Tim Flannery Knihy

Profesor Tim Flannery už dokázal mnohé: objevoval nové živočichy, vykopával kosti dinosaurů nebo se potápěl v řekách plných krokodýlů. Zároveň zná odpovědi na tyto otázky: Opravdu existují zombie medúzy? Která zvířata jedí hovínka? A proč to vlastně dělají?! Mohou ti upíři vysát krev? Který hmyz pije slzy? Tato cesta do hlubin zvířecí říše je nabitá překvapivými informacemi a vtipnými ilustracemi. Během ní se budete smát nahlas… i šklebit odporem!

Kniha australského vědce Tima Flanneryho, předního světového biologa, paleontologa a odborníka na klimatickou změnu, přehledně podává podrobné informace o jednotlivých faktorech klimatické změny, o jejích dopadech již zaznamenaných i očekávaných a o krátké historii boje proti ní i obdobným hrozbám. Důkladně se zabývá všemi přírodovědnými, ekonomickými, společenskými i technologickými aspekty problému včetně alternativních technologií ve výrobě. Záhy po svém vydání na podzim 2005 vzbudila značný rozruch. Mezi nadšené zastánce knihy i jejího poselství patří tak různorodé osobnosti jako britský premiér Tony Blair, kalifornský guvernér Arnold Schwarzenegger či britský podnikatel sir Richard Branson.

In his many voyages, the Scottish-born sailor John Nicol (1755-1825) twice circumnavigated the globe, visiting every inhabited continent while participating in many of the greatest events of exploration and adventure of the eighteenth century. During his career Nicol battled pirates, traded with Native Americans, and fought for the British navy in the American and French revolutions. In Hawaii, he was entertained by the King's court mere days after the murder of Captain James Cook. In Jamaica, he saw firsthand the horrors of the slave system and befriended slaves who invited him to join in their dance celebrations. En route to Australia, he would meet the love of his life, Sarah Whidam, a convict bound for the Botany Bay prison colony, who would bear his son before duty forced them apart forever.An international bestseller, The Life and Adventures of John Nicol, Mariner is a rousing memoir of an ordinary man's extraordinary life, a gripping true adventure tale.

Tim Flannery’s international bestseller The Weather Makers has sold over a million copies and influenced politicians, movie stars, even business leaders - after reading it, Sir Richard Branson pledged more than 3 billion dollars towards developing sustainable energy sources. We Are the Weather Makers is a concise and revised edition that will allow readers aged from nine to ninety to learn the real facts about the biggest question of our generation. Flannery takes us on a journey through history and around the globe, writing about hurricanes and droughts, coral reefs and polar bears, and wind energy and nuclear power. He shows us how, as we continue to heat the planet, humanity faces unprecedented dangers and challenges. We are the weather makers now.

The story of how human beings have consumed the resources they need for their own future. The book examines the first Afro-Asian people to travel down the chain of islands to Australasia and how they changed the flora and fauna, and the impact Europeans have made

'Vivid, thrilling, a delight ... Tim Flannery is a palaeontologist and ecologist of global standing, and this is a compelling and authoritative narrative of the evolution of Europe's flora and fauna, from the formation of the continent to its near future ... an exciting book, full of wonder' James McConnachie, Sunday Times A place of exceptional diversity, rapid change, and high energy, Europe has literally been at the crossroads of the world ever since the interaction of Asia, North America and Africa formed the tropical island archipelago that would become the continent of today. In this unprecedented evolutionary history, Tim Flannery shows how for the past 100 million years Europe has absorbed wave after wave of immigrant species; taking them in, transforming them, and sometimes hybridising them. Flannery reveals how, in addition to playing a vital role in the evolution of our own species, Europe was once the site of the formation of the first coral reefs, the home of some of the world's largest elephants, and now has more wolves than North America. This groundbreaking book charts the history of the land itself and the forces shaping life on it - including modern humans - to create a portrait of a continent that continues to exert a huge influence on the world today.

When Tim Flannery was a boy he found a fossilised tooth of the giant shark megalodon at a Port Philip Bay beach near his home. This remarkable find—the tooth was large enough to cover his palm—sparked an interest in palaeontology that was to inform his life’s work and a lifelong quest to uncover the secrets of the world’s largest ever predator, the great shark Otodus megalodon.Tim passed on his love of the natural world and interest in the fossil record to his daughter, Emma, a scientist and writer. And now, together, they have written a fascinating account of this ancient marine creature.Big Meg charts the evolution of megalodon, its super-predator status for about fifteen million years and its decline and extinction. It delves into the fossil record to answer questions about its behaviour and role in shaping marine ecosystems as well as its impact on the human psyche. It contains stories of the scientist and amateur fossil hunters who have scoured the seas, and land, for fossil remains, drawn to the beauty and mystique of the great shark, sometimes meeting their death in the process.Like the fossil record itself, this enthralling story is a piece of the great natural history of our planet.

