• The best books on Batteries - Volt Rush: The Winners and Losers in the Race to Go Green by Henry Sanderson
  • The best books on Batteries - The Powerhouse: Inside the Invention of a Battery to Save the World by Steve LeVine
  • The best books on Batteries - The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations by Daniel Yergin
  • The best books on Batteries - Charged: A History of Batteries and Lessons for a Clean Energy Future by James Morton Turner
  • The best books on Batteries - Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives by Siddharth Kara

The best books on Batteries, recommended by Lukasz Bednarski

As the world turns to electric vehicles and renewable energy to help stave off a climate crisis, there will be huge changes for individuals, industries and even the world geopolitical order. Lukasz Bednarski, a battery analyst, former rare metals trader, and author of Lithium, The Global Race for Battery Dominance, talks us through some of the books that shed light on what’s going on, from the cobalt mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo to the high-tech labs where the latest battery technology is being developed.

  • The best books on Climate Change and Uncertainty - Field Notes From a Catastrophe: Man, nature and climate change by Elizabeth Kolbert
  • The best books on Climate Change and Uncertainty - Arctic Dreams by Barry Lopez
  • The best books on Climate Change and Uncertainty - Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer
  • The best books on Climate Change and Uncertainty - Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
  • The best books on Climate Change and Uncertainty - Strangers in Their Own Land by Arlie Russell Hochschild

The best books on Climate Change and Uncertainty, recommended by Kate Marvel

‘When we talk about climate change, we sometimes assume people will be swayed by one more graph, one more coherent argument. But that’s not how people work. More facts don’t change minds, and deeply held views don’t always dictate behaviour.’ How, then, to grapple with a future that ‘might be weirder than we realise’? Kate Marvel, Associate Research Scientist at Columbia University and NASA, recommends an essential reading list for those ready to confront climate change and the uncertainties it brings

  • The best books on The Politics of Climate Change - The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable by Amitav Ghosh
  • The best books on The Politics of Climate Change - Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of a Civilization by Roy Scranton
  • The best books on The Politics of Climate Change - Love in the Anthropocene by Bonnie Nadzam & Dale Jamieson
  • The best books on The Politics of Climate Change - The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free Markets since the Depression by Angus Burgin
  • The best books on The Politics of Climate Change - The Madhouse Effect: How Climate Change Denial is Threatening Our Planet, Destroying Our Politics, and Driving Us Crazy by Michael E Mann & Tom Toles

The best books on The Politics of Climate Change, recommended by Naomi Oreskes

‘We’re on a path that is going to lead to tremendous destruction and yet most of us are going about our lives as if nothing particularly special is happening.’ The science of climate change is incontrovertible but deniers persist and political and economic solutions continue to be – systematically – frustrated. Time is running out, says Naomi Oreskes