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1.
Technological Slavery: Enhanced Edition (1)
by:
Theodore John Kaczynski
4.17 avg rating β 1,324 ratings
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Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How
by:
Theodore John Kaczynski
3.93 avg rating β 597 ratings
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Industrial Society and Its Future
by:
Theodore John Kaczynski
3.85 avg rating β 11,954 ratings
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The World Without Us
by:
Alan Weisman
3.81 avg rating β 42,954 ratings
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
by:
Jared Diamond
3.93 avg rating β 73,872 ratings
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The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
by:
Richard Preston
4.16 avg rating β 119,584 ratings
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With Speed and Violence: Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Change
by:
Fred Pearce
4.01 avg rating β 410 ratings
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Cult Girls
by:
Natalie Grand
4.32 avg rating β 793 ratings
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Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet
by:
Mark Lynas
4.06 avg rating β 2,056 ratings
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An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It
by:
Al Gore
3.78 avg rating β 6,948 ratings
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The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
by:
Laurie Garrett
4.21 avg rating β 10,688 ratings
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The Ends of the World
by:
Peter Brannen
4.29 avg rating β 5,874 ratings
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Global Catastrophic Risks
by:
Nick Bostrom
3.97 avg rating β 269 ratings
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The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century
by:
James Howard Kunstler
3.83 avg rating β 3,161 ratings
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The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
by:
David Wallace-Wells
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 29,325 ratings
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The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth
by:
Tim Flannery
3.92 avg rating β 3,336 ratings
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Our Final Hour: A Scientist's warning - How Terror, Error, and Environmental Disaster Threaten Humankind's Future in This Century β On Earth and Beyond
by:
Martin J. Rees
3.59 avg rating β 514 ratings
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The Day After the Dollar Crashes: A Survival Guide for the Rise of the New World Order
by:
Damon Vickers
2.96 avg rating β 140 ratings
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Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
by:
Nick Bostrom
3.85 avg rating β 20,389 ratings
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The Last Myth: What the Rise of Apocalyptic Thinking Tells Us about America
by:
Mathew Barrett Gross
3.78 avg rating β 102 ratings
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The End: What Science and Religion Tell Us about the Apocalypse
by:
Γmile P. Torres
3.96 avg rating β 53 ratings
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Sea Sick
by:
Alanna Mitchell
4.17 avg rating β 278 ratings
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The End of the World
by:
John A. Leslie
3.55 avg rating β 62 ratings
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Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future
by:
Martin Ford
3.96 avg rating β 9,472 ratings
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The West without Water: What Past Floods, Droughts, and Other Climatic Clues Tell Us about Tomorrow
by:
B. Lynn Ingram
4.07 avg rating β 148 ratings
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Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth
by:
Mark Hertsgaard
3.83 avg rating β 526 ratings
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The A-Z of Global Warming
by:
Simon Rosser
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 9 ratings
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The Long Thaw: How Humans Are Changing the Next 100,000 Years of Earth's Climate
by:
David Archer
3.89 avg rating β 226 ratings
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Slaughterhouse-Five
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Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
4.10 avg rating β 1,451,271 ratings
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Thrive: Long-Term Wilderness Survival Guide; Skills, Tips, and Gear for Living on the Land
by:
Juan Pablo QuiΓ±onez
4.28 avg rating β 29 ratings
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An Inconvenient Apocalypse: Environmental Collapse, Climate Crisis, and the Fate of Humanity
by:
Wes Jackson
3.57 avg rating β 189 ratings
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The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire: Why Our Species Is on the Edge of Extinction
by:
Henry Gee
3.75 avg rating β 203 ratings
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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
by:
Elizabeth Kolbert
4.15 avg rating β 77,281 ratings
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Hiroshima
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John Hersey
4.04 avg rating β 86,439 ratings
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Edible and Medicinal Plants of Canada
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Andy MacKinnon
4.36 avg rating β 157 ratings
