Tucson Festival of Books

From Poles to Pollution


Authors Edward Humes and Neil Shubin share the Science Stage to discuss the long-term effects that current environmental practices have on people and our planet, and steps we can take to protect the natural world and improve our future health and prosperity.


Panelists
Edward Humes

Edward Humes is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author whose 16 previous books include "The Forever Witness," "Mississippi Mud," "Garbology," and the PEN Award–winning "No Matter How Loud I Shout....

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Neil Shubin

Neil Shubin is the bestselling author of "Your Inner Fish," "The Universe Within," and "Some Assembly Required." He is the Robert R. Bensley Professor of Organismal Biology and Anatomy at the University of Chicago....

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Books:
Total Garbage
How We Can Fix Our Waste and Heal Our World
Edward Humes
Current Issues / Politics / Social Science
Penguin Group
February 2025
ISBN 9780593543375
288 pages
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Ends of the Earth
Journeys to the Polar Regions in Search of Life, the Cosmos, and Our Future
Neil Shubin
Science / Medicine / Technology
Penguin Group
February 2025
ISBN 9780593186527
288 pages
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