Tim Flannery

La primera biografía de una de las criaturas más fascinantes de la historia del reino animal.Imagina a un depredador marino de hasta veinte metros, diez veces más pesado que un Tyrannosaurus rex, con mandibulas capaces de abrirse dos metros de ancho, armadas con 276 colmillos serrados y con la mordida mas fuerte que ha conocido el reino animal.Asi era el megalodon y nadaba por nuestras aguas hace tres millones de años. Antes de ayer, si lo comparamos con los dinosaurios, extinguidos hace 66 millones de años. Sin embargo, el megalodon ha estado en gran medida ausente del registro fosil, donde solo se conservan algunos dientes y vertebras codiciados por coleccionistas. Su existencia ha estado envuelta en misterio... hasta ahora.Los cientificos Tim y Emma Flannery nos revelan donde y como vivia, y analizan las teorias e inquietantes historias que rodean al tiburon gigante, incluyendo la posibilidad de que aun aceche en las profundidades...Esta es la primera biografia del ultimo depredador supremo, pieza vital de la gran historia natural de nuestro planeta, y una exploracion de su impacto en la imaginacion humana y en la cultura popular.

Throwim Way Leg is a book of wonder and excitement, struggle and sadness, a love letter to Papua New Guinea and Irian Jaya. In New Guinea Pidgin, Tim Flannery explains, throwim way leg means to go on a journey. It describes the action of thrusting out your leg to take the first step of what can be a long march Here he invites us to share in his breathtaking adventures, as he meets skilled hunters and befriends a shaman, climbs mountains never before scaled by Europeans, discovers new species and, deep in the jungle, stumbles across the giant bones of extinct marsupials. He also writes movingly about the fate of indigenous people when their intricate cultures collide with mining companies and the high-tech modern world.

Con su best-seller internacional, La amenaza del cambio climático, Tim Flannery logró cambiar la opinión y la actitud de mucha gente hacia el calentamiento global. El clima está en nuestras manos es una nueva edicion concisa y revisada de su libro anterior, con la que busca acercar la realidad del cambio climatico a lectores de nueve a noventa nueve años.

The Weather Makers tells the dramatic story of the earth's climate, of how it has changed, how we have come to understand it, and of what that means for the future. Tim Flannery's gripping narrative takes the reader on an extraordinary journey into the past and around the globe, bringing us closer to the science than ever before. Along the way he explodes the many illusions that have grown up around this subject.

Since humans first wandered from their original habitat in Africa, over fifty millennia ago, they have radically altered the environment wherever they have gone, often at the cost of the animals who''d ruled the wild before mankind''s arrival. Humanity''s spread throughout the globe has begotten

Terrifying and inspiring, The Weather Makers is a page-turning epic that brings the most elusive and powerful of natural phenomena within our grasp. Internationally acclaimed writer, scientist and explorer, Tim Flannery takes us on a journey through history and around the globe as he describes the wondrous diversity of the world's ecosystems, and explains how the great aerial ocean' unites us. Along the way, we meet polar bears and golden toads, and travel from ocean depths to mountaintops, via desert, swamp and rainforest. Flannery reveals how the earth's climate has changed, across millennia and decades, and how the slightest imbalance has had far-reaching, unexpected consequences. The weather - everything from hurricanes to heatwaves - cannot be understood in isolation. With panoramic scope and limitless enthusiasm, Flannery shows how we have come to appreciate this history and contrasts our early primitive attempts at forecasting with our current knowledge of the forces that are shaping the future.

¿Qué significa el cambio climático? ¿Cómo afectará el calentamiento global a nuestras vidas? ¿Es la causa de las tormentas extremas y de las sequías cada vez más frecuentes? ¿Son inevitables estos sucesos? Con este libro, Tim Flannery responde a cuestiones tan urgentes como estas y otras muchas. Para ayudarnos a comprender el dilema al que nos enfrentamos, nos cuenta con detalle la fascinante historia del clima y su posible futuro, pues si seguimos quemando combustibles fosiles, aumentaran los niveles de gases de efecto invernadero en la atmosfera y esto provocara un calentamiento del planeta aun mayor. Con gran entusiasmo, Flannery muestra como podemos colaborar en la lucha contra estos problemas y nos transmite su confianza en una futura solucion si todos nos implicamos. Nos sorprendera lo mucho que aun podemos hacer. La amenaza del cambio climatico nos puede cambiar la vida.

En 2002, la Crète fut le théâtre d’une émouvante découverte : des empreintes de pas quasi humaines, imprimées dans des roches datant du Miocène. La preuve que de grands singes bipèdes évoluèrent en E

Le grand biologiste Tim Flannery a parcouru les îles tropicales du Pacifique Sud-Ouest pendant plus d’une décennie à la recherche de marsupiaux, de chauves-souris et d’autres petits mammifères que l’

La dramática historia de la vida y la evolución en un continente que sigue ejerciendo enorme influencia en el resto del planeta.Tim Flannery narra la historia de la vida en Europa utilizando la misma combinacion de prosa elegante y solvencia cientifica que le ha otorgado el reconocimiento de cientos de miles de lectores en el mundo. La historia de Europa empezo hace cien millones de años, con la formacion de un archipielago que mas tarde se convertiria en continente. A lo largo de este libro, veremos desaparecer a unas especies, mientras que otras superaran el impacto del asteroide que elimino a los dinosaurios. Nuestra propia especie entrara en escena, y con ella el efecto que hemos tenido en flora y fauna. Mas tarde, veremos los avances en edicion genetica que persiguen recrear algunas de las criaturas perdidas del continente.

