Safeguarding collective wisdom is a powerful tool for civilization to overcome the major upheavals ahead.Climate change, civil unrest, wars: How will we make it through the tough times looming before us? By remembering, Mary Soderstrom argues. Ours is not the first time in history when catastrophe has threatened societies, and using examples from China, the Roman Empire, and North American Indigenous cultures, Soderstrom shows how memory can lead the way toward the...

An incredible read.… While unflinching in her analysis, Soderstrom nevertheless gifts us with a message of hope and resilience. — MAUDE BARLOW, activist and author of Still Hopeful: Lessons from a Lifetime of Activism.What can we learn about coping with rising sea levels from ancient times?The scenario we are facing is scary: within a few decades, sea levels around the world may well rise by a metre or more as glaciers and ice caps melt due to clim...

Taking us on walks through Paris, New York, Toronto, North Vancouver and Singapore, Mary Soderstrom examines how cites have changed the lives of ordinary citizens—in positive and negative ways. Making the city walkable again is crucial. The author looks to the future and suggests ways in which we can reorganize our lives and our cities. The idea that a city might not be walkable would never occur to anyone who lived before 1800. Over the past 200 years there have been dramatic changes to o...

An in-depth look at places—nation-states, states, and provinces—that are geographically side-by-side but otherwise, worlds apart.In the summer of 1968, Mary Soderstrom and her husband loaded up their VW Beetle and immigrated to Canada from the United States. The contrast between their new home and their old led to a long-running reflection on what makes the two countries different. How could two places that are similar in so many ways be so disparate in others?...

A fascinating history of the carbon footprint of our concrete world—from ancient Roman architecture to urban cityscapes—and the trouble it spells for sustainability amidst rapid climate change.For readers of The Sixth Extinction and The Uninhabitable Earth, Concrete explores the history of a material that has been central to architecture and design for thousands of years—and what its future looks like in a world experiencing rapid climate...

Green City: People, Nature, and Urban Places looks at eleven cities the world over to see how people and nature have interacted over the course of history, and how people attempt to bring nature into cities. In each of these locations, Soderstrom examines how people have tried to make a connection with naturehow well theyve done is both a lesson in hope and, often, a warning. Featuring chapters on Babylon, Provins (France), London and Bloomsbury, Hamilton, Chicago, Irvine, Singapore, Tanga...

"A beautiful interweaving of memoir and history, of driving narrative and insightful reflection."—Ken McGoogan, author of Dead Reckoning and Kerouac's GhostAccessible and entertaining, Road Through Time begins with the story of how anatomically modern humans left Africa to populate the world. She then carries us along the Silk Road in Central Asia, and tells of roads built for war in Persia, the Andes, and the Roman Empire. She sails acro...

In a brief, panicked moment, Rick mistakes the kindness of an apparent stranger for a threatening act, and inadvertently commits murder. He flees the scene, and tries to keep secret from his family the unfortunate event that has occurred. Little does he know that not only has he killed an innocent man, but the man is the son of Annie, with whom Rick had an intense relationship in his youth.As Rick and Annie struggle to come to terms with the tragedy, each recalls the life they once...

The scenario we are facing is scary: within a few decades, sea levels around the world may well rise by a meter or more as glaciers and ice caps melt due to climate change. Large parts of our coastal cities will be flooded, the basic outline of our world will be changed, and torrential rains will present their own challenges. But this is not the first time that people have had to cope with threatening waters, because sea levels have been rising for thousands of years, ever since the end of...

Vi lever i ett 24-timmarssamha¨lle med oa¨ndliga aktiveringsmo¨jligheter. Gra¨nserna mellan dag och natt, arbete och fritid, aktivitet och vila, suddas ut alltmer. Kraven finns att vi ska vara tillgängliga jämt, via mejl, sms och mobilsamtal. Samtidigt ökar så kallade utmattningssyndrom, som kan leda till depressioner och sjukskrivningar. Finns det något samband? Hur ska man hitta en balans i livet när livspusslet ibland känns övermäktigt?Ny forskning tyder pa° att det a¨r vilan – ...

SOV BÄTTRE MED KBT! Sömn är livsviktigt. Men allt fler har idag svårt att sova. Det beror bland annat på att gränserna mellan aktivitet och vila suddas ut alltmer i det nya 24-timmarssamhället där vi ständigt ska vara tillgängliga. Sömnforskaren och psykologen Marie Söderström presenterar de senaste rönen om sömn och stress i denna heltäckande bok om sömnbesvär. Och hur man med hjälp av KBT, får konkreta verktyg att på egen hand komma till rätta med problemen. KBT är den metod som i forskn...