Tim Flannery is Panasonic Professor of Environmental Sustainability at Macquarie University in Sydney. His latest book is Here on Earth: A Natural History of the Planet. (February 2012)
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On the Minds of the Whales
February 9, 2012
The Sounding of the Whale: Science and Cetaceans in the Twentieth Century
by D. Graham Burnett
The Dolphin in the Mirror: Exploring Dolphin Minds and Saving Dolphin Lives
by Diana Reiss
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Tigers, Humans, and Snails
February 10, 2011
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating
by Elizabeth Tova Bailey
The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
by John Vaillant
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Save a Penguin If You Can
October 28, 2010
The Great Penguin Rescue: 40,000 Penguins, a Devastating Oil Spill, and the Inspiring Story of the World’s Largest Animal Rescue
by Dyan deNapoli
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Getting to Know Them
April 29, 2010
The Social Behavior of Older Animals
by Anne Innis Dagg
Elephants on the Edge: What Animals Teach Us about Humanity
by G.A. Bradshaw
Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals
by Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson
The Hidden Life of Deer: Lessons from the Natural World
by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
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A Great Jump to Disaster?
November 19, 2009
The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning
by James Lovelock
James Lovelock: In Search of Gaia
by John Gribbin and Mary Gribbin
The Medea Hypothesis: Is Life on Earth Ultimately Self-Destructive?
by Peter Ward
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Are We Becoming a Superorganism?
May 28, 2009
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The Superior Civilization
February 26, 2009
The Superorganism: The Beauty, Elegance, and Strangeness of Insect Societies
by Bert Hölldobler and Edward O. Wilson, with line drawings by Margaret C. Nelson
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The Spider Man and Other Stories
December 4, 2008
Dry Storeroom No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum
by Richard Fortey
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What They See and Hear
August 14, 2008
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Queens of the Web
May 1, 2008
The Private Life of Spiders
by Paul Hillyard
Life in Cold Blood
by David Attenborough
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Where Wonders Await Us
December 20, 2007
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
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A Schism among Bison Farmers
October 11, 2007
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We’re Living on Corn!
June 28, 2007
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
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What Is a Tree?
February 15, 2007
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
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Capturing Carbon
November 16, 2006
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The Scorpion Mystery
October 5, 2006
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When a Scorpion Meets a Scorpion
March 23, 2006
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
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The Ominous New Pact
February 23, 2006
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Some Like It Hot
November 17, 2005
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Endgame
August 11, 2005
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
Climate Change: Debating America’s Policy Options
by David G. Victor
The Real Environmental Crisis: Why Poverty, Not Affluence, Is the Environment’s Number One Enemy
by Jack M. Hollander
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The Heart of the Country
June 10, 2004
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
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Flaming Creatures
March 11, 2004
For Love of Insects
by Thomas Eisner
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The Lady, or the Tiger?
October 9, 2003
Monster of God: The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind
by David Quammen
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Europe’s Apes and Us
September 25, 2003
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
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Who Came First?
June 12, 2003
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
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The Secret of Methuselah Grove
March 13, 2003
Remarkable Trees of the World
by Thomas Pakenham
Grazing Ecology and Forest History
by F. W. M. Vera
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
Gum: The Story of Eucalypts and Their Champions by Ashley Hay
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Living on the Wind
October 10, 2002
Eye of the Albatross: Visions of Hope and Survival
by Carl Safina
Sailing Alone Around the World
by Captain Joshua Slocum
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A Bird’s-Eye View of Evolution
June 27, 2002
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
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A New Darwinism?
May 23, 2002
The Structures of Evolutionary Theory
by Stephen Jay Gould
I Have Landed: The End of a Beginning in Natural History
by Stephen Jay Gould
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Birds Out of Time
February 14, 2002
The Birds of Heaven: Travels with Cranes
by Peter Matthiessen, with paintings and drawings by Robert Bateman
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Dinosaur Crazy
January 17, 2002
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
The Road to Chilecito by James A. Jensen
Time Traveler: In Search of Dinosaurs and Other Fossils from Montana to Mongolia
by Michael J. Novacek
Dinosaurs of Darkness
by Thomas H. Rich and Patricia Vickers-Rich
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In the Primordial Soup
November 2, 2000
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
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Forever Amber
May 11, 2000
The Amber Forest: A Reconstruction of a Vanished World
by George Poinar Jr., by Roberta Poinar. with photographs and drawings by the authors.
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Wonders of a Lost World
December 16, 1999
The Ambonese Curiosity Cabinet by
by Georgius Everhardus Rumphius, translated, edited, annotated, and with an introduction E.M. Beekman
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Copenhagen, and After
December 24, 2009
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Copenhagen Crisis: Why the US Needs Cap and Trade
November 16, 2009