Climate History

A revolutionary new history that reveals how climate change has dramatically shaped the development—and demise—of civilizations across time Global warming is one of the greatest dangers mankind faces today. Even as temperatures increase, sea levels rise, and natural disasters escalate, our...

 The Little Ice Age tells the story of the turbulent, unpredictable, and often very cold years of modern European history, how climate altered historical events, and what they mean in the context of today’s global warming.  

A Brief History of the Earth's Climate is an accessible, myth-busting guide to the natural evolution of the Earth's climate over 4.6 billion years, and how and why human-caused global warming and climate change is different and much more dangerous. It covers the major historical climate change processes, as well as recent human-induced climate change and the implications of the COVID pandemic for climate change. It is an essential listen for everyone who is looking to understand what drives climate change, counter skeptics and deniers, and take action on the climate emergency.

A Financial Times Most Anticipated Book of 2025 A sweeping, dramatic history of capitalism as seen through the eyes of its fiercest critics. At a time when artificial intelligence, climate change, and inequality are raising fundamental questions about the economic system, Capitalism and Its...

“Riveting.” —Adam Federman, The New Republic “Cinematic, suspenseful, totally immersive.” —Zoë Schlanger, New York Times bestselling author of The Light Eaters “This book is a marvel.” —Robert Moor, New York Times bestselling author of On Trails and In Trees “Masterful...

#1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A “fantastic” (Mark Ruffalo), fiercely argued takedown of neoliberalism that not only defines this slippery concept but connects it to the climate crisis, poverty, and fascism—and shows us how to fight back. “Incisive, illuminating, eye-opening—an...

A SUNDAY TIMES BEST NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY A beautiful, lyrical exploration of the places where nature is flourishing in our absence "[Flyn] captures the dread, sadness, and wonder of beholding the results of humanity's destructive impulse, and she arrives at a new...

Once again George Mitrovic is looking at a series of mysteries. In this book he is examining the proofs for Climate change being unique to and caused by the civilization of our present day. Unfortunately, he has found repetitions of climate that make our present one a pleasant day in the park, or should I say interstadial and that our technology may exacerbate the climate, it is nothing compared to the events of the past, and the climatic events that will be occurring in the future. George has also found that the scientific study of geology amongst other sciences, are based on an incorrect ...

*Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker and Literary Hub!* A Finalist for the 2022 NBCC Awards in Nonfiction, the 2023 Phillip D. Reed Environmental Writing Award, and the NEIBA 2023 New England Book Award* From Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Proulx, this riveting deep dive into the...

Why past climate change tells us it's almost too late. A warning and a rallying-cry. 'Read it and weep, or read it and win' Chris Packham A global refugee crisis. Extreme storms. Agriculture devastated. Economic ruin. Societal collapse. These are not just possibilities but likely outcomes of our...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the acclaimed author of Evil Geniuses comes an electrifying, provocative history of American delusion—“an important book for understanding America in the age of Trump” (Walter Isaacson, author of Elon Musk). “A frighteningly convincing and sometimes...

“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...

The rise of human civilization and all of recorded history occurred in this warm period, known as the Holocene. Until very recently, we had no detailed record of climate changes during the Holocene. Now we do. In this engrossing and captivating look at the human effects of climate variability, Brian Fagan shows how climate functioned as what the historian Paul Kennedy described as one of the “deeper transformations” of history—a more important historical factor than we understand.

Risk is not danger. It is the counting. Every society is a bet. Its granaries wager on the harvest, its walls on the enemy, its debts on a future that has not yet voted on the matter. Most of those bets are counted wrong. The errors are not random. They are patterned. In Risk, Joel Thomas examines how human beings and the institutions they build estimate the likelihood of disaster, and why they get it wrong with such remarkable consistency. The cause is not stupidity or bad luck. It is structure. Minds were built to flee predators, not to compare a one-in-a-million risk with a one-in-a-...

Discover the invisible infrastructure reshaping the world’s largest asset class. For over a century, commercial real estate operated on an analog playbook. Deals were won through local monopolies, personal Rolodexes, and a "ledger-in-head" mentality. Investment committees relied on out-of-date demographic reports, primitive paper maps, and the subjective "gut feel" of seasoned operators. That era is over. The latency between asking a question and answering it has approached zero, and the competitive edge has fundamentally shifted.

Brazil: Sleeping Giant is a sweeping, urgent, and accessible history of one of the world’s most important—and most misunderstood—nations. From the ancient geological origins of the Amazon rainforest to the explosive social and political battles of the 21st century, this book tells the story of Brazil in all its contradictions: a country of wealth and poverty, democracy and dictatorship, global influence and internal fragility. Author and historian Donald Elton explores the deep roots of Brazil’s inequality, the cultural power of its music and people, and the global stakes of the ...

To understand Earth’s future, we must first look 13.8 billion years into the past. Climate change is often debated in the context of the next election cycle or the last ten years of weather. But to truly understand Earth’s climate, you have to look bigger. Much bigger. In his 30th book, veteran author J.P. Ames takes readers on a breathtaking scientific journey that begins not with the Industrial Revolution, but with the Big Bang. Earth Climate History: Cycles and Causes is the missing manual for our planet. It strips away the politics and the shouting to focus on the physics, astronomy...

A “marvelous history”* of medieval Europe, from the bubonic plague and the Papal Schism to the Hundred Years’ War, by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Guns of August *Lawrence Wright, author of The End of October, in The Wall Street Journal The fourteenth century reflects two...

From the creator of the award-winning podcast series The History of Rome and Revolutions comes the fascinating history of the bloody battles, political machinations, and human drama that set the stage for the fall of the Roman Republic. "Remarkably engaging." —Washington Post The Roman...

How well do you know the ground beneath your feet? A primer for every Earth resident, by Harvard’s acclaimed geologist. “A sublime chronicle of our planet."" –Booklist, STARRED review Odds are, where you’re standing was once cooking under a roiling sea of lava, crushed by a towering...