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	How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need 4.21 avg rating — 17,159 ratings — published 2021 — 46 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy by Bill Gates (Goodreads Author), Collins Hemingway (Goodreads Author) 3.82 avg rating — 4,346 ratings — published 1999 — 61 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Road Ahead 3.74 avg rating — 3,925 ratings — published 1995 — 50 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Best Motivational Speeches of All Times 3.90 avg rating — 108 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How to Avoid a Climate Disaster By Bill Gates & Range How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World By David Epstein 2 Books Collection Set by Bill Gates (Goodreads Author), David Epstein (Goodreads Author) 4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard P. Feynman, Bill Gates (Goodreads Author) (Introduction), Ralph Leighton (Editor) 4.25 avg rating — 171,825 ratings — published 1985 — 126 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft's Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone by Satya Nadella, Greg Shaw, Jill Tracie Nichols 3.80 avg rating — 13,683 ratings — published 2017 — 54 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies by Reid Hoffman (Goodreads Author) (Author, Narrator), Chris Yeh (Author, Narrator), Bill Gates (Goodreads Author) (Foreword) 3.98 avg rating — 4,205 ratings — published 2018 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Showing Up for Life: Thoughts on the Gifts of a Lifetime by Bill Gates Sr., Mary Ann Mackin, Bill Gates (Goodreads Author) (Foreword) 3.77 avg rating — 955 ratings — published 2009 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tools and Weapons: The Promise and the Peril of the Digital Age by Brad Smith (Narrator), Carol Ann Browne (Goodreads Author), Bill Gates (Goodreads Author) 3.93 avg rating — 1,216 ratings — published 2019 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Bill Gates added a status update: I’ve seen exciting progress in the more than 15 years that I’ve been learning about energy and climate change. What we need now is a plan that turns all this momentum into practical steps to achieve our big goals. That’s what How to Avoid a Climate Disaster is: a plan for eliminating greenhouse gas emissions. I hope you'll check out this quick video.
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Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence by Christian Parenti

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Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future by Elizabeth Kolbert

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Losing Earth: A Recent History by Nathaniel Rich

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How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need by Bill Gates

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Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet by Mark Lynas

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Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming by Paul Hawken

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The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable by Amitav Ghosh

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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert

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The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells

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The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here by Hope Jahren

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