Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
Diamond draws from a wide breadth of knowledge to answer big questions about human history over the past 13,000 years.
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Category: Deep Dives
The Secret Life of Groceries by Benjamin Lorr
Lorr explains the dark miracle of the supermarket and sheds light on what it really takes to bring a product to grocery shelves nationwide.
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We are the Weather by Jonathan Safran Foer
Personal and deeply compelling, We Are The Weather challenges that the climate crisis is one of belief. If we believe, we can then act.
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The Golden Thread by Kassia St. Clair
The Golden Thread offers a fascinating journey through the evolution of textiles and their profound influence on human civilization.
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Worn: A People’s History of Clothing by Sofi Thanhauser
Worn shares how five materials (linen, cotton, silk, synthetics, and wool) and the clothes we wear shape and reflect human history.
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Fashionopolis by Dana Thomas
Fashionopolis is an eye-opening tour of fast fashion: its history, its human price, and the dirty truth of its effects on our environment.
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The Human Tide by Paul Morland
Morland shows through demography (the study of population) how periods of rapid population transition shaped the course of world history.
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The Human Planet by George Steinmetz
Steinmetz’s aerial photos capture our natural places, harvesting of the biosphere, our dwellings, and other human changes to our planet.
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Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash by Edward Humes
Garbology details how the American lifestyle creates mountains of trash, explains what happens to it, and explores solutions to reduce waste.
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A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage
Take a hydrating tour of humanity and discover the innovative ways humans quenched their thirst in A History of the World in 6 Glasses.
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Our Fragile Moment by Michael Mann
An enlightening read that explains how Earth’s natural, millenia-long cycles and planetary conditions became optimal to support life.
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Drawdown by Paul Hawken
This book proposes solutions to reverse global warming and reduce the amount of carbon in the atmosphere. We can build a climate-safe world!
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