The End of the End of the Earth

DescriptionA sharp and provocative new essay collection from the award-winning author of Freedom and The CorrectionsThe essayist, Jonathan Franzen ...

Contributor(s): Author: Jonathan FranzenA sharp and provocative new essay collection from the award-winning author of Freedom and The CorrectionsIn...

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and GirouxAuthor(s): Jonathan FranzenNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2018Dimensions: 139 x 210 x 14Cover type: Pape...

A sharp and provocative new essay collection from the award-winning author of Freedom and The Corrections

The "exquisitely researched and deeply engrossing" (The New York Times) true survival story of an early polar expedition that went terribly awry--w...

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Publisher: Ebury PublishingAuthor(s): Julian SanctonNumber of pages: 368Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 168 x 232 x 29Cover type: Paperback / sof...

Roger Welsch did what many Americans only dream of doing. While still in his professional prime, the folklorist and humorist quit a tenured profess...

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Publisher: ListLabAuthor(s): Adriano MacconeIllustration(s): 100 b&wNumber of pages: 112Collection: Inspiration GuidePublication date: 2018Dimensio...

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How did decolonization impact on Britain itself? And how did Britain manage its transition from colonial power to postcolonial nation? Sarah Stockw...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Bill McKibbenNumber of pages: 224Collection: Penguin Modern ClassicsPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 130 x ...

On a long stretch of green coast in the South Pacific, hundreds of enormous, impassive stone heads stand guard against the ravages of time, war, an...

"A groundbreaking look at Gaia theory's intersections with neocybernetic systems theory"--Illustrations: 13 B-W Illustrations

Reducere. Written with clarity, tenacity, humor, and warmth, A Hundred Little Pieces on the End of the World attempts to find tolerable ethical positions in ...

Reducere. In this wide-ranging and thoughtful analysis, Dorling and Tomlinson argue that if Britain can reconcile itself to a new beginning, there is the cha...

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Winner of the Kekoo Naoroji Award for Mountain Literature 2019An engrossing story of passion and exploration that traces the end of empire and the ...

Reducere. A controversial hit that sparked debate among businessmen, environmentalists, and bloggers, The Long Emergency by James Howard Kunstler is an eye-o...

DescriptionJairus Victor Grove contends that we live in a world made by war. In Savage Ecology he offers an ecological theory of geopolitics that a...

Jairus Victor Grove offers an ecological theorization of geopolitics in which he contends that contemporary global crises are better understood whe...

The critical situation in which our planet finds itself is no longer in doubt. Some things are already collapsing while others are beginning to do ...

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In The Security Archipelago, Paul Amar provides an alternative historical and theoretical framing of the refashioning of free-market states and the...

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DescriptionIn Morales's newest collection, an imagined zombie apocalypse intertwines with personal narrative. From zombie dating to the sin of popc...

DescriptionAn urgently needed "risk map" of the many dangers that could derail Asia's growth and stability Since Marco Polo, the West has waited fo...

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Reducere. Author of the "Prophets" series, Dr. Bill Hamon brings the same anointed instruction in this new series on apostles Learn about the apostolic age a...