7 Best science books like The Big Switch: Australia’s Electric Future by Saul Griffith

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The Big Switch: Australia’s Electric Future

By: Saul Griffith

4.47

Format: 241 pages, Kindle Edition

An optimistic – but realistic and feasible – action plan for fighting climate change while creating…

If you liked the science plot in The Big Switch: Australia’s Electric Future by Saul Griffith , here is a list of 7 books like this:

1. Dark Emu

By: Bruce Pascoe

3.36

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Dark Emu puts forward an argument for a reconsideration of the hunter-gatherer tag for precolonial … read more

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2. Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic

By: Simon Winchester

3.84

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

From the creation of the first encyclopedia to Wikipedia, from ancient museums to modern kindergart… read more

Similar categories in Simon Winchester's Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic book and Saul Griffith's The Big Switch: Australia’s Electric Future

  • nonfiction
  • science
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3. Consent Laid Bare: Sex, Entitlement & the Distortion of Desire

By: Chanel Contos

4.56

Format: 271 pages, Kindle Edition

The game-changing book about sex and consent that every woman - and man - should read In 2021, Chan… read more

Similar categories in Chanel Contos's Consent Laid Bare: Sex, Entitlement & the Distortion of Desire book and Saul Griffith's The Big Switch: Australia’s Electric Future

  • politics
  • nonfiction
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4. Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life

By: Anna Funder

4.13

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

This is the story of the marriage behind some of the most famous literary works of the 20th century… read more

Similar categories in Anna Funder's Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life book and Saul Griffith's The Big Switch: Australia’s Electric Future

  • nonfiction
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5. Bite Back: Feminism, Media, Politics, and Our Power to Change It All

By: Hannah Ferguson

4.29

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The Founder of Cheek Media Co. delivers the conversations we've been missing on everything from die… read more

Similar categories in Hannah Ferguson's Bite Back: Feminism, Media, Politics, and Our Power to Change It All book and Saul Griffith's The Big Switch: Australia’s Electric Future

  • politics
  • nonfiction
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6. Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet

By: Hannah Ritchie

4.29

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

‘Truly essential’ MARGARET ATWOOD Feeling anxious, powerless or confused about the future of our p… read more

Similar categories in Hannah Ritchie's Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet book and Saul Griffith's The Big Switch: Australia’s Electric Future

  • politics
  • sustainability
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • economics
  • environment
  • science
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7. Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray

By: Anita Heiss

4.17

Format: 416 pages, ebook

Gundagai, 1852The powerful Murrumbidgee River surges through town leaving death and destruction in … read more

Similar categories in Anita Heiss's Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray book and Saul Griffith's The Big Switch: Australia’s Electric Future

"Using Wiradjuri language on the cover of my novel makes a strong statement … regarding the reclamation and maintenance of the traditional language of my family."

-Anita Heiss, Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray

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8. Bulldozed: Scott Morrison’s Fall and Anthony Albanese’s Rise

By: Niki Savva

4.21

Format: 320 pages, ebook

‘I don’t hold a hose, mate.’ Scott Morrison, 20 December 2019, on the Black Summer bushfires ‘It’s… read more

Similar categories in Niki Savva's Bulldozed: Scott Morrison’s Fall and Anthony Albanese’s Rise book and Saul Griffith's The Big Switch: Australia’s Electric Future

  • politics
  • nonfiction
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9. The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World

By: Simon Winchester

4.14

Format: 416 pages, ebook

The revered New York Times bestselling author traces the development of technology from the Industr… read more

Similar categories in Simon Winchester's The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World book and Saul Griffith's The Big Switch: Australia’s Electric Future

  • science
  • nonfiction
  • technology
"From a book talk in Palo Alto for "The Perfectionists"; He pulled out his new iphone and told us that its Apple-designed chipset has 8 billion[!] transistors, and that someone at Intel told him that …"

-Simon Winchester, The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World

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10. Not Now, Not Ever: Ten years on from the misogyny speech

By: Julia Gillard

4.28

Format: 260 pages, Kindle Edition

Then it was done. After staying silent, I’d had my say. At no time did I feel worked up or hotly an… read more

Similar categories in Julia Gillard's Not Now, Not Ever: Ten years on from the misogyny speech book and Saul Griffith's The Big Switch: Australia’s Electric Future

  • politics
  • nonfiction
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11. The Voice to Parliament Handbook: All the Detail You Need

By: Thomas Mayo

4.52

Format: 104 pages, Kindle Edition

The Voice to Parliament Handbook is an easy-to-follow guide for the millions of Australians who hav… read more

Similar categories in Thomas Mayo's The Voice to Parliament Handbook: All the Detail You Need book and Saul Griffith's The Big Switch: Australia’s Electric Future

  • politics
  • nonfiction
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12. Superpower: Australia's Low-Carbon Opportunity

By: Ross Garnaut

4.06

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

The fog of Australian politics on climate change has obscured a fateful reality: Australia has the … read more

Similar categories in Ross Garnaut's Superpower: Australia's Low-Carbon Opportunity book and Saul Griffith's The Big Switch: Australia’s Electric Future

  • politics
  • sustainability
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • economics
  • environment
  • science
"There is a chasm between a world that quickly breaks the link between modern economic growth and carbon emissions, and a world that fails to do so. The side of the chasm we are now on is a dangerous …"

