8 must-read sustainability books like A Bright Future: How Some Countries Have Solved Climate Change and the Rest Can Follow by Joshua S. Goldstein

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A Bright Future: How Some Countries Have Solved Climate Change and the Rest Can Follow

By: Joshua S. Goldstein

4.16

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The first book to offer a proven, fast, inexpensive, and practical way to cut greenhouse gas emissi…

If you liked the sustainability plot in A Bright Future: How Some Countries Have Solved Climate Change and the Rest Can Follow by Joshua S. Goldstein , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. The Charisma Myth: How Anyone Can Master the Art and Science of Personal Magnetism

By: Olivia Fox Cabane

3.92

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

What if charisma could be taught? For the first time, science and technology have taken charisma ap… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • business
"Human beings remember "firsts"- the first time something happens, or the begining of an experience- and we tend to remember "lasts" as well. So when you are about to make a critical/negative delivery…"

-Olivia Fox Cabane, The Charisma Myth: How Anyone Can Master the Art and Science of Personal Magnetism

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2. Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt

By: Michael Lewis

3.50

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

#1 New York TimesBestseller -- With a new Afterword In Michael Lewis's game-changing bestseller, a … read more

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  • economics
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • technology

3. Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions

By: Dan Ariely

3.00

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

Why do our headaches persist after taking a one-cent aspirin but disappear when we take a 50-cent a… read more

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4. The Wheat Field

By: Steve Thayer

3.80

Format: 281 pages, Hardcover

New York Times-bestselling author Steve Thayer introduces Deputy Pennington of the Kickapoo Falls, … read more

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5. All about Asset Allocation

By: Richard A. Ferri

1.33

Format: 397 pages, ebook

WHEN IT COMES TO INVESTING FOR YOUR FUTURE, THERE'S ONLY ONE SURE BET--ASSET ALLOCATION THE EASY WA… read more

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6. Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

By: Tim Marshall

4.20

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In the bestselling tradition of Why Nations Fail and The Revenge of Geography, an award-winning jou… read more

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  • politics
  • economics
  • nonfiction
  • science
"All great nations spend peacetime preparing for the day war breaks out."

-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

"India and Pakistan can agree on one thing: neither wants the other one around."

-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

"What is now the EU was set up so that France and Germany could hug each other so tightly in a loving embrace that neither would be able to get an arm free with which to punch the other."

-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

"THE MIDDLE OF WHAT? EAST OF WHERE? THE REGION’S VERY name is based on a European view of the world, and it is a European view of the region that shaped it. The Europeans used ink to draw lines on map…"

-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

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7. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook

By: Hampton Sides

4.51

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage … read more

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  • nonfiction
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8. 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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  • politics
  • sustainability
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • environment
  • science
"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

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9. The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization: The Collapse of Globalization and Its Aftermath

By: Peter Zeihan

4.18

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

2019 was the last great year for the world economy. For generations, everything has been getting… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
  • science
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10. Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail

By: Ray Dalio

4.28

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

From legendary investor Ray Dalio, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Principles, who has s… read more

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  • politics
  • economics
  • nonfiction
  • business
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11. The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations

By: Daniel Yergin

4.20

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

A Wall Street Journal besteller and a USA Today Best Book of 2020 Named Energy Writer of the Yea… read more

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  • politics
  • sustainability
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • economics
  • environment
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  • science
"У 1976 в газеті "Вечірній Ленінград" з'явилася стаття про досі невідомого дзюдоїста, що переміг у змаганнях і здобув звання чемпіона. "Люди ще почують про нього в майбутньому", передбачало видання. Т…"

-Daniel Yergin, The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations

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12. The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America

By: Coleman Hughes

4.46

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An exciting new voice makes the case for a colorblind approach to politics and culture, warning tha… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
"Neoracists believe that we must indoctrinate children to cure them of racism. I say that children are racially innocent by nature, and we should protect that racial innocence for as long as possible."

-Coleman Hughes, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America

"The majority of effort channeled toward achieving racial equity hasn't been applied to the part of life that has the biggest influence on people's skills and mindsets: namely birth to eighteen years …"

-Coleman Hughes, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America

"By [college], many skills, attitudes, and habits have already been formed. We can have a much bigger impact on people at younger ages. Efforts to achieve true equity should focus instead on high-qual…"

-Coleman Hughes, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America

"The common humanity and anti-racism of the civil rights movement had strong ties to Christianity. And Christianity promoted the value of interracial harmony: unity in Christ. But the appeal of Christ…"

-Coleman Hughes, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America

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13. Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future

By: Elizabeth Kolbert

4.10

Format: 234 pages, Hardcover

The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sixth Extinction returns to humanity’s transformative impa… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • environment
  • science
"I was struck, and not for the first time, by how much easier it is to ruin an ecosystem than to run one."

-Elizabeth Kolbert, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future

"If control is the problem, then, by the logic of the Anthropocene, still more control must be the solution."

-Elizabeth Kolbert, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future

"He’s a burly man with sparse white hair and a white beard who looks like Santa might look if Santa, in the off-season, carried a tackle box."

-Elizabeth Kolbert, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future

"Here I was, trying to finish a book about the world spinning out of control, only to find the world spinning so far out of control that I couldn't finish the book."

-Elizabeth Kolbert, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future

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14. Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point

By: Steven Levitsky

4.43

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A call to reform our antiquated political institutions before it’s too late—from the New York Times… read more

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  • politics
  • economics
  • nonfiction
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15. Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism

By: Scott Horton

4.64

Format: 332 pages, Kindle Edition

Enough Time to End the War on Terrorism is a masterly history of these chaotic, tragic and above a… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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16. Energy: A Human History

By: Richard Rhodes

3.75

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author Richard Rhodes reveals the fascinating histo… read more

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  • politics
  • sustainability
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  • technology
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17. The Wizard and the Prophet

By: Charles C. Mann

4.23

Format: 640 pages, Audio CD

From the best-selling, award-winning author of 1491 and 1493--an incisive portrait of the two littl… read more

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18. Electrify: An Optimist's Playbook for Our Clean Energy Future

By: Saul Griffith

4.16

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

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

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  • politics
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  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • economics
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19. Our Fragile Moment: How Lessons from Earth's Past Can Help Us Survive the Climate Crisis

By: Michael E. Mann

4.22

Format: 392 pages, Kindle Edition

In this sweeping work of science and history, the renowned climate scientist and author of The New … read more

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  • climate change
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20. Superpower: One Man's Quest to Transform American Energy

By: Russell Gold

4.26

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In the ever more urgent quest for sources of renewable energy, meet the man boldly harnessing the n… read more

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  • sustainability
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • economics
  • environment
  • business
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21. A Bright Future: How Some Countries Have Solved Climate Change and the Rest Can Follow

By: Joshua S. Goldstein

4.16

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The first book to offer a proven, fast, inexpensive, and practical way to cut greenhouse gas emissi… read more

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