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The Consequences of Climate Change, from the Amazon to the Arctic, from Darfur to Napa Valley
by Stephan Faris
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by Eric Holthaus
Published Jun 2020
Read ReviewsThe first hopeful book about climate change, The Future Earth shows readers how to reverse the short- and long-term effects of climate change over the next three decades.
by Jeff Goodell
Published Aug 2018
Read ReviewsAn eye-opening and essential tour of the vanishing world.
by Simon Winchester
Published Oct 2016
Read ReviewsPacific is a paean to this magnificent sea of beauty, myth, and imagination that is transforming our lives.
by Philip E. Tetlock
Published Sep 2016
Read ReviewsEveryone would benefit from seeing further into the future, whether buying stocks, crafting policy, launching a new product, or simply planning the week's meals. Unfortunately, people tend to be terrible forecasters.
by Barbara Kingsolver
Published Jun 2013
Read ReviewsFlight Behavior takes on one of the most contentious subjects of our time: climate change. With a deft and versatile empathy Kingsolver dissects the motives that drive denial and belief in a precarious world.
by P.D. Smith
Published Jun 2012
Read ReviewsWith erudite prose and carefully chosen illustrations, this unique work of metatourism explores what cities are and how they work. It covers history, customs and language, districts, transport, money, work, shops and markets, and tourist sites, creating a fantastically detailed portrait of the city through history and into the future.
by Susan Casey
Published May 2011
Read ReviewsFrom Susan Casey, bestselling author of The Devils Teeth, an astonishing book about colossal, ship-swallowing rogue waves and the surfers who seek them out.
by Peter Singer
Published Sep 2010
Read ReviewsFor the first time in history, it is now within our reach to eradicate world poverty and the suffering it brings. The people of the developed world face a profound choice: If we are not to turn our backs on a fifth of the worlds population, we must become part of the solution.
by Charles Clover
Published Mar 2008
Read Reviews"Here is the worlds fishing industry laid bare, gutted and filleted for all to see: the greed, the folly, the waste and destruction. You will never look at a fish supper in the same way again." - The Economist.
by Mayer Hillman
Published Apr 2007
Read ReviewsAn outstanding overview on global warming--and what we can do about it--from a distinguished world-class authority.
by Marla Cone
Published Apr 2006
Read ReviewsWhether hunting giant bowhead whales with native Alaskans who are struggling to protect their livelihood, or tracking endangered polar bears in Norway, Cone reports with an insider's eye on the dangers of pollution to native peoples and ecosystems, how Arctic cultures are adapting to this pollution, and what solutions will prevent the crisis ...
by Tim Flannery
Published Mar 2006
Read ReviewsThe 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 history of climate change, Tim Flannery offers specific suggestions for action for both lawmakers and individuals.
We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families
by Philip Gourevitch
Published Mar 2000
Read ReviewsIn 1994 the Rwandan government implemented a policy that called on everyone in the Hutu majority to murder everyone in the Tutsi minority: 800,000 people were massacred. Read their story.
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