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Happy City

от Charles Montgomery • 2012

Sprawl isolates and exhausts. The evidence for repairing cities around human connection and joy.

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🏙️ New Urbanism 🚶 Walkable Cities 🧠 Urban Psychology 🚗 Car Dependency 🌳 Public Space

Happy City

Sprawl isolates and exhausts. The evidence for repairing cities around human connection and joy.

от Charles Montgomery 2012 400 страници

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🏙️ New Urbanism 🚶 Walkable Cities 🧠 Urban Psychology 🚗 Car Dependency 🌳 Public Space

The Future Is Faster Than You Think

от Peter H. Diamandis • 2020

Breakthroughs are converging. The next decade will deliver a century's worth of change.

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🧬 Technology Convergence 🔬 Emerging Technologies 💥 Business Disruption 🚀 Disruptive Innovation 🔮 Future Forecasting

The Future Is Faster Than You Think

Breakthroughs are converging. The next decade will deliver a century's worth of change.

от Peter H. Diamandis 2020 384 страници

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🧬 Technology Convergence 🔬 Emerging Technologies 💥 Business Disruption 🚀 Disruptive Innovation 🔮 Future Forecasting

Marketing 3.0

от Philip Kotler • 2010

Marketing sold products, then won customers. The next era competes for meaning.

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🏷️ Brand Strategy 💝 Values-Driven Marketing 🌍 Conscious Capitalism 🤝 Corporate Social Responsibility 🌱 Social Entrepreneurship

Marketing 3.0

Marketing sold products, then won customers. The next era competes for meaning.

от Philip Kotler 2010 208 страници

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🏷️ Brand Strategy 💝 Values-Driven Marketing 🌍 Conscious Capitalism 🤝 Corporate Social Responsibility 🌱 Social Entrepreneurship

Collapse

от Jared Diamond • 2004

Civilizations don't just run out of resources. They fail to decide.

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🌿 Environmental History 🏚️ Societal Collapse 🌍 Environmental Determinism ⛏️ Resource Depletion 🐑 Tragedy Of The Commons

Collapse

Civilizations don't just run out of resources. They fail to decide.

от Jared Diamond 2004 608 страници

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🌿 Environmental History 🏚️ Societal Collapse 🌍 Environmental Determinism ⛏️ Resource Depletion 🐑 Tragedy Of The Commons

The Fate of Rome

от Kyle Harper • 2017

The Roman Empire wasn't just conquered. It was overwhelmed by climate chaos and pandemic disease.

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🏛️ Ancient Rome 🌿 Environmental History 🌡️ Climate History 🧬 Disease Ecology 😷 Pandemic History

The Fate of Rome

The Roman Empire wasn't just conquered. It was overwhelmed by climate chaos and pandemic disease.

от Kyle Harper 2017 417 страници

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🏛️ Ancient Rome 🌿 Environmental History 🌡️ Climate History 🧬 Disease Ecology 😷 Pandemic History

How the World Really Works

от Vaclav Smil • 2022

Both doomers and utopians skip the same thing: modern civilization's staggering material scale.

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⚡ Energy Systems 🏭 Industrial Ecology 🌾 Global Food Systems 📊 Quantitative Reasoning ⚖️ Risk Perception

How the World Really Works

Both doomers and utopians skip the same thing: modern civilization's staggering material scale.

от Vaclav Smil 2022 336 страници

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⚡ Energy Systems 🏭 Industrial Ecology 🌾 Global Food Systems 📊 Quantitative Reasoning ⚖️ Risk Perception

Not the End of the World

от Hannah Ritchie • 2024

The environmental doom story is wrong. The data is turning, and the fixes are within reach.

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🌍 Environmental Optimism 💡 Climate Solutions 🎯 Effective Environmentalism 🌾 Agricultural Innovation ⚡ Renewable Energy

Not the End of the World

The environmental doom story is wrong. The data is turning, and the fixes are within reach.

от Hannah Ritchie 2024 311 страници

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🌍 Environmental Optimism 💡 Climate Solutions 🎯 Effective Environmentalism 🌾 Agricultural Innovation ⚡ Renewable Energy

When McKinsey Comes to Town

от Walt Bogdanich • 2022

McKinsey is the hidden force behind the opioid crisis, the 2008 crash, and authoritarian regimes.

