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An Inconvenient Truth
by Albert Gore
An Inconvenient Truth —Gore’s groundbreaking, battle cry of a follow-up to the bestselling Earth in the Balance —is being published to tie in with a documentary film of the same name. Both the book and film were inspired by a series of multimedia presentations on global warming that Gore created and delivers to groups around the world. With this book, Gore, who is one of our environmental heroes—and a leading... (more)
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How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
by Jared Diamond
In his runaway bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel , Jared Diamond brilliantly examined the circumstances that allowed Western civilizations to dominate much of the world. Now he probes the other side of the equation: What caused some of the great civilizations of the past to fall into ruin, and what can we learn from their fates? Using a vast historical and geographical perspective ranging from Easter Island... (more)