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The Dirty Secret Behind America's Energy Future
by Jeff Goodell
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by Arlie Russell Hochschild
Published Feb 2018
Read Reviews2016 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction
A 2016 New York Times Notable Book
New York Times Bestseller
by Dan Fagin
Published Apr 2015
Read ReviewsThe riveting true story of sixty years in the life of a small town ravaged by industrial pollution, Toms River melds hard-hitting investigative reporting, a fascinating scientific detective story, and an unforgettable cast of characters into a sweeping narrative.
by Michael Moss
Published Feb 2014
Read ReviewsThe explosive story of the rise of the processed food industry and its link to the emerging obesity epidemic.
Detroit City Is the Place to Be
by Mark Binelli
Published Nov 2013
Read ReviewsOnce America's capitalist dream town, Detroit is our country's greatest urban failure, having fallen the longest and the farthest. With an eye for both the darkly absurd and the radically new, we glimpse a future Detroit that is smaller, less segregated, greener, economically diverse, and better functioning - what might just be the first post-...
by Mayer Hillman
Published Apr 2007
Read ReviewsAn outstanding overview on global warming--and what we can do about it--from a distinguished world-class authority.
by Fred Pearce
Published Mar 2007
Read ReviewsBy 2025 water scarcity will cut global food production by more than the current U.S. grain harvest. Science correspondent Fred Pearce provides our most complete portrait yet of the growing world water crisis and its ramifications.
by Marla Cone
Published Apr 2006
Read ReviewsWhether hunting giant bowhead whales with native Alaskans who are struggling to protect their livelihood, or tracking endangered polar bears in Norway, Cone reports with an insider's eye on the dangers of pollution to native peoples and ecosystems, how Arctic cultures are adapting to this pollution, and what solutions will prevent the crisis ...
by Tim Flannery
Published Mar 2006
Read ReviewsThe Weather Makers is both an urgent warning and a call to arms, outlining the history of climate change, how it will unfold over the next century, and what we can do to prevent a cataclysmic future. Along with a history of climate change, Tim Flannery offers specific suggestions for action for both lawmakers and individuals.
by Ross Gelbspan
Published Nov 2005
Read ReviewsA brilliant examination of the most challenging environmental and political crisis this civilization has ever faced, Gelbspan shows not only the seriousness of climate disruption, but also how it could be deflected at huge savings to the public.
by Barbara Freese
Published Feb 2004
Read Reviews'Offers an exquisite chronicle of the rise and fall of this bituminous black mineral.... Part history and part environmental argument, Freese's elegant book teaches an important lesson about the interdependence of humans and their natural environment both for good and ill throughout history.'
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