6 Best climate change books like The Pyrocene: How We Created an Age of Fire, and What Happens Next by Stephen J. Pyne

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The Pyrocene: How We Created an Age of Fire, and What Happens Next

By: Stephen J. Pyne

3.80

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

A provocative rethinking of how humans and fire have evolved together over time—and our responsibil…

If you liked the climate change plot in The Pyrocene: How We Created an Age of Fire, and What Happens Next by Stephen J. Pyne , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. Fragments

By: James Hillman , Heraclitus , Brooks Haxton

4.18

Format: 97 pages, Paperback

Fragments of wisdom from the ancient world In the sixth century b.c.—twenty-five hundred years b… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"All is flux"

-James Hillman, Fragments

"Character is destiny"

-James Hillman, Fragments

"I went in search of myself."

-James Hillman, Fragments

"Man's character is his fate."

-James Hillman, Fragments

2. The World Without Us

By: Alan Weisman

4.09

Format: 296 pages,

A penetrating, page-turning tour of a post-human Earth In The World Without Us, Alan Weisman offers… read more

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  • ecology
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
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3. The Unknown Soldier

By: Väinö Linna

3.83

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

The Unknown Soldieris a story about the Continuation War between Finland and Soviet Union, told fro… read more

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4. Desert Solitaire

By: Edward Abbey

4.00

Format: None pages,

When Desert Solitairewas first published in 1968, it became the focus of a nationwide cult. Rude an… read more

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5. The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking

By: Oliver Burkeman

3.94

Format: 450 pages, ebook

A witty, fascinating, and counterintuitive read that turns decades of self-help advice on its head … read more

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6. Quest for Fire

By: J.-H. Rosny aîné

3.96

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

80,000 years ago, during the Ice Age in Paleolithic Europe, after a savage atack by a rival tribe, … read more

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7. Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

By: Merlin Sheldrake

4.35

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

There is a lifeform so strange and wondrous that it forces us to rethink how life works…Neither pla… read more

Similar categories in Merlin Sheldrake's Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures book and Stephen J. Pyne's The Pyrocene: How We Created an Age of Fire, and What Happens Next

  • nature
  • ecology
  • history
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
"I have tried to find ways to enjoy the ambiguities that fungi present, but it's not always easy to be comfortable in the space created by open questions. Agoraphobia can set in. It's tempting to hide…"

-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

"Anthropomorphism is usually thought of as an illusion that arises like a blister in soft human minds: untrained, undisciplined, unhardened. There are good reasons for this: when we humanise the world…"

-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

"Fungi make worlds. They also unmake them. There are lots of ways to catch them in the act. When you cook mushroom soup, or just eat it. When you go out gathering mushrooms, or buy them. When you ferm…"

-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

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8. How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them

By: Barbara F. Walter

4.25

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Civil wars are the biggest danger to world peace today - this book shows us why they happen, and ho… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"For a society to fracture along identity lines, you need mouthpieces - people who are willing to make discriminatory appeals and pursue discriminatory policies in the name of a particular group. They…"

-Barbara F. Walter, How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them

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9. The End of Drum-Time

By: Hanna Pylväinen

3.94

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

An epic love story in the vein of Cold Mountain and The Great Circle, about a young reindeer herder… read more

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10. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

By: Naomi Klein

4.22

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

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11. Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

By: Cal Flyn

4.20

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

Investigative journalist Cal Flyn's ISLANDS OF ABANDONMENT, an exploration of the world's most deso… read more

Similar categories in Cal Flyn's Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape book and Stephen J. Pyne's The Pyrocene: How We Created an Age of Fire, and What Happens Next

  • nature
  • ecology
  • history
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • environment
  • science
"But the unplanned nature preserves that have formed up in the buffer zones have come to serve as a focus for bilateral cooperation after hostilities are over."

