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Wilding by Isabella Tree
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsForced to accept that intensive farming on the heavy clay of their land at Knepp in West Sussex was economically unsustainable, Isabella Tree and her husband Charlie Burrell made a spectacular leap of faith: they decided to step back and let nature take over... -
![Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen, Jonathan Yen]()
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen, Jonathan Yen
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsAn alternative cover for this ASIN can be found here.The emergence of strange new diseases is a frightening problem that seems to be getting worse. In this age of speedy travel, it threatens a worldwide pandemic...Categorized as:
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![Ordinary Heroes: A Memoir of 9/11 by Joseph Pfeifer, Fred Sanders]()
Ordinary Heroes: A Memoir of 9/11 by Joseph Pfeifer, Fred Sanders
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom the first FDNY chief to respond to the 9/11 attacks, an intimate memoir and a tribute to those who died that others might live When Chief Joe Pfeifer led his firefighters to investigate an odor of gas in downtown Manhattan on the morning of 9/11, he had no idea that his life was about to change forever. A few moments later, he watched the first plane crashed into the World Trade Center... -
![The Children by David Halberstam]()
The Children by David Halberstam
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe Children is Halberstam's moving evocation of the early days of the civil rights movement, as seen thru the story of the young people--the Children--who met in the 60s & went on to lead the revolution... -
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![Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance by Nick Estes]()
Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance by Nick Estes
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsHow two centuries of Indigenous resistance created the movement proclaiming “Water is life”In 2016, a small protest encampment at the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota, initially established to block construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline, grew to be the largest Indigenous protest movement in the twenty-first century... -
![The Point of It All: A Lifetime of Great Loves and Endeavors by Charles Krauthammer]()
The Point of It All: A Lifetime of Great Loves and Endeavors by Charles Krauthammer
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsCreated and compiled by Charles Krauthammer before his death, The Point of It All is a powerful collection of the influential columnist's most important works. Spanning the personal, the political and the philosophical, it includes never-before-published speeches and a major new essay about the effect of today's populist movements on the future of global democracy... -
![Wastelands: The True Story of Farm Country on Trial by Corban Addison, John Grisham]()
Wastelands: The True Story of Farm Country on Trial by Corban Addison, John Grisham
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsBeautifully written, impeccably researched, and told with the air of suspense that few writers can handle, Wastelands is a story I wish I had written. --From the Foreword by John GrishamThe once idyllic coastal plain of North Carolina is home to a close-knit, rural community that for more than a generation has battled the polluting practices of large-scale farming taking place in its own backyard...Categorized as:
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![Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm's Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land by Leah Penniman]()
Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm's Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land by Leah Penniman
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsChoice Reviews , Outstanding Academic TitleIn 1920, 14 percent of all land-owning US farmers were black. Today less than 2 percent of farms are controlled by black people--a loss of over 14 million acres and the result of discrimination and dispossession...Categorized as:
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![The Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Dan Egan]()
The Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Dan Egan
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA master reporter’s landmark work of contemporary ecology.The Great Lakes hold 20 percent of the world’s freshwater, and they provide food, work, and weekend fun for tens of millions of Americans. Yet they are under threat as never before...Categorized as:
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![Paradise: One Town's Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire by Lizzie Johnson]()
Paradise: One Town's Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire by Lizzie Johnson
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe definitive firsthand account of California’s Camp Fire, the nation’s deadliest wildfire in a century, Paradise is a riveting examination of what went wrong and how to avert future tragedies as the climate crisis unfolds.“A tour de force story of wildfire and a terrifying look at what lies ahead...Categorized as:
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![Annals of the Former World by John McPhee]()
Annals of the Former World by John McPhee
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe Pulitzer Prize-winning view of the continent, across the fortieth parallel and down through 4...Categorized as:
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![The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions by Peter Brannen]()
The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions by Peter Brannen
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAs new groundbreaking research suggests that climate change played a major role in the most extreme catastrophes in the planet's history, award-winning science journalist Peter Brannen takes us on a wild ride through the planet's five mass extinctions and, in the process, offers us a glimpse of our increasingly dangerous future Our world has ended five times: it has been broiled, frozen,...Categorized as:
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![All the Kremlin's Men: Inside the Court of Vladimir Putin by Mikhail Zygar, Michał Zygar]()
All the Kremlin's Men: Inside the Court of Vladimir Putin by Mikhail Zygar, Michał Zygar
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsCharting the transformation of Vladimir Putin from a passionate fan of the West and a liberal reformer into a hurt and introverted outcast, All the Kremlin’s Men is a historical detective story, full of intrigue and conspiracy...Categorized as:
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![Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water by Marc Reisner]()
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water by Marc Reisner
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThe story of the American West is the story of a relentless quest for a precious resource: water. It is a tale of rivers diverted and dammed, of political corruption and intrigue, of billion-dollar battles over water rights, of ecologic and economic disaster...Categorized as:
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![A Good Provider Is One Who Leaves: One Family and Migration in the 21st Century by Jason DeParle]()
A Good Provider Is One Who Leaves: One Family and Migration in the 21st Century by Jason DeParle