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🏢 Consulting Industry 🏛️ Corporate Power 🔍 Investigative Journalism 👔 White Collar Crime 🚪 Regulatory Capture

When McKinsey Comes to Town

McKinsey is the hidden force behind the opioid crisis, the 2008 crash, and authoritarian regimes.

от Walt Bogdanich 2022 353 страници

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🏢 Consulting Industry 🏛️ Corporate Power 🔍 Investigative Journalism 👔 White Collar Crime 🚪 Regulatory Capture

Enlightenment Now

от Steven Pinker • 2018

The world is getting better, by the numbers. The credit belongs to ideals we are abandoning.

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📊 Data-Driven Optimism 🌍 Global Development 🕊️ Decline Of Violence 🌱 Environmental Optimism ⚠️ Existential Risk

Enlightenment Now

The world is getting better, by the numbers. The credit belongs to ideals we are abandoning.

от Steven Pinker 2018 576 страници

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📊 Data-Driven Optimism 🌍 Global Development 🕊️ Decline Of Violence 🌱 Environmental Optimism ⚠️ Existential Risk

The Telomere Effect

от Elizabeth Blackburn • 2017

Your cells contain an aging clock. Every meal, sleepless night, and friendship touches it.

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💪 Healthy Aging 🔬 Longevity Science 🩺 Preventive Medicine 😌 Stress Management 🧘 Mind-Body Connection

The Telomere Effect

Your cells contain an aging clock. Every meal, sleepless night, and friendship touches it.

от Elizabeth Blackburn 2017 348 страници

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💪 Healthy Aging 🔬 Longevity Science 🩺 Preventive Medicine 😌 Stress Management 🧘 Mind-Body Connection

Fast Food Nation

от Eric Schlosser • 2001

A burger's hidden cost: exploited labor, factory farms, and meat that sickened half a million.

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🏭 Industrial Food System 🐄 Factory Farming ⚠️ Food Safety 👷 Labor Exploitation 🏢 Corporate Power

Fast Food Nation

A burger's hidden cost: exploited labor, factory farms, and meat that sickened half a million.

от Eric Schlosser 2001 400 страници

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🏭 Industrial Food System 🐄 Factory Farming ⚠️ Food Safety 👷 Labor Exploitation 🏢 Corporate Power

Metabolical

от Robert H. Lustig • 2021

Chronic disease, gut dysfunction, and a warming planet share one driver: processed food.

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🏭 Processed Food 🍬 Sugar Toxicity 🏛️ Food Politics 🧬 Metabolic Health 🦠 Gut Health

Metabolical

Chronic disease, gut dysfunction, and a warming planet share one driver: processed food.

от Robert H. Lustig 2021 416 страници

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🏭 Processed Food 🍬 Sugar Toxicity 🏛️ Food Politics 🧬 Metabolic Health 🦠 Gut Health

The Grid

от Gretchen Bakke • 2016

The clean-energy future depends on a century-old machine that was never designed to handle it.

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🏗️ Infrastructure ⚡ Energy Transition 🌬️ Renewable Integration 🔋 Energy Storage 📜 Energy Policy

The Grid

The clean-energy future depends on a century-old machine that was never designed to handle it.

от Gretchen Bakke 2016 384 страници

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🏗️ Infrastructure ⚡ Energy Transition 🌬️ Renewable Integration 🔋 Energy Storage 📜 Energy Policy

Flight Behavior

от Barbara Kingsolver • 2012

She climbed the mountain to wreck her life and found a sea of monarchs instead.

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🦋 Climate Fiction ⛰️ Appalachian Literature 💍 Trapped In Marriage 📚 Intellectual Awakening 🔬 Science And Religion

Flight Behavior

She climbed the mountain to wreck her life and found a sea of monarchs instead.

от Barbara Kingsolver 2012 436 страници

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🦋 Climate Fiction ⛰️ Appalachian Literature 💍 Trapped In Marriage 📚 Intellectual Awakening 🔬 Science And Religion

The War Below

от Ernest Scheyder • 2024

Green energy requires mining. A sacred mountain, a rare flower, and the tradeoffs we keep ignoring.

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⚒️ Critical Minerals 🔗 Mineral Supply Chains ⛏️ Resource Extraction ⚖️ Green Energy Tradeoffs 🌍 Environmental Justice

The War Below

Green energy requires mining. A sacred mountain, a rare flower, and the tradeoffs we keep ignoring.

