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The Earth Transformed

An Untold History

par Peter Frankopan ...

Lu par Peter Frankopan ...

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29 heure 11 min

A revolutionary new history that reveals how climate change has dramatically shaped the development—and demise—of civilizations across timeGlobal 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 predict and understand. But climate change and its effects on ... En savoir plus

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A revolutionary new history that reveals how climate change has dramatically shaped the development—and demise—of civilizations across timeGlobal 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 predict and understand. But climate change and its effects on
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Fire Weather

The Making of a Beast

par John Vaillant ...

Lu par Alan Carlson ...

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14 heure 17 min

**#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Winner of the 2024 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing • Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction • Winner of the 2024 J.W. Dafoe Book Prize • Winner of the 2024 Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize • Winner of the 2024 Lane Anderson Award • Finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction • Finalist for the National Book Award in ... En savoir plus

$38.00 CAD

**#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Winner of the 2024 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing • Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction • Winner of the 2024 J.W. Dafoe Book Prize • Winner of the 2024 Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize • Winner of the 2024 Lane Anderson Award • Finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction • Finalist for the National Book Award in
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The Map That Changed the World

William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology

par Simon Winchester ...

Lu par Simon Winchester ...

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9 heure 59 min

From the author of the bestselling The Professor and the Madman comes the fascinating story of William Smith, the orphaned son of an English country blacksmith, who became obsessed with creating the world's first geological map and ultimately became the father of modern geology.In 1793 William Smith, a canal digger, made a startling discovery that was to turn the fledgling science of the history ... En savoir plus

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From the author of the bestselling The Professor and the Madman comes the fascinating story of William Smith, the orphaned son of an English country blacksmith, who became obsessed with creating the world's first geological map and ultimately became the father of modern geology.In 1793 William Smith, a canal digger, made a startling discovery that was to turn the fledgling science of the history
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A Crack in the Edge of the World

America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906

par Simon Winchester ...

Lu par Simon Winchester ...

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12 heure 31 min

The international bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and Krakatoa vividly brings to life the 1906San Francisco Earthquake that leveled a city symbolic of America's relentless western expansion. Simon Winchester has also fashioned an enthralling and informative informative look at the tumultuous subterranean world that produces earthquakes, the planet's most sudden and destructive ... En savoir plus

$41.99 CAD

The international bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and Krakatoa vividly brings to life the 1906San Francisco Earthquake that leveled a city symbolic of America's relentless western expansion. Simon Winchester has also fashioned an enthralling and informative informative look at the tumultuous subterranean world that produces earthquakes, the planet's most sudden and destructive
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Salt Lakes

An Unnatural History

par Caroline Tracey ...

Lu par Cassandra Campbell ...

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8 heure 8 min

More than a hundred salt lakes dot Earth's surface, most of them hidden away in remote desert valleys. But today nearly all of them are at risk of drying up. Their death is a harbinger of rising sea levels, life-threatening dust storms, and environmental collapse.Writer and geographer Caroline Tracey didn't know this when she began crossing paths with salt lakes during her early twenties. From the ... En savoir plus

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More than a hundred salt lakes dot Earth's surface, most of them hidden away in remote desert valleys. But today nearly all of them are at risk of drying up. Their death is a harbinger of rising sea levels, life-threatening dust storms, and environmental collapse.Writer and geographer Caroline Tracey didn't know this when she began crossing paths with salt lakes during her early twenties. From the
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The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs

A New History of a Lost World

par Steve Brusatte ...

Lu par Patrick Lawlor ...

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10 heure 7 min

A sweeping and revelatory new history of the age of dinosaurs, from one of our finest young scientists.""THE ULTIMATE DINOSAUR BIOGRAPHY."" — Scientific AmericanThe dinosaurs. Sixty-six million years ago, the Earth’s most fearsome creatures vanished. Today they remain one of our planet’s great mysteries. Now The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs reveals their extraordinary, 200-million-year-long ... En savoir plus

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A sweeping and revelatory new history of the age of dinosaurs, from one of our finest young scientists.""THE ULTIMATE DINOSAUR BIOGRAPHY."" — Scientific AmericanThe dinosaurs. Sixty-six million years ago, the Earth’s most fearsome creatures vanished. Today they remain one of our planet’s great mysteries. Now The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs reveals their extraordinary, 200-million-year-long
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The Uninhabitable Earth

Life After Warming

par David Wallace-Wells ...

Lu par David Wallace-Wells ...

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9 heure

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The Uninhabitable Earth hits you like a comet, with an overflow of insanely lyrical prose about our pending Armageddon.”—Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday DemonWith a new afterwordIt is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are ... En savoir plus

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The Uninhabitable Earth hits you like a comet, with an overflow of insanely lyrical prose about our pending Armageddon.”—Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday DemonWith a new afterwordIt is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are
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Less is More

How Degrowth Will Save the World

par Jason Hickel ...

