#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 DemonNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New Yorker • The New York Times Book Review • Time • NPR • The Economist • The Paris Review • Toronto Star • GQ • The Times ...

Paradise Rue is the story of a young abandoned woman who makes her way to the exciting world of Montmartre in Paris in the late 1800s during the explosion of the French Impressionist art movement and the vibrant, budding nightclub scene in the district. Josay Rue learns to navigate this dangerous and difficult landscape by risk-taking and using talents she never knew she possessed. Along the way, she meets and befriends artists, entertainers, restauranteurs, business leaders, politicians, ...

THE DRUG ADDICTION RECOVERY GUIDEYou’re about to discover what causes drug addiction, and the best methods for overcoming it.This book covers the root causes of drug addiction, how to seek professional help, how to create a support group and how to avoid relapse.Drug addiction takes many lives around the world each year, and wrecks those of families and friends effected by the addict. Addiction can be complicated, but with the right help it can be b...

Originally writing over 600 years ago, Geoffrey Chaucer is today enjoying a global renaissance. Why do poets, translators, and audiences from so many cultures, from the mountains of Iran to the islands of Japan, find Chaucer so inspiring? In part this is down to the character and sheer inventiveness of Chaucer's work. At the time Chaucer's writings were not just literary adventures, but also a means of convincing the world that poetry and science, tragedy and astrology, could all be explor...

An exploration of the devastating effects of global warming—current and future—adapted for young adults from the #1 New York Times bestseller. This is not only an assessment on how the future will look to those living through it, but also a dire overview and an impassioned and hopeful call to action to change the trajectory while there is still time.The climate crisis that our nation currently faces, from rising temperatures, unfathomable drought, devastat...

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Philosophy of physics is concerned with the deepest theories of modern physics - notably quantum theory, our theories of space, time and symmetry, and thermal physics - and their strange, even bizarre conceptual implications. A deeper understanding of these theories helps both physics, through pointing the way to new theories and new applications, and philosophy, through seeing how our worldview has to change in the light of wh...

The last “Indian War” was fought against Native American children in the dormitories and classrooms of government boarding schools. Only by removing Indian children from their homes for extended periods of time, policymakers reasoned, could white “civilization” take root while childhood memories of “savagism” gradually faded to the point of extinction. In the words of one official: “Kill the Indian and save the man.”This fully revised edition of Education for Extinction of...

Winner of the 2025 Dwight L. Smith (ABC-CLIO) AwardTo Educate American Indians presents the most complete versions of papers presented at the National Educational Association’s Department of Indian Education meetings during a time when the debate about how best to “civilize” Indigenous populations dominated discussions. During this time two philosophies drove the conversation. The first, an Enlightenment era–influenced universalism, held that through an ed...

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General Richard Henry Pratt, best known as the founder and longtime superintendent of the influential Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania, profoundly shaped Indian education and federal Indian policy at the turn of the twentieth century. Pratt’s long and active military career included eight years of service as an army field officer on the western frontier. During that time he participated in some of the signal conflicts with Indians of the southern plains, including the Washita campaig...

Brought to life by a combination of love and magic, Felty is forced to navigate the treacherous problems of the real world. And right off the bat, he finds himself tangled in a treacherous corporate conspiracy. What's a good-hearted puppet to do?When his maker dies in a freak genetically engineered snack accident, Felty takes on the old man's debt to the mafia. And it's up to him to pay it off... fast! His puppet girlfriend masquerades as a human executive at the P...

What does realism about the quantum state imply? What follows when quantum theory is applied without restriction, if need be, to the whole universe? These are the questions which an illustrious team of philosophers and physicists debate in this volume. All the contributors are agreed on realism, and on the need, or the aspiration, for a theory that unites micro- and macroworlds, at least in principle. But the further claim argued by some is that if you allow the Schrödinger equation unrest...