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Fiction foreshadows reality in these fast-paced, engaging tales of life in a forgotten corner of the USA following a global flu pandemic, where a girl with extraordinary abilities and a thirst for justice is born into a community that has been disenfranchised and abused by the government that is meant to protect it.
In 2001, Knepp estate in West Sussex embarked on a project of rewilding their land, drained by centuries of agricultural over-use. Almost 20 years on, the results of that project not only provide a fascinating story of nature’s resurgence, but also challenges our preconceptions about what nature is, and how we interact with it. Wilding is Knepp’s story so far.
The Moth is not originally a book. It is a live storytelling event that encourages people from all walks of life to stand up in front of a room full of strangers and tell them a story from their own life. The stories can be funny, sad, bizarre, mundane, challenging; it doesn’t matter. What matters is that the story is true and is about the person telling it. This book contains 50 of the best.
The world has suffered from some form of apocalypse and most of humanity is gone. What skills and knowledge would the survivors need in order to recreate a modern civilisation again without regressing back to the Dark Ages? How would they find this knowledge, and where would they start? The Knowledge could very well be their new bible.
What happens if women develop a Power that gives them physical supremacy over men? This one premise opens a massive can of worms that starts with an examination of our assumptions of gender roles and finishes with the overturn of the modern world as we know it. Welcome to the world of The Power.
With Citizen of the Galaxy, one of the masters of science-fiction creates a believable and exciting adventure of slavery and espionage, while also speculating on humanity’s social, moral and political evolution as it journeys to the stars.
At first glance a beautifully visualised science-fiction film about Man colonising space through a corporate, capitalist framework, Passengers is for me, very simply a film about loneliness, solitude and - increasingly relevant in this age - the search for meaning in your life.
The traditional economic models of continued growth that we have been largely adhering to for the past century are very clearly no longer fit for purpose, in a world in which environmental calamity is becoming ever more a probability and where the vast imbalance between Haves and Have-Nots is abundantly clear. Doughnut Economics suggests a different model, one in which economic goals are measured alongside environmental ones, and where less measurable social necessities are given equal weight in the economic equation.
Climate change and environmental collapse is unquestionably the defining issue of the 21st Century. In Climate: A New Story, the author steps back from the battlefield of climate alarmists vs climate deniers, and redefines the argument by reframing the big questions in different, non-binary terms that are as complicated and nuanced as the subject it tackles.