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The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here

Hope Jahren · Vintage
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback

"Hope Jahren is the voice that science has been waiting for." - Nature

"A superb account of the deadly struggle between humanity and what may prove the only life-bearing planet within ten light years, written in a brilliantly sardonic and conversational style."...
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Salmon: A Fish, the Earth, and the History of a Common Fate

Mark Kurlansky · Patagonia
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

In what he says is the most important piece of environmental writing in his long and award-winning career, Mark Kurlansky, best-selling author of Salt and Cod, The Big Oyster, 1968, and Milk, among many others, employs his signature multi-century storytelling...

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The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis

Christiana Figueres · Knopf
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

In this cautionary but optimistic book, Figueres and Rivett-Carnac--the architects of the 2015 Paris Climate Change Agreement--tackle arguably the most urgent and consequential challenge humankind has ever faced: the world's changing climate and the fate of humanity.

In The Future...
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Food Fix: How to Save Our Health, Our Economy, Our Communities, and Our Planet--One Bite at a Time

Mark Hyman · Little, Brown Spark
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Help to transform the planet in crisis with this indispensable guide to healthy, ethical, and economically sustainable food from #1 New York Times bestselling author Mark Hyman, MD -- "Read this book if you're ready to change the world" (Tim Ryan, US Representative) .
Food...
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Cosmos Possible Worlds

Ann Druyan · National Geographic
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

This all-new and long-awaited sequel to Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan's international bestseller Cosmos takes readers to worlds only now emerging with the advent of new technologies.Druyan takes readers on an extraordinary journey through the vast and unexplored realms of Earth and space,...
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Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe

· Knopf
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

From the world-renowned physicist, cofounder of the World Science Festival, and best-selling author of The Elegant Universe comes this captivating exploration of deep time and humanity's search for purpose.

Brian Greene takes readers on a breathtaking journey from the big bang...
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