¿Qué significa el cambio climático? ¿Cómo afectará el calentamiento global a nuestras vidas? ¿Es la causa de las tormentas extremas y de las sequías cada vez más frecuentes? ¿Son inevitables estos sucesos?Con este libro, Tim Flannery responde a cuestiones tan urgentes como estas y otras muchas. Para ayudarnos a comprender el dilema al que nos enfrentamos, nos cuenta con detalle la fascinante historia del clima y su posible futuro, pues si seguimos quemando combustibles fosiles, aumentaran los niveles de gases de efecto invernadero en la atmosfera y esto provocara un calentamiento del planeta aun mayor.A pesar de que cada pais se ve influido de manera diferente por estos efectos no deseados, todos tenemos algo en comun: la amenaza del cambio climatico. La nueva meteorologia que estamos generando pone en peligro el futuro de nuestra civilizacion. Tenemos que ser conscientes de que el estado de la atmosfera y del subsuelo, del agua y de la tierra depende de nosotros.Pero este reconocido cientifico va mas alla de relatar la historia del clima y no pierde el optimismo. Con gran entusiasmo, Flannery muestra como podemos colaborar en la lucha contra estos problemas y nos transmite su confianza en una futura solucion si todos nos implicamos. Nos sorprendera lo mucho que aun podemos hacer. La amenaza del cambio climatico nos puede cambiar la vida.Reseñas: Por fin una explicacion clara sobre una de las cuestiones mas importantes y polemicas de la actualidad. Jared DiamondEste es el libro que el mundo ha estado esperando -y necesitando- durante decadas. Por fin un libro que presenta, para el publico general, la prueba irrefutable de que el cambio climatico ya se esta produciendo, y la necesidad de ser muy serios con este tema... rapidamente. Peter SingerTodo aquel que lea La amenaza del cambio climatico podra apreciar la fragilidad de nuestro clima y comprender que es esta la generacion que debe actuar para protegerla. Tony Blair

In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.Taking us on an extraordinary journey into the past and around the globe, from coral reefs to the North Pole, deserts to rainforests, Tim Flannerys A Warning from the Golden Toad tells the story of the earths climate, and how we have changed it.Over the past 75 years, a new canon has emerged. As life on Earth has become irrevocably altered by humans, visionary thinkers around the world have raised their voices to defend the planet, and affirm our place at the heart of its restoration. Their words have endured through the decades, becoming the classics of a movement. Together, these books show the richness of environmental thought, and point the way to a fairer, saner, greener world.

Throwim Way Leg is a book of wonder and excitement, struggle and sadness, a love letter to Papua New Guinea and Irian Jaya. In New Guinea Pidgin, Tim Flannery explains, throwim way leg means to go on a journey. It describes the action of thrusting out your leg to take the first step of what can be a long march... Here he invites us to share in his breathtaking adventures, as he meets skilled hunters and befriends a shaman, climbs mountains never before scaled by Europeans, discovers new species and, deep in the jungle, stumbles across the giant bones of extinct marsupials. He also writes movingly about the fate of indigenous people when their intricate cultures collide with mining companies and the high-tech modern world.This book combines an irresistible author with an irresistible subject: Tim Flannery, a great zoologist and writer about science, relating his explorations of New Guinea, a vivid tropical universe Jared DiamondAn enthralling introduction to the mountain people of New Guinea - unimaginably remote, charming, cunning, cruel, subtle and appealing - and to their magnificent landNew York Times Book ReviewTim Flannery is an internationally acclaimed writer, scientist and explorer. As a field zoologist he has discovered and named more than thirty new species of mammals, including two tree-kangaroos. His books include Country and the award-winning international bestsellers The Future Eaters,The Eternal Frontier and The Weather Makers. He has also edited and introduced many historical works, including The Birth of Sydney, The Diaries of William Buckley and The Explorers.

A timely intervention on climate change from the internationally acclaimed scientist and author of the hugely influential The Weather Makers.How close is the great climate crisis? Can our desire to overcome it drive humanitys next great waves of positive technological economic and social revolution? or will we be plunged into the dystopian collapses and terrors of civilisations past?This book describes in plain terms our climate predicament and brings news of exciting tools in the making that could help us avoid a climatic disaster. In December 2015 the nations of the world will gather in Paris to try to forge a climate treaty designed to give us a fighting chance to limit global warming to 2C, widely regarded as the safe upper limit if we are to avoid catastrophe. If we succeed at Paris, forging a new era of international political cooperation in the fight against a warming planet, it is possible that the next decade will astonish us in the solutions that we discover to safeguard our planet for our grandchildren and their grandchildren.Think Indiana Jones crossed with Charles DarwinFinancial TimesA wonderful writer, an original scientist, and a gifted populariser Martin Woollacott, GuardianIf youre not already addicted to Tim Flannerys writing, discover him now Jared Diamond

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 worlds 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.