A small library of e-books that may be useful when following the course «The Past, Present and Possible Future of Humanity and the Biosphere: Exhaustion or Prosperity?». Rights to these books belong to their authors and publishers. They are used here for work with students within the course, not for the benefit of the website authors. We hope that getting acquainted with these sources on our site will lead their readers to purchase print copies when possible.
By the way, the course authors have not read all of these books. They may disagree with many statements contained in these sources. The inclusion of a particular source here indicates only one thing: the course authors consider it interesting for discussion... What kind of discussion the course authors have in mind is explained here.
Al-Khalili_(ed)_2018_Are We Alone in the Universe?_Leading scientists on the search for extraterrestrial life
Al-Khalili_(ed)_2020_What the Future Looks Like_Scientists predict the next great discoveries
Berkovich_2017_The Origin of Everything_From the Big Bang to Human Civilization
Weinberg_2015_To Explain the World_The Discovery of Modern Science
Diamond 2010 Collapse
Diamond 2012 Guns, Germs, and Steel. The Fates of Human Societies
Diamandis_Kotler_2018_Abundance_The Future Is Better Than You Think
Dawkins_2016_The Magic of Reality_How We Know What's Really True
Zhuravlev_2018_The Creation of the Earth
Kaku_2013_Physics of the Future
Kurzweil_2015_The Evolution of Mind
Kurzweil_2017_Transcend_Nine Steps to Living Well Forever
Carroll_2017_The Big Picture_On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself
Lorenz 2016 Behind the Mirror
Meadows_Randers_Meadows_2014_Limits to Growth_30 Years Later
Meadows_2018_Thinking in Systems
Nazaretyan 2007 Anthropology of Violence and the Culture of Self-Organization: Essays in Evolutionary-Historical Psychology
Nazaretyan_2013_The Nonlinear Future
Nikitin_2016_The Origin of Life_From Nebula to Cell
Ostrom_2013_Governing the Commons_The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action
Pereslegin_Pereslegina_2015_Wild Cards of the Future_Force Majeure for Humanity
Prorokov_(ed)_2017_The Question_The Future
Roberts_2018_The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being_Evolution and the Making of Us
Sagan_2015_Cosmos_The Evolution of the Universe, Life and Civilization
Turchin_Batin_2013_Futurology_XXI Century_Immortality or Global Catastrophe
Wilson 2014 The Social Conquest of Earth
Wilson_2017_Half-Earth_Our Planet's Fight for Life
Wilson_2019_The Origins of Creativity
Wilson R. 1998 Quantum Psychology
Fukuyama_2004_Our Posthuman Future_Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution
Harari_2016_Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Harari_2018_Homo Deus_A Brief History of Tomorrow
Hawking_Mlodinow_2013_The Grand Design
Hochfeld_2020_The Age of Living Machines_The Biological Revolution in Technology
Holt_2016_Why Does the World Exist?_An Existentialist Detective Story
Shubin_2010_Your Inner Fish
Shubin_2013_The Universe Within_From Quantum to Cosmos
Yastrebov_2018_From Atoms to the Tree_Introduction to Modern Life Science

And what books, in your opinion, should be here but are absent?