According to Vaclav Smil, the problem in much of the world is not too little food but too much, which leads to high rates of ...

Sapiens The book focuses on Homo sapiens, and surveys the history of humankind, starting from the Stone Age and going up to ...

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Pan Macmillan; £18.99 The last eight months of the war in Europe were among the bloodiest and most destructive. Adolf Hitler ...

We Grow the World Together isn’t necessarily a how-to guide on abolitionist parenting, because it’s inherently expansive.

As the president embraces Putin, longtime allies are starting to view the U.S. not just as unreliable but as a possible ...

The economic disparities between countries are among the most pressing challenges facing the modern world. These disparities are the result of a long history of inequalities in natural ...

Lampedusa's mid-20th-Century novel The Leopard became a bestseller, then a revered film – and is now a lavish Netflix series ...

As with much else in the world in 2025, the world of education—and more specifically design education (which is perhaps the most inter-disciplinary of all learning fields)—is in a state of flux.

In Agustina Bazterrica’s new novel, “The Unworthy,” a dystopian future ravaged by climate change has stripped the world of ...