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Nonfiction November 2024 Week 1: Your Year in Nonfiction
Nonfiction November has kicked off once again to brighten the dreary autumn days! Well, they’re dreary here in the Pacific Northwest anyway. Heather @ Based on a True Story is hosting the first week’s topic: Celebrate your year of nonfiction. What books … Continue reading
Into the Clear Blue Sky
Getting to net zero isn’t enough. Rob Jackson makes the case in Into the Clear Blue Sky that we must first reduce greenhouse gas emissions and then restore the levels of carbon dioxide and methane in the Earth’s atmosphere to pre-industrial levels. It’s a tall order. Continue reading
Posted in Books, Environment
Tagged book review, carbon dioxide, climate change, drawdown, greenhouse gas emissions, greenhouse gases, methane, nonfiction
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Hot Mess
Hot Mess is an informative, easy-to-understand introduction to climate change for a general audience. The “hilarious” and even “side-splitting” humor promised by the cover blurbs mostly didn’t work for me, but the book describes the problem of climate change in a refreshingly non-academic way. Continue reading
How Infrastructure Works
How Infrastructure Works is a wonderful book that looks deeply at the function, development and future of infrastructure. It might seem like a nerdy topic, but Deb Chachra writes that infrastructure is so much more than pipes and cables, dams and bridges. Infrastructure is how we care for each other. Continue reading
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Tagged book review, climate change, climate justice, deb chachra, infrastructure, nonfiction
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Thinking in Bets
Annie Duke won over $4-million as a professional poker player. Her book, Thinking in Bets, will teach you almost nothing about winning at poker, but it will give you a valuable framework and many useful tools to help you become a better decision-maker. Continue reading
Posted in Books, Management
Tagged book review, decision-making, forecasting, nonfiction, personal development, planning, poker, strategy, thinking, uncertainty
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Autocracy, Inc.
Anne Applebaum says our image of autocratic dictators as cartoon villains who exercise total control over their people is outdated. In Autocracy, Inc. she reveals how autocracies are run by sophisticated military, financial, and information networks that support each other without having any common ideology except holding on to power. Continue reading
Posted in Books, Politics
Tagged applebaum, autocracy, book review, democracy, nonfiction, putin, trump
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Our Moon
Our Moon is a fascinating book that explores how the Moon has inspired culture, religion and science for thousands of years. More than that, in this wide-ranging book, author Rebecca Boyle shows how the Moon also affected the formation of the Earth, and guided the evolution of life itself. Continue reading
Posted in Books, Science and technology
Tagged archaeology, astronomy, book review, calendar, moon, nonfiction
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Around the World in 80 Birds
Around the World in 80 Birds is just what it sounds like, a world tour seen through 80 carefully selected bird species. There’s a brief profile of each bird accompanied by wonderful illustrations. You’ll find some of your old favorites and probably discover some new favorites too. Continue reading
Posted in Books, Environment
Tagged biodiversity, birds, book review, mike unwin, nature, nonfiction, ryuto miyake
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Climate Capitalism
Akshat Rathi makes the optimistic case that a reformed capitalism — shaped by government policy and serving the needs of society and the planet — is our best hope of tackling climate change. In Climate Capitalism he profiles key leaders who are helping to make progress happen. Continue reading
Posted in Books, Economics, Energy, Environment
Tagged book review, capitalism, climate change, energy transition, nonfiction
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Our Fragile Moment
What can we learn from ancient episodes of climate change to help us deal with today’s climate crisis, to help us take the earliest possible off ramp from the global warming highway we’re speeding along? Renown environmental scientist Michael Mann sets out to answer that question in this book. Continue reading
Posted in Books, Environment, Science and technology
Tagged book review, carbon cycle, climate, climate change, michael mann, nonfiction, paleoclimatology
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