We're Doomed. Now What?: Essays on War and Climate Change
By: Roy Scranton
3.36
Format: 357 pages, Kindle Edition
The time we've been thrown into is one of alarming and bewildering change--the breakup of the post-…
Want to Read $ 9.99"Yet when the trauma-hero myth is taken as representing the ultimate truth of more than a decade of global aggression, we allow the psychological suffering endured by those we sent to kill for us displace and erase the innocents killed in our name."-Roy Scranton, We're Doomed. Now What?: Essays on War and Climate Change
"Yet when the trauma-hero myth is taken as representing the ultimate truth of more than a decade of global aggression, we allow the psychological suffering endured by those we sent to kill for us displace and erase the innocents killed in our name."-Roy Scranton, We're Doomed. Now What?: Essays on War and Climate Change
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1. The Girl With No Name: The Incredible True Story of a Child Raised by Monkeys
By: Lynne Barrett-Lee , Marina Chapman
3.96
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The poignant story of a girl who overcomes unique hardship and deprivation - growing up with a troo… read more
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2. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
By: Jared Diamond
3.93
Format: 608 pages, Paperback
Brilliant, illuminating, and immensely absorbing, Collapse is destined to take its place as one of … read more
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"...neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency."-Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
"History as well as life itself is complicated -- neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency."-Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
"[T]he values to which people cling most stubbornly under inappropriate conditions are those values that were previously the source of their greatest triumphs."-Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
"The Anasazi did manage to construct in stone the largest and tallest buildings erected in North America until the Chicago steel girder skyscrapers of the 1880s."-Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
3. Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water
By: Marc Reisner
4.53
Format: 122 pages, Paperback
The story of the American West is the story of a relentless quest for a precious resource: water. I… read more
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4. The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics
By: Alastair Smith , Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
4.03
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
For eighteen years, Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith have been part of a team revolutioni… read more
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- philosophy
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5. Fables and Reflections (The Sandman #6)
By: Neil Gaiman , John Watkiss , Bryan Talbot , Kent Williams , P. Craig Russell , Stan Woch , Jill Thompson , Shawn McManus , Duncan Eagleson , Todd Klein
4.80
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Fables & Reflections (1993) is the sixth collection of issues in the DC Comics series, The Sandman.… read more
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6. Brief Lives (The Sandman #7)
By: Neil Gaiman , Peter Straub , Jill Thompson , Vince Locke
3.64
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Dream's youngest sister, the loopy Delirium, convinces him to go on a quest for their missing broth… read more
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7. Worlds' End (The Sandman #8)
By: Stephen King , Neil Gaiman , John Watkiss , Mike Allred , Bryan Talbot , Michael Zulli , Mark Buckingham , Vince Locke , Steve Leialoha , Todd Klein , Gary Amaro , Tony Harris , None , Alec Stevens , None
3.64
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A "reality storm" draws an unusual cast of characters together. They take shelter in a tavern, wher… read more
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8. A Game of You (The Sandman #5)
By: Neil Gaiman , Bryan Talbot , Colleen Doran , Stan Woch , Dick Giordano , Shawn McManus , Todd Klein , George Pratt
3.64
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Take an apartment house, mix in a drag queen, a lesbian couple, some talking animals, a talking sev… read more
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9. The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
By: Elizabeth Kolbert
4.12
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Over the last half-billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life… read more
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10. The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
By: Carl Sagan , Ann Druyan
4.29
Format: 459 pages, Paperback
How can we make intelligent decisions about our increasingly technology-driven lives if we don’t un… read more
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- audiobook
"Gullibility kills."-Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
"Occasionally, I get a letter from someone who is in “contact"-Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
"Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality."-Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
"Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you're in love, you want to tell the world."-Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
11. Rules of Prey (Lucas Davenport, #1)
By: John Sandford
3.22
Format: 402 pages,
The "maddog" murderer who is terrorizing the Twin Cities is two things: insane and extremely intell… read more
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12. The Sellout
By: Paul Beatty
4.17
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The Sellout is the first book by an American author to win the UK's prestigious Man Booker Prize. A… read more
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13. The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
By: Amitav Ghosh
4.05
Format: 196 pages, Hardcover
Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well… read more
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- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- essays
