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Journey to the Italy of the Anthropocene

To make us reflect on the concrete risks we could face, the philosopher and evolutionist Telmo Pievani and the geographer Mauro Varotto have imagined how Italy will transform projecting us, in a dystopian way, in the year 2786.

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Finitude

In a refined game of facts and fictions, Finitudine is the story of the true friendship between two Nobel laureates, a compelling dialogue, a book within a book. After the success of Imperfection, Telmo Pievani returns with a surprising text that addresses with poetry a philosophical and scientific theme that touches us all.

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DNA

Born from the show "DNA" - a project of AIRC and the musical collective Deproducers, in which Telmo Pievani collaborates as frontman and consultant for scientific content -, this book traces the fundamental stages of the evolution of our species, telling the story of an extraordinary discovery, that of DNA. 

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And they felt the sky

How do paleoanthropology and today's evolutionary science tell the birth of cultural man?

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The Earth after us

The visual panorama of the uncontaminated places offered by Frans Lanting's photographs supports Pievani's text which, divided into six chapters (The Earth without us, The Earth before us, The Earth and us, us and the Earth, The Earth are us, The Earth against us, The Earth together with us) explains the past and future of our relationship with the planet we inhabit.

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