Gaia Vince
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Drought-hit regions bleeding those for whom a rural life has become untenable. Coastlines diminishing year on year. Wildfires and hurricanes leaving widening swaths of destruction. The culprit, most of us accept, is climate change, but not enough of us are confronting one of its biggest, and most present, consequences: a total reshaping of the earth’s human geography. As Gaia Vince points out early in Nomad Century, global migration has doubled...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In the tradition of Guns, Germs, and Steel and Sapiens, a winner of the Royal Society Prize for Science Books shows how four tools enabled has us humans to control the destiny of our species. "A wondrous, visionary work"--Tim Flannery, scientist and author of the bestselling The Weather Makers. What enabled us to go from simple stone tools to smartphones? How did bands of hunter-gatherers evolve into multinational empires? Readers of Sapiens will...