Water is for Fighting Over: and Other Myths about Water in the West
By: John Fleck
4.06
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
When we think of water in the West, we think of conflict and crisis. In recent years, newspaper hea…
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1. The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1)
By: Edward Abbey
4.08
Format: 421 pages, Paperback
Ed Abbey called The Monkey Wrench Gang, his 1975 novel, a "comic extravaganza." Some readers have r… read more
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- environment
"The night. The stars. The river."-Edward Abbey, The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1)
"I piss on you from a considerable height."-Edward Abbey, The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1)
"Poor Hayduke: won all his arguments but lost his immortal soul."-Edward Abbey, The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1)
"There are some places so beautiful they can make a grown man break down and weep."-Edward Abbey, The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1)
2. Your Money or Your Life
By: Vicki Robin , Joe Dominguez
4.53
Format: 302 pages, Paperback
In times like these, it's more important than ever to know the difference between making a living a… read more
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- nonfiction
3. Tortilla Flat
By: John Steinbeck
3.72
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"Steinbeck is an artist; and he tells the stories of these lovable thieves and adulterers with a ge… read more
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4. Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
By: Matthew Desmond
3.37
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From Harvard sociologist and MacArthur "Genius" Matthew Desmond, a landmark work of scholarship and… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
5. Where the Water Goes: Life and Death Along the Colorado River
By: David Owen
3.44
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant, eye-opening account of where our water comes from and where it all goes The Colorado … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- environment
- science
6. Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water
By: Marc Reisner
4.53
Format: 122 pages, Paperback
The story of the American West is the story of a relentless quest for a precious resource: water. I… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- environment
- science
7. Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
By: Cass R. Sunstein , Richard H. Thaler
3.84
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
From the winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Economics, Richard H. Thaler, and Cass R. Sunstein: a r… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
"Just as no building lacks an architecture, so no choice lacks a context."-Cass R. Sunstein, Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
"As good architects know, seemingly arbitrary decisions, such as where to locate the bathrooms, will have subtle influences on how the people who use the building interact. Every trip to the bathroom …"-Cass R. Sunstein, Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
8. Food Rules: An Eater's Manual
By: Michael Pollan
4.04
Format: None pages, Paperback
A DEFINITIVE COMPENDIUM OF FOOD WISDOM Eating doesn't have to be so complicated. In this age of eve… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
9. Desert Solitaire
By: Edward Abbey
4.00
Format: None pages,
When Desert Solitairewas first published in 1968, it became the focus of a nationwide cult. Rude an… read more
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11. Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman
By: Yvon Chouinard
3.25
Format: 198 pages, Paperback
In his long-awaited memoir, Yvon Chouinard-legendary climber, businessman, environmentalist, and fo… read more
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12. Stalky & Co.
By: Rudyard Kipling
3.83
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Kipling portrays school as the first stage of a much larger game, a pattern maker for the experienc… read more
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13. 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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14. 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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- nonfiction
- history
- environment
- science
"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
15. American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis
By: Adam Hochschild
4.21
Format: 422 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning, New York Times bestselling historian Adam Hochschild, a fast-paced, revelatory … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
16. Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)
By: Waubgeshig Rice
4.28
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In this gripping sequel to the award-winning post-apocalyptic novel Moon of the Crusted Snow , a br… read more
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17. The Lost City of the Monkey God
By: Douglas Preston
3.93
Format: 326 pages, Kindle Edition
A five-hundred-year-old legend. An ancient curse. A stunning medical mystery. And a pioneering jour… read more
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- history
- science
18. 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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- nonfiction
- history
- environment
- science
19. Peril
By: Bob Woodward
4.09
Format: 512 pages, Kindle Edition
The book covers the end of the Trump presidency and the early months of the Biden presidency. Th… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"Graham said, "I can get an affidavit tomorrow saying the world is flat."-Bob Woodward, Peril
20. Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione
By: Jonathan Haidt
4.21
Format: 420 pages, Paperback
Una suggestiva indagine dei meccanismi profondi che regolano la nostra esistenza, le decisioni che … read more
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- nonfiction
- science
"Reasoning can take you wherever you want to go."-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione
"Intuitions come first, strategic reasoning second."-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione
"Anyone who values truth should stop worshipping reason."-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione
"Science is a smorgasbord, and google will guide you to the study that's right for you."-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione
21. 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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- nonfiction
- history
22. Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World
By: John Vaillant
4.35
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A stunning account of a colossal wildfire that collided with a city and a panoramic exploration of … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- environment
- science
23. Why We're Polarized
By: Ezra Klein
4.22
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Discover how American politics became a toxic system, why we participate in it, and what it means f… read more
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- history
"Unfortunately, the term “identity politics"-Ezra Klein, Why We're Polarized
"The key idea here is “negative partisanship"-Ezra Klein, Why We're Polarized
"So here, then, is the last fifty years of American politics summarized: we became more consistent in the party we vote for not because we came to like our party more—indeed, we’ve come to like the pa…"-Ezra Klein, Why We're Polarized
"The political media is biased, but not toward the Left or Right so much as toward loud, outrageous, colorful, inspirational, confrontational. It is biased toward the political stories and figures who…"-Ezra Klein, Why We're Polarized
24. Trust the Plan: The Rise of QAnon and the Conspiracy That Unhinged America
By: Will Sommer
4.09
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
The definitive book on QAnon from the reporter knows them best; Will Sommer explains what it is, ho… read more
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- history
25. Quit Like a Millionaire: No Gimmicks, Luck, or Trust Fund Required
By: Kristy Shen
4.23
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
From two leaders of the FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early) movement, a bold, contrarian gu… read more
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- nonfiction
"One of the biggest lies we´ve been sold is that following our passion is the key . Statistically, following your passion will lead to unemployment or underemployment"-Kristy Shen, Quit Like a Millionaire: No Gimmicks, Luck, or Trust Fund Required
"The idea of relying on the government was laughable. The government's job isn't to help you! Their job is tofind new and creative ways of making your life immeasurably worse."-Kristy Shen, Quit Like a Millionaire: No Gimmicks, Luck, or Trust Fund Required
"Whenever someone did you a favor o lent you something, you were expected to repay them, either through political favors or with money. Over time, it became ingrained in the national psyche that being…"-Kristy Shen, Quit Like a Millionaire: No Gimmicks, Luck, or Trust Fund Required
26. All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis
By: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
4.45
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
Provocative and illuminating essays from women at the forefront of the climate movement who are har… read more
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- environment
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27. Downriver: Into the Future of Water in the West
By: Heather Hansman
4.02
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning journalist rafts down the Green River, revealing a multifaceted look at the present a… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- conservation
- environment
- science
28. 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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29. Water is for Fighting Over: and Other Myths about Water in the West
By: John Fleck
4.06
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
When we think of water in the West, we think of conflict and crisis. In recent years, newspaper hea… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
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- environment
- science
30. The Poisoned City: Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy
By: Anna Clark
4.15
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The first full account of the Flint, Michigan, water scandal, an American tragedy, with new details… read more
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- history
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- science
31. The Source: How Rivers Made America and America Remade Its Rivers
By: Martin Doyle
4.10
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
“An original and thought-provoking exploration of the sinuous course that water has carved through … read more
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