Details the author's friendship with a New Guinea warrior and the fate of the indigenous peoples in the course of discovering species of mammals that science had yet to discover or classify.

Nemecký bestseller Tajný život stromov už druhý rok neopustil miesto v rebríčku najpredávanejších kníh a nadšené ohlasy čitateľov doteraz neustali. Opantaní autorovou mágiou sa ponoria do lesa a stromy sa stanú ich najbližšími priateľmi. Les je vytúženým miestom oddychu mnohých ľudí. Je synonymom ticha a nedotknutej prírody. Renomovaný lesník Peter Wohlleben umožňuje nahliadnuť do skrytého sveta stromov – a odhaľuje pozoruhodné veci: stromy majú pamäť, vymieňajú si posolstvá, cítia bolesť, dokonca môžu dostať úpal a časom nadobudnúť vrásky. Niektoré, napríklad duby, navzájom komunikujú prostredníctvom chemických vonných látok. Ak hmyz napadne nejaký strom, ten začne vysielať vonné signály a všetky stromy v širokom okolí upozorní na nebezpečenstvo. Peter Wohlleben čerpá zo svojich dlhoročných skúseností lesníka a predstavuje nám les z celkom novej stránky. Jeho zábavná knižka, plná nových informácií o stromoch a lesoch, nás núti žasnúť nad zázrakmi prírody.

Dual biography of planet Earth and the human species.

Acclaimed scientist Tim Flannery investigates exciting new technologies currently being developed to address our most pressing environmental threats in a book that presents a positive future for us and our planet. Climate change, food production and toxic pollution present huge challenges, but, as Flannery shows, we already have innovative, practical and inspiring solutions. Solar energy has, until now, been limited to supplying power only when the sun is shining. But new technology using concentrated sunlight to provide intense heat energy that can be effectively stored overcomes this problem, providing clean renewable power around the clock. Further, the large amounts of power produced can be used to tackle the issue of feeding the world’s growing population—by enabling energy-intense methods of purifying polluted land for agricultural production. Drawing carbon out of the atmosphere is an essential component in limiting climate change. Flannery explores the potential of kelp, a fast-growing sea algae, to be used on a large scale to convert carbon from the air to a non-gaseous form, reducing levels of atmospheric carbon. With accessible and engaging explanations of the fascinating science behind these technologies, as well as accounts of the systems already in operation around the world, Sunlight and Seaweed is an enlightening and uplifting view of the future.

A decade ago, Tim Flannery s #1 international bestseller, "The Weather Makers," was one of the first books to break the topic of climate change out into the general conversation. Today, Earth s climate system is fast approaching a crisis. Political leadership has not kept up, and public engagement with the issue of climate change has declined. Opinion is divided between technological optimists and pessimists who feel that catastrophe is inevitable. The publication of this new book is timed for the lead-up to the Climate Change Conference in Paris in December 2015, which aims to achieve a legally binding and universal agreement on climate from all the nations in the world. This book anticipates and will influence the debates. Time is running out, but catastrophe is not inevitable. Around the world people are now living with the consequences of an altered climatewith intensified and more frequent storms, wildfires, droughts and floods. For some it s already a question of survival. Drawing on the latest science, Flannery gives a snapshot of the trouble we are in and more crucially, proposes a new way forward, including rapidly progressing clean technologies and a third way of soft geo-engineering. Tim Flannery, with his inimitable style, makes this urgent issue compelling and accessible. This is a must-read for anyone interested in our global future."

Sometime this century the day will arrive when the human influence on the climate will overwhelm all other natural factors. If nothing is done, the twenty-first century will see global warming that could lead to conditions the planet has not seen in forty million years. With one out of every five living things on this planet committed to extinction by the levels of greenhouse gases that will accumulate in the next few decades, we are now reaching a global climatic tipping point. The Weather Makers is both an urgent warning and a call to arms, outlining the history of climate change, how it will unfold over the next century, and what we can do to prevent a cataclysmic future. Along with a riveting history of how climate change has shaped our planet's evolution, Flannery offers specific suggestions for action for both lawmakers and individuals, from investing in renewable power sources like wind, solar, and geothermal energy, to offering an action plan with steps each and every one of us can take right now to reduce deadly CO[subscript 2] emissions by as much as 70 percent. The Weather Makers is the most ambitious book yet written by a world-renowned scientist on the greatest crisis facing the twenty-first century. Book jacket.

Tim Flannery takes the reader on a journey through history and around the globe as he describes the diversity of the world's ecosystems and reveals how the earth's climate has changed, causing devastating changes in the weather, from hurricanes to heatwaves.

