How the Other Half Eats: The Untold Story of Food and Inequality in America
By: Priya Fielding-Singh
4.10
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A fascinating look at dietary differences along class lines, revealing that lack of access to healt…
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1. Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health (California Studies in Food and Culture)
By: Marion Nestle
3.94
Format: 472 pages, Paperback
We all witness, in advertising and on supermarket shelves, the fierce competition for our food doll… read more
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- history
- health
- politics
- food
- nonfiction
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2. Rough Sleepers
By: Tracy Kidder
4.35
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In Rough Sleepers, Tracy Kidder shows how one person can make a difference, as he tells the story o… read more
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- politics
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- audiobook
3. A Living Remedy: A Memoir
By: Nicole Chung
4.01
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A searing memoir of family, class and grief—a daughter’s search to understand the lives her adoptiv… read more
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"How do you learn to cherish yourself, your life, when grief has made it unrecognizable? I am starting to feel that we do so not by trying to fill a void that can never be filled but by living as best…"-Nicole Chung, A Living Remedy: A Memoir
4. The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket
By: Benjamin Lorr
3.95
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
This book is an investigation into the human lives at the heart of the American grocery store. What… read more
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- history
- food
- nonfiction
- economics
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5. Poverty, by America
By: Matthew Desmond
4.27
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in Ameri… read more
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"To live and strive in modern America is to participate in a series of morally fraught systems. If a family’s entire financial livelihood depends on the value of its home, it’s not hard to understand …"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"The rest of us, on the ·other hand-we members of the protected classes-have grown increasingly· dependent on our welfare programs. In 2020 the federal government spent more than $193 billion on homeo…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"In her book The Government-Citizen Disconnect, the political scientist Suzanne Mettler reports that 96 percent of American adults have relied on a major government program at some point in their live…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
6. We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America
By: Roxanna Asgarian
4.32
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The shocking, deeply reported story of a murder-suicide that claimed the lives of six children—and … read more
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- history
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- social justice
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- audiobook
7. Unsavory Truth: How Food Companies Skew the Science of What We Eat
By: Marion Nestle
3.53
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A James Beard Award-winner and the author of What to Eat and Soda Politics , leading nutritionist M… read more
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- health
- politics
- food
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"The real question here is how you -- as a reader, eater, and citizen -- can recognize and protect yourself against the onslaught of misleading information and advice that results from food-company ma…"-Marion Nestle, Unsavory Truth: How Food Companies Skew the Science of What We Eat
8. Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food
By: Chris van Tulleken
4.43
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A manifesto to change how you eat and how you think about the human body. It’s not you, it’s the… read more
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- food
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- health
9. The Facemaker
By: Lindsey Fitzharris
4.29
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
Lindsey Fitzharris, the award-winning author of The Butchering Art, presents the compelling, true s… read more
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10. We Are What We Eat: A Slow Food Manifesto
By: Alice Waters
3.89
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
From chef and food activist Alice Waters, an impassioned plea for a radical reconsideration of the … read more
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"In the United States alone, about 30 to 40 percent of our entire food supply is wasted every year, according to estimates from the USDA. I find that particularly sad."-Alice Waters, We Are What We Eat: A Slow Food Manifesto
"When all we care about is cheapness, we don't ask how long things will last or how well they are made--and in truth, we don't particularly care. Because when a product is cheap, it becomes disposable…"-Alice Waters, We Are What We Eat: A Slow Food Manifesto
11. A Molecule Away from Madness: Tales of the Hijacked Brain
By: Sara Manning Peskin
4.21
Format: 214 pages, Hardcover
Our brains are the most complex machines known to humankind, but they have an Achilles heel: the ve… read more
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- history
- health
12. All That Moves Us: A Pediatric Neurosurgeon, His Young Patients, and Their Stories of Grace and Resilience
By: Jay Wellons
4.44
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
“The surgical interventions in these pages are dizzying, but the fact that Jay Wellons can write as… read more
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13. How the Other Half Eats: The Untold Story of Food and Inequality in America
By: Priya Fielding-Singh
4.10
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A fascinating look at dietary differences along class lines, revealing that lack of access to healt… read more
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- health
- politics
- food
- nonfiction
- social justice
- social issues
- economics
- sociology
- audiobook
14. The Day the World Stops Shopping: How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves
By: J.B. MacKinnon
4.20
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Consuming less is our best strategy for saving the planet—but can we do it? In this thoughtful and … read more
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- nonfiction
- economics
- sociology
- audiobook
"We can't stop shopping, we must stop shopping. It isn't only that consumption is distorting the climate, felling the forests, cluttering out lives, filling our heads with a throwaway mindset, even st…"-J.B. MacKinnon, The Day the World Stops Shopping: How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves
15. The Injustice of Place: Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America
By: Kathryn J. Edin
4.17
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping and surprising new understanding of extreme poverty in America from the authors of the a… read more
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- social justice
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- sociology
- audiobook
16. Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood
By: Gretchen Sisson
4.38
Format: 311 pages, Hardcover
A powerful decade-long study of adoption in the age of Roe, revealing the grief of the American mot… read more
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- history
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- social justice
- sociology
- audiobook
17. Housemates
By: Emma Copley Eisenberg
3.66
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Two young housemates embark on a road trip to discover themselves in a fractured America in this sp… read more
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"Teaching? When it’s good? A marvel. A fucking miracle. They live, and then they turn to you to tell you about it."-Emma Copley Eisenberg, Housemates
18. Profit and Punishment: How America Criminalizes the Poor in the Name of Justice
By: Tony Messenger
4.27
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Pulitzer Prize winner Tony Messenger offers the first humane, journalistic expose of an American tr… read more
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19. Uneasy Street: The Anxieties of Affluence
By: Rachel Sherman
3.62
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
A surprising and revealing look at how today's elite view their own wealth and place in society Fr… read more
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20. Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America's Food Industry
By: Austin Frerick
4.20
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
Barons is the story of seven corporate titans, their rise to power, and the consequences for everyo… read more
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21. Wonder Drug
By: Stephen Trzeciak
3.94
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
A pair of doctors team up to illuminate, through neuroscience and captivating stories from their cl… read more
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