-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

"Further back, cooling ponds strewn with rusted pipes were busy with teals and moorhens. An old concrete streetlight stood incongruously in the woods beyond: some ravaged Narnia. Jays catcalled overhe…"

-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

"This is a corrupted world, yes - one long fallen from a state of grace - but it is a world too that knows how to live. It has a great capacity for repair, for recovery, for forgiveness - of a sort - …"

-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

"And so for a hundred years a forest grew up across the land, tall and dark and impenetrable, whose undergrowth curled and snarled into a thicket of bramble and black thorn. This was a forbidden fores…"

-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

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12. We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America

By: Roxanna Asgarian

4.32

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The shocking, deeply reported story of a murder-suicide that claimed the lives of six children—and … read more

Similar categories in Roxanna Asgarian's We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America book and Stephen J. Pyne's The Pyrocene: How We Created an Age of Fire, and What Happens Next

  • nonfiction
  • history
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13. Blue Skies

By: T.C. Boyle

3.81

Format: 367 pages, Hardcover

From best-selling novelist T. C. Boyle, a satirical yet ultimately moving send-up of contemporary A… read more

Similar categories in T.C. Boyle's Blue Skies book and Stephen J. Pyne's The Pyrocene: How We Created an Age of Fire, and What Happens Next

  • climate change
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14. World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments

By: Aimee Nezhukumatathil

4.06

Format: 165 pages, Hardcover

From beloved, award-winning poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil comes a debut work of nonfiction--a collecti… read more

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  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
"It is this way with wonder: it takes a bit of patience, and it takes putting yourself in the right place at the right time. It requires that we be curious enough to forgo our small distractions in or…"

-Aimee Nezhukumatathil, World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments

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15. 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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  • nature
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • environment
  • science
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16. 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

Similar categories in Andreas Malm's How to Blow Up a Pipeline book and Stephen J. Pyne's The Pyrocene: How We Created an Age of Fire, and What Happens Next

  • ecology
  • history
  • 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

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17. A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith

By: Timothy Egan

4.12

Format: 367 pages, Hardcover

Moved by his mother's death and his Irish Catholic family's complicated history with the church, Ti… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"Start by doing what is necessary, then do what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible."

-Timothy Egan, A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith

"I don't expect a miracle cure, but I have found that wishing for one is the most humbling form of prayer."

-Timothy Egan, A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith

"Poverty is the ultimate freedom. You can't rob someone who has no possessions. You can't insult a person without pride."

-Timothy Egan, A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith

"The audacity. Not only was she (Joan of Arc) a peasant girl, unschooled and clueless in the ways of power, class and the military strategy, weaponry, the mechanics of a siege, but was determined to g…"

-Timothy Egan, A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith

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18. In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife

By: Sebastian Junger

3.92

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A near-fatal health emergency leads to this powerful reflection on death—and what might follow—by t… read more

Similar categories in Sebastian Junger's In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife book and Stephen J. Pyne's The Pyrocene: How We Created an Age of Fire, and What Happens Next

  • nonfiction
  • science
"Everyone has a relationship with death whether they want one or not; refusing to think about death is its own kind of relationship. When we hear about another person's death, we are hearing a version…"

-Sebastian Junger, In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife

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19. Paradise: One Town's Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire

By: Lizzie Johnson

4.34

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The definitive firsthand account of California's Camp Fire--the nation's deadliest wildfire in a ce… read more

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  • nature
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • environment
  • science
"Then, on a blustery evening in October 2017, the worst wildfires in modern state history ignited. They ripped across Northern California, pushed by the Diablo Winds. The infernos killed 44 people and…"

-Lizzie Johnson, Paradise: One Town's Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire

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20. The Rise of Wolf 8: Witnessing the Triumph of Yellowstone’s Underdog

By: Rick McIntyre

4.23

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Yellowstone National Park was once home to an abundance of wild wolves—but park rangers killed the … read more

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  • history
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
Cover of The Pyrocene: How We Created an Age of Fire, and What Happens Next by Stephen J. Pyne

21. The Pyrocene: How We Created an Age of Fire, and What Happens Next

By: Stephen J. Pyne

3.80

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

A provocative rethinking of how humans and fire have evolved together over time—and our responsibil… read more

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  • nature
  • science
  • ecology
  • history
  • world history
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • environment
  • anthropology

13 Best history books like The Pyrocene: How We Created an Age of Fire, and What Happens Next by Stephen J. Pyne

Transform Your Habits

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James Hillman , Heraclitus , Brooks Haxton

4.18

The World Without Us

Alan Weisman

4.09

Transform Your Habits

Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

Merlin Sheldrake

4.35

Transform Your Habits

How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them

Barbara F. Walter

4.25

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The Circular Staircase

Mary Roberts Rinehart

3.79

Transform Your Habits

An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s

Doris Kearns Goodwin

4.71

Transform Your Habits

The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

Erik Larson

4.24

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