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The Day of the Rope: Book One (The Days of the Rope 1) by Devon Stack
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"The Day of the Rope" is a fictional tale about what can happen in a country that has rejected its heritage and descended into degeneracy and decadence. A handful of the inhabitants discover the true power behind the ruling class, and the methods they use to remain above the law... -
![Fateful Destiny: An Epic Struggle to Change the Course of American History by Marshall Anders]()
Fateful Destiny: An Epic Struggle to Change the Course of American History by Marshall Anders
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAxel Berg had a lucrative career in investment management and an enviable life in Los Angeles. His success and good fortune at such a young age was a remarkable accomplishment for someone from a small Central California farm town. Everything was coming together for Axel until a devastating tragedy beset his hometown... -
![Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation's Capital by Chris Myers Asch, George Derek Musgrove]()
Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation's Capital by Chris Myers Asch, George Derek Musgrove
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMonumental in scope and vividly detailed, Chocolate City tells the tumultuous, four-century story of race and democracy in our nation's capital... -
![Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet by Ben Goldfarb]()
Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet by Ben Goldfarb
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA New York Times Notable Book of 2023 and Editors' Choice • A Science News Favorite Book of 2023 • A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2023 • A Smithsonian Staff Favorite of 2023 • A New Yorker Best Book of 2023An eye-opening account of the global ecological transformations wrought by roads, from the award-winning author of Eager... -
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![Ravenous: How to get ourselves and our planet into shape by Henry Dimbleby, Jemima Lewis]()
Ravenous: How to get ourselves and our planet into shape by Henry Dimbleby, Jemima Lewis
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Brilliant - a must read' Tim SpectorYou may not be aware of this - not consciously, at least - but you do not control what you eat. Every mouthful you take is informed by the subtle tweaking and nudging of a vast, complex, global one so intimately woven into everyday life that you hardly even know it's there.The food system is no longer simply a means of sustenance... -
![The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food by Dan Barber]()
The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food by Dan Barber
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsBarber explores the evolution of American food from the 'first plate,' or industrially-produced, meat-heavy dishes, to the 'second plate' of grass-fed meat and organic greens, and says that both of these approaches are ultimately neither sustainable nor healthy... -
![Five Presidents: My Extraordinary Journey with Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford by Clint Hill, Lisa McCubbin Hill]()
Five Presidents: My Extraordinary Journey with Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford by Clint Hill, Lisa McCubbin Hill
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsA rare and fascinating portrait of the American presidency from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Kennedy and Me and Five Days in November .Secret Service agent Clint Hill brings history intimately and vividly to life as he reflects on his seventeen years protecting the most powerful office in the nation. Hill walked alongside Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F... -
![Human Transit: How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives by Jarrett Walker]()
Human Transit: How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives by Jarrett Walker
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsPublic transit is a powerful tool for addressing a huge range of urban problems, including traffic congestion and economic development as well as climate change. But while many people support transit in the abstract, it's often hard to channel that support into good transit investments. Part of the problem is that transit debates attract many kinds of experts, who often talk past each other... -
![Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, and Why It Matters by Steven E. Koonin]()
Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, and Why It Matters by Steven E. Koonin
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratings“Surging sea levels are inundating the coasts.”“Hurricanes and tornadoes are becoming fiercer and more frequent.”“Climate change will be an economic disaster.”You’ve heard all this presented as fact. But according to science, all of these statements are profoundly misleading... -
![Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution by Janette Sadik-Khan, Seth Solomonow]()
Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution by Janette Sadik-Khan, Seth Solomonow
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAn empowering road map for rethinking, reinvigorating, and redesigning our cities, from a pioneer in the movement for safer, more livable streetsAs New York City’s transportation commissioner, Janette Sadik-Khan managed the seemingly impossible and transformed the streets of one of the world’s greatest, toughest cities into dynamic spaces safe for pedestrians and bikers... -
![Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity by Charles L. Marohn Jr.]()
Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity by Charles L. Marohn Jr.
