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Only a Little While Here: A Novel by María Ospina Pizano
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThis prizewinning debut novel weaves together four meticulously observed animal odysseys in a poignant meditation on migration, displacement, and the inextricability of the human and the natural worlds.In Only a Little While Here, an award-winning author evokes a sensation birders and naturalists know well—the deep gratification that comes through close, compassionate observation of fauna... -
![A Fire So Wild by Sarah Ruiz Grossman]()
A Fire So Wild by Sarah Ruiz Grossman
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWith the emotional echoes of Little Fires Everywhere and the lush atmosphere of Disappearing Earth , a riveting debut novel in which a wildfire creeps toward Berkeley, California, igniting tensions as characters from all walks of life confront the injustices lying beneath the city’s surface...Categorized as:
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![A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future by David Attenborough]()
A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future by David Attenborough
Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsSee the world. Then make it better.I am David Attenborough. At time of writing, I am 93 years old. I've had an extraordinary life. It's only now that I appreciate how extraordinary. As a young man, I felt I was out there in the wild, experiencing the untouched natural world - but it was an illusion...Categorized as:
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![The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee]()
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 42 ratingsIn The Emperor of All Maladies, Siddhartha Mukherjee, doctor, researcher and award-winning science writer, examines cancer with a cellular biologist’s precision, a historian’s perspective, and a biographer’s passion. The result is an astonishingly lucid and eloquent chronicle of a disease humans have lived with – and perished from – for more than five thousand years...Categorized as:
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![Wilding by Isabella Tree]()
Wilding by Isabella Tree
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsForced to accept that intensive farming on the heavy clay of their land at Knepp in West Sussex was economically unsustainable, Isabella Tree and her husband Charlie Burrell made a spectacular leap of faith: they decided to step back and let nature take over... -
![Like Eating a Stone: Surviving the Past in Bosnia by Wojciech Tochman]()
Like Eating a Stone: Surviving the Past in Bosnia by Wojciech Tochman
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsDuring four years of war in Bosnia, over 100,000 people lost their lives. But it was months, even years, before the mass graves started to yield up their dead and the process of identification, burial, and mourning could begin... -
![Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air by David J.C. MacKay]()
Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air by David J.C. MacKay
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAddressing the sustainable energy crisis in an objective manner, this enlightening book analyzes the relevant numbers and organizes a plan for change on both a personal level and an international scale—for Europe, the United States, and the world...Categorized as:
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![The Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Dan Egan]()
The Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Dan Egan
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA master reporter’s landmark work of contemporary ecology.The Great Lakes hold 20 percent of the world’s freshwater, and they provide food, work, and weekend fun for tens of millions of Americans. Yet they are under threat as never before...Categorized as:
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![Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design by Charles Montgomery]()
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design by Charles Montgomery
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsCharles Montgomery’s Happy City will revolutionize the way we think about urban life.After decades of unchecked sprawl, more people than ever are moving back to the city. Dense urban living has been prescribed as a panacea for the environmental and resource crises of our time...Categorized as:
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![Defectors: The Rise of the Latino Far Right and What It Means for America by Paola Ramos]()
Defectors: The Rise of the Latino Far Right and What It Means for America by Paola Ramos
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAn award-winning journalist's deeply reported exploration of how race, identity and political trauma have influenced the rise in far-right sentiment among Latinos, and how this group can shape American politicsDemocrats have historically assumed they can rely on the Latino vote, but recent elections have called that loyalty into question...Categorized as:
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![The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter by Joseph Henrich, Jonathan Yen]()
The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter by Joseph Henrich, Jonathan Yen
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsHumans are a puzzling species. On the one hand, we struggle to survive on our own in the wild, often failing to overcome even basic challenges, like obtaining food, building shelters, or avoiding predators...Categorized as:
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![How to Stand Up to a Dictator by Maria Ressa]()
How to Stand Up to a Dictator by Maria Ressa
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA global publishing moment, with rights sold in 15 territories: USA (HarperCollins), Catalan, Dutch, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Spanish, Swedish...Categorized as:
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![The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World by Max Fisher]()
The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World by Max Fisher
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom a New York Times investigative reporter and Pulitzer Prize finalist, “an essential book for our times” (Ezra Klein), tracking the high-stakes inside story of how Big Tech’s breakneck race to drive engagement—and profits—at all costs fractured the worldWe all have a vague sense that social media is bad for our minds, for our children, and for our democracies...Categorized as:
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![Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein]()
Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsWhat if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you and yet not you at all? What if that double shared many of your preoccupations but, in a twisted, upside-down way, furthered the very causes you’d devoted your life to fighting against?Not long ago, the celebrated activist and public intellectual Naomi Klein had just such an experience―she was...Categorized as:
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![Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs by Michael T. Osterholm, Mark Olshaker]()
Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs by Michael T. Osterholm, Mark Olshaker