от Ernest Scheyder 2024 384 страници

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⚒️ Critical Minerals 🔗 Mineral Supply Chains ⛏️ Resource Extraction ⚖️ Green Energy Tradeoffs 🌍 Environmental Justice

The Jewish-Japanese Sex & Cook Book and How to Raise Wolves

от Jack Douglas • 1972

The title promised sex and cooking. The book delivered wolves, vacuums, and a marriage under siege.

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🎤 Comic Memoir 🐺 Exotic Pets 💍 Marital Comedy 🏡 Suburban Satire 🌿 Nature Ethics

The Jewish-Japanese Sex & Cook Book and How to Raise Wolves

The title promised sex and cooking. The book delivered wolves, vacuums, and a marriage under siege.

от Jack Douglas 1972 256 страници

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🎤 Comic Memoir 🐺 Exotic Pets 💍 Marital Comedy 🏡 Suburban Satire 🌿 Nature Ethics

The Clot Thickens

от Malcolm Kendrick • 2021

Cholesterol doesn't clog arteries. Blood clots do, triggered by stress, sugar, and pollution.

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🫀 Cardiovascular Health 🔍 Cholesterol Skeptics 🧪 Medical Myths 😰 Chronic Stress 🔬 Metabolic Health

The Clot Thickens

Cholesterol doesn't clog arteries. Blood clots do, triggered by stress, sugar, and pollution.

от Malcolm Kendrick 2021 334 страници

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🫀 Cardiovascular Health 🔍 Cholesterol Skeptics 🧪 Medical Myths 😰 Chronic Stress 🔬 Metabolic Health

Blue Mind

от Wallace J. Nichols • 2014

Shoreline calm is not poetic. It is a measurable brain state, triggerable in a bathtub.

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💧 Water Psychology 🌿 Nature And Well-Being 🧠 Attention Restoration 🌊 Flow States 🦎 Biophilia

Blue Mind

Shoreline calm is not poetic. It is a measurable brain state, triggerable in a bathtub.

от Wallace J. Nichols 2014 352 страници

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💧 Water Psychology 🌿 Nature And Well-Being 🧠 Attention Restoration 🌊 Flow States 🦎 Biophilia

1493

от Charles C. Mann • 2011

Potatoes east, mosquitoes west: the biological upheaval set off by 1492 that still runs the world.

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🌿 Environmental History 🦟 Disease And Empire 🌽 Agricultural Revolution 🦠 Ecological Exchange 🧬 Big History

1493

Potatoes east, mosquitoes west: the biological upheaval set off by 1492 that still runs the world.

от Charles C. Mann 2011 836 страници

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🌿 Environmental History 🦟 Disease And Empire 🌽 Agricultural Revolution 🦠 Ecological Exchange 🧬 Big History

Who Really Feeds the World? The Failures of Agribusiness and the Promise of Agroecology

от Vandana Shiva • 2015

Agribusiness didn't end hunger. Small farms, producing 70% of food on 30% of land, feed us.

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🌱 Agroecology ✊ Food Sovereignty 🏭 Industrial Agriculture 🪱 Living Soil 🌾 Seed Sovereignty

Who Really Feeds the World? The Failures of Agribusiness and the Promise of Agroecology

Agribusiness didn't end hunger. Small farms, producing 70% of food on 30% of land, feed us.

от Vandana Shiva 2015 192 страници

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🌱 Agroecology ✊ Food Sovereignty 🏭 Industrial Agriculture 🪱 Living Soil 🌾 Seed Sovereignty

Sustainable & Responsible Investing 360°

от R. Scott Arnell • 2022

ESG was a niche concern. Now top investors treat it as fiduciary duty. Their playbook, distilled.

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📊 Esg Investing 🎯 Impact Investing 💚 Sustainable Finance 🤝 Shareholder Engagement 🔄 Blended Finance

Sustainable & Responsible Investing 360°

ESG was a niche concern. Now top investors treat it as fiduciary duty. Their playbook, distilled.

от R. Scott Arnell 2022 393 страници

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📊 Esg Investing 🎯 Impact Investing 💚 Sustainable Finance 🤝 Shareholder Engagement 🔄 Blended Finance

Dirt to Soil

от Gabe Brown • 2018

After four crop failures, a farmer stopped tilling. His dead soil came alive, and profits followed.

