5 must-read climate change books like A Brief History of the Earth's Climate: Everyone's Guide to the Science of Climate Change by Steven Earle

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A Brief History of the Earth's Climate: Everyone's Guide to the Science of Climate Change

By: Steven Earle

4.38

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

What's natural, what's caused by humans, and why climate change is a disaster for all A Brief His…

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1. To Hell and Back: Europe 1914-1949

By: Ian Kershaw

3.98

Format: 574 pages, Hardcover

The Penguin History of Europe series reaches the twentieth century with acclaimed scholar Ian Kersh… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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2. Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism

By: Michael Parenti

4.41

Format: 166 pages, Paperback

Blackshirts & Reds explores some of the big issues of our time: fascism, capitalism, communism, rev… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"Ecology's implications for capitalism are too horrendous for the capitalist to contemplate."

-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism

"Decentralized parochial autonomy is the graveyard of insurgency-which may be one reason why there has never been a successful anarcho-syndicalist revolution."

-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism

"A joke circulating in Russia in 1992 went like this: Q. What did capitalism accomplish in one year that communism could not do in seventy years? A. Make communism look good."

-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism

"...the [pure socialist] critics [of communist countries] seem unable to apply their own leadership genius to producing a successful revolutionary movement in their own country."

-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism

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3. The City & the City

By: China Miéville

3.90

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks to … read more

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"shit, shit, shit."

-China Miéville, The City & the City

"Same weather over here as back home," I said."

-China Miéville, The City & the City

"Is it more childish and foolish to insist that there is a conspiracy or that there is not?"

-China Miéville, The City & the City

"What had touched me sent me not into mindless silence but into a dream arena, where I was quarry."

-China Miéville, The City & the City

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4. Free Will

By: Sam Harris

4.26

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Belief in free will touches nearly everything that human beings value. It is difficult to think abo… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science

5. A Short History of Nearly Everything

By: Bill Bryson

3.42

Format: None pages,

In Bryson's biggest book, he confronts his greatest challenge: to understand--and, if possible, ans… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • science

6. The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman

By: Richard P. Feynman , Freeman Dyson , Jeffrey Robbins

3.64

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

The Pleasure of Finding Things Outis a magnificent treasury of the best short works of Richard P. F… read more

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7. Born to Run

By: Bruce Springsteen

4.00

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In 2009, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band performed at the Super Bowl's halftime show. The e… read more

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8. Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming

By: Andreas Malm

3.95

Format: 253 pages, Paperback

How capitalism first promoted fossil fuels with the rise of steam power The more we know about the … read more

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9. The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic

By: Mike Duncan

4.00

Format: 300 pages, Hardcover

The Roman Republic was one of the most remarkable achievements in the history of civilization. Afte… read more

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10. Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

By: Robert M. Sapolsky

4.25

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
"I’m being diplomatic. Many readers will know of the “replication crisis"

-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

"Obviously, imposing these classifications on determinism, free will, and moral responsibility is wildly simplified. A key simplification is pretending that most people have clean “yes"

-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

"You cannot decide all the sensory stimuli in your environment, your hormone levels this morning, whether something traumatic happened to you in the past, the socioeconomic status of your parents, you…"

-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

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11. A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains

By: Max Solomon Bennett

4.46

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Equal parts Sapiens , Behave, and Superintelligence , but wholly original in scope, A Brief History… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • science
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12. Witch King

By: Martha Wells

3.71

Format: 415 pages, Hardcover

"I didn't know you were a... demon." "You idiot. I'm the demon." Kai's having a long day in Marth… read more

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"Mother bared her fangs. "Stop being overdramatic." Kai would have loved to, if dramatic things would stop happening to him."

-Martha Wells, Witch King

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13. The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us

By: Steve Brusatte

4.38

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

In his acclaimed bestseller The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, American paleontologist Steve Brusa… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • science
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14. A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Pithy Chapters

By: Henry Gee

4.05

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

In the beginning, Earth was an inhospitably alien place―in constant chemical flux, covered with chu… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • science
"For if life on Earth was forged in fire, it was hardened in ice."

-Henry Gee, A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Pithy Chapters

"Therefore, do not despair. The Earth abides, and life is living yet."

