Australia has become a dangerously complacent country, dancing to the reactionary tune of the Murdoch pressAustralia has become the complacent country. Complacent about its future economic competitiveness. Complacent about climate change. Complacent about how to navigate our future in the region... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2019-09-06 20:00:48 UTC ]
Remember a few years ago when adults discovered coloring books and a wave of new pieces hailed them as a tool for mindfulness and dealing with anxiety? In a move both educational and depressingly efficient, this coloring book on climate change and renewable energy covers the topic that is... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2019-07-26 15:06:44 UTC ]
Suketu Mehta says migrants have a right to come to the richer nations that have ruined their homelands. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2019-06-21 12:00:00 UTC ]
PRH imprint Hamish Hamilton will publish Jonathan Safran Foer’s "urgent and compelling work" of non-fiction We Are The Weather: Saving The Planet Begins At Breakfast later this year. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-06-08 12:53:45 UTC ]
Thousands of tufted puffins in the Bering Sea are dead partly because of starvation and stress brought on by changing climate conditions, researchers say. Continue reading >> [ Source: CBC | 2019-05-30 17:00:00 UTC ]
Bloomsbury imprint Sigma has snapped up Dr Alice Bell's book on the history of climate change. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-05-20 17:01:46 UTC ]
Political temperatures rise and vicious storms pound the coast in Belle Boggs' witty debut, set in Obama's America. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Huffington Post | 2019-04-30 22:02:59 UTC ]
Rigoberto González’s recent book of poetry, "The Book of Ruin," has a dark core. “It’s an apocalyptic narrative,” González tells The Times in a video interview. “I’m imagining the end of the world: climate change, all of the different damage that we’ve done to this world. I’m exploring the ways... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2019-04-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Indigo Press has acquired a book by Netherlands-based academic Paul Behrens, labelled "A Sapiens for the environment", as hundreds of thousands of students protest about climate change. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-03-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Week in Libraries, May 18, 2018: Among this week's headlines, the Senate votes to save net neutrality; How climate change is threatening libraries; Education Week looks at the ranks of our school librarians. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-05-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Welcome to the books newsletter! I’m Carolyn Kellogg, L.A. Times books editor, and this is what’s going on in books this week. THE BIG STORY William T. Vollmann writes big, ambitious journalism — books about poverty, violence, the history of North America — and now, climate change. “Carbon... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2018-05-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Welcome to Ad Age's Wake-Up Call, our daily roundup of advertising, marketing, media and digital-related news. You can now get an audio version of this briefing on your Alexa device. Click here, or search for "Ad Age" under "Skills" in the Alexa app.What people are talking about today: The Koch... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2017-11-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Lots of people worry about climate change, but as David Wallace-Wells shows in his recent New York magazine piece, the future is almost certainly worse than you imagine. Drawing on a wide range of experts, he tracks how climate change could alter every aspect of planetary existence. Ocean... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2017-07-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is coauthor of 'Climate of Hope,' a solution-oriented book about what individuals and governments can and should be doing about climate change. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2017-05-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Scholarly publisher De Gruyter and a number of university presses, are involved in a joint initiative to offer free content on topical issues such as immigration, ethics, climate change and Islamic studies. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-04-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
What would it look like if America went to war with itself over oil, against a backdrop of devastation from the effects of climate change? The dystopian “American War,” a debut novel by journalist Omar El Akkad, makes such catastrophic “what if?” scenarios personal via an intimate portrait of a... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2017-03-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
Prince Charles has written a book on climate change as part of a new Ladybird Expert series, set to be published later this month. His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales has written The Ladybird Expert Book on Climate Change, outlining its challenges and possible solutions, along with former... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-01-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
How do writers and publishers handle charged topics like climate change? Environmentalist Jamie Clarke makes a case for including more perspectives, both for the sake of book sales and the planet. The post Can Better Writing Make Climate Change Less Polarizing? appeared first on Publishing... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2016-12-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Early Monday afternoon, President Barack Obama debuted an official Facebook page for the Oval Office. Obama's first post entailed a message about climate change, with a video in which he gives a brief tour of the White House backyard and tells listeners that a fox and a hawk regularly roam the... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2015-11-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Julie Pickford has written a diary novel, but it will focus on her life in 1976, rather than her time working with ex-BBC chat-show hostFirst it was Kay Burley, then former TV producer and Channel 4 and Sky exec Jacquie Lawrence publishing a novel, now Monkey hears another telly type has taken... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-06-12 00:00:00 UTC ]