Climate History – alle Bücher, CDs und LPs, Seite 2

Tao Leigh Goffe

Dark Laboratory

A groundbreaking investigation of the Caribbean as both an idyll in the American imagination and a dark laboratory of Western experimentation, revealing secrets to racial and environmental progress that i…

Adam Welz

The End of Eden

A revelatory exploration of climate change from the perspective of wild species and natural ecosystems--an homage to the miraculous, vibrant entity that is life on Earth.

Gary Paul Nabhan, David Suro Piñera

Agave Spirits

The agave plant was never destined to become tasteless, cheap tequila. Follow Gary Nabhan and David Suro Pinera on the trail with archaeologists and botanists to caves where 9,000-year-old remains of agav…

Luke Kemp

Goliath's Curse

A vast and unprecedented survey of societal collapse--stretching from the Bronze Age to the age of silicon--that digs through the roots of past crises to understand what causes societies to fall apart, wh…

Cheng Li

Contested Environmentalisms

"The Chinese revolution was a forestry revolution. For decades, tree planting has been at the heart of Chinese environmental endeavors, and forestry is pivotal to its environmentalism and green image more…

Peter Frankopan

The Earth Transformed

"Global warming is one of the greatest dangers mankind faces today. Even as temperatures increase, sea levels rise, and natural disasters escalate, our current environmental crisis feels difficult to pred…

Lisa Baril

The Age of Melt

"Glaciers figure prominently in both ancient and contemporary narratives around the world. They inspire art and literature. They spark both fear and awe. And they give and take life. In The Age of Melt, e…

The Oxford Handbook of Agricultural History

Agricultural history has enjoyed a rebirth in recent years, in part because the agricultural enterprise promotes economic and cultural connections in an era that has become ever more globally focused, but…

Todd Stern

Landing the Paris Climate Agreement

"This book is Todd Stern's eyewitness account of the full, charged, seven-year story of how the Paris Agreement came to be, following an arc from Copenhagen, to Durban, to the secret U.S.-China climate de…

Kyle Paoletta

American Oasis

An expansive and revelatory historical exploration of the multicultural, water-seeking, land-destroying settlers of the most arid corner of North America, arguing that in order to know where the United St…

Tom Albrecht, Tristan Sturm

Apocalyptic Conspiracism

"A new study of American evangelicalism that shows how the logic of Apocalypticism and counter-cultural arguments feed into climate denial and anti-Covid viewpoints. It considers how apocalyptic and consp…

Mark O'Connell

The Year Science Changed Everything

In The Year Science Changed Everything, author Mark O'Connell charts the struggles and successes of 1957's International Geophysical Year alongside interviews with today's leading environmental scientists…

David Lipsky

The Parrot and the Igloo

In 1956, the New York Times prophesied that once global warming really kicked in, we could see parrots in the Antarctic. In 2010, when science deniers had control of the climate story, Senator James Inhof…

Catherine Tatiana Dunlop

The Mistral

"Every year, most forcefully when winter turns to spring, the chilly mistral wind blows through the Rhãone Valley of southern France over the northwest coast of the Gulf of Lion into the Mediterranean. So…

Jana Kopelent Rehak

We Live in the Water

"This work illustrates how people like Smith Islanders claim their lives in an ecologically changing unstable place"--

Fiona Williamson

Imperial Weather

A Fresh Perspective on Colonial-Era Science, Climate, and Empire in Malaysia and Singapore

Elizabeth Rush

The Quickening

An NPR Best Book of the Year A 2025 National Endowment for the Arts Big Reads Selection Winner of the CLMP Firecracker Award in Creative Nonfiction “The Quickening is a book of hope.”—Elizabeth Kolbert, a…

Händel-Jahrbuch 2024, 70. Jahrgang

Red Flag Warning

Two survivors of California fires compile a guide for living physically, mentally, and emotionally amid ecological destruction. When warm temperatures, low humidity, and strong winds combine they produce …