From the November 2020 Issue Three Cheers for Reason The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680–1790 By Ritchie Robertson LR
From the February 2019 Issue Eight Billion & Bust The Human Tide: How Population Shaped the Modern World By Paul Morland Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline By Darrell Bricker & John Ibbitson LR
From the December 2018 Issue When Terminator Pigs Roamed Europe: A Natural History By Tim Flannery LR
From the August 2018 Issue Vessel of Knowledge Endeavour: The Ship and the Attitude That Changed the World By Peter Moore
From the April 2018 Issue Snow Problem To the Edges of the Earth: 1909, the Race for the Three Poles, and the Climax of the Age of Exploration By Edward J Larson LR
From the December 2017 Issue Energising Evolution Inheritors of the Earth: How Nature Is Thriving in an Age of Extinction By Chris D Thomas Rise of the Necrofauna: The Science, Ethics, and Risks of De-Extinction By Britt Wray LR
From the September 2016 Issue Seven Billion and Counting How Population Change Will Transform Our World By Sarah Harper LR
From the May 2016 Issue Privateer, Polymath, Poet A Stain in the Blood: The Remarkable Voyage of Sir Kenelm Digby By Joe Moshenska
From the October 2015 Issue Engineering the Skies The Planet Remade: How Geoengineering Could Change the World By Oliver Morton LR
From the November 2014 Issue Green Shoots This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the Climate By Naomi Klein LR
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