Atomic Days: The Untold Story of the Most Toxic Place in America
By: Joshua Frank
4.16
Format: 258 pages, Paperback
WINNER IPPY AWARD BEST REGIONAL NON-FICTION (Silver) WINNER NELLIE BLY AWARD BEST JOURNALISTIC NON…
Want to Read $ 9.99"The colossal legacy of Hanford, which now accounts for two-thirds of all high-level radioactive waste in the country, is fraught with calamity--a lingering wreckage with little sign of being remediated anytime soon, if ever."-Joshua Frank, Atomic Days: The Untold Story of the Most Toxic Place in America
"One cannot have an honest discussion about the potential of nuclear power without fully acknowledging the ravages of the Hanford project. This would be tantamount to debating the future of our dying oceans without bringing up the topic of climate change."-Joshua Frank, Atomic Days: The Untold Story of the Most Toxic Place in America
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1. Dear Evan Hansen
By: Steven Levenson , Benj Pasek , Justin Paul
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Format: 144 pages, Paperback
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2. Taking Charge of Adult ADHD
By: Russell A. Barkley
3.57
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
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3. The Final Forest: The Battle for the Last Great Trees of the Pacific Northwest
By: William Dietrich
4.11
Format: 528 pages, Paperback
In a riveting exploration of our connection to all that we cherish and exploit on Earth, a Pulitzer… read more
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4. The New Father: A Dad's Guide to the First Year
By: Armin A. Brott
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5. Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens
By: Steve Olson
4.06
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
For months in early 1980, scientists, journalists, sightseers, and nearby residents listened anxiou… read more
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6. Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam
By: Nick Turse
4.21
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Americans have long been taught that events such as the notorious My Lai massacre were isolated inc… read more
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7. 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
8. Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet
By: Ben Goldfarb
4.45
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times Notable Book of 2023 and Editors' Choice • A Science News Favorite Book of 2023 • … read more
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9. Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
By: Oliver Franklin-Wallis
4.44
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning investigative journalist takes a deep dive into the global waste crisis, exposing … read more
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"Cleaning up is expensive; arson is cheap."-Oliver Franklin-Wallis, Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
"As modern agriculture and supply chains have made food cheap, diverse, and plentiful, it can also sometimes feel that we have forgotten to value the food we do eat, or understand the environmental or…"-Oliver Franklin-Wallis, Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
"Nuclear waste is unlike other wastes. It is not only the danger…but the timescale. Trash inside a landfill might decay over decades, plastics over hundreds or thousands of years - the truth is we don…"-Oliver Franklin-Wallis, Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
10. Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen
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4.22
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
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"What if, instead of being diagnosed—being called mentally ill—what if I had been able to receive care for its own sake. To be in distress, to ask for care, to receive it. What if there were space in …"-Suzanne Scanlon, Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen
11. The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration
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4.28
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
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12. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
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4.22
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"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
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4.70
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14. The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America
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4.29
Format: 369 pages, Hardcover
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26. Atomic Days: The Untold Story of the Most Toxic Place in America
By: Joshua Frank
4.16
Format: 258 pages, Paperback
WINNER IPPY AWARD BEST REGIONAL NON-FICTION (Silver) WINNER NELLIE BLY AWARD BEST JOURNALISTIC NON… read more
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"The colossal legacy of Hanford, which now accounts for two-thirds of all high-level radioactive waste in the country, is fraught with calamity--a lingering wreckage with little sign of being remediat…"-Joshua Frank, Atomic Days: The Untold Story of the Most Toxic Place in America
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27. Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV
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4.02
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
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28. Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat
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4.32
Format: 365 pages, Kindle Edition
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4.19
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30. Banning the Bomb, Smashing the Patriarchy (Feminist Studies on Peace, Justice and Violence)
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4.33
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31. Defund: Conversations Toward Abolition
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4.40
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