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How our animal heritage affects the way we live
by Jared Diamond (1991)

How the human species changed, within a short time, from just another species of big mammal to a world conqueror; and how we acquired the capacity to reverse all that progress overnight.

Categories:  Diamond, Jared, environment, history, science, social science
Tags:environment, evolution, history, Jared-Diamond, popular-science, science, social science

Chronicle of the Future
by Svetlana Alexievich (1997)

“This is not a book about Chernobyl, but about the world of Chernobyl,” a wide range of oral, first-hand testimony, accounts, sometimes occasional rant and condemnations from broad range of people involved and/or affected by Chernobyl.

Categories:  Alexievich, Svetlana, biography & memoirs, current events, Eastern/Central Europe, environment, history, Recommended, Russia & USSR
Tags:biography & memoirs, current events, Eastern-Europe, environment, history, Russia & USSR, social science

How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive
by Jared Diamond (2005).

Whereas Guns, Germs and Steel explains why history unfolded differently on different continents with varying successes, Collapse gives the other side of the coin: how societies crumble.

Categories:  Diamond, Jared, environment, Recommended, science, social science
Tags:environment, Jared-Diamond, politics, science, social science