Former vice president and bestselling author Al Gore presents a frank and clear-eyed assessment of the emerging forces that are reshaping our world, offering a sober, learned, and ultimately hopeful forecast.

New York Times food writer and author (How to Cook Everything and Food Matters) who espouses healthy, low-cost meals and looking “at the links among eating too much meat, obesity, [and] global warming....”

Author of 14 novels (World’s End, The Women, forthcoming San Miguel) and 9 story collections whose writing is a “fascinating, unpredictable, alternately hilarious and terrifying fictional history of utopian longing in America.”

Award-winning author of 14 novels (Love Medicine, The Plague of Doves), short stories (The Red Convertible), poetry (Original Fire), children’s books (The Porcupine Year), and a memoir of early motherhood.

Filmmaker (The Future, Me and You and Everyone We Know), artist (Eleven Heavy Things, at the 2009 Venice Biennale), and writer (It Chooses You).