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- The power of crisis: how three threats--and our response--will change the worldGet This Now!
"Renowned political scientist Ian Bremmer draws lessons from global challenges of the past 100 years--including the pandemic--to show how we can respond to three great crises…more
- Termination shock: a novelGet This Now!
"One man--visionary billionaire restaurant-chain magnate T.R. Schmidt, Ph.D.--has a Big Idea for reversing global warming, a master plan perhaps best described as "elemental."…more
- For the good of the world: is global agreement on global challenges possible?Get This Now!
"The three biggest challenges facing the world today, in A. C. Grayling's view, are climate change, technology and justice. In his timely new book, he asks: can human beings a…more
- Global environmental politics: the transformative role of emerging economiesGet This Now!
"Emerging economies have fundamentally transformed global environmental politics. Led by China and India, they increasingly make or break international negotiations, which now…more
- Hummingbird salamanderGet This Now!
"The security consultant "Jane Smith" receives an envelope with a key to a storage unit that holds a taxidermied hummingbird and clues leading her to a taxidermied salamander.…more
- Saving us: a climate scientist's case for hope and healing in a divided worldGet This Now!
"Called "one of the nation's most effective communicators on climate change" by The New York Times, Katharine Hayhoe knows how to navigate all sides of the conversation on our…more
- Mobilizing hope: climate change and global povertyGet This Now!
"A climate crisis and other pressures on planetary ecology are causing profound anxieties. Climate change threatens to trap hundreds of millions of people in dire poverty and…more
- The wandering earthGet This Now!
"From New York Times bestselling author Cixin Liu, The Wandering Earth is a science fiction short story collection featuring the title tale--the basis for the blockbuster inte…more
- The making of the modern Philippines: pieces of a jigsaw stateGet This Now!
"With a fractured geography and complex identity, The Philippines is an eclectic and unique mix of culture, environment, people and politics. Known mostly for natural disaster…more
- Fight like hell: the untold history of American laborGet This Now!
"Freed Black women organizing for protection in the Reconstruction-era South. Jewish immigrant garment workers braving deadly conditions for a sliver of independence. Asian Am…more
- Choice words: writers on abortionGet This Now!
"With reproductive freedom under unprecedented attack, Choice Words, edited by poet Annie Finch, takes back the cultural conversation on abortion. A landmark literary antholog…more
- Black ghost of empire: the long death of slavery and the failure of emancipationGet This Now!
"The 1619 Project illuminated the ways in which every aspect of life in the United States was and is shaped by the existence of slavery. Black Ghost of Empire focuses on emanc…more