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  • Hope Dies Last

    Visionary People Across the World, Fighting to Find Us a Future

    by Alan Weisman ...
    **One of Heatmap's 18 Climate Books to Read in 2025The award-winning environmental journalist’s extraordinary, long-awaited portrait of hope and resilience as we face a fractured and uncertain future**In this profoundly human and moving narrative, the bestselling author of The World Without Us returns with a book ten years in the making: a study of what it means to be a human on the front lines of ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • World Without Us

    by Alan Weisman ...
    Most books about the environment build on dire threats warning of the possible extinction of humanity. Alan Weisman avoids frightening off readers by disarmingly wiping out our species in the first few pages of this remarkable book. He then continues with an astounding depiction of how Earth will fare once we’re no longer around.The World Without Us is a one-of-a-kind book that sweeps through time ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Countdown

    Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth?

    by Alan Weisman ...
    A powerful investigation into the chances for humanity's future from the author of the bestseller The World Without Us.In his bestselling book The World Without Us, Alan Weisman considered how the Earth could heal and even refill empty niches if relieved of humanity's constant pressures. Behind that groundbreaking thought experiment was his hope that we would be inspired to find a way to add ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    Countdown

    Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth?

    by Alan Weisman ...
    Narrated by Adam Grupper ...

    Unabridged

    18 hours

    A powerful investigation into the chances for humanity's future from the author of the bestseller The World Without Us.In his bestselling book The World Without Us, Alan Weisman considered how the Earth could heal and even refill empty niches if relieved of humanity's constant pressures. Behind that groundbreaking thought experiment was his hope that we would be inspired to find a way to add ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Lone Star

    The Extraordinary Life and Times of Dan Rather

    by Alan Weisman ...
    "Alan Weisman has come as close as anyone to unraveling one of the big mysteries of the television age: who is the real Dan Rather? Weisman has devoted much time, energy, and talent to that question, and this book is a fascinating read."--Robert Pierpoint, former CBS News correspondent"There is no career in modern television journalism that is more fascinating, complicated, controversial, or ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Gaviotas

    A Village to Reinvent the World, 2nd Edition

    by Alan Weisman ...
    Los Llanos—the rain-leached, eastern savannas of war-ravaged Colombia—are among the most brutal environments on Earth and an unlikely setting for one of the most hopeful environmental stories ever told.Here, in the late 1960s, a young Colombian development worker named Paolo Lugari wondered if the nearly uninhabited, infertile llanos could be made livable for his country’s growing population. He ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • A Passion for This Earth

    Writers, Scientists, and Activists Explore Our Relationship with Nature and the Environment

    by Rick Bass, Alan Weisman, Richard Mabey, Helen Caldicott ...
    Series series
    David Suzuki's lifelong work as an environmentalist, naturalist, and scientist have influenced countless others in their fight to save the planet, 20 such devotees of them have contributed to this inspiring collection. These journalists, scientists, writers and environmentalists have taken their enthusiasm for Suzuki's philosophy and funneled it into their own personal recollections, manifestos, ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Hope Dies Last

    Visionary People Across the World, Fighting to Find Us a Future

    by Alan Weisman ...
    Narrated by Alan Weisman, Fred Sanders ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 43 min

    **One of Heatmap's 18 Climate Books to Read in 2025The award-winning environmental journalist’s extraordinary, long-awaited portrait of hope and resilience as we face a fractured and uncertain future**In this profoundly human and moving narrative, the bestselling author of The World Without Us returns with a book ten years in the making: a study of what it means to be a human on the front lines of ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The World We Have

    A Buddhist Approach to Peace and Ecology

    by Thich Nhat Hanh ...
    In The World We Have peace activist and venerable Buddhist teacher Thich Nhat Hanh offers a dramatic vision of the future of our planet facing multiple crises.Thich Nhat Hanh finds answers to the critical problems of our time in the Buddhist teaching of the impermanence. He demonstrates how this teaching can offer inner peace and help us use our collective wisdom and capability to restore the ... Read more

    $8.29 CAD

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    Pandora's Seed

    The Unforeseen Cost of Civilization

    by Spencer Wells ...
    Narrated by Spencer Wells ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 40 min

    This new book by Spencer Wells, the internationally known geneticist, anthropologist, author, and director of the Genographic Project, focuses on the seminal event in human history: mankind's decision to become farmers rather than hunter-gatherers.What do terrorism, pandemic disease, and global warming have in common? To find the answer we need to go back ten millennia, to the wheat fields of the ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Delizia!

    The Epic History of the Italians and Their Food

    by John Dickie ...
    Narrated by Simon Vance ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 3 min

    Buon appetito! Everyone loves Italian food. But how did the Italians come to eat so well?The answer lies amid the vibrant beauty of Italy's historic cities. For a thousand years, they have been magnets for everything that makes for great eating: ingredients, talent, money, and power. Italian food is city food.Delizia! is much more than a history of Italian food. It is a history of Italy told ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    The Story of Stuff

    How Our Obsession with Stuff is Trashing the Planet, Our Communities, and Our Health-and a Vision for Change

    by Annie Leonard ...
    Narrated by Annie Leonard ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 2 min

    A classic exposé in company with An Inconvenient Truth and Silent Spring, The Story of Stuff expands on the celebrated documentary exploring the threat of overconsumption on the environment, economy, and our health. Leonard examines the “stuff” we use everyday, offering a galvanizing critique and steps for a changed planet.The Story of Stuff was received with widespread enthusiasm in hardcover, by ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook