I appreciate the publisher allowing me to read this book. this was a very well written and researched book that I believe everyone should read.

Basic and uninteresting. If someone is going to write a book about climate change, it really needs to either present new information or present the old information in a new light. This book did neither of those things.

I was looking forward to reading this title but wasn't overly impressed with it, I have a lot of knowledge about climate change and this didn't tell me anything new. The arguments came across as one-sided and felt a rounded opinion would have been much better.

Not one I would recommend

Unfortunately, I this one to be a somewhat disappointing read. It may have been that having studied climate change, I was looking for something more, but for me the execution of the premise and what was promised in the introduction falls short, and there were many places where the arguments and conclusions felt a little too one-side or simplistic. However, I will say that I did appreciate the scope with which the author approached the Ice Ages, as often such studies will look at a localised region, whereas this one was much more global in its approach.

This was better than I thought it was going to be, but it did not give much new insight to what I have already read. learned and or studied about climate change.... I have read many this year. One of the better ones I have read besides, Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells is Superman Isn't Coming by Erin Brockovich. This has to do about all the changes after each ice age and humans come back/evolve.

This was very one-sided and opinionated at times which detracted from the reading. Just focusing on each ice age is a very narrow view. Not one of my favorite climate change books, just ok.

Thanks to Netgalley, John D Grainger, and Pen & Sword for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Available: 11/30/20

To start with the upside of this book, it covers a wide range of territory--basically the entirety of the inhabited Earth--over the course of the Last Glacial Maximum and subsequent warming. In that respect, it's a fascinating work, showing how humans have adapted to changing conditions and made use of the resources at hand to live the best lives they could imagine. If there's a note of hope for the future in this, it's that humanity *has* overcome stresses before, which suggests we might possibly do so again in the face of climate change.

However, the introduction hints that the author might provide deeper answers to how we might deal with climate crises, but Grainger's attempt to follow through on that falls woefully short. Aside from his doubts about anthropogenic causes for climate change (which at this point seem naive at best), his conclusion does little more than to say, "Oh, some humans will survive and figure it out. Probably move off-planet or closer to the poles." I'm sure the Canadians and Russians will be glad to hear that he's volunteered their territory for the massive influx of climate refugees. Oh, and Grainger realizes that a lot of people will die due to the impact of climate change. But that's just how it goes, according to him.

It sounds very much like the kind of insights we get from people who are pretty sure that, while a lot of people will die, they and theirs will not be among that number. It left a bitter aftertaste, and I wish the author had stuck with his focus on the anthropology of post-glacial prehistory and left the near future to those who have some sense of responsibility for the vulnerable.