California Burning: The Fall of Pacific Gas and Electric--and What It Means for America's Power Grid
By: Katherine Blunt
4.27
Format: 350 pages, Hardcover
NATIONAL BESTSELLER 2022 Winner of the Golden Poppy Award for Nonfiction (California Independent B…
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1. The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future
By: Gretchen Bakke
3.87
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A revelatory look at our national power grid--how it developed, its current flaws, and how it must … read more
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2. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
By: Siddharth Kara
4.37
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times… read more
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"Now you understand how people like us work?"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
"Nothing looks the same after a trip to the Congo. The world back home no longer makes sense. It is difficult to reconcile how it even inhabits the same planet. Neatly arranged mountains of vegetables…"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
"Cobalt mining is the slave farm perfected. The cost of labor has been nullified through the degradation of Africans at the bottom of an economic chain that purports to exonerate all participants of a…"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
3. Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud
By: Ben McKenzie
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Format: None pages, None
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES 2023 BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR… read more
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4. Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
By: Edmund Conway
4.52
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil, and lithium. These fundamental materials have created empires, razed… read more
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"You can get anything you want from anywhere in the world at a bargain price, but don't [whatever you do] expect to understand how it was made or how it got to you."-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
"Brothers and sisters,’ said the man. ‘I want to tell you this. The greatest thing on earth is to have the love of God in your heart, and the next greatest thing is to have electricity in your house.’…"-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
"To say that concrete is everywhere is hardly an exaggeration. Despite the fact that we only began mass producing this mixture of sand, aggregates and cement just over a century ago, there are now mor…"-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
"A few years ago some geologists sifted through the data [and] estimated that the amount of sand, soil and rock we humans mine and quarry and dredge each year is some 24 times greater than the amount …"-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
5. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
By: Chris Miller
4.44
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
An epic account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world's most critical… read more
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"Comrade, we have built the world’s biggest microprocessor!"-Chris Miller, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
6. Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis
By: Annie Proulx
3.65
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A lifelong acolyte of the natural world, Annie Proulx brings her witness and research to the subjec… read more
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7. Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World
By: Malcolm Harris
3.90
Format: 720 pages, Hardcover
The first comprehensive, global history of Silicon Valley, from railroad capitalists to microchip a… read more
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8. Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
By: Michael Lewis
3.80
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the #1 best-selling author of The Big Short and Flash Boys, the story of FTX’s spectacular col… read more
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9. Power Failure: The Rise and Fall of an American Icon
By: William D. Cohan
4.28
Format: 816 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The New Yorker Best Books of 2022 • Financial Times Best Books of 2022… read more
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10. The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations
By: Daniel Yergin
4.20
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
A Wall Street Journal besteller and a USA Today Best Book of 2020 Named Energy Writer of the Yea… read more
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"У 1976 в газеті "Вечірній Ленінград" з'явилася стаття про досі невідомого дзюдоїста, що переміг у змаганнях і здобув звання чемпіона. "Люди ще почують про нього в майбутньому", передбачало видання. Т…"-Daniel Yergin, The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations
11. Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency
By: Andy Greenberg
4.50
Format: 367 pages, Hardcover
Over the last decade, a single innovation has massively fueled digital black markets: cryptocurrenc… read more
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12. Paradise: One Town's Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire
By: Lizzie Johnson
4.34
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The definitive firsthand account of California's Camp Fire--the nation's deadliest wildfire in a ce… read more
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"Then, on a blustery evening in October 2017, the worst wildfires in modern state history ignited. They ripped across Northern California, pushed by the Diablo Winds. The infernos killed 44 people and…"-Lizzie Johnson, Paradise: One Town's Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire
13. Dead in the Water: A True Story of Hijacking, Murder, and a Global Maritime Conspiracy
By: Matthew Campbell
4.24
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
“A triumph of investigative journalism.” —Tom Wright, New York Times bestselling coauthor of Billio… read more
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14. California Burning: The Fall of Pacific Gas and Electric--and What It Means for America's Power Grid
By: Katherine Blunt
4.27
Format: 350 pages, Hardcover
NATIONAL BESTSELLER 2022 Winner of the Golden Poppy Award for Nonfiction (California Independent B… read more
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15. Boundless: The Rise, Fall, and Escape of Carlos Ghosn
By: Nick Kostov
4.40
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The unprecedented rise and catastrophic fall of one of the world's most feared and admired business… read more
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16. Volt Rush: The Winners and Losers in the Race to Go Green
By: Henry Sanderson
4.12
Format: 304 pages, ebook
'A remarkably hopeful and useful book...The climate crisis leaves us no choice but to build a new w… read more
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17. Electrify: An Optimist's Playbook for Our Clean Energy Future
By: Saul Griffith
4.16
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An optimistic--but realistic and feasible--action plan for fighting climate change while creating n… read more
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18. Superpower: One Man's Quest to Transform American Energy
By: Russell Gold
4.26
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In the ever more urgent quest for sources of renewable energy, meet the man boldly harnessing the n… read more
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19. Shorting the Grid: The Hidden Fragility of Our Electric Grid
By: Meredith Angwin
3.97
Format: 442 pages, Kindle Edition
When rolling blackouts come to the electric grid, they will be old news to the grid insiders. Only … read more
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20. The Dreamt Land: Chasing Water and Dust Across California
By: Mark Arax
4.43
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
Author Mark Arax is from a family of Central Valley farmers, a writer with deep ties to the land wh… read more
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21. A Question of Power: Electricity and the Wealth of Nations
By: Robert Bryce
4.06
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In the ancient world it was guns, germs, and steel that determined the fates of people and nations;… read more
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