-Henry Gee, A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Pithy Chapters

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15. The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma

By: Mustafa Suleyman

3.86

Format: 332 pages, Hardcover

A warning of the unprecedented risks that AI and other fast-developing technologies pose to global … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
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16. The Sinister Booksellers of Bath (Left-Handed Booksellers of London, #2)

By: Garth Nix

4.04

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Return to the enchanting world of The Left-Handed Booksellers of London in this sequel by Garth Nix… read more

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17. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017

By: Rashid Khalidi

4.50

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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18. 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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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • environment
  • 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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19. Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well

By: Amy C. Edmondson

3.95

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A revolutionary guide that will transform your relationship with failure, from the pioneering resea… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will by Kevin J. Mitchell

20. Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will

By: Kevin J. Mitchell

3.89

Format: 342 pages, Kindle Edition

An evolutionary case for the existence of free willScientists are learning more and more about how … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of Human Errors: A Panorama of Our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes by Nathan H. Lents

21. Human Errors: A Panorama of Our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes

By: Nathan H. Lents

3.95

Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition

A biology professor’s illuminating tour of the physical imperfections—from faulty knees to junk DNA… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • science
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22. Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

By: Jason Hickel

4.51

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

The world has finally awoken to the reality of climate breakdown and ecological collapse. Now we mu… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • environment
  • science
"Individuality is an illusion. Life on this planet is an interwoven mesh of relational becoming."

-Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

"We will find ourselves plunging into ecological collapse well before we run into the limits to growth."

-Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

"It is politically easier to rev up GDP and hope some of it trickles down to the poor than it is to distribute existing income more fairly."

-Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

"Atmospheric carbon concentration should not breach 350ppm if the climate is to remain stable (we crossed that boundary in 1990, and hit 415ppm in 2020)."

-Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

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23. Under Alien Skies: A Sightseer's Guide to the Universe

By: Philip Plait

4.27

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A rip-roaring tour of the cosmos with the Bad Astronomer, bringing you up close and personal with t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
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24. Beyond Weird

By: Philip Ball

4.11

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

'This is the book I wish I could have written but am very glad I've read' Jim Al-Khalili ‘I thin… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • science
"Quantum theory had the strangest genesis,"

-Philip Ball, Beyond Weird

"[C]lassical physics is just a special case of quantum physics."

-Philip Ball, Beyond Weird

"Cabe decir que los genios tienen más posibilidades de incurrir en el error que la media."

-Philip Ball, Beyond Weird

"Creer que el genio conlleva estar libre de error es malinterpretar la naturaleza de la creatividad y el entendimiento."

-Philip Ball, Beyond Weird

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25. Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality

By: Venki Ramakrishnan

4.08

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

"Utterly fascinating." —Bill Bryson A groundbreaking exploration of the science of why and how we a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of There Is No Planet B: A Handbook for the Make or Break Years by Mike Berners-Lee

26. There Is No Planet B: A Handbook for the Make or Break Years

By: Mike Berners-Lee

4.06

Format: 302 pages, Paperback

We all know deep down that these are the 'make or break' years for humanity and the planet and that… read more

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  • climate change
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
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27. The Physics of Climate Change

By: Lawrence M. Krauss

4.08

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

The first book to briefly and clearly present the science of climate change in a way that is access… read more

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  • climate change
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
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28. Brainscapes: The Warped, Wondrous Maps Written in Your Brain―And How They Guide You

By: Rebecca Schwarzlose

3.83

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A path-breaking journey into the brain, showing how perception, thought, and action are products of… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
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29. The Biggest Number in the World: A Journey to the Edge of Mathematics

By: David Darling

3.84

Format: 256 pages, ebook

From cells in our bodies to measuring the universe, big numbers are everywhere We all know that num… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari

30. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

By: Yuval Noah Harari

4.11

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discove… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • science
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31. A Brief History of the Earth's Climate: Everyone's Guide to the Science of Climate Change

By: Steven Earle

4.38

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

What's natural, what's caused by humans, and why climate change is a disaster for all A Brief His… read more

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Ian Kershaw

3.98

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Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism

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4.41

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Bill Bryson

3.42

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