There Are No Accidents
By: Jessie Singer
4.33
Format: None pages, None
A journalist recounts the surprising history of accidents and reveals how they’ve come to define al…
Want to Read $ 13.99"It is an act of love to demand accountability for the dead. And it takes rage to prevent the same accidents from happening again."-Jessie Singer, There Are No Accidents
"Blame and the punishment that follows may satisfy the thirst for vengeance. But we cannot punish and learn at the same time. Punishment keeps in place the belief that the system is safe and the human error was the aberration. Learning requires recognizing the failures built into the system and changing the system. Punishment has nothing to do with prevention."-Jessie Singer, There Are No Accidents
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1. Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution
By: Janette Sadik-Khan , Seth Solomonow
4.27
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
An empowering road map for rethinking, reinvigorating, and redesigning our cities, from a pioneer i… read more
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2. Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
By: Jeff Speck
4.43
Format: 250 pages, Hardcover
Jeff Speck has dedicated his career to determining what makes cities thrive. And he has boiled it d… read more
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3. 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
4. The Lost Cause
By: Cory Doctorow
3.65
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
It's thirty years from now and we're making progress, mitigating climate change, slowly but surely.… read more
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5. Butler to the World: How Britain Helps the World's Worst People Launder Money, Commit Crimes, and Get Away with Anything
By: Oliver Bullough
4.00
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In his punchy follow-up to Moneyland, Oliver Bullough's Butler to the World unravels the dark secre… read more
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6. 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
7. Plunder: Private Equity's Plan to Pillage America
By: Brendan Ballou
4.08
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The authoritative exposé of private what it is, how it kills businesses and jobs, how the governme… read more
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8. Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
By: Henry Grabar
4.20
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
An entertaining, enlightening, and utterly original investigation into one of the most quietly infl… read more
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9. The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet
By: Jeff Goodell
4.32
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The world is waking up to a new wildfires are now seasonal in California, the Northeast is getting… read more
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10. Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity
By: Charles L. Marohn Jr.
4.26
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A new way forward for sustainable quality of life in cities of all sizes Strong Towns: A Bottom-… read more
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11. The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South
By: Radley Balko
4.03
Format: 391 pages, Hardcover
After two three-year-old girls were raped and murdered in rural Mississippi, law enforcement pursue… read more
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12. Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town
By: Charles L. Marohn Jr.
4.26
Format: 256 pages, ebook
Discover insider secrets of how America's transportation system is designed, funded, and built - an… read more
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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. Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It
By: M. Nolan Gray
4.18
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
What if scrapping one flawed policy could bring US cities closer to addressing debilitating housing… read more
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15. Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle
By: Jody Rosen
3.63
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A panoramic revisionist portrait of the nineteenth-century invention that is transforming the twent… read more
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16. Carmageddon: How Cars Make Life Worse and What to Do About It
By: Daniel Knowles
4.27
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A high-octane polemic against cars—which are ruining the world, while making us unhappy and unhealt… read more
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17. Curbing Traffic: The Human Case for Fewer Cars in Our Lives
By: Melissa Bruntlett
4.41
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
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18. There Are No Accidents
By: Jessie Singer
4.33
Format: None pages, None
A journalist recounts the surprising history of accidents and reveals how they’ve come to define al… read more
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"It is an act of love to demand accountability for the dead. And it takes rage to prevent the same accidents from happening again."-Jessie Singer, There Are No Accidents
"Blame and the punishment that follows may satisfy the thirst for vengeance. But we cannot punish and learn at the same time. Punishment keeps in place the belief that the system is safe and the human…"-Jessie Singer, There Are No Accidents
19. Right of Way: Race, Class, and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America
By: Angie Schmitt
4.40
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
The face of the pedestrian safety crisis looks a lot like Ignacio Duarte-Rodriguez. The 77-year old… read more
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20. Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation
By: Paris Marx
4.20
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
How to build a transportation system to provide mobility for all Road to Nowhere exposes the flaws… read more
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21. When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s
By: John Ganz
4.23
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A lively, revelatory look back at the convulsions at the end of the Reagan era―and their dark legac… read more
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