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Silent Earth: Averting the Insect Apocalypse
by:
Dave Goulson
4.32 avg rating β 1,809 ratings
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The Long Descent: A User's Guide to the End of the Industrial Age
by:
John Michael Greer
4.18 avg rating β 793 ratings
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Catastrophe: Risk and Response
by:
Richard A. Posner
3.20 avg rating β 64 ratings
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What Stands in a Storm: Three Days in the Worst Superstorm to Hit the South's Tornado Alley
by:
Kim Cross
4.25 avg rating β 2,316 ratings
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A Great Aridness: Climate Change and the Future of the American Southwest
by:
William deBuys
4.27 avg rating β 265 ratings
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The Apocalypse Factory: Plutonium and the Making of the Atomic Age
by:
Steve Olson
4.13 avg rating β 757 ratings
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Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath
by:
Ted Koppel
3.71 avg rating β 5,479 ratings
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Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food
by:
Paul Greenberg
4.05 avg rating β 6,843 ratings
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Horsemen of the Apocalypse: The Men Who Are Destroying Life on EarthβAnd What It Means for Our Children
by:
Dick Russell
3.81 avg rating β 75 ratings
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The Fate of the Species: Why the Human Race May Cause Its Own Extinction and How We Can Stop It
by:
Fred Guterl
3.60 avg rating β 211 ratings
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Apocalyptic Planet: Field Guide to the Future of the Earth
by:
Craig Childs
4.05 avg rating β 852 ratings
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The End of Days (The Earth Chronicles, #7)
by:
Zecharia Sitchin
4.10 avg rating β 920 ratings
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The End Is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses
by:
Dan Carlin
3.89 avg rating β 13,341 ratings
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Viruses, Plagues, and History
by:
Michael B.A. Oldstone
3.89 avg rating β 1,265 ratings
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Cosmos, Chaos and the World to Come: The Ancient Roots of Apocalyptic Faith
by:
Norman Cohn
4.12 avg rating β 189 ratings
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Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
by:
Serhii Plokhy
4.23 avg rating β 11,074 ratings
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Nebuchadnezzar's Dream: The Crusades, Apocalyptic Prophecy, and the End of History
by:
Jay Rubenstein
4.07 avg rating β 28 ratings
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Picturing the Apocalypse
by:
O'Hear
4.67 avg rating β 3 ratings
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The Cartoon Introduction to Climate Change
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Yoram Bauman
4.07 avg rating β 259 ratings
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Apocalypse Then: American and Japanese Atomic Cinema, 1951-1967
by:
Mike Bogue
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 17 ratings
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The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in 17th Century North America and the Caribbean
by:
Gerald Horne
4.28 avg rating β 176 ratings
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A.D. 1000: A World on the Brink of Apocalypse
by:
Richard Erdoes
3.45 avg rating β 89 ratings
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American Exodus: Climate Change and the Coming Flight for Survival
by:
Giles Slade
3.84 avg rating β 37 ratings
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Mythical Indies and Columbus's Apocalyptic Letter: Imagining the Americas in the Late Middle Ages
by:
Elizabeth Moore Willingham
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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Earth in Human Hands: Shaping Our Planet's Future
by:
David Grinspoon
4.20 avg rating β 309 ratings
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The Last Apocalypse: Europe at the Year 1000 A.D.
by:
James Reston Jr.
3.72 avg rating β 480 ratings
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Apocalypse for Beginners
by:
Nicolas Dickner
3.54 avg rating β 1,281 ratings
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End Times: A Brief Guide to the End of the World
by:
Bryan Walsh
3.88 avg rating β 494 ratings
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The Ice at the End of the World: An Epic Journey into Greenland's Buried Past and Our Perilous Future
by:
Jon Gertner
4.17 avg rating β 1,250 ratings
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This Is the Way the World Ends: How Droughts and Die-offs, Heat Waves and Hurricanes Are Converging on America
by:
Jeff Nesbit
3.84 avg rating β 354 ratings
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The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
by:
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
3.97 avg rating β 7,629 ratings
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A History of the End of the World: How the Most Controversial Book in the Bible Changed the Course of Western Civilization
by:
Jonathan Kirsch
3.63 avg rating β 449 ratings
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Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom
by:
Tom Holland
3.84 avg rating β 4,315 ratings
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A Long Day at the End of the World: A Story of Desecration and Revelation in the Deep South
by:
Brent Hendricks
3.17 avg rating β 135 ratings