Release date: 17 Oct 2023 Accompanying an 8-part Netflix series from Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment and George Lucas’s Industrial Light and Magic, a new ‘Walking with Dinosaurs’ that offers a stunning re-examination of prehistoric life on Planet Earth. Today there are 20 million species on our planet. Yet what we see is just a snapshot […]
This is our world, as you’ve never seen it before. The Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal is enclosed within its own unique sensory bubble, perceiving only a tiny sliver of this world. In An Immense World, Ed Yong coaxes us beyond the confines […]
A paleontological tour de force on the super-predator of the prehistoric marine world, the great shark megalodon. 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 […]
‘Dark Emu injects a profound authenticity into the conversation about how we Australians understand our continent…(It is) essential reading for anyone who wants to understand what Australia once was, or what it might yet be if we heed the lessons of long and sophisticated human occupation.’ — Judges for 2016 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards Dark Emu puts […]
What can we learn about the Roman empire from an amphora made in 200 BC? How can a simple, unadorned cup made in 1945 tell us so much about history? And what will an artwork comprising a vast collection of clay spheres tell our descendants about the act of making? Once fired, clay has the […]
For millennia, reciprocal relationships with plants have provided both sustenance to Indigenous communities and many of the materials needed to produce a complex array of technologies. Managed through fire and selective harvesting and replanting, the longevity and intricacy of these partnerships are testament to the ingenuity and depth of Indigenous first knowledges. Plants: Past, Present and […]