-Ross Garnaut, Superpower: Australia's Low-Carbon Opportunity

Cover of The Great Divide: Australia's Housing Mess and How to Fix It (Quarterly Essay #92) by Alan Kohler

13. The Great Divide: Australia's Housing Mess and How to Fix It (Quarterly Essay #92)

By: Alan Kohler

4.31

Format: 161 pages, Kindle Edition

What caused Australia's housing crisis -- and how we might fix it One of the great mysteries of Au… read more

Similar categories in Alan Kohler's The Great Divide: Australia's Housing Mess and How to Fix It (Quarterly Essay #92) book and Saul Griffith's The Big Switch: Australia’s Electric Future

  • politics
  • economics
  • nonfiction
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14. Lone Wolf: Albanese and the New Politics (Quarterly Essay #88)

By: Katharine Murphy

4.02

Format: 194 pages, Kindle Edition

A prime minister in the making, and a nation on the move. In Lone Wolf, Katharine Murphy offers a n… read more

Similar categories in Katharine Murphy's Lone Wolf: Albanese and the New Politics (Quarterly Essay #88) book and Saul Griffith's The Big Switch: Australia’s Electric Future

  • politics
  • nonfiction
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15. Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility

By: Rebecca Solnit

3.98

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

An energizing case for hope about the climate comes from Rebecca Solnit, called the voice of the re… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Solnit's Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility book and Saul Griffith's The Big Switch: Australia’s Electric Future

  • politics
  • sustainability
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • environment
  • science
"To hope is to accept despair as an emotion but not as an analysis. To recognize that what is unlikely is possible, just as what is likely is not inevitable. To understand that difficult is not the sa…"

-Rebecca Solnit, Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility

"What gives me hope is that human history is full of examples of people across the ages who have risen to face the great challenges of their time and have succeeded. Victory is not the arrival in some…"

-Rebecca Solnit, Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility

"These are among the many foundation stones of this new world we have built, and the work continues. I know all this seemed impossible a decade ago, when it felt as if everything was falling apart and…"

-Rebecca Solnit, Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility

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16. The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet

By: Michael E. Mann

3.95

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A renowned climate scientist shows how fossil fuel companies have waged a thirty-year campaign to d… read more

Similar categories in Michael E. Mann's The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet book and Saul Griffith's The Big Switch: Australia’s Electric Future

  • politics
  • sustainability
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • economics
  • environment
  • science
Cover of The Big Switch: Australia’s Electric Future by Saul Griffith

17. The Big Switch: Australia’s Electric Future

By: Saul Griffith

4.47

Format: 241 pages, Kindle Edition

An optimistic – but realistic and feasible – action plan for fighting climate change while creating… read more

Similar categories in Saul Griffith's The Big Switch: Australia’s Electric Future book and Saul Griffith's The Big Switch: Australia’s Electric Future

  • science
  • politics
  • sustainability
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • economics
  • environment
  • technology
Cover of Highway to Hell: Climate Change and Australia's Future by Joëlle Gergis

18. Highway to Hell: Climate Change and Australia's Future

By: Joëlle Gergis

4.40

Format: 122 pages, Kindle Edition

What will the climate crisis mean for Australia? What is the price of our inertia?Australia is in p… read more

Similar categories in Joëlle Gergis's Highway to Hell: Climate Change and Australia's Future book and Saul Griffith's The Big Switch: Australia’s Electric Future

  • climate change
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • environment
Cover of The Superpower Transformation: Building Australia's Zero-Carbon Future by Ross Garnaut

19. The Superpower Transformation: Building Australia's Zero-Carbon Future

By: Ross Garnaut

3.94

Format: 386 pages, Kindle Edition

In his bestselling Superpower, renowned economist Ross Garnaut showed that Australia – rich in reso… read more

Similar categories in Ross Garnaut's The Superpower Transformation: Building Australia's Zero-Carbon Future book and Saul Griffith's The Big Switch: Australia’s Electric Future

  • climate change
  • nonfiction
Cover of My Efficient Electric Home Handbook: How to slash your energy bills, protect your health & save the planet by Tim Forcey

20. My Efficient Electric Home Handbook: How to slash your energy bills, protect your health & save the planet

By: Tim Forcey

4.42

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Everything you need to know to transform your home – old, new or rented – for an efficient, comfort… read more

Similar categories in Tim Forcey's My Efficient Electric Home Handbook: How to slash your energy bills, protect your health & save the planet book and Saul Griffith's The Big Switch: Australia’s Electric Future

  • nonfiction

13 Best politics books like The Big Switch: Australia’s Electric Future by Saul Griffith

Transform Your Habits

Consent Laid Bare: Sex, Entitlement & the Distortion of Desire

Chanel Contos

4.56

Transform Your Habits

Bite Back: Feminism, Media, Politics, and Our Power to Change It All

Hannah Ferguson

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet

Hannah Ritchie

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Bulldozed: Scott Morrison’s Fall and Anthony Albanese’s Rise

Niki Savva

4.21

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Transform Your Habits

Consent Laid Bare: Sex, Entitlement & the Distortion of Desire

Chanel Contos

4.56

Transform Your Habits

Lola in the Mirror

Trent Dalton

4.41

Transform Your Habits

Prima Facie

Suzie Miller

4.37

Transform Your Habits

Bite Back: Feminism, Media, Politics, and Our Power to Change It All

Hannah Ferguson

4.29

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