- climate change
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- science
"[T]he great, irreplaceable potentiality of fiction is that it makes possible the imagining of possibilities."-Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
"[C]apitalist trade and industry cannot thrive without access to military and political power. State interventions have always been critical to its advancement."-Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
"Where it concerns human beings, it is almost always true that the more anxiously we look for purity the more likely we are to come upon admixture and interbreeding."-Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
"As an instrument of empowerment oil has been spectacularly effective in removing the levers of power from the reach of the populace. "No matter how many people take to the streets in massive marches,…"-Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
14. The King in Yellow
By: Robert W. Chambers
3.55
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
One of the leading examples of Victorian-gothic horror, The King in Yellow is a collection of ten i… read more
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"Selby never knew why, but he suddenly began to buy flowers."-Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow
"Strange in the night where black stars rise, And strange moons circle through the skies But Stranger still is Lost Carcosa."-Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow
"I pray God will curse the writer, as the writer has cursed the world with this beautiful, stupendous creation, terrible in its simplicity, irresistible in its truth..."-Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow
"No, he is not vicious, nor is he in the least demented. His mind is a wonder chamber, from which he can extract treasures that you and I would give years of our life to acquire."-Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow
15. The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
By: Michael Pollan
3.66
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Today, buffeted by one food fad after another, America is suffering from what can only be described… read more
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16. A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons
By: Robert M. Sapolsky
4.14
Format: None pages, Paperback
In the tradition of Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey, Robert Sapolsky, a foremost science writer and re… read more
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17. American War
By: Omar El Akkad
3.62
Format: 280 pages, Kindle Edition
An audacious and powerful debut novel: a second American Civil War, a devastating plague, and one f… read more
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18. First, We Make the Beast Beautiful: A New Story About Anxiety
By: Sarah Wilson
3.76
Format: None pages, Hardcover
This journey is what I do now. I bump along, in fits and starts, on a perpetual path to finding bet… read more
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19. Shah of Shahs
By: Ryszard Kapuściński , None , None
3.90
Format: None pages, Paperback
In Shah of ShahsKapuscinski brings a mythographer's perspective and a novelist's virtuosity to bear… read more
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20. The Color of Magic (Discworld, #1; Rincewind #1)
By: Terry Pratchett
3.26
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
Terry Pratchett's profoundly irreverent, bestselling novels have garnered him a revered position in… read more
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21. Prodigal Summer
By: Barbara Kingsolver
4.00
Format: 302 pages, Paperback
Prodigal Summerweaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives inhabi… read more
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22. The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
By: Margaret Renkl
4.37
Format: 270 pages, Hardcover
From the beloved New York Times opinion writer and bestselling author of Late Migrations comes a “h… read more
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- nonfiction
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- audiobook
23. Vesper Flights
By: Helen Macdonald
4.10
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Animals don't exist in order to teach us things, but that is what they have always done, and most … read more
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- essays
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"There's a special phenomenology to walking in woods in winter."-Helen Macdonald, Vesper Flights
"We call them murmurations, but the Danish term, sort sol , is better: black sun."-Helen Macdonald, Vesper Flights
"For even if we don't believe in miracles, they are there, and they are waiting for us to find them."-Helen Macdonald, Vesper Flights
"(P)ulling at your heart on purpose is a compulsion as particular and disconcerting as pressing on a healing bruise."-Helen Macdonald, Vesper Flights
24. Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock
By: Jenny Odell
3.61
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
In her first book, How to Do Nothing, Jenny Odell wrote about the importance of disconnecting from … read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
"Most living entities and systems on this planet obviously do not live by the Western human clock (though some, like the crows who memorize a city's daily garbage truck route, do of course adapt to th…"-Jenny Odell, Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock
25. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
By: David Graeber
4.20
Format: 692 pages, Hardcover
A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions abo… read more
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- science
