Earth and climate books

Earth and climate books to start from. Open one to see books like it, or tell BookSense what you loved for four picks made for you.

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The Sea Around Us
Rachel Carson
A popular account of the ocean's physical and biological history, written for general readers and often cited as an early influence on modern environmental writing.
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Earth Science
Edward J. Tarbuck
A standard textbook of the period that covers the Earth's materials, processes and history in the structured form used in schools and colleges. The catalogue lists this year; later editions were co-written with Frederick K. Lutgens.
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The End of Nature
Bill McKibben
An early popular book on global warming, arguing that human changes to the climate had ended nature as something independent of human activity.
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This Changes Everything
Naomi Klein
Connects climate change to the economic system and to politics, and is widely read as a counterpart to the scientific climate literature.
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The Uninhabitable Earth
David Wallace-Wells
A survey of possible climate impacts written for a general audience, and a common reference point in recent debate about how much to emphasise worst-case outcomes.
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