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  • Cataclysms

    An Environmental History of Humanity

    Humanity is by many measures the biggest success story in the animal kingdom; but what are the costs of this triumph? Over its three million years of existence, the human species has continuously modified nature and drained its resources. In Cataclysms, Laurent Testot provides the full tally, offering a comprehensive environmental history of humanity's unmatched and perhaps irreversible influence ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Homo Deus

    A Brief History of Tomorrow

    **International BestsellerFrom the author of the international bestseller Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind comes an extraordinary new book that explores the future of the human species.**Yuval Noah Harari, author of the bestselling Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, envisions a not-too-distant world in which we face a new set of challenges. In Homo Deus, he examines our future with his ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Guns, Germs, and Steel

    The Fates of Human Societies

    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize • New York Times Bestseller • Over Two Million Copies Sold“One of the most significant projects embarked upon by any intellectual of our generation” (Gregg Easterbrook, New York Times), Guns, Germs, and Steel presents a groundbreaking, unified narrative of human history.Why did Eurasians conquer, displace, or decimate Native Americans, Australians, and Africans, ... Read more

    $19.79 CAD

  • A Short History of Progress

    by Ronald Wright ...
    Series series The CBC Massey Lectures
    Each time history repeats itself, so it's said, the price goes up. The twentieth century was a time of runaway growth in human population, consumption, and technology, placing a colossal load on all natural systems, especially earth, air, and water -- the very elements of life. The most urgent questions of the twenty-first century are: where will this growth lead? can it be consolidated or ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Against the Grain

    A Deep History of the Earliest States

    An account of all the new and surprising evidence now available for the beginnings of the earliest civilizations that contradict the standard narrativeWhy did humans abandon hunting and gathering for sedentary communities dependent on livestock and cereal grains, and governed by precursors of today’s states? Most people believe that plant and animal domestication allowed humans, finally, to settle ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: Revised and Updated Third Edition

    The Fate of the World and What We Can Do Before It's Too Late

    While everything appears to be collapsing around us – ecodamage, genetic engineering, virulent diseases, the end of cheap oil, water shortages, global famine, wars – we can still do something about it and create a world that will work for us and for our children’s children. The inspiration for Leonardo DiCaprio’s feature documentary movie The Eleventh Hour and soon to be released HBO special Ice ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Big History

    From the Big Bang to the Present

    "This exciting saga crosses space and time to illustrate how humans, born of stardust, were shaped—and how they in turn shaped the world we know today." — Publishers WeeklyThis book offers "world history on a grand scale"—pulling back for a wider view and putting the relatively brief time span of human history in context. After all, our five thousand years of recorded civilization account for only ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

  • The Earth Transformed

    An Untold History

    A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A revolutionary new history that reveals how climate change has dramatically shaped the development—and demise—of civilizations across time*The ebook edition now includes endnotes. Anyone who purchased the book previously can re-download this updated edition and access the notes.*Global warming is one of the greatest dangers mankind faces today. Even as ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor

    Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor

    "Readers cannot but be provoked and stimulated by this splendidly iconoclastic and refreshing book."—Andrew Porter, New York Times Book ReviewThe Wealth and Poverty of Nations is David S. Landes's acclaimed, best-selling exploration of one of the most contentious and hotly debated questions of our time: Why do some nations achieve economic success while others remain mired in poverty? The answer, ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • Pathogenesis

    A History of the World in Eight Plagues

    A sweeping examination of how germs have played a starring role in the most significant transformations in history, from the rise of Homo sapiens to the creation of world religions and the birth of capitalism.According to the accepted narrative of progress, humans have thrived thanks to their brains and brawn, to actions undertaken individually and collectively that have changed the arc of history ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Great Warming

    Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations

    by Brian Fagan ...
    In this New York Times bestseller, Brian Fagan shows how climate transformed-and sometimes destroyed--human societies during the earth's last global warming phase.From the 10th to 15th centuries the earth experienced a rise in surface temperature that changed climate worldwide-a preview of today's global warming. In some areas, including much of Western Europe, longer summers brought bountiful ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD