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The Only Possible Solution: How to Shape the Future for Our Next Generations (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 43 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,931 ratings — published 2026
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.16 — 28,587 ratings — published 2014
Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.48 — 11,498 ratings — published 2023
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.09 — 12,915 ratings — published 2002
A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.49 — 36,896 ratings — published 2020
The Precipice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as global-issues)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,580 ratings — published 2020
Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.16 — 16,735 ratings — published 2017
Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 31 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.21 — 45,281 ratings — published 2014
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.35 — 208,353 ratings — published 2018
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.15 — 56,987 ratings — published 2024
Thinking In Systems: A Primer (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.17 — 25,592 ratings — published 2008
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.49 — 193,722 ratings — published 2013
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.15 — 83,007 ratings — published 2014
The Ministry for the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as global-issues)
avg rating 3.86 — 46,503 ratings — published 2020
Abundance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as global-issues)
avg rating 3.87 — 58,021 ratings — published 2025
Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.22 — 8,753 ratings — published 2024
Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.49 — 10,475 ratings — published 2020
The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.05 — 7,215 ratings — published 2020
The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.27 — 65,548 ratings — published 2019
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.28 — 55,976 ratings — published 2008
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as global-issues)
avg rating 3.99 — 30,686 ratings — published 2019
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.55 — 85,040 ratings — published 2025
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as global-issues)
avg rating 3.66 — 359,752 ratings — published 2006
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.47 — 119,281 ratings — published 2016
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.18 — 126,913 ratings — published 2015
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.16 — 642,826 ratings — published 2012
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.27 — 25,331 ratings — published 2011
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as global-issues)
avg rating 3.69 — 102,864 ratings — published 2005
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.52 — 170,153 ratings — published 2020
No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as global-issues)
avg rating 3.84 — 28,404 ratings — published 2019
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.37 — 102,530 ratings — published 2017
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as global-issues)
avg rating 3.94 — 76,119 ratings — published 2004
A Long Walk to Water (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.25 — 110,026 ratings — published 2010
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.46 — 106,641 ratings — published 2009
The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as global-issues)
avg rating 3.66 — 11,325 ratings — published 2008
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.31 — 56,937 ratings — published 2007
The Weather Report: A Journey Through Unsettled Climates (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.94 — 34 ratings — published
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.31 — 314,876 ratings — published 2025
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.38 — 48,357 ratings — published 2022
Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as global-issues)
avg rating 3.96 — 5,895 ratings — published 2020
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.36 — 121,334 ratings — published 2019
The Age of Capital, 1848–1875 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.27 — 4,925 ratings — published 1975
The Third Way: The Renewal of Social Democracy (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as global-issues)
avg rating 3.59 — 614 ratings — published 1998
The New Liberty: Survival and Justice in a Changing World (Studies of Economic Growth in Industrialized Countries)
by (shelved 3 times as global-issues)
avg rating 3.00 — 5 ratings — published 1975
Politics and Economic Policy in Western Democracies (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as global-issues)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 1980
What's Left? (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,006 ratings — published 2007
The End of Alchemy: Money, Banking, and the Future of the Global Economy (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,253 ratings — published 2016
The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as global-issues)
avg rating 4.02 — 10,088 ratings — published 2012
The End of the Free Market: Who Wins the War Between States and Corporations? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as global-issues)
avg rating 3.43 — 535 ratings — published 2010
The Great Crash of 2008 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as global-issues)
avg rating 3.57 — 14 ratings — published 2009
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