 | With an intense, yet elegant, examination of the agricultural origins of four meals from three different pathways, Michael Pollan, bestselling author of THE BOTANY OF DESIRE, explores how the American diet affects the planet. Tracing the... |
 | Columnist Thomas L. Friedman explains why, in a globalized world, crises in energy and the climate must be priorities. Friedman argues further that a globalized world makes it possible as never before to address these issues in a meaningful way, and... |
 | Nobel Peace Prize recipient Al Gore updates the status of the compelling ecological issues he first raised in his 2006 film and book AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH, revealing that the solutions to every environmental problem exist, if we can summon the... |
 | A man and a gorilla set out on an intellectual adventure and in the process define what it means to be a human being. |
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 | Conservative Mormon comedian and talk-show host Glenn Beck goes on a no-holds-barred assault on Al Gore (a man he has compared to Hitler), environmentalism, and liberal sentiment in his bestselling AN INCONVENIENT BOOK. His political stances and... |
 | In the 2011 imagined by bestselling author Clive Cussler in collaboration with his son Dirk, the bad guys come from Canada and the biggest threats are exorbitant gas prices and global warming. Ocean scientist Dirk Pitt is on the verge of a discovery... |
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 | In 1491: NEW REVELATIONS OF THE AMERICA BEFORE COLUMBUS, Charles C. Mann presents an accessible history that effectively wipes away generations of high-school teaching that trivialized, dismissed, or was just flat-out wrong about the peoples that... |
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