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🌱 Regenerative Agriculture 🪱 Soil Health 🐄 Holistic Grazing 🏞️ Ecosystem Restoration 💰 Farm Profitability

Dirt to Soil

After four crop failures, a farmer stopped tilling. His dead soil came alive, and profits followed.

от Gabe Brown 2018 240 страници

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🌱 Regenerative Agriculture 🪱 Soil Health 🐄 Holistic Grazing 🏞️ Ecosystem Restoration 💰 Farm Profitability

Overdressed

от Elizabeth L. Cline • 2012

A $30 dress, a hidden ledger: poisoned rivers, poverty wages, 650,000 lost jobs.

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🏭 Fast Fashion 🌿 Ethical Fashion 🛒 Consumer Culture 🔗 Supply Chain 👷 Labor Exploitation

Overdressed

A $30 dress, a hidden ledger: poisoned rivers, poverty wages, 650,000 lost jobs.

от Elizabeth L. Cline 2012 244 страници

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🏭 Fast Fashion 🌿 Ethical Fashion 🛒 Consumer Culture 🔗 Supply Chain 👷 Labor Exploitation

The Secret Life of Groceries

от Benjamin Lorr • 2020

Supermarket abundance rests on debt-bonded truckers, enslaved fishermen, and the illusion of choice.

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🛒 Grocery Industry ⛓️ Food Supply Chains ⚒️ Labor Exploitation ⚖️ Supply Chain Ethics 🧠 Consumer Psychology

The Secret Life of Groceries

Supermarket abundance rests on debt-bonded truckers, enslaved fishermen, and the illusion of choice.

от Benjamin Lorr 2020 336 страници

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🛒 Grocery Industry ⛓️ Food Supply Chains ⚒️ Labor Exploitation ⚖️ Supply Chain Ethics 🧠 Consumer Psychology

The Buy Nothing, Get Everything Plan

от Liesl Clark • 2020

A no-shopping plan that saves money, cuts waste, and turns neighbors into your best resource.

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🧩 Anti-Consumerism 🎁 Gift Economies 🤝 Sharing Economy 🪴 Minimalism ♻️ Waste Reduction

The Buy Nothing, Get Everything Plan

A no-shopping plan that saves money, cuts waste, and turns neighbors into your best resource.

от Liesl Clark 2020 288 страници

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🧩 Anti-Consumerism 🎁 Gift Economies 🤝 Sharing Economy 🪴 Minimalism ♻️ Waste Reduction

Seeing Like a State

от James C. Scott • 1998

Why grand state plans fail: the same simplifications that make society governable make it fragile.

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🏛️ Political Theory 🏗️ State Planning 🌱 Local Knowledge 🚧 Development Critique 🌿 Ecological Thinking

Seeing Like a State

Why grand state plans fail: the same simplifications that make society governable make it fragile.

от James C. Scott 1998 464 страници

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🏛️ Political Theory 🏗️ State Planning 🌱 Local Knowledge 🚧 Development Critique 🌿 Ecological Thinking

Nuclear War

от Annie Jacobsen • 2024

North Korea fires a missile. Civilization ends in 72 minutes. Exactly how, protocol by protocol.

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🚀 Nuclear Deterrence 📋 Nuclear Policy 🏃 Arms Race 🌍 Existential Risk 💥 Mutual Assured Destruction

Nuclear War

North Korea fires a missile. Civilization ends in 72 minutes. Exactly how, protocol by protocol.

от Annie Jacobsen 2024 373 страници

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🚀 Nuclear Deterrence 📋 Nuclear Policy 🏃 Arms Race 🌍 Existential Risk 💥 Mutual Assured Destruction

Щедро лято

от Барбара Кингсолвър • 2000

In southern Appalachia, three stubborn loners discover the wild refuses to let anyone live apart.

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🏔️ Southern Appalachia 💕 Age Gap Romance 🖤 Widow Finding Herself 🤝 Unlikely Friendship 🌙 Lush And Meditative

Щедро лято

In southern Appalachia, three stubborn loners discover the wild refuses to let anyone live apart.

от Барбара Кингсолвър 2000 444 страници

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🏔️ Southern Appalachia 💕 Age Gap Romance 🖤 Widow Finding Herself 🤝 Unlikely Friendship 🌙 Lush And Meditative

How Forests Think

от Eduardo Kohn • 2013

Thought lives in forests, jaguars, and signs. Anthropology has never known how to listen.