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsA new way forward for sustainable quality of life in cities of all sizesStrong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Build American Prosperity is a book of forward-thinking ideas that breaks with modern wisdom to present a new vision of urban development in the United States... -
![Algues vertes, l'histoire interdite by Inès Léraud, Pierre Van Hove]()
Algues vertes, l'histoire interdite by Inès Léraud, Pierre Van Hove
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsPas moins de 3 hommes et 40 animaux ont été retrouvés morts sur les plages bretonnes. L’identité du tueur est un secret de polichinelle : les algues vertes. Un demi-siècle de fabrique du silence raconté dans une enquête fleuve.Des échantillons qui disparaissent dans les laboratoires, des corps enterrés avant d’être autopsiés, des jeux d’influence, des pressions et un silence de plomb... -
![Walkable City Rules: 101 Steps to Making Better Places by Jeff Speck]()
Walkable City Rules: 101 Steps to Making Better Places by Jeff Speck
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNearly every US city would like to be more walkable—for reasons of health, wealth, and the environment—yet few are taking the proper steps to get there. The goals are often clear, but the path is seldom easy. Jeff Speck’s follow-up to his bestselling Walkable City is the resource that cities and citizens need to usher in an era of renewed street life... -
![Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet by Hannah Ritchie]()
Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet by Hannah Ritchie
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratings‘Truly essential’ MARGARET ATWOODFeeling anxious, powerless or confused about the future of our planet? This book will transform how you see our biggest environmental problems – and how we can solve them.It’s become common to tell kids that they’re going to die from climate change... -
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![Order without Design: How Markets Shape Cities by Alain Bertaud]()
Order without Design: How Markets Shape Cities by Alain Bertaud
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAn argument that operational urban planning can be improved by the application of the tools of urban economics to the design of regulations and infrastructure. Urban planning is a craft learned through practice. Planners make rapid decisions that have an immediate impact on the ground—the width of streets, the minimum size of land parcels, the heights of buildings... -
![Better Buses, Better Cities: How to Plan, Run, and Win the Fight for Effective Transit by Steven Higashide]()
Better Buses, Better Cities: How to Plan, Run, and Win the Fight for Effective Transit by Steven Higashide
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsImagine a bus system that is fast, frequent, and reliable—what would that change about your city? Buses can and should be the cornerstone of urban transportation. They offer affordable mobility and can connect citizens with every aspect of their lives. But in the US, they have long been an afterthought in budgeting and planning... -
![Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World by Henry Grabar]()
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World by Henry Grabar
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAn entertaining, enlightening, and utterly original investigation into one of the most quietly influential forces in modern American life—the humble parking spotParking, quite literally, has a death grip on each year a handful of Americans are tragically killed by their fellow citizens over parking spots... -
![Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West by William Cronon]()
Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West by William Cronon
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn this groundbreaking work, William Cronon gives us an environmental perspective on the history of nineteenth-century America. By exploring the ecological and economic changes that made Chicago America's most dynamic city and the Great West its hinterland, Mr. Cronon opens a new window onto our national past... -
![Folks, This Ain't Normal: A Farmer's Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World by Joel Salatin]()
Folks, This Ain't Normal: A Farmer's Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World by Joel Salatin
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFrom farmer Joel Salatin's point of view, life in the 21st century just ain't normal. In FOLKS, THIS AIN'T NORMAL, he discusses how far removed we are from the simple, sustainable joy that comes from living close to the land and the people we love. Salatin has many thoughts on what normal is and shares practical and philosophical ideas for changing our lives in small ways that have big impact... -
![A Great Aridness: Climate Change and the Future of the American Southwest by William deBuys]()
A Great Aridness: Climate Change and the Future of the American Southwest by William deBuys
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWith its soaring azure sky and stark landscapes, the American Southwest is one of the most hauntingly beautiful regions on earth. Yet staggering population growth, combined with the intensifying effects of climate change, is driving the oasis-based society close to the brink of a Dust-Bowl-scale catastrophe... -
![A Farewell to Ice: A Report from the Arctic by Peter Wadhams]()