"Humans - from this other perspective, which is just as extreme in its own way - are at best an arbitrary constellation of cultural elements, perhaps assembled according to some prevailing spirit, cod…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"One might ask, how could that most basic element of all human freedoms, the freedom to make promises and commitments and thus build relationships, be turned into its very opposite: into peonage, serf…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"There is an obvious objection to evolutionary models which assume that our strongest social ties are based on close biological kinship: many humans just don’t like their families very much. And this …"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"In the Middle Ages, most people in other parts of the world who actually knew anything about northern Europe at all considered it an obscure and uninviting backwater full of religious fanatics who, a…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
26. The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
By: David Wallace-Wells
4.01
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears… read more
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- climate change
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"A state of half-ignorance and half-indifference is a much more pervasive climate sickness than true denial or true fatalism."-David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
"The last time the earth was four degrees warmer, as Peter Brannen has written, there was no ice at either pole and sea level was 260 feet higher."-David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
"The world has, at most, about three decades to completely decarbonize before truly devastating climate horrors begin. You can't halfway your way to a solution to a crisis this large."-David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
"Especially those who have imbibed several centuries of Western triumphalism tend to see the story of human civilization as an inevitable conquest of the earth, rather than the saga of an insecure cul…"-David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
27. The Ministry for the Future
By: Kim Stanley Robinson
3.88
Format: 563 pages, Hardcover
Established in 2025, the purpose of the new organization was simple: To advocate for the world's fu… read more
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- politics
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"What's the monetary value of human civilization? Trying to answer that question proves you are a moral and practical idiot."-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
"Of course there is always resistance, always a drag on movement toward better things. The dead hand of the past clutches us by way of living people who are too frightened to accept change."-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
"It was so hard to imagine that a mind could be gone. All those thoughts that you never tell anyone, all those dreams, all that entire pocket universe: gone. A character unlike any other character, a …"-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
"Ideology, n. An imaginary relationship to a real situation. In common usage, what the other person has, especially when systematically distorting the facts. But it seems to us that an ideology is a n…"-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
28. Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World
By: John Vaillant
4.35
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A stunning account of a colossal wildfire that collided with a city and a panoramic exploration of … read more
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- history
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- climate change
- environment
- science
29. Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails
By: Yanis Varoufakis
4.13
Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition
In Talking to My Daughter About the Economy, activist Yanis Varoufakis, Greece’s former finance min… read more
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- politics
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- audiobook
"The Matrix is a reflection of our times, or at least our anxieties. It reveals our fear of a mechanization so complete, of a commodification of our bodies and enslavement of our minds so successful, …"-Yanis Varoufakis, Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails
"...a cynical person is someone who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing. Our societies tend to make us all cynics. And no one is more cynical than the economist who sees exchange va…"-Yanis Varoufakis, Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails
"Bürokrasi, Ordu ve Ruhban Sınıfı Borç, para, inanç ve devlet el ele yürür. Borç olmadan tarımsal fazlalığı yönetmenin kolay yolu yoktur. Borcun ortaya çıkışıyla paranın yıldızı parlamaya başladı. Anc…"-Yanis Varoufakis, Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails
"Like any ecosystem, a modern economy cannot survive without recycling. Just as animals and plants are continually recycling the oxygen and carbon dioxide that the other provides, so too must workers …"-Yanis Varoufakis, Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails
30. How to Blow Up a Pipeline
By: Andreas Malm
3.96
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The science on climate change has been clear for a very long time now. Yet despite decades of appea… read more
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- history
- politics
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- nonfiction
- climate change
- environment
- science
"The context for hope is radical uncertainty; anything could happen, and whether we act or not has everything to do with it."-Andreas Malm, How to Blow Up a Pipeline
"I once asked Bill McKibben, after an energising speech to a capacity crowd, when – given that the situation is as urgent as he portrayed it and we all know it is – we escalate. He was visibly ill at …"-Andreas Malm, How to Blow Up a Pipeline
31. We're Doomed. Now What?: Essays on War and Climate Change
By: Roy Scranton
3.36
Format: 357 pages, Kindle Edition
The time we've been thrown into is one of alarming and bewildering change--the breakup of the post-… read more
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- history
- politics
- war
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- essays
- climate change
- environment
- science
"Yet when the trauma-hero myth is taken as representing the ultimate truth of more than a decade of global aggression, we allow the psychological suffering endured by those we sent to kill for us disp…"-Roy Scranton, We're Doomed. Now What?: Essays on War and Climate Change
