannery
Tim Flannery is a professor at Macquarie University in Sydney and chair of the Copenhagen Climate Council. His latest book is The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth. (May 2008)
From the Review
May 1, 2008: Queens of the Web
The Private Life of Spiders by Paul Hillyard
Life in Cold Blood by David Attenborough
December 20, 2007: Where Wonders Await Us
The Deep: The Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss by Claire Nouvian
The Silent Deep: The Discovery, Ecology and Conservation of the Deep Sea by Tony Koslow
October 11, 2007: A Schism among Bison Farmers (letter)
June 28, 2007: We're Living on Corn!
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future by Bill McKibben
February 15, 2007: What Is a Tree?
The Tree: A Natural History of What Trees Are, How They Live, and Why They Matter by Colin Tudge
The Plant-Book: A Portable Dictionary of the Vascular Plants, Second Edition by D.J. Mabberley
November 16, 2006: Capturing Carbon (letter)
October 5, 2006: The Scorpion Mystery (letter)
March 23, 2006: When a Scorpion Meets a Scorpion
Life in the Undergrowth by David Attenborough
The Smaller Majority: The Hidden World of the Animals That Dominate the Tropics by Piotr Naskrecki
Locust: The Devastating Rise and Mysterious Disappearance of the Insect That Shaped the American Frontier by Jeffrey A. Lockwood
February 23, 2006: The Ominous New Pact
November 17, 2005: Some Like It Hot (letter)
August 11, 2005: Endgame
America's Environmental Report Card: Are We Making the Grade? by Harvey Blatt
Crimes Against Nature: How George W. Bush and His Corporate Pals Are Plundering the Country and Hijacking Our Democracy by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
One with Nineveh: Politics, Consumption, and the Human Future by Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne H. Ehrlich
Diamond: A Struggle for Environmental Justice in Louisiana's Chemical Corridor by Steve Lerner
The Real Environmental Crisis: Why Poverty, Not Affluence, Is the Environment's Number One Enemy by Jack M. Hollander
Climate Change: Debating America's Policy Options by David G. Victor
June 10, 2004: The Heart of the Country
Under a Wild Sky: John James Audubon and the Making of The Birds of America by William Souder
Audubon's Elephant: America's Greatest Naturalist and the Making of The Birds of America by Duff Hart-Davis
March 11, 2004: Flaming Creatures
For Love of Insects by Thomas Eisner
October 9, 2003: The Lady, or the Tiger?
Monster of God: The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind by David Quammen
September 25, 2003: Europe's Apes and Us
Lowly Origin: Where, When and Why Our Ancestors First Stood Up by Jonathan Kingdon
The Speciation of Modern Homo sapiens edited by Tim Crow
The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey by Spencer Wells
June 12, 2003: Who Came First?
The First Americans: In Pursuit of Archaeology's Greatest Mystery by J.M. Adovasio with Jake Page
America Before the European Invasions by Alice Beck Kehoe
March 13, 2003: The Secret of Methuselah Grove
Remarkable Trees of the World by Thomas Pakenham
Grazing Ecology and Forest History by F. W. M. Vera
Gum: The Story of Eucalypts and Their Champions by Ashley Hay
The Lost World of the Moa: Prehistoric Life of New Zealand by Trevor H. Worthy and Richard N. Holdaway, with principal photography by Rod Morris
October 10, 2002: Living on the Wind
Eye of the Albatross: Visions of Hope and Survival by Carl Safina
Sailing Alone Around the World by Captain Joshua Slocum
June 27, 2002: A Bird's-Eye View of Evolution
The Birds of Northern Melanesia: Speciation, Ecology, and Biogeography by Ernst Mayr and Jared Diamond
What Evolution Is by Ernst Mayr, with a foreword by Jared Diamond
May 23, 2002: A New Darwinism?
The Structures of Evolutionary Theory by Stephen Jay Gould
I Have Landed: The End of a Beginning in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould
February 14, 2002: Birds Out of Time
The Birds of Heaven: Travels with Cranes by Peter Matthiessen, with paintings and drawings by Robert Bateman
January 17, 2002: Dinosaur Crazy
Terrible Lizard: The First Dinosaur Hunters and the Birth of a New Science by Deborah Cadbury
Drawing Out Leviathan: Dinosaurs and the Science Wars by Keith M. Parsons
Walking on Eggs: The Astonishing Discovery of Thousands of Dinosaur Eggs in the Badlands of Patagonia by Luis M. Chiappe and Lowell Dingus, with illustrations by Nicholas Frankfurt
Dinosaurs of Darkness by Thomas H. Rich and Patricia Vickers-Rich
Time Traveler: In Search of Dinosaurs and Other Fossils from Montana to Mongolia by Michael J. Novacek
The Road to Chilecito by James A. Jensen
July 19, 2001: Glow in the Dark
The 13th Element: The Sordid Tale of Murder, Fire, and Phosphorus John Emsley
March 29, 2001: Fraud Among the Flowers
A Rum Affair: A True Story of Botanical Fraud Karl Sabbagh
November 2, 2000: In the Primordial Soup
The Spark of Life: Darwin and the Primeval Soup by Christopher Wills, by Jeffrey Bada
Darwin's Ghost: The Origin of Species Updated by Steve Jones
May 11, 2000: Forever Amber
The Amber Forest: A Reconstruction of a Vanished World by George Poinar Jr., by Roberta Poinar. with photographs and drawings by the authors.
December 16, 1999: Wonders of a Lost World
The Ambonese Curiosity Cabinet by by Georgius Everhardus Rumphius, translated, edited, annotated, and with an introduction E.M. Beekman
Books by Tim Flannery
The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples (2002)
The Future Eaters: An Ecological History of the Australasian Lands and People (2002)
A Gap in Nature: Discovering the World's Extinct Animals (2001)
Throwim Way Leg: Tree-Kangaroos, Possums, and Penis Gourds (2000)