A Farewell to Ice: A Report from the Arctic by Peter Wadhams
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings'Utterly extraordinary ... the starkest book I've read on the impacts of accelerating climate change for a very long time ... if we're not listening to the likes of Peter Wadhams, then we too are in denial' Jonathon PorrittMost of the scientific establishment predict that the North Pole will be free of ice around the middle of this century... -
![What Is Life? by Lynn Margulis, Dorion Sagan]()
What Is Life? by Lynn Margulis, Dorion Sagan
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHalf a century ago, before the discovery of DNA, the Austrian physicist and philosopher Erwin Schrödinger inspired a generation of scientists by rephrasing the fascinating philosophical What is life? Using their expansive understanding of recent science to wonderful effect, acclaimed authors Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan revisit this timeless question in a fast-moving, wide-ranging narrative... -
![Flipped: How Georgia Turned Purple and Broke the Monopoly on Republican Power by Greg Bluestein]()
Flipped: How Georgia Turned Purple and Broke the Monopoly on Republican Power by Greg Bluestein
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe untold story of the unlikely heroes, the cutthroat politics, and the cultural forces that turned a Deep South state purple—by a top reporter at The Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionFlipped is the definitive account of how the election of Reverend Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff transformed Georgia from one of the staunchest Republican strongholds to the nation’s most watched battleground state—and... -
![Attracting Birds, Butterflies, and Other Backyard Wildlife by David Mizejewski]()
Attracting Birds, Butterflies, and Other Backyard Wildlife by David Mizejewski
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom renowned National Wildlife Federation naturalist and TV host David Mizejewski comes a new book to show you how to create a magical ecosystem right in your backyard! Invite beautiful songbirds, colorful butterflies, buzzing bees and other fascinating wildlife by nurturing a wildlife habitat garden... -
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![Renewable Energy: A Primer for the Twenty-First Century by Bruce Usher]()
Renewable Energy: A Primer for the Twenty-First Century by Bruce Usher
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom wood to coal to oil and gas, the sources of energy on which civilization depends have always changed as technology advances. Now renewables are overtaking fossil fuels, with wind and solar energy becoming cheaper and more competitive every year. Growth in renewable energy will further accelerate as electric vehicles become less expensive than traditional automobiles... -
![Climate Change: What Everyone Needs to Know by Joseph Romm]()
Climate Change: What Everyone Needs to Know by Joseph Romm
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis is, for my money, the best single-source primer on the state of climate change. - New York MagazineThe right book at the right time: accessible, comprehensive, unflinching, humane. - The Daily BeastA must-read. - The GuardianClimate Change: What Everyone Needs to Know is the essential primer on what will be the defining issue of our time...Categorized as:
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![Flesh and Stone: The Body and the City in Western Civilization by Richard Sennett]()
Flesh and Stone: The Body and the City in Western Civilization by Richard Sennett
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHere, Sennet examines the relationship between the human body and the urban environment it inhabits, looking at the differing attitudes to nudity, burial, sanctuary and urban planning in ancient Greece and Rome, Medieval and Renaissance Europe, and concluding with a fuller analysis of how the link between flesh and stone has altered with the advances in science and medicine... -
![The Legal Analyst: A Toolkit for Thinking about the Law by Ward Farnsworth]()
The Legal Analyst: A Toolkit for Thinking about the Law by Ward Farnsworth
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThere are two kinds of knowledge law school teaches: legal rules on the one hand, and tools for thinking about legal problems on the other. Although the tools are far more interesting and useful than the rules, they tend to be neglected in favor of other aspects of the curriculum... -
![Veg in One Bed: How to Grow an Abundance of Food in One Raised Bed, Month by Month by Huw Richards]()
Veg in One Bed: How to Grow an Abundance of Food in One Raised Bed, Month by Month by Huw Richards
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsGrow your own vegetable garden with this practical, straightforward gardening guide. There is nothing more fulfilling than growing your own home produce... -
![Our Final Warning: Six Degrees of Climate Emergency by Mark Lynas]()
Our Final Warning: Six Degrees of Climate Emergency by Mark Lynas
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis book must not be ignored. It really is our final warning. Mark Lynas delivers a vital account of the future of our earth, and our civilisation, if current rates of global warming persist. And it’s only looking worse.We are living in a climate emergency...
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