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🌴 Amazonian Ethnography 🕸️ Multispecies Ethnography 🧬 Biosemiotics 🌍 More-Than-Human ✨ Animism

How Forests Think

Thought lives in forests, jaguars, and signs. Anthropology has never known how to listen.

от Eduardo Kohn 2013 267 страници

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🌴 Amazonian Ethnography 🕸️ Multispecies Ethnography 🧬 Biosemiotics 🌍 More-Than-Human ✨ Animism

Cradle to Cradle

от Michael Braungart • 2002

Waste is a design flaw. The blueprint for a world where everything feeds the next cycle.

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♻️ Circular Economy 🌿 Sustainable Design 🏭 Industrial Ecology 🌱 Regenerative Design 🧬 Biomimicry

Cradle to Cradle

Waste is a design flaw. The blueprint for a world where everything feeds the next cycle.

от Michael Braungart 2002 208 страници

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♻️ Circular Economy 🌿 Sustainable Design 🏭 Industrial Ecology 🌱 Regenerative Design 🧬 Biomimicry

An Immense World

от Ed Yong • 2022

Your world is one sliver of reality. A tour through the sensory universes other animals inhabit.

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🐾 Animal Senses 🔬 Sensory Biology 👁️ Animal Perception 🧪 Popular Science 🦊 Animal Behavior

An Immense World

Your world is one sliver of reality. A tour through the sensory universes other animals inhabit.

от Ed Yong 2022 464 страници

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🐾 Animal Senses 🔬 Sensory Biology 👁️ Animal Perception 🧪 Popular Science 🦊 Animal Behavior

The Empathic Civilization

от Jeremy Rifkin • 2009

Every energy revolution expanded human empathy. Now that same engine threatens to undo us all.

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🏛️ Big History 🫂 Empathy Studies 📈 Moral Progress ⚡ Energy And Civilization 🌍 Ecological Philosophy

The Empathic Civilization

Every energy revolution expanded human empathy. Now that same engine threatens to undo us all.

от Jeremy Rifkin 2009 688 страници

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🏛️ Big History 🫂 Empathy Studies 📈 Moral Progress ⚡ Energy And Civilization 🌍 Ecological Philosophy

The World Without Us

от Alan Weisman • 2007

What happens to every city, every nuclear plant, and every plastic bag the moment humans disappear.

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🕰️ Deep Time 🌿 Rewilding 🧴 Plastic Pollution ☢️ Nuclear Legacy 🏚️ Infrastructure Decay

The World Without Us

What happens to every city, every nuclear plant, and every plastic bag the moment humans disappear.

от Alan Weisman 2007 324 страници

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🕰️ Deep Time 🌿 Rewilding 🧴 Plastic Pollution ☢️ Nuclear Legacy 🏚️ Infrastructure Decay

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

от Jane Jacobs • 1961

Slums with low crime and safe sidewalks: the invisible logic cities follow when planners look away.

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🏙️ Urban Planning 🏚️ Urban Renewal 🚶 Street Life 🌆 New Urbanism 🏘️ Urban Density

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

Slums with low crime and safe sidewalks: the invisible logic cities follow when planners look away.

от Jane Jacobs 1961 472 страници

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🏙️ Urban Planning 🏚️ Urban Renewal 🚶 Street Life 🌆 New Urbanism 🏘️ Urban Density

Palaces for the People

от Eric Klinenberg • 2018

Stronger than seawalls: the shared spaces that hold communities together when everything breaks.

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🏙️ Public Space 🧱 Placemaking 🤝 Social Capital 💪 Community Resilience 📚 Libraries And Community

Palaces for the People

Stronger than seawalls: the shared spaces that hold communities together when everything breaks.

от Eric Klinenberg 2018 288 страници

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🏙️ Public Space 🧱 Placemaking 🤝 Social Capital 💪 Community Resilience 📚 Libraries And Community

The Light Eaters

от Zoë Schlanger • 2024

How plants communicate, remember, and make decisions without a brain, and why it matters.

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🌿 Plant Intelligence 🌱 Plant Communication 👁️ Plant Senses 🤝 Symbiosis ⚖️ Plant Personhood

The Light Eaters

How plants communicate, remember, and make decisions without a brain, and why it matters.

от Zoë Schlanger 2024 304 страници

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🌿 Plant Intelligence 🌱 Plant Communication 👁️ Plant Senses 🤝 Symbiosis ⚖️ Plant Personhood

Who Owns England?