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA leading epidemiologist shares his "powerful and necessary" stories from the front lines of our war on infectious diseases and explains how to prepare for global epidemics (Richard Preston, author of The Hot Zone )... -
![All the Kremlin's Men: Inside the Court of Vladimir Putin by Mikhail Zygar, Michał Zygar]()
All the Kremlin's Men: Inside the Court of Vladimir Putin by Mikhail Zygar, Michał Zygar
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsCharting the transformation of Vladimir Putin from a passionate fan of the West and a liberal reformer into a hurt and introverted outcast, All the Kremlin’s Men is a historical detective story, full of intrigue and conspiracy...Categorized as:
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![The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet by Jeff Goodell]()
The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet by Jeff Goodell
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe world is waking up to a new wildfires are now seasonal in California, the Northeast is getting less and less snow each winter, and the ice sheets in the Arctic and Antarctica are melting fast. Heat is the first order threat that drives all other impacts of the climate crisis... -
![Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall by Zeke Faux]()
Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall by Zeke Faux
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn 2021 cryptocurrency went mainstream. Giant investment funds were buying it; celebrities like Tom Brady endorsed it; and TV ads hailed it as the future of money... -
![The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan]()
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 42 ratingsIn this groundbreaking book, one of America's most fascinating writers turns his mind to this seemingly straightforward question. The question has confronted us since man discovered fire, but, according to Pollan, how we answer it today may well determine our very survival as a species...Categorized as:
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![The John McPhee Reader by John McPhee]()
The John McPhee Reader by John McPhee
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe John McPhee Reader, first published in 1976, is comprised of selections from the author's first twelve books. In 1965, John McPhee published his first book, A Sense of Where You Are; a decade later, he had published eleven others... -
![The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration by Jake Bittle]()
The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration by Jake Bittle
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratings“The Great Displacement is closely observed, compassionate, and far-sighted.” —Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Under a White Sky The untold story of climate migration in the United States—the personal stories of those experiencing displacement, the portraits of communities being torn apart by disaster, and the implications for all of us as we confront a changing future...Categorized as:
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![La llamada: Un retrato by Leila Guerriero]()
La llamada: Un retrato by Leila Guerriero
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsEsta es una historia real, llena de aristas y sombras, sobre la condición humana.A fines de los sesenta, con trece años, la argentina Silvia Labayru era una adolescente tímida, lectora, amante de los animales, entusiasta de John F. Kennedy, hija de una familia de militares que incluía a su padre, miembro de la Fuerza Aérea y piloto civil... -
![The Bang-Bang Club: Snapshots from a Hidden War by Greg Marinovich, João Silva]()
The Bang-Bang Club: Snapshots from a Hidden War by Greg Marinovich, João Silva
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsMost people, upon hearing gunfire, would run away and hide. Conflict photojournalists have the opposite reaction: they actually look for trouble, and when they find it, get as close as possible and stand up to get the best shot... -
![There's A War Going On But No One Can See It by Huib Modderkolk]()
There's A War Going On But No One Can See It by Huib Modderkolk
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsSummer 2017: computer screens go blank in 150 countries. The NHS is so affected that hospitals can only take in patients for the casualty department. Ambulances are grounded. MRI scanners and blood refrigeration systems stop functioning. Computer screens turn on spontaneously and the words “Oops, your important files are encrypted” appear... -
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![On Time and Water by Andri Snær Magnason]()
On Time and Water by Andri Snær Magnason
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn the next hundred years, the nature of water on Earth will undergo a fundamental change. Glaciers will melt, the level of the sea will rise, and its acidity will change more than it has in the past 50 million years. These changes will affect all life on earth, everyone that we know, and everyone that we love...Categorized as:
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![How They Broke Britain by James O'Brien]()
How They Broke Britain by James O'Brien
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsBold and incisive as ever, James O'Brien examines a broken Britain of strikes, shortages and scandals and reveals who is really at fault for where we are today... -
![Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist by Kate Raworth]()
Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist by Kate Raworth
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsEconomics is broken. It has failed to predict, let alone prevent, financial crises that have shaken the foundations of our societies. Its outdated theories have permitted a world in which extreme poverty persists while the wealth of the super-rich grows year on year. And its blind spots have led to policies that are degrading the living world on a scale that threatens all of our futures... -
![The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization by Peter Zeihan]()
The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization by Peter Zeihan
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 20 ratings2019 was the last great year for the world economy.For generations, everything has been getting faster, better, and cheaper. Finally, we reached the point that almost anything you could ever want could be sent to your home within days - even hours - of when you decided you wanted it.America made that happen, but now America has lost interest in keeping it going... -
![The Falling Sky: Words of a Yanomami Shaman by Davi Kopenawa, Bruce Albert]()
The Falling Sky: Words of a Yanomami Shaman by Davi Kopenawa, Bruce Albert
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Falling Sky is a remarkable first-person account of the life story and cosmo-ecological thought of Davi Kopenawa, shaman and spokesman for the Yanomami of the Brazilian Amazon... -
![Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt by Michael Lewis]()
Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt by Michael Lewis
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 37 ratings#1 New York Times Bestseller — With a new AfterwordIn Michael Lewis's game-changing bestseller, a small group of Wall Street iconoclasts realize that the U.S. stock market has been rigged for the benefit of insiders. They band together—some of them walking away from seven-figure salaries—to investigate, expose, and reform the insidious new ways that Wall Street generates profits...
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