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The Life and Death of Planet Earth: How the New Science of Astrobiology Charts the Ultimate Fate of Our World

6 best books like The Life and Death of Planet Earth: How the New Science of Astrobiology Charts the Ultimate Fate of Our World (Peter D. Ward): The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster, Eggshell Skull: A Memoir About Standing Up, Speaking Out and Fighting Back, Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change, The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning: How to Free Yourself and your Family from a Lifetime of Clutter, Immoderate Greatness: Why Civilizations Fail, The Hangman

The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster
AuthorSarah Krasnostein
ISBN1250101204
Husband, father, drag queen, sex worker, wife. Sarah Krasnostein's The Trauma Cleaner is a love letter to an extraordinary ordinary life. In Sandra Pankhurst she discovered a woman capable of taking a lifetime of hostility and transphobic abuse and using it to care for some of society's most in-need...
Eggshell Skull: A Memoir About Standing Up, Speaking Out and Fighting Back
AuthorBri Lee
ISBN1760295779
'Scorching, self-scouring: a young woman finds her steel and learns to wield it' - Helen Garner

EGGSHELL SKULL: A well-established legal doctrine that a defendant must 'take their victim as they find them'. If a single punch kills someone because of their thin skull, that victim's weakness...
Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change
AuthorWilliam R. Catton Jr.
ISBN0252009886
I've been reading books on “the Problem of Civilization” for several years now. I'm constantly seeking to refine my conceptualization of the way humans interact with each other and their environment. Contrary to what one reviewer says (that most of Catton's book is “common knowledge for any...
The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning: How to Free Yourself and your Family from a Lifetime of Clutter
AuthorMargareta Magnusson
ISBN1501173243
A charming, practical, and unsentimental approach to putting a home in order while reflecting on the tiny joys that make up a long life.

In Sweden there is a kind of decluttering called döstädning, dö meaning “death” and städning meaning “cleaning.” This surprising and invigorating...
Immoderate Greatness: Why Civilizations Fail
AuthorWilliam Ophuls
Immoderate Greatness explains how a civilization’s very magnitude conspires against it to cause downfall. Civilizations are hard-wired for self-destruction. They travel an arc from initial success to terminal decay and ultimate collapse due to intrinsic, inescapable biophysical limits...
The Hangman
AuthorLouise Penny
ISBN1926583248
On a cold November morning, a jogger runs through the woods in the peaceful Quebec village of Three Pines. On his run, he finds a dead man hanging from a tree. The dead man was a guest at the local Inn and Spa. He might have been looking for peace and quiet, but something else found him. Something horrible....
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