от Guy Shrubsole • 2019

The secret 1% who own half of England: unmasking the aristocrats, royals, and oligarchs.

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🏠 Land Ownership 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 English Land ✊ Land Reform 🔍 Investigative Journalism 💰 Wealth Inequality

Who Owns England?

The secret 1% who own half of England: unmasking the aristocrats, royals, and oligarchs.

от Guy Shrubsole 2019

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🏠 Land Ownership 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 English Land ✊ Land Reform 🔍 Investigative Journalism 💰 Wealth Inequality

Invisible Doctrine

от George Monbiot • 2024

Most people can't name the ideology governing our world. That's exactly how it stays powerful.

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🏛️ Neoliberalism 📊 Political Economy 💰 Rentier Capitalism 📉 Wealth Inequality 🏢 Corporate Power

Invisible Doctrine

Most people can't name the ideology governing our world. That's exactly how it stays powerful.

от George Monbiot 2024 224 страници

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🏛️ Neoliberalism 📊 Political Economy 💰 Rentier Capitalism 📉 Wealth Inequality 🏢 Corporate Power

Slow Down

от Kōhei Saitō • 2020

Capitalism cannot go green. Marx's late notebooks show he understood why, and what must replace it.

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🔻 Degrowth 🌍 Ecological Economics 📕 Marxist Ecology 🔄 Post-Capitalism ✊ Anti-Capitalism

Slow Down

Capitalism cannot go green. Marx's late notebooks show he understood why, and what must replace it.

от Kōhei Saitō 2020 273 страници

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🔻 Degrowth 🌍 Ecological Economics 📕 Marxist Ecology 🔄 Post-Capitalism ✊ Anti-Capitalism

Merchants of Doubt

от Erik M Conway Naomi Oreskes • 2010

Tobacco, acid rain, ozone, climate change: one network fought the science on all of them.

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🧪 Science Denial 🏭 Manufactured Controversy 📰 Disinformation Campaigns 💼 Corporate Malfeasance 🏛️ Regulatory Capture

Merchants of Doubt

Tobacco, acid rain, ozone, climate change: one network fought the science on all of them.

от Erik M Conway Naomi Oreskes 2010 355 страници

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🧪 Science Denial 🏭 Manufactured Controversy 📰 Disinformation Campaigns 💼 Corporate Malfeasance 🏛️ Regulatory Capture

Walden or, Life in the Woods

от Henry David Thoreau • 1854

He built a cabin for $28 and lived there two years to measure what life requires.

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🏛️ Transcendentalism 🌲 Nature Writing 🏡 Simple Living 🧘 Solitude 🎯 Deliberate Living

Walden or, Life in the Woods

He built a cabin for $28 and lived there two years to measure what life requires.

от Henry David Thoreau 1854 352 страници

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🏛️ Transcendentalism 🌲 Nature Writing 🏡 Simple Living 🧘 Solitude 🎯 Deliberate Living

Talking to My Daughter About the Economy

от Yanis Varoufakis • 2013

Capitalism began when grain storage created money and debt. Its crisis is written into that origin.

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🧐 Political Economy 🏛️ History Of Capitalism ⚖️ Market Society Critique 💸 Debt And Money Creation 🤖 Automation And Work

Talking to My Daughter About the Economy

Capitalism began when grain storage created money and debt. Its crisis is written into that origin.

от Yanis Varoufakis 2013 224 страници

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🧐 Political Economy 🏛️ History Of Capitalism ⚖️ Market Society Critique 💸 Debt And Money Creation 🤖 Automation And Work

The Big Con

от Mariana Mazzucato • 2023

Consultancies charge steep fees while offloading risk; governments are their biggest marks.

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💼 Management Consulting 🏛️ Outsourcing Governance ⚖️ Conflicts Of Interest 🏚️ Institutional Decay 💰 Rent-Seeking

The Big Con

Consultancies charge steep fees while offloading risk; governments are their biggest marks.

от Mariana Mazzucato 2023 352 страници

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💼 Management Consulting 🏛️ Outsourcing Governance ⚖️ Conflicts Of Interest 🏚️ Institutional Decay 💰 Rent-Seeking

Ishmael

от Daniel Quinn • 1992

A gorilla places a newspaper ad seeking a pupil to teach the secret of humanity's self-destruction.

