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  • The Stockholm Paradigm

    Climate Change and Emerging Disease

    by Daniel R. Brooks, Eric P. Hoberg, Walter A. Boeger ...
    The contemporary crisis of emerging disease has been a century and a half in the making. Human, veterinary, and crop health practitioners convinced themselves that disease could be controlled by medicating the sick, vaccinating those at risk, and eradicating the parts of the biosphere responsible for disease transmission. Evolutionary biologists assured themselves that coevolution between ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Darwinian Survival Guide

    Hope for the Twenty-First Century

    by Daniel R. Brooks, Salvatore J. Agosta ...
    How humanity brought about the climate crisis by departing from its evolutionary trajectory 15,000 years ago—and how we can use evolutionary principles to save ourselves from the worst outcomes.Despite efforts to sustain civilization, humanity faces existential threats from overpopulation, globalized trade and travel, urbanization, and global climate change. In A Darwinian Survival Guide, Daniel ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Nature of Diversity

    An Evolutionary Voyage of Discovery

    by Daniel R. Brooks, Deborah A. McLennan ...
    All living things on earth—from individual species to entire ecosystems—have evolved through time, and evolution is the acknowledged framework of modern biology. Yet many areas of biology have moved from a focus on evolution to much narrower perspectives.Daniel R. Brooks and Deborah A. McLennan argue that it is impossible to comprehend the nature of life on earth unless evolution—the history of ... Read more

    $38.19 USD

  • The Major Metaphors of Evolution

    Darwinism Then and Now

    by Salvatore J. Agosta, Daniel R. Brooks ...
    Series Book 2 - Evolutionary Biology – New Perspectives on Its Development
    This book presents a unified evolutionary framework based on three sets of metaphors that will help to consolidate discussions on evolutionary transitions.Evolution is the unifying principle of life, making identifying ways to apply evolutionary principles to tackle existence-threatening crises such as climate change crucial. A more cohesive evolutionary framework will further the discussions in ... Read more

    $188.99 USD

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    A Darwinian Survival Guide

    Hope for the Twenty-First Century

    by Daniel R. Brooks, Salvatore J. Agosta ...
    Narrated by Tim Fannon ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 17 min

    Despite efforts to sustain civilization, humanity faces existential threats from overpopulation, globalized trade and travel, urbanization, and global climate change. In A Darwinian Survival Guide, Daniel Brooks and Salvatore Agosta offer a novel—and hopeful—perspective on how to meet these tremendous challenges by changing the discourse from sustainability to survival. Darwinian evolution, the ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Like Guns, Germs, and Steel, a work of breathtaking sweep and originality that reinterprets the human story.Although we usually think of technology as something unique to modern times, our ancestors began to create the first technologies millions of years ago in the form of prehistoric tools and weapons. Over time, eight key technologies gradually freed us from the limitations of our animal ... Read more

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  • The Arrogant Ape

    The Myth of Human Exceptionalism and Why It Matters

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    **A New York Times’s Notable Book of 2025An impassioned celebration of humility before the living world that leads us to a new understanding of other species—and ourselves**Darwin considered humans one part of the web of life, not the apex of a natural hierarchy. Yet today many maintain that we are the most intelligent, virtuous, successful species that ever lived. This flawed thinking enables us ... Read more

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  • Work

    A Deep History, from the Stone Age to the Age of Robots

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    **"This book is a tour de force." -- Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling author of Give and TakeA revolutionary new history of humankind through the prism of work by leading anthropologist James Suzman**Work defines who we are. It determines our status, and dictates how, where, and with whom we spend most of our time. It mediates our self-worth and molds our values. But are we hard-wired to ... Read more

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  • The End of the Long Summer

    Why We Must Remake Our Civilization to Survive on a Volatile Earth

    by Dianne Dumanoski ...
    For the past twelve thousand years, Earth’s stable climate has allowed human civilization to flourish. But this long benign summer is an anomaly in the Earth’s history and one that is rapidly coming to a close. The radical experiment of our modern industrial civilization is now disrupting our planet’s very metabolism; our future hinges in large part on how Earth responds. Climate change is already ... Read more

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  • Individual and Societies for the IB MYP 2

    by Paul Grace ...
    Develop your skills to become an inquiring learner; ensure you navigate the MYP framework with confidence using a concept-driven and assessment-focused approach to Individuals and Societies presented in global contexts.- Develop conceptual understanding with key MYP concepts and related concepts at the heart of each chapter.- Learn by asking questions with a statement of inquiry in each chapter.- ... Read more

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  • Living in the Anthropocene

    Earth in the Age of Humans

    by Thomas E. Lovejoy, Edward O. Wilson ...
    Explores the causes and implications of the Anthropocene, or Age of Humans, from multiple points of view including anthropological, scientific, social, artistic, and economic.Although we arrived only recently in Earth's timeline, humans are driving major changes to the planet's ecosystems. Even now, the basic requirements for human life--air, water, shelter, food, nature, and culture--are rapidly ... Read more

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  • The Human Planet

    How We Created the Anthropocene

    by Simon L. Lewis, Mark A. Maslin ...
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