The Uninhabitable Earth

Wallace-Wells, David: The Uninhabitable Earth

The earth has experienced five mass extinctions before the one we are living through now, each so complete a wiping of the...
Hothouse Earth

McGuire, Bill: Hothouse Earth

What I mean by hothouse Earth, then, is not an ice-free planet, but a world in which lethal heatwaves and temperatures in...

Smith, Will: Will

Are you paying attention to the wall? Or are you paying attention to the brick? Whether it was...

Engebrigtsen, Ada I.: Exploring Gypsiness

The Roma did not understand our problem. ‘Just say that your car has broken down, say you have no petrol, just lie’...

Al Aswany, Alaa: The Yacoubian Building

Then he would bring his speech to an end by cursing Abd el Nasser, who had introduced free education, or quote as...

Lamott, Anne: Bird by Bird

In seventh and eighth grades I still weighed about forty pounds. I was twelve years old and had been getting teased about...
Life on Earth

Attenborough, David: Life on Earth

Using this method we can estimate that the Last Universal Common Ancestor of all life on earth – commonly known as LUCA,...
Deer Hunting with Jeasus

Bageant, Joe: Deer Hunting with Jesus

When the middle-class citizens of Winchester or of the new suburbs of America—the 20 percent or so of Americans whose lives most...

Barrett, Lisa Feldman: Seven And A Half Lessons About The Brain

Why did a brain like yours evolve? That question is not answerable because evolution does not act with purpose—​there is no “why.”...

Kolbert, Elizabeth: The Sixth Extinction

If there is danger in the human trajectory, it is not so much in the survival of our own species as in...

Mounk, Yascha: The People vs. Democracy

But once a country was both affluent and democratic, it proved incredibly stable. Argentina had experienced a military coup in 1975, when...
12 pravidel

Peterson, Jordan B.: 12 pravidel pro život

V Mapách významu jsem přišel s myšlenkou, že dávné mýty a náboženské příběhy, zejména ty, které vzešly z rané orální tradice, jsou morální...
Moji mili

Moji milí: Sbírka romské narativní prózy

Blížil se den, kdy jsem měla nastoupit do první třídy, babička měla zrovna práci ve vedlejším městě. Nemohla se mnou tedy jít v...
Jako v nebi

Palán, Aleš: Jako v nebi, jenže jinak

Dneska nedělá zemědělství ten, jehož táta a děda byli sedláci, dneska dělá zemědělství ten, kdo umí udělat papíry. Protože papírování znamená dotace. Tohle je...
God Willing

Napieralski, Mikolai: God Willing

Normal, well-adjusted people don’t usually relocate to the middle of the desert. It takes a certain kind of disposition to end up out...
Smil Vaclav Growth

Smil, Vaclav: Growth

Recently it has been possible to claim that 90% or more of all the extant information in the world has been generated over...

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