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Joel E. Cohen is Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of Populations at the Rockefeller University and Columbia University and the author of How Many People Can the Earth Support? (April 2014)
The Case for More Babies
Are declining fertility rates a problem?
What to Expect When No One’s Expecting: America’s Coming Demographic Disaster
by Jonathan V. Last
April 24, 2014 issue
What Will It Take to Save the Earth?
The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World
by Daniel Yergin
Sustainable Energy—Without the Hot Air
by David J.C. MacKay
April 26, 2012 issue
Disaster Watch
Global Catastrophes and Trends: The Next Fifty Years
by Vaclav Smil
September 24, 2009 issue
The Bright Side of the Plague
The Black Death and the Transformation of the West
by David Herlihy, edited and with an introduction by Samuel K. Cohn, Jr.
March 4, 1999 issue
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