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  • The Big Ratchet

    How Humanity Thrives in the Face of Natural Crisis

    de Ruth DeFries ...
    How an ordinary mammal manipulated nature to become technologically sophisticated city-dwellers -- and why our history points to an optimistic future in the face of environmental crisisOur species long lived on the edge of starvation. Now we produce enough food for all 7 billion of us to eat nearly 3,000 calories every day. This is such an astonishing thing in the history of life as to verge on ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • What Would Nature Do?

    A Guide for Our Uncertain Times

    de Ruth DeFries ...
    Not long ago, the future seemed predictable. Now, certainty about the course of civilization has given way to fear and doubt. Raging fires, ravaging storms, political upheavals, financial collapse, and deadly pandemics lie ahead—or are already here. The world feels less comprehensible and more dangerous, and no one, from individuals to businesses and governments, knows how to navigate the path ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

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    The Big Ratchet

    How Humanity Thrives in the Face of Natural Crisis

    de Ruth DeFries ...
    Narrado por Pam Ward ...

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    7 hora 15 minutos

    The Big Ratchet is the story of the ratchets: the technologies and innovations, big and small, that propelled our species from hunters and gatherers on the savannahs of Africa to shoppers in the aisles of the supermarket.Our species long lived on the edge of starvation. Now we produce enough food for all 7 billion of us to eat nearly 3,000 calories every day. This is such an astonishing thing in ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

    Disponible también en: eBook

    Disponible también en: eBook

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    Utopia for Realists

    How We Can Build the Ideal World

    de Rutger Bregman ...
    Narrado por Peter Noble ...

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    6 hora 34 minutos

    Universal basic income. A 15-hour workweek. Open borders. Does it sound too good to be true? One of Europe's leading young thinkers shows how we can build an ideal world today."A more politically radical Malcolm Gladwell." -- New York TimesAfter working all day at jobs we often dislike, we buy things we don't need. Rutger Bregman, a Dutch historian, reminds us it needn't be this way -- and in some ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

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    Warmth of Other Suns, The

    The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

    de Isabel Wilkerson ...
    Narrado por Robin Miles ...

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    22 hora 40 minutos

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER - TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE - ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S FIVE BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY - A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE CENTURY - LOS ANGELES TIMES’S #1 NONFICTION BOOK OF THE LAST 30 YEARS - AN OPRAH DAILY BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE PAST TWO DECADES“A brilliant and stirring epic . . . ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

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    Land

    How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World

    de Simon Winchester ...
    Narrado por Simon Winchester ...

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    13 hora 46 minutos

    “In many ways, Land combines bits and pieces of many of Winchester’s previous books into a satisfying, globe-trotting whole. . . . Winchester is, once again, a consummate guide.”—Boston GlobeThe author of The Professor and the Madman, The Map That Changed the World, and The Perfectionists explores the notion of property—bought, earned, or received; in Europe, Africa, North America, or the South ... Leer más

    $32.99 USD

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    A Gentleman in Moscow

    A Novel

    de Amor Towles ...
    Narrado por Nicholas Guy Smith ...

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    17 hora 52 minutos

    **The mega-bestseller with more than 2 million readers • A New York Times “Readers’ Choice: Best Books of the 21st Century” PickFrom the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway and Table for Two, a beautifully transporting novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel**In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • The Innovators

    How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution

    de Walter Isaacson ...
    Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson’s New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed The Innovators is a “riveting, propulsive, and at times deeply moving” (The Atlantic) story of the people who created the computer and the internet.What were the talents that allowed certain inventors and entrepreneurs to turn their visionary ideas into disruptive realities? ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • The Wright Brothers

    de David McCullough ...
    The #1 New York Times bestseller from David McCullough, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize—the dramatic story-behind-the-story about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly—Wilbur and Orville Wright.On a winter day in 1903, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, two brothers—bicycle mechanics from Dayton, Ohio—changed history. But it would take the world some time to believe that ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • The Folly of Fools

    The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception in Human Life

    de Robert Trivers ...
    Whether it's in a cockpit at takeoff or the planning of an offensive war, a romantic relationship or a dispute at the office, there are many opportunities to lie and self-deceive -- but deceit and self-deception carry the costs of being alienated from reality and can lead to disaster. So why does deception play such a prominent role in our everyday lives? In short, why do we deceive?In his bold ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • 100 Million Years of Food

    What Our Ancestors Ate and Why It Matters Today

    de Stephen Le ...
    " A fascinating journey [with] a few salient conclusions: primarily that we'd all be a lot better off if we ate like our great-great-great grandparents." — National PostThere are few areas of modern life that are as burdened by information and advice, often contradictory, as our diet and health. In 100 Million Years of Food, biological anthropologist Stephen Le explains how cuisines of different ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • An Economist Gets Lunch

    New Rules for Everyday Foodies

    de Tyler Cowen ...
    A leading economist, “who may very well turn out to be this decade’s Thomas Friedman” (Wall Street Journal), illuminates the state of American food todayTyler Cowen, one of the most influential economists of the last decade, wants you to know that just about everything you’ve heard about how to get good food is wrong. Drawing on a provocative range of examples from around the globe, Cowen reveals ... Leer más

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