The Birth of Sydney tells the story of the founding of one of the world's greatest cities. Tim Flannery's brilliant anthology reveals Sydney's strange and secret life from its unruly beginnings as a dump for convicts to its arrival as the 'queen of the south' a century later. In this compelling narrative history we hear the voices of everyone from Aboriginal women to Russian sailors, from Elizabeth Macarthur to Charles Darwin and a host of others.

A lively collection of extraordinary stories of adventure and discovery, The Explorers tells the epic saga of the conquest and settlement of Australia. Editor Tim Flannery selects sixty-seven accounts that convey the sense of wonder and discovery, along with the human dimensions of struggle and deprivation, which occurred in the exploration of the last continent to be fully mapped by Europeans. Beginning with the story of Dutch captain Willem Janz's 1606 expedition at Cape York -- the bloody outcome of which would sadly foreshadow future relations between colonists and Aboriginal peoples -- and running through Robyn Davidson's 1977 camelback ride through the desolate Outback deserts, The Explorers bristles with the enterprise that Flannery explains as "heroic, for nowhere else did explorers face such an obdurate country."

Tim Flannery writes a love letter to his homeland, Australia, drawing on three decades of extensive travel, research and field work to reveal its unique nature.

"Taking us on an extraordinary journey into the past and around the globe, from coral reefs to the North Pole, deserts to rainforests, Tim Flannery tells the story of the earth's climate, and how we have changed it."-- Back cover

Der Vorhang öffnet sich auf ein Inferno. An einem Tag vor 65 Millionen Jahren rast ein Meteorit in den Golf von Mexiko: Eine Katastrophe, die sämtliches Leben in Nordamerika vernichtet und zum weltweiten Aussterben der Dinosaurier führt. Tim Flannery läßt die darauffolgenden 65 Millionen Jahre Evolution wie auf einer Breitbildleinwand vorüberziehen und gibt Antwort auf die Frage, warum die Bewohner dieses Kontinents so sehr vom Prinzip des »Ewigen Pioniers« geprägt scheinen. Ist der nordamerikanische Expansionsdrang ein Verhaltensmuster, das in der Geschichte des Kontinents angelegt ist?

Verheerende Hurrikans verwüsten das Land, es gibt Frühlingswetter im November und die Sommer werden immer heißer. Was ist los mit der Erde? Tim Flannery hat seinen Weltbestseller über die Ursachen und Folgen der globalen Klimaveränderung ›Wir Wettermacher‹ für Jugendliche neu geschrieben. Herausgekommen ist eine leicht verständliche Fassung, die sich so spannend wie ein Krimi liest.

Minuit cinq dans la nuit de 2 au 3 décembre 1984, un nuage de gaz toxique s'échappe d'une usine de pesticides à Bhopal, entraînant entre seize et trente mille morts et cinq cent mille blessés, marquant la plus meurtrière catastrophe industrielle de l'histoire. Ce récit explore l'aventure humaine et technologique qui a conduit à cette tragédie. On y découvre une famille de paysans indiens chassée de sa terre par des pucerons, trois entomologistes new-yorkais développant un pesticide miracle, et un géant de la chimie créant un gaz mortel pour sa fabrication. Des jeunes ingénieurs occidentaux s'efforcent de sauver le tiers-monde de la famine, tandis qu'une usine, décrite comme "aussi innocente qu'une fabrique de chocolats", cache un drame imminent. Les fêtes des habitants d'un bidonville, les interactions entre eunuques et princesses, et un ouvrier passionné de poésie qui déclenche l'apocalypse, s'entrelacent avec le dévouement d'héroïques médecins. Une jeune mariée échappe aux flammes grâce à une croix autour de son cou. Des centaines de personnages et de situations se croisent dans cette fresque d'amour, d'héroïsme et d'espoir, soulignant une tragédie contemporaine et un avertissement pour l'avenir de notre planète.

+++ DER Klimaexperte mit konkreten Lösungsansätzen für eine Klimawende – DAS Buch zur UN-Klimakonferenz in Paris 2015 +++ Wir verfügen heute über eine Vielzahl von neuen Technologien, mittels deren der Klimawandel zumindest abgemildert werden kann. Doch es mangelt bisher an dem flächendeckenden Einsatz dieser Technologien, der erforderlich wäre, um einen Wandel herbeizuführen. Der bekannte Umweltaktivist, Naturforscher und Bestsellerautor Tim Flannery gibt eine Momentaufnahme unserer Lage und analysiert die neuesten möglichen Auswege daraus. In seinem unnachahmlichen Stil legt er ein Jahrzehnt nach seinem Bestseller ›Wir Wettermacher‹ ein Plädoyer zum Umdenken vor. Ein wichtiger Diskussionsbeitrag zu der kommenden UN-Klimakonferenz in Paris 2015. »Ein unwiderstehlicher Autor.«Jared Diamond