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On the Secret Trail of Trash
by Elizabeth Royte
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by Elizabeth Kolbert
Published Apr 2022
Read ReviewsThe Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sixth Extinction returns to humanity's transformative impact on the environment, now asking: After doing so much damage, can we change nature, this time to save it?
by P.D. Smith
Published Jun 2012
Read ReviewsWith erudite prose and carefully chosen illustrations, this unique work of metatourism explores what cities are and how they work. It covers history, customs and language, districts, transport, money, work, shops and markets, and tourist sites, creating a fantastically detailed portrait of the city through history and into the future.
by Rose George
Published Jul 2009
Read ReviewsAn utterly original exploration of the world of human waste that will surprise, outrageand entertain
by Barbara Kingsolver
Published Apr 2008
Read ReviewsBestselling author Barbara Kingsolver returns with her first nonfiction narrative that will open your eyes in a hundred new ways to an old truth: You are what you eat.
by Andrew D. Blechman
Published Oct 2007
Read ReviewsIn the tradition of Robert Sullivans best-selling Rats comes a whimsical and intimate look into the fascinating world of pigeons and the people they collect.
by Joyce Carol Oates
Published Aug 2005
Read Reviews'This big, enthralling novel recaptures the gift for Dreiserian realism that distinguishes such Oates triumphs as What I Lived For, and We Were the Mulvaneys. It's her best ever, and a masterpiece.' Kirkus Reviews.
by Robert Sullivan
Published Apr 2005
Read ReviewsBehold the rat, dirty and disgusting! Robert Sullivan turns the lowly rat into the star of the most perversely intriguing, remarkable, and unexpectedly elegant book of the season.
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