Lu par Ben Crystal, Clifford Samuel ...

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9 heure 5 min

Brought to you by Penguin.The world has finally awoken to the reality of climate breakdown and ecological collapse. Now we must face up to its primary cause. Capitalism demands perpetual expansion, which is devastating the living world. There is only one solution that will lead to meaningful and immediate change: DEGROWTH.If we want to have a shot at halting the crisis, we need to restore the ... En savoir plus

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Brought to you by Penguin.The world has finally awoken to the reality of climate breakdown and ecological collapse. Now we must face up to its primary cause. Capitalism demands perpetual expansion, which is devastating the living world. There is only one solution that will lead to meaningful and immediate change: DEGROWTH.If we want to have a shot at halting the crisis, we need to restore the
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Krakatoa

The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883

par Simon Winchester ...

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12 heure 1 min

The bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and The Map That Changed the World examines the enduring and world-changing effects of the catastrophic eruption off the coast of Java of the earth's most dangerous volcano -- Krakatoa.The legendary annihilation in 1883 of the volcano-island of Krakatoa -- the name has since become a byword for a cataclysmic disaster -- was followed by an ... En savoir plus

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The bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and The Map That Changed the World examines the enduring and world-changing effects of the catastrophic eruption off the coast of Java of the earth's most dangerous volcano -- Krakatoa.The legendary annihilation in 1883 of the volcano-island of Krakatoa -- the name has since become a byword for a cataclysmic disaster -- was followed by an
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Living Planet

The Web of Life on Earth

par David Attenborough ...

Lu par David Attenborough ...

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11 heure 33 min

The Sunday Times BestsellerA new, fully updated narrative edition of David Attenborough’s seminal biography of our world, The Living Planet.Nowhere on our planet is devoid of life. Plants and animals thrive or survive within every extreme of climate and habitat that it offers. Single species, and often whole communities adapt to make the most of ice cap and tundra, forest and plain, desert, ocean ... En savoir plus

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The Sunday Times BestsellerA new, fully updated narrative edition of David Attenborough’s seminal biography of our world, The Living Planet.Nowhere on our planet is devoid of life. Plants and animals thrive or survive within every extreme of climate and habitat that it offers. Single species, and often whole communities adapt to make the most of ice cap and tundra, forest and plain, desert, ocean
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The Death and Life of the Great Lakes

par Dan Egan ...

Lu par Jason Culp ...

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12 heure 16 min

**A Los Angeles Times Book Prize FinalistWinner of the J. Anthony Lukas AwardA landmark work of science, history and reporting on the past, present and imperiled future of the Great Lakes.**The Great Lakes—Erie, Huron, Michigan, Ontario and Superior—hold 20 percent of the world’s supply of surface fresh water and provide sustenance, work and recreation for tens of millions of Americans. But they ... En savoir plus

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**A Los Angeles Times Book Prize FinalistWinner of the J. Anthony Lukas AwardA landmark work of science, history and reporting on the past, present and imperiled future of the Great Lakes.**The Great Lakes—Erie, Huron, Michigan, Ontario and Superior—hold 20 percent of the world’s supply of surface fresh water and provide sustenance, work and recreation for tens of millions of Americans. But they
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Regenesis

Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet

par George Monbiot ...

Lu par George Monbiot ...

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9 heure 29 min

**Winner of the 2022 Orwell Prize for Journalism | A Sunday Times (London) Bestseller | Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize for Writing on Conservation“George Monbiot is one of the most fearless and important voices in the global climate movement today.” —Greta Thunberg**For the first time in millennia, we have the opportunity to transform not only our food system but our entire relationship to ... En savoir plus

$27.00 CAD

**Winner of the 2022 Orwell Prize for Journalism | A Sunday Times (London) Bestseller | Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize for Writing on Conservation“George Monbiot is one of the most fearless and important voices in the global climate movement today.” —Greta Thunberg**For the first time in millennia, we have the opportunity to transform not only our food system but our entire relationship to
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Otherlands

A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

par Thomas Halliday ...

Lu par Adetomiwa Edun ...

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11 heure 6 min

“Immersive . . . bracingly ambitious . . . rewinds the story of life on Earth—from the mammoth steppe of the last Ice Age to the dawn of multicellular creatures over 500 million years ago.”—The EconomistLONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE • “One of those rare books that’s both deeply informative and daringly imaginative.”—Elizabeth Kolbert, author of Under a White SkyONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF ... En savoir plus

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“Immersive . . . bracingly ambitious . . . rewinds the story of life on Earth—from the mammoth steppe of the last Ice Age to the dawn of multicellular creatures over 500 million years ago.”—The EconomistLONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE • “One of those rare books that’s both deeply informative and daringly imaginative.”—Elizabeth Kolbert, author of Under a White SkyONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF
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Goliath's Curse

The History and Future of Societal Collapse

par Luke Kemp ...

