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Author most recently of 'The Nutmeg's Curse'...

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    May 14

    "I personally think the word 'Anthropocene' can be useful if it's scope is limited solely to geology" -- .

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    May 14

    At least 8 are dead and more wounded after a man opened fire inside a Buffalo supermarket today. He live streamed the shooting after posting a manifesto that said white people are being replaced, and identified as a white supremacist and anti-Semite.

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    May 14

    Da "La grande cecità" fino all'ultimo "Jungle nama" (entrambi pubblicati dalla nostra casa editrice), Amitav Ghosh racconta il fragilissimo equilibrio tra natura e esseri umani. Il si aprirà con una lectio di : l'appuntamento è per giovedì 19 maggio.

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  4. May 14

    Strongly recommended. Sisters of Mokama is a moving story about a group of indomitable women, beautifully told by a writer of exceptional talent.

    Congrats to on “Sisters of Mokama” - so exciting! All-star blurbs from
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  5. May 14

    The audiobook of 'The Living Mountain'is really wonderful.

    It was a rare pleasure doing the narration of the very moving THE LIVING MOUTAIN audiobook with the amazing . Have always been a huge huge fan of . What a pleasure!
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    May 14
    Replying to

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    May 14

    weekend is going to be beautiful with this precious one ❣️ thank you for sharing your signed copy with me.

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    May 14

    Enjoying this book so much and reimagining 19th century , sailing ships & diverse experiences of forced in a way that no history book ever allowed me to do. Thank you !

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    May 14

    Mi ripeto, leggete questo libro di

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    May 13

    The U.S. government worked with southern white supremacists to systematically dispossess hundreds of thousands of Black farmers of farmland they owned In the early 1900s Black families owned 20 million acres. Today they own just 200K.

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    May 13

    8. For Dems to govern successfully, it’s important to right-size the role of economists in our policymaking culture. They should be in a supportive role, rather than a gate-keeping role, to more well-rounded, more inquisitive -- and less dogmatic -- forms of decision-making.

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    May 13

    6. Economists’ deep influence in Democratic policymaking has also come at the expense of other real and valuable forms of expertise. And it has supplanted Democrats’ connection with the lived experiences and needs of working class people who do not have fancy CVs.

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    May 13

    Sri Lanka crisis: How war heroes became villains. A good man read this and said “sounds familiar.” Oh yes, it does.

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    May 12

    Thanks for this powerful, gutpunch of a tale, . Those of us who work with Nature know the pecking order: that we are minions in front of her, mountains and seas.

    "To read this book, summon up science, literary metaphor or wonder, but re-read it next to the roots of a great tree, in the shadow of a great mountain."
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    May 12

    Horrors | How is the ongoing heatwave impacting India’s poor? The climate crisis will lead to “massive socio-political disruptions,” says world renowned writer How will the impact India?

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    May 12

    Advertently or inadvertently, we've systematically exploited nature to extreme extents leading to a complete mess. Presenting 's latest release : The Living Mountain, a Fable for our Times. Order 👉

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    May 12

    IT'S HERE! 's much-awaited title is available in both English and Hindi 🧡 The stunning cover is by ! 📩 Shop from our indie bookstore - we ship wherever you read! Drop us a message and we'll deliver.

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    May 13

    What an absolute, absolute joy to meet at the office today!

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    May 12

    A multi breadbasket failure is already happening and the northern hemisphere isn't even into summer. A famine takes two years to develop, this is the first, WW3 is building in the forefront, but crop losses behind the scenes this year will be impossible to ignore next.

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    May 12

    this reminds me vividly of ’s great derangement, and the observation of the absurdity of building our most expensive houses near coasts where the effects of environmental disaster are most strongly felt. now we are seeing the actual effects. (I <3 apocalypse class)

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    An unoccupied house on stilts in Rodanthe, North Carolina, as it collapses into the ocean this afternoon. Was worth $381,200 according to Zillow.
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