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🧠 Philosophical Fiction 🌍 Ecological Parable 🦍 Animal Teacher 📖 Creation Myth Revisited 🏙️ Civilization's Discontents

Ishmael

A gorilla places a newspaper ad seeking a pupil to teach the secret of humanity's self-destruction.

от Daniel Quinn 1992 338 страници

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🧠 Philosophical Fiction 🌍 Ecological Parable 🦍 Animal Teacher 📖 Creation Myth Revisited 🏙️ Civilization's Discontents

The Gut-Immune Connection

от Emeran Mayer • 2021

Chronic disease spiked because we stopped feeding our gut microbes. The repair starts with soil.

3.84

468

🦠 Gut Microbiome 🧠 Nutritional Psychiatry 🥗 Plant-Based Nutrition ⏱️ Time-Restricted Eating 🌱 Soil Health

The Gut-Immune Connection

Chronic disease spiked because we stopped feeding our gut microbes. The repair starts with soil.

от Emeran Mayer 2021 320 страници

3.84

468 оценки

🦠 Gut Microbiome 🧠 Nutritional Psychiatry 🥗 Plant-Based Nutrition ⏱️ Time-Restricted Eating 🌱 Soil Health

Net Positive

от Andrew S. Winston • 2021

What if the most profitable companies leave more than they take from the world?

3.85

500+

🤝 Corporate Responsibility 💼 Stakeholder Capitalism 📊 ESG Integration 🌱 Regenerative Business ✊ Corporate Activism

Net Positive

What if the most profitable companies leave more than they take from the world?

от Andrew S. Winston 2021 446 страници

3.85

500+ оценки

🤝 Corporate Responsibility 💼 Stakeholder Capitalism 📊 ESG Integration 🌱 Regenerative Business ✊ Corporate Activism

Fashionopolis

от Dana Thomas • 2019

Real cost of a $2 shirt: factory collapses, poisoned water, and the race to build something cleaner.

3.88

3000+

👕 Fast Fashion 🌿 Sustainable Fashion 🔄 Circular Economy 🧵 Garment Workers 🧠 Conscious Consumerism

Fashionopolis

Real cost of a $2 shirt: factory collapses, poisoned water, and the race to build something cleaner.

от Dana Thomas 2019 320 страници

3.88

3000+ оценки

👕 Fast Fashion 🌿 Sustainable Fashion 🔄 Circular Economy 🧵 Garment Workers 🧠 Conscious Consumerism

The Vegetable Gardener's Guide to Permaculture

от Christopher Shein • 2013

Your garden as a forest: the permaculture design that feeds you while it rebuilds itself.

3.84

493

🌎 Permaculture Design 🌳 Food Forests 🪱 Soil Building 🌱 Seed Saving 🏡 Garden Design

The Vegetable Gardener's Guide to Permaculture

Your garden as a forest: the permaculture design that feeds you while it rebuilds itself.

от Christopher Shein 2013 272 страници

3.84

493 оценки

🌎 Permaculture Design 🌳 Food Forests 🪱 Soil Building 🌱 Seed Saving 🏡 Garden Design

Nomad Century

от Gaia Vince • 2022

The tropics are becoming unlivable. A mass migration northward is an opportunity, not a crisis.

3.84

1000+

🌍 Climate Migration 🏠 Managed Retreat 🚧 Border Politics 💹 Migration Economics 🏛️ Global Governance

Nomad Century

The tropics are becoming unlivable. A mass migration northward is an opportunity, not a crisis.

от Gaia Vince 2022 269 страници

3.84

1000+ оценки

🌍 Climate Migration 🏠 Managed Retreat 🚧 Border Politics 💹 Migration Economics 🏛️ Global Governance

Pale Blue Dot

от Carl Sagan • 1994

On a single pixel: everyone who ever lived. The scientific case that makes space our only insurance.

4.34

39 000+

🔭 Planetary Science 🚀 Space Exploration 🌌 Cosmic Perspective 🧬 Astrobiology 🪐 Planetary Exploration

Pale Blue Dot

On a single pixel: everyone who ever lived. The scientific case that makes space our only insurance.

от Carl Sagan 1994 384 страници

4.34

39 000+ оценки

🔭 Planetary Science 🚀 Space Exploration 🌌 Cosmic Perspective 🧬 Astrobiology 🪐 Planetary Exploration

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