Lu par Luke Kemp ...

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23 heure 7 min

**“In the modern tradition of Big Books of human history like Yuval Noah Harari’s Sapiens and David Graeber and David Wengrow’s The Dawn of Everything, Goliath’s Curse provides a novel theory of civilizational development. . . . [It] feels something like reading the French economist Thomas Piketty filtered through Mad Max: Fury Road.” —Ed Simon, The New York Times Book ReviewNAMED A BEST BOOK OF ... En savoir plus

$37.99 CAD

**“In the modern tradition of Big Books of human history like Yuval Noah Harari’s Sapiens and David Graeber and David Wengrow’s The Dawn of Everything, Goliath’s Curse provides a novel theory of civilizational development. . . . [It] feels something like reading the French economist Thomas Piketty filtered through Mad Max: Fury Road.” —Ed Simon, The New York Times Book ReviewNAMED A BEST BOOK OF
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The Great Derangement

Climate Change and the Unthinkable

par Amitav Ghosh ...

Lu par Shridhar Solanki ...

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6 heure 7 min

Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well think so. How else to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming? In his first major book of nonfiction since In an Antique Land, Ghosh examines our inability—at the level of literature, history, and politics—to grasp the scale and violence of climate change.The extreme nature of ... En savoir plus

$23.00 CAD

Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well think so. How else to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming? In his first major book of nonfiction since In an Antique Land, Ghosh examines our inability—at the level of literature, history, and politics—to grasp the scale and violence of climate change.The extreme nature of
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The Secret World of Denisovans

The Epic Story of the Ancient Cousins to Sapiens and Neanderthals

par Silvana Condemi, François Savatier ...

Lu par Suzie Althens ...

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6 heure 41 min

The first book for a general audience to chronicle the epic story of the Denisovans, ancient cousins to Sapiens and Neanderthals, who left traces of their DNA in modern-day humansIn December 2010, scientists discovered a fragment of a finger bone in an isolated cave in Siberia. To their surprise, the bone contained neither Homo sapiens nor Neanderthal DNA. The DNA came from a previously unknown ... En savoir plus

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The first book for a general audience to chronicle the epic story of the Denisovans, ancient cousins to Sapiens and Neanderthals, who left traces of their DNA in modern-day humansIn December 2010, scientists discovered a fragment of a finger bone in an isolated cave in Siberia. To their surprise, the bone contained neither Homo sapiens nor Neanderthal DNA. The DNA came from a previously unknown
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Being the Change

Live Well and Spark a Climate Revolution

par Peter Kalmus ...

Lu par Nate Drury ...

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9 heure 8 min

Life on 1/10th the fossil fuels turns out to be awesome.We all want to be happy. Yet as we consume ever more in a frantic bid for happiness, global warming worsens.Alarmed by drastic changes now occurring in the Earth's climate systems, the author, a climate scientist and suburban father of two, embarked on a journey to change his life and the world. He began by bicycling, growing food, meditating ... En savoir plus

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Life on 1/10th the fossil fuels turns out to be awesome.We all want to be happy. Yet as we consume ever more in a frantic bid for happiness, global warming worsens.Alarmed by drastic changes now occurring in the Earth's climate systems, the author, a climate scientist and suburban father of two, embarked on a journey to change his life and the world. He began by bicycling, growing food, meditating
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Verdens top. 50 år på Everest

par Christian Nørgaard ...

Lu par Ole Rabendorf ...

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6 heure 2 min

Den 29. maj 1953 stod de første mennesker, newzealandske Edmund Hillary og nepalesiske Tenzing Norgay, på toppen af verdens højeste bjerg, Mount Everest. Siden har tusindvis af eventyrere, med større eller mindre held, fulgt i deres fodspor. I "Verdens top. 50 år på Everest" fortæller Christian Nørgaard om en lille eksklusiv gruppe af danske bjergbestigere, der har besteget det mytiske bjerg. ... En savoir plus

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Den 29. maj 1953 stod de første mennesker, newzealandske Edmund Hillary og nepalesiske Tenzing Norgay, på toppen af verdens højeste bjerg, Mount Everest. Siden har tusindvis af eventyrere, med større eller mindre held, fulgt i deres fodspor. I "Verdens top. 50 år på Everest" fortæller Christian Nørgaard om en lille eksklusiv gruppe af danske bjergbestigere, der har besteget det mytiske bjerg.
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The Air They Breathe

A Pediatrician on the Frontlines of Climate Change

par Debra Hendrickson ...

Lu par Megan Tusing ...

