July book recommendation
Bill Gates: How to Avoid a Climate Disaster
In this urgent, authoritative book, Bill Gates sets out a wide-ranging, practical and accessible plan for how the world can get to zero greenhouse gas emissions in time to avoid a climate catastrophe.
Bill Gates has spent a decade investigating the causes and effects of climate change. With the help of experts in the fields of physics, chemistry, biology, engineering, political science, and finance, he has focused on what must be done in order to stop the planet's slide to certain environmental disaster. In this book, he not only explains why we need to work toward net-zero emissions of greenhouse gases, but also details what we need to do to achieve this profoundly important goal.
He gives us a clear-eyed description of the challenges we face. Drawing on his understanding of innovation and what it takes to get new ideas into the market, he describes the areas in which technology is already helping to reduce emissions, where and how the current technology can be made to function more effectively, where breakthrough technologies are needed, and who is working on these essential innovations. Finally, he lays out a concrete, practical plan for achieving the goal of zero emissions—suggesting not only policies that governments should adopt, but what we as individuals can do to keep our government, our employers, and ourselves accountable in this crucial enterprise.
As Bill Gates makes clear, achieving zero emissions will not be simple or easy to do, but if we follow the plan he sets out here, it is a goal firmly within our reach.
https://www.amazon.com/How-Avoid-Climate-Disaster-Breakthroughs/dp/059321577X
John C. Maxwell: The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth
Are there tried and true principles that are always certain to help a person grow? John Maxwell says the answer is yes. He has been passionate about personal development for over fifty years, and for the first time, he teaches everything he has gleaned about reaching our potential. In the way that only he can communicate, John teaches . . .
The Law of the Mirror: You Must See Value in Yourself to Add Value to Yourself
The Law of Awareness: You Must Know Yourself to Grow Yourself
The Law of Modeling: It's Hard to Improve When You Have No One But Yourself to Follow
The Law of the Rubber Band: Growth Stops When You Lose the Tension Between Where You are and Where You Could Be
The Law of Contribution: Developing Yourself Enables You to Develop Others
This third book in John Maxwell's Laws series (following the 2-million seller The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership and The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork) will help you become a lifelong learner whose potential keeps increasing and never gets "used up."
https://www.amazon.com/15-Invaluable-Laws-Growth-Potential-ebook/dp/B0076DF6T4
Anna Berényi: Richter - A biographical novel of Gedeon Richter
When reality writes the novel ... Gedeon Richter has built something his whole life, always striving for improvement and perfection. He never gave up on his plans, which were considered hopeless by others, instead he always trusted in the future. And he believed in human sense.
A charming and heartbreaking story about a talented young man who was able to fight the world to make his dreams come true - and created the cradle of the Hungarian pharmaceutical industry, the Richter factory that became world-famous in his lifetime. From his childhood to his death, Anna Berényi accompanies Gedeon Richter's exciting life, his eternal love for his wife, his family and professional struggles, his successes and failures, the nobility of the pharmaceutical magnate and the tragedy of the humiliated pariah. In the pages of the captivating biographical novel, a grandiose fate unfolds, while in the background, after the Monarchy’s “happy times of peace,” there is the struggle of cataclysms, the Soviet Republic, the truncated country — ultimately distorted by the Holocaust into a nightmare reality.
Harriet Dyer: The Little Book of Going Green
The Little Book of Going Green aims to shed light on the ways humans are harming the environment, from pollution and deforestation to industrial production and farming methods. Filled with facts, theories and tips on how we can do our bit for the planet, this is your one-stop guide to making every aspect of your life earth-friendly.
