The Edge of the Plain: How Borders Make and Break Our World
By: James Crawford
4.04
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A wide-ranging journey through the history of borders and an exploration of their role in shaping o…
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1. A Time of Gifts
By: Patrick Leigh Fermor , Jan Morris
4.00
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
In 1933, at the age of 18, Patrick Leigh Fermor set out on an extraordinary journey by foot - from … read more
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2. 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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- nature
- history
- nonfiction
- environment
- audiobook
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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- nature
- politics
- nonfiction
- environment
- audiobook
"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. 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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- nature
- history
- nonfiction
- environment
- audiobook
5. The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World
By: Tim Marshall
3.94
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Spy satellites orbiting the moon. Space metals worth more than most countries’ GDP. People on Mars … read more
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- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- geography
- audiobook
6. Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
By: Jonathan Kennedy
3.94
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An account of how the major transformations in history—from the rise of Homo sapiens to the birth o… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
"Pathogens thrive on inequality and injustice."-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
"Across the whole of the Americas, the introduction of infectious diseases from Europe resulted in a 90 percent fall in the population, from about 60.5 million in 1500 to 6 million a century later."-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
"There is one universally incorrect choice: do nothing. This didn't work when humans thought that plagues were a punishment sent by angry gods. Nor does a laissez-faire approach help stop disease when…"-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
7. Goodbye, Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land
By: Jacob Mikanowski
4.09
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Eastern Europe is disappearing. Not off the map of course, but as an idea. Today it calls to min… read more
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- history
- travel
- politics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
8. The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History
By: Ned Blackhawk
4.18
Format: 596 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping and overdue retelling of U.S. history that recognizes that Native Americans are essentia… read more
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- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
9. Ten Birds That Changed the World
By: Stephen Moss
3.97
Format: 406 pages, Hardcover
For the whole of human history, we have lived alongside birds. We have hunted and domesticated them… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- nature
- audiobook
10. Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point
By: Steven Levitsky
4.43
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A call to reform our antiquated political institutions before it’s too late—from the New York Times… read more
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- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
11. A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging
By: Lauren Markham
4.08
Format: 263 pages, ebook
A provocative, virtuosic inquiry that reveals how the valorization of migrations past is intimately… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
12. The Earth Transformed: An Untold History
By: Peter Frankopan
3.94
Format: 736 pages, Hardcover
A revolutionary new history that reveals how climate change has dramatically shaped the development… read more
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- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- geography
- environment
- nature
13. The Half Known Life: In Search of Paradise
By: Pico Iyer
3.61
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From "one of the most soulful and perceptive writers of our time" (Brain Pickings): a journey throu… read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
14. They Came for the Schools: One Town's Fight Over Race and Identity, and the New War for America's Classrooms
By: Mike Hixenbaugh
4.48
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The urgent, revelatory story of how a school board win for the conservative right in one Texas subu… read more
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- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
15. Spring Rain
By: Marc Hamer
4.36
Format: 222 pages, Hardcover
This is a story about the rain, a boy, an angry dog and a gardener, and how some of them find peace… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
"When I look at the past I do it in the present, it becomes the present and I don't have any desire to cling to it. I make the three piles of stuff that we have all made at some time: a pile to keep, …"-Marc Hamer, Spring Rain
"I bought a narrow blue one with white spots and square ends, took off my long-striped tie and rolled it up in my top jacket pocket, leaving a bit sticking out. After a few attempts at the speckled mi…"-Marc Hamer, Spring Rain
16. Left Is Not Woke
By: Susan Neiman
3.61
Format: None pages, ebook
If you're woke, you're left. If you're left, you're woke. We blur the terms, assuming that if you'r… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
"Identity politics not only contract the multiple components of our identities to one: they essentialize that component over which we have the least control."-Susan Neiman, Left Is Not Woke
"Critical understanding can arise from powerlessness, but does it always do so? Few champions of standpoint epistemology would argue that it does. And, if not, can we allow the experience of powerless…"-Susan Neiman, Left Is Not Woke
17. This Mournable Body
By: Tsitsi Dangarembga
3.34
Format: 284 pages, Paperback
A searing novel about the obstacles facing women in Zimbabwe, by one of the country’s most notable … read more
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"How, with all your education, do you come to be more needy than your mother?"-Tsitsi Dangarembga, This Mournable Body
"What we heard all the time is that you were not working. That's what was said, that that degree of yours was just a piece of paper sitting, silently rotting."-Tsitsi Dangarembga, This Mournable Body
"You begin to suspect that Cousin-Brother-in-Law and Nyasha are not being honest, that they found each other because neither possesses the hardiness success requires, so they have dressed discourageme…"-Tsitsi Dangarembga, This Mournable Body
"Christine has that layer under her skin that cuts off her outside from her inside and allows no communication between the person she once believed she could be and the person she has in fact become. …"-Tsitsi Dangarembga, This Mournable Body
18. Desert Armour: Tank Warfare in North Africa: Beda Fomm to Operation Crusader, 1940–41
By: Robert Forczyk
4.63
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
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19. Avocado Anxiety: and Other Stories About Where Your Food Comes From
By: Louise Gray
3.61
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The food stories behind your favourite fruits and vegetables. Have you ever wondered who picked … read more
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- environment
20. The Edge of the Plain: How Borders Make and Break Our World
By: James Crawford
4.04
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A wide-ranging journey through the history of borders and an exploration of their role in shaping o… read more
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