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6 heure 54 min

A timely, revelatory first look into the impact climate change has on children—the greatest moral crisis humanity faces today—by a pediatrician in the fastest warming city in America.Wildfires, hurricanes, and heat waves make headlines. But what is happening in Debra Hendrickson’s clinic tells another story of this strange and unsettling time. Hendrickson is a pediatrician in Reno, Nevada—the ... En savoir plus

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A timely, revelatory first look into the impact climate change has on children—the greatest moral crisis humanity faces today—by a pediatrician in the fastest warming city in America.Wildfires, hurricanes, and heat waves make headlines. But what is happening in Debra Hendrickson’s clinic tells another story of this strange and unsettling time. Hendrickson is a pediatrician in Reno, Nevada—the
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Nourrir la planète en 2050

par Ghislain de Marsily, Henri Leridon ...

Lu par Ghislain de Marsily ...

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1 heures 3 min

Comment nourrir la planète en 2050 et assurer les ressources en eau quand il y aura 9 milliards d'habitants sur terre, et que le climat se sera modifié ? De nombreux facteurs à considérer Les auteurs examinent les tendances démographiques, l'incidence du changement climatique et l'effet de la mise en culture de nouveaux territoires sur le climat. Ils estiment ensuite les besoins par continents en ... En savoir plus

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Comment nourrir la planète en 2050 et assurer les ressources en eau quand il y aura 9 milliards d'habitants sur terre, et que le climat se sera modifié ? De nombreux facteurs à considérer Les auteurs examinent les tendances démographiques, l'incidence du changement climatique et l'effet de la mise en culture de nouveaux territoires sur le climat. Ils estiment ensuite les besoins par continents en
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Geology

The Story of Earth

par Kate Zeigler ...

Lu par Kate Zeigler ...

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4 heure 49 min

Geology is often thought of as simply the study of rocks. In reality, geology is the study of our planet on all scales, from microscopic to planet-wide, and ranging in time from almost instantaneous events, like earthquakes, to the glacially slow motion of the tectonic plates. Everything we know about our world from a geologic perspective is based on information locked into the rock record and the ... En savoir plus

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Geology is often thought of as simply the study of rocks. In reality, geology is the study of our planet on all scales, from microscopic to planet-wide, and ranging in time from almost instantaneous events, like earthquakes, to the glacially slow motion of the tectonic plates. Everything we know about our world from a geologic perspective is based on information locked into the rock record and the
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When Life Nearly Died

The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time

par Michael J. Benton ...

Lu par Julian Elfer ...

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11 heure 33 min

Today it is common knowledge that the dinosaurs were wiped out by a meteorite impact sixty-five million years ago that killed half of all species then living. It is far less widely understood that a much greater catastrophe took place at the end of the Permian period 251 million years ago: at least ninety percent of life on earth was destroyed.When Life Nearly Died documents not only what happened ... En savoir plus

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Today it is common knowledge that the dinosaurs were wiped out by a meteorite impact sixty-five million years ago that killed half of all species then living. It is far less widely understood that a much greater catastrophe took place at the end of the Permian period 251 million years ago: at least ninety percent of life on earth was destroyed.When Life Nearly Died documents not only what happened
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Aquanaut

A Life Beneath The Surface – The Inside Story of the Thai Cave Rescue

par Rick Stanton ...

Lu par Rick Stanton, Don Gilet ...

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12 heure 21 min

Brought to you by Penguin.THE ENTHRALLING INSIDE STORY OF THE THAI CAVE RESCUE'They were utterly alone inside the mountain, isolated from the rest of the world. They might as well have been on another planet . . .'In July 2018, twelve boys and their football coach disappeared into Tham Luang Cave in Thailand.Trapped miles beneath the surface, not even the Thai Navy SEALs had the skills to bring ... En savoir plus

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Brought to you by Penguin.THE ENTHRALLING INSIDE STORY OF THE THAI CAVE RESCUE'They were utterly alone inside the mountain, isolated from the rest of the world. They might as well have been on another planet . . .'In July 2018, twelve boys and their football coach disappeared into Tham Luang Cave in Thailand.Trapped miles beneath the surface, not even the Thai Navy SEALs had the skills to bring
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Nomad Century

How Climate Migration Will Reshape Our World

par Gaia Vince ...

Lu par Gaia Vince ...

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9 heure 45 min

**The program is read by the author.Nomad Century is an** urgent investigation of the most underreported, seismic consequence of climate change: how it will force us to change where—and how—we live“We are facing a species emergency. We can survive, but to do so will require a planned and deliberate migration of a kind humanity has never before undertaken. This is the biggest human crisis you’ve ... En savoir plus

$35.99 CAD

**The program is read by the author.Nomad Century is an** urgent investigation of the most underreported, seismic consequence of climate change: how it will force us to change where—and how—we live“We are facing a species emergency. We can survive, but to do so will require a planned and deliberate migration of a kind humanity has never before undertaken. This is the biggest human crisis you’ve
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