Books by Rowan Hooper
Rowan Hooper is a senior editor at New Scientist magazine, and host of their podcasts New Scientist Weekly and New Scientist Escape Pod. After gaining a PhD in evolutionary biology, he worked as a biologist in Japan in a conservation lab, then held a fellowship in a nanophysics lab at Trinity College Dublin. He is the author of Superhuman: Life at the Extremes of Mental and Physical Ability and How To Spend A Trillion Dollars: Saving the World and Solving the Biggest Mysteries of Science.
Interviews with Rowan Hooper
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The Sixth Extinction
by Elizabeth Kolbert -
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Frankissstein: A Novel
by Jeanette Winterson -
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The Ministry for the Future: A Novel
by Kim Stanley Robinson -
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Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
by Jason Hickel -
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Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming
by Paul Hawken (editor)
The best books on Global Challenges, recommended by Rowan Hooper
The best books on Global Challenges, recommended by Rowan Hooper
Which are the most pressing global challenges we face today? In How to Spend a Trillion Dollars Rowan Hooper, a senior editor at the New Scientist, makes the case for the ones he considers the most urgent. Here, he recommends books that help illuminate some of those challenges—including the amazing resource that is ‘Project Drawdown’.