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Big Meg
The Story of the Largest, Fiercest and Most Mysterious SharkBig Meg is big fun! It's packed to the gills with gobsmacking facts, insightful conjecture, and personal obs from two world-class scientists and explorers. It's a slim volume--but a megaladon of delight for any shark-lover!'
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A Brief History of Climate Folly
If reducing carbon emissions is too difficult and too slow, could we engineer a scientific solution to the climate crisis?For millennia, humans have been trying - or claiming to - influence the weather. We have thought up ever more audacious and technologically advanced ways to change our climate to suit our needs, from performing human sacrifices, to drawing up plans to drain the Mediterranean, create a 'second moon', or even drop nuclear bombs on polar ice caps.In this book, Tim and Emma Flannery provide an entertaining overview of the most extraordinary attempts - from the utterly ridiculous to the not so sublime - and the ecological, geopolitical, and ethical issues they have raised. But despite past failures and wasted resources, new initiatives are being explored to bring us back from the brink of climate collapse: from pumping saltwater into the Arctic to injecting sulphur into the atmosphere. Drawing on the most up-to-date developments in climate science, Tim and Emma show us how these technological efforts are just as likely to fail and our hubris may lead us into even greater destruction.
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Jiggliest Jellyfish
Discover the world of jellyfish with explorer and scientist Tim Flannery!
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Spectacular Snakes
Discover the world of snakes with explorer and scientist Tim Flannery!
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Life On Us
Everything that lives ON us or IN us, but is NOT us!Come on an extraordinary journey through the 'human biome' and the amazing creatures that call our bodies home
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Extraordinary Elephants
Discover the world of elephants with explorer and scientist Tim Flannery!
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Big Meg
The Story of the Largest and Most Mysterious Predator That Ever Lived€ 18,50 -
De griezeligste kriebelbeestjes
Dit boek gaat je zeker de kriebels bezorgen! Professor Tim Flannery en zijn dochter Emma laten je kennismaken met de griezeligste kriebelbeesten en beantwoorden vragen als: Hoeveel kost een liter schorpioenengif? Hoeveel mijten leven er op jouw lichaam? (Te veel!) Waarom offert een roodrugspinmannetje zichzelf op? Waarom geeft een miljoenpoot licht in het donker? Kruip mee door de wereld van de griezeligste kriebelbeesten, lees de meest bizarre feiten en kijk naar fantastische tekeningen. Vermaak je, verbaas je en… griezel!
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Sensational Sharks
Discover the world of sharks with explorer and scientist Tim Flannery!
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Megahaai
Het verhaal van het grootste roofdier dat ooit leefdeStel je een woeste zeejager voor van twintig meter lang, twee keer zo zwaar als een bultrugwalvis en tien keer zo hoog als de Tyrannosaurus rex, met kaken die twee meter wijd open kunnen gaan en volgepropt zijn met 276 gekartelde hoektanden. Deze reuzenhaai, de megalodon, zwom drie miljoen jaar geleden rond. Als je dat vergelijkt met de dinosauriërs die 66 miljoen jaar geleden werden uitgeroeid is dat nog maar kortgeleden. Toch zijn er nauwelijks vondsten van tanden en wervels van de megalodon bekend; zijn bestaan is gehuld in mysteriën ... tot nu. Tim Flannery en zijn dochter Emma vertellen voor het eerst het spannende verhaal van de reuzenhaai, een mijlpaal in de paleontologie. Megahaai is de biografie van het ultieme roofdier en beschrijft de zoektocht naar de mystificatie van deze kolos die vrijwel zonder een spoor achter te laten van de aardbodem verdween. De auteurs onthullen waar en hoe hij leefde en bespreken de theorieën rond zijn bestaan, inclusief de verhalen die suggereren dat hij misschien nog rondspookt in de diepte van de oceanen. ‘Als je al niet verslaafd bent aan Tim Flannery’s verhalen, ontdek hem dan nu.' – Jared Diamond.
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Big Meg
The Story of the Largest and Most Mysterious Predator That Ever Lived€ 29,50 -
Big Meg
'Big Meg is big fun! It's packed to the gills with gobsmacking facts, insightful conjecture, and personal obs from two world-class scientists and explorers ... a megaladon of delight for any shark-lover!' - Sy Montgomery, author of The Soul of an Octopus'Tim Flannery scores again, diving into the murky myth-filled waters surrounding the world's biggest predator, and surfacing with a breathless true story stuffed with astounding facts and personal experience.' - Lucy Cooke, author of Bitch and The Unexpected Truth about Animals'If you are not already addicted to Tim Flannery's writing, discover him now.' - Jared Diamond, author of Collapse and Guns, Germs and Steel'Engagingly written and a real labour of love (down to the tiny fin at the bottom of each right hand page). Give this book to the wannabe palaeontologist in your life' - MAIL ON SUNDAY------------------------------------------------------------------------------Imagine a ferocious marine hunter up to twenty metres long, weighing twice as much as a humpback whale and ten times more than Tyrannosaurus rex. With jaws that can open two metres wide, crammed with 276 serrated fangs, it can bite down with the greatest force of any animal that has ever lived. This is the Megalodon, also known as 'the Bigtooth', and it swam in our waters three million years ago. Compared with the dinosaurs, wiped out 66 million years ago, this is but a stone's throw into our planet's shadowy past when monsters reigned. Yet the Megalodon has been largely absent from the fossil record, leaving behind only a smattering of teeth and vertebrae prized by collectors, its existence steeped in mystery... until now. Marking a milestone in palaeontology, Tim Flannery, celebrated environmentalist, zoologist and explorer, and his scientist daughter Emma, tell the story of the giant shark for the first time. Big Meg follows the quest to demystify the colossus that left Earth with barely a trace, reveals where and how it lived, and discusses the theories and haunting stories surrounding this ancient legendary creature, including that it may still stalk the deep... This is the biography of the ultimate apex predator - a vital piece of the great natural history of our planet - and a compelling exploration of its awesome grip on the human imagination today. ............................................................................. ............................................................................. ............................................................. 'Tim Flannery is the real thing: a man with a gift for lucid exposition, who can really make his subject come alive.' Literary Review'This man is a national treasure, and we should heed his every word' Sunday Telegraph
€ 21,50