The Optimist's Telescope
Language: en
Pages: 338
Authors: Bina Venkataraman
Categories: Business & Economics
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-08-25 - Publisher: Penguin

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Named a Best Book of 2019 by NPR “How might we mitigate losses caused by shortsightedness? Bina Venkataraman, a former climate adviser to the Obama administra
Pessimism
Language: en
Pages: 313
Authors: Joshua Foa Dienstag
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-02-17 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

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Pessimism claims an impressive following--from Rousseau, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche, to Freud, Camus, and Foucault. Yet "pessimist" remains a term of abuse--an
Blue Remembered Earth
Language: en
Pages: 576
Authors: Alastair Reynolds
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-06-05 - Publisher: Penguin

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The first novel in the Poseidon's Children series from the acclaimed author of the Revelation Space series. One hundred and fifty years from now, Africa has bec
Spaceman
Language: en
Pages: 343
Authors: Mike Massimino
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-09-12 - Publisher: Crown

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Have you ever wondered what it would be like to find yourself strapped to a giant rocket that’s about to go from zero to 17,500
American Oligarchs: The Kushners, the Trumps, and the Marriage of Money and Power
Language: en
Pages: 496
Authors: Andrea Bernstein
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-01-14 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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An absorbing, novelistic, and powerfully affecting work of history and investigative journalism that tracks the unraveling of American democracy. In American Ol