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsOne of The Washington Post 's 10 Best Books of the Year"A remarkable book...indispensable."-- The Boston Globe"A sweeping, deeply reported tale of international migration...DeParle's understanding of migration is refreshingly clear-eyed and nuanced." --The New York Times"This is epic reporting, nonfiction on a whole other level...One of the best books on immigration written in a generation...Categorized as:
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![Dan Rather: Stories of a Lifetime by Dan Rather]()
Dan Rather: Stories of a Lifetime by Dan Rather
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsTales from the front lines of 60 years of television.Emmy Award winner and former CBS News anchor Dan Rather brings his unforgettable staged performance, Stories of a Lifetime, to the Minetta Lane Theatre, where it will be recorded live for Audible Theater... -
![Mud Sweeter than Honey: Voices of Communist Albania by Małgorzata Rejmer]()
Mud Sweeter than Honey: Voices of Communist Albania by Małgorzata Rejmer
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA polyphonic account of life in Albania under Enver Hoxha's regime, arguably the most brutal totalitarian state of allAfter breaking ties with Yugoslavia, the USSR and then China, Enver Hoxha believed that Albania could become a self-sufficient bastion of communism... -
![La llamada: Un retrato by Leila Guerriero]()
La llamada: Un retrato by Leila Guerriero
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsEsta es una historia real, llena de aristas y sombras, sobre la condición humana.A fines de los sesenta, con trece años, la argentina Silvia Labayru era una adolescente tímida, lectora, amante de los animales, entusiasta de John F. Kennedy, hija de una familia de militares que incluía a su padre, miembro de la Fuerza Aérea y piloto civil... -
![How Asia Works: Success and Failure in the World's Most Dynamic Region by Joe Studwell]()
How Asia Works: Success and Failure in the World's Most Dynamic Region by Joe Studwell
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn the 1980s and 1990s many in the West came to believe in the myth of an East-Asian economic miracle. Japan was going to dominate, then China. Countries were called “tigers” or “mini-dragons,” and were seen as not just development prodigies, but as a unified bloc, culturally and economically similar, and inexorably on the rise... -
![The Bang-Bang Club: Snapshots from a Hidden War by Greg Marinovich, João Silva]()
The Bang-Bang Club: Snapshots from a Hidden War by Greg Marinovich, João Silva
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsMost people, upon hearing gunfire, would run away and hide. Conflict photojournalists have the opposite reaction: they actually look for trouble, and when they find it, get as close as possible and stand up to get the best shot... -
![On Time and Water by Andri Snær Magnason]()
On Time and Water by Andri Snær Magnason
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn the next hundred years, the nature of water on Earth will undergo a fundamental change. Glaciers will melt, the level of the sea will rise, and its acidity will change more than it has in the past 50 million years. These changes will affect all life on earth, everyone that we know, and everyone that we love...Categorized as:
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![Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives by Siddharth Kara]()
Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives by Siddharth Kara
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThe revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times Best Business Book of the Year Award.An unflinching investigation reveals the human rights abuses behind the Congo’s cobalt mining operation―and the moral implications that affect us all... -
![Encounters with the Archdruid by John McPhee]()
Encounters with the Archdruid by John McPhee
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe narratives in this book are of journeys made in three wildernesses - on a coastal island, in a Western mountain range, and on the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon...Categorized as:
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![The Song Of The Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions by David Quammen]()
The Song Of The Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions by David Quammen
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWhy have island ecosystems always suffered such high rates of extinction? In our age, with all the world's landscapes, from Tasmania to the Amazon to Yellowstone, now being carved into island-like fragments by human activity, the implications of this question are more urgent than ever...Categorized as:
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![Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America by John M. Barry]()
Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America by John M. Barry
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAn account of the 1927 Mississippi River flood explores one of the greatest national disasters the United States has ever experienced and its consequences in a comprehensive volume that clearly shows how the flood changed the course of history. 60,000 first printing. Tour... -
![Kajś. Opowieść o Górnym Śląsku by Zbigniew Rokita]()
Kajś. Opowieść o Górnym Śląsku by Zbigniew Rokita
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsPrzez większość życia uważałem Ślązaków za jaskiniowców z kilofem i roladą. Swoją śląskość wypierałem. W podstawówce pani Chmiel grała nam na akordeonie Rotę, a ja nie miałem pojęcia, że ów plujący w twarz Niemiec z pieśni był moim przodkiem.O swoich korzeniach wiedziałem mało. Nie wierzyłem, że na Śląsku przed wojną odbyła się jakakolwiek historia... -
![A Small Corner of Hell: Dispatches from Chechnya by Anna Politkovskaya]()
A Small Corner of Hell: Dispatches from Chechnya by Anna Politkovskaya
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe recent murder of Anna Politkovskaya is grim evidence of the danger faced by journalists passionately committed to writing the truth about wars and politics. A longtime critic of the Russian government, particularly with regard to its policies in Chechnya, Politkovskaya was a special correspondent for the liberal Moscow newspaper Novaya gazeta... -
![The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions by Greta Thunberg]()
The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions by Greta Thunberg
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWe still have time to change the world. From Greta Thunberg, the world's leading climate activist, comes the essential handbook for making it happen.You might think it's an impossible task: secure a safe future for life on Earth, at a scale and speed never seen, against all the odds. There is hope - but only if we listen to the science before it's too late... -
![The Dust Bowl: An Illustrated History by Dayton Duncan, Ken Burns]()
The Dust Bowl: An Illustrated History by Dayton Duncan, Ken Burns
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn this riveting chronicle, which accompanies a documentary to be broadcast on PBS in the fall, Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns capture the profound drama of the American Dust Bowl of the 1930s... -
![Eating to Extinction: The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them by Dan Saladino]()
Eating to Extinction: The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them by Dan Saladino
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceWhat Saladino finds in his adventures are people with soul-deep relationships to their food. This is not the decadence or the preciousness we might associate with a word like “foodie,” but a form of reverence . . . Enchanting...Categorized as:
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