Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet
10 best books like Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet (Bill McKibben): This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate, Losing Earth: A Recent History, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming, Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change, The Mismeasure of Man, Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things, Trail of Tears: The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation, The Radicalism of the American Revolution, Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came Into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
| Author | Naomi Klein |
| ISBN | 1451697384 |
Forget everything you think you know about global warming. It's not about carbon – it's about capitalism. The good news is that we can seize this crisis to transform our failed economic system and build something radically better.
In her most provocative book yet, Naomi Klein, author of...
Losing Earth: A Recent History
| Author | Nathaniel Rich |
| ISBN | 0374191336 |
By 1979, we knew nearly everything we understand today about climate change--including how to stop it. Over the next decade, a handful of scientists, politicians, and strategists, led by two unlikely heroes, risked their careers in a desperate, escalating campaign to convince the world to act before...
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
| Author | Jared Diamond |
| ISBN | 0143036556 |
Brilliant, illuminating, and immensely absorbing, Collapse is destined to take its place as one of the essential books of our time, raising the urgent question: How can our world best avoid committing ecological suicide?
In his million-copy bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond...
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
| Author | David Wallace-Wells |
| ISBN | 0525576703 |
It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible. In California, wildfires now rage year-round, destroying thousands of homes. Across the US, "500-year" storms...
Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change
| Author | Elizabeth Kolbert |
| ISBN | 1596911301 |
Long known for her insightful and thought-provoking political journalism, author Elizabeth Kolbert now tackles the controversial and increasingly urgent subject of global warming. In what began as groundbreaking three-part series in the New Yorker, for which she won a National Magazine Award...
| Author | Stephen Jay Gould |
| ISBN | 0393314251 |
The definitive refutation to the argument of The Bell Curve.
How smart are you? If that question doesn't spark a dozen more questions in your mind (like "What do you mean by 'smart,'" "How do I measure it" and "Who's asking?"), then The Mismeasure of Man, Stephen Jay Gould's masterful demolition...
| Author | William McDonough |
| ISBN | 0865475873 |
"Reduce, reuse, recycle," urge environmentalists; in other words, do more with less in order to minimize damage. But as architect William McDonough and chemist Michael Braungart point out in this provocative, visionary book, such an approach only perpetuates the one-way, "cradle to grave" manufacturing...
Trail of Tears: The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation
| Author | John Ehle |
| ISBN | 0385239548 |
One of the many ironies of U.S. government policy toward Indians in the early 1800s is that it persisted in removing to the West those who had most successfully adapted to European values. As whites encroached on Cherokee land, many Native leaders responded by educating their children, learning English,...
| Author | Gordon S. Wood |
| ISBN | 0679736883 |
In a grand and immemsely readable synthesis of historical, political, cultural, and economic analysis, a prize-winning historian describes the events that made the American Revolution. Gordon S. Wood depicts a revolution that was about much more than a break from England, rather it transformed...
| Author | Paul Hawken |
| ISBN | 0670038520 |
One of the world’s most influential environmentalists reveals a worldwide grassroots movement of hope and humanity
Blessed Unrest tells the story of a worldwide movement that is largely unseen by politicians or the media. Hawken, an environmentalist and author, has spent more than a...
The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin
| Author | Gordon S. Wood |
| ISBN | 0143035282 |
From the most respected chronicler of the early days of the Republic and winner of both the Pulitzer and Bancroft prizes comes a landmark work that rescues Benjamin Franklin from a mythology that has blinded generations of Americans to the man he really was and makes sense of aspects of his life and career...
| Author | James Howard Kunstler |
| ISBN | 0802142494 |
Kunstler is like that super-intelligent, yet vitriolic friend whose opinions you totally jibe with but find yourself apologizing to others after he's totally ripped them a new one at the cocktail party you hosted last saturday night.
Yeah, he's kind of bitter. But then again, he's so right....
| Author | Paul Roberts |
| ISBN | 0618562117 |
Petroleum is now so deeply entrenched in our economy, our politics, and our personal expectations that even modest efforts to phase it out are fought tooth and nail by the most powerful forces in the world: companies and governments that depend on oil revenues; the developing nations that see oil as...
The epic life and times of one of the most important political figures in our history.
He was the Great Compromiser, a canny and colorful legislator and leader whose life mirrors the story of America from its founding until the eve of the Civil War. Speaker of the House, senator, secretary...
