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Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Bill Gates shares what he's learned in more than a decade of studying climate change and investing in innovations to address the problems, and sets out a vision for how the world can build the tools it needs to get to zero greenhouse gas emissions. Bill Gates explains why he cares so deeply about climate change and what makes him optimistic that the world can avoid the most dire effects of the climate crisis. Gates says, "We can work on a local,...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 576 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this fascinating foray into the centuries-old relationship between science and military power, acclaimed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and writer-researcher Avis Lang examine how the methods and tools of astrophysics have been enlisted in the service of war.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2017
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
449 pages : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Homo Deus asks the fundamental questions: Where do we go from here? And how will we protect this fragile world from our own destructive powers? This is the next stage of evolution.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
310 pages cm
Language
English
Description
Josh Chin and Liza Lin's Surveillance State is a groundbreaking work of investigative nonfiction on life in China's burgeoning surveillance state People living in democracies have for decades drawn comfort from the notion that their form of government, for all its flaws, is the best history has managed to produce. Surveillance State documents with startling detail how even as China's Communist Party pays lip service to democracy as a core value of...