Generation Dread: Finding Purpose in an Age of Climate Crisis
By: Britt Wray
3.96
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
An impassioned generational perspective on how to stay sane amid climate disruption. Climate and…
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1. Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
By: Naomi Oreskes , Erik M. Conway
4.17
Format: 274 pages, Hardcover
The U.S. scientific community has long led the world in research on such areas as public health, en… read more
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- science
- sustainability
- nonfiction
- climate change
- environment
- audiobook
"An all purpose expert is an oxymoron"-Naomi Oreskes, Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
"The industry had realized you could create the impression of controversy simply by asking questions"-Naomi Oreskes, Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
"After the Cold War, most scientists were relieved to be freed of the burdens of secrecy and misrepresentation, but Seitz, Singer, and Nierenberg continued to act as if the Cold War had not ended."-Naomi Oreskes, Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
"...and that greater use of pesticides was the key to wiping out world hunger (although most social scientist disagree, pointing out that there is plenty of food in the world; the problem we face is o…"-Naomi Oreskes, Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
2. The Art of Mindful Living: How to Bring Love, Compassion, and Inner Peace Into Your Daily Life
By: Thich Nhat Hanh
2.00
Format: 232 pages, Audio CD
Zen meditation master Thich Nhat Hanh offers his practical teachings about how to bring love and mi… read more
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3. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
By: Naomi Klein
4.22
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
- audiobook
"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
4. The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet
By: Leah Thomas
4.15
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A primer on intersectional environmentalism aimed at educating the next generation of activists on … read more
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- sustainability
- nonfiction
- social justice
- climate change
- environment
- nature
- science
5. Making Love with the Land: Essays
By: Joshua Whitehead
4.11
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
A moving and deeply personal excavation of Indigenous beauty and passion in a suffering world The n… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
- audiobook
"Sometimes, I think of mourning as if it were a haunting."-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays
"I constanly ask myself if all writing is a form of mourning."-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays
"Now living has become a series of hauntings, poltergeists, revenants that flock to the entrances to my ceremonial spaces and enter without regard or invitation."-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays
"The land, like the body, teaches us the fundamental rule of ending: that no such thing exists, no suffix of "-ed" shall ever touch the prefix of "pre-" and even a body in its most cellular state know…"-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays
6. The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World
By: Jeff Goodell
4.18
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
What if Atlantis wasn't a myth but an early precursor to a new age of great flooding? Across the gl… read more
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- science
- sustainability
- nonfiction
- climate change
- environment
- nature
- audiobook
7. 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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- science
- sustainability
- nonfiction
- climate change
- environment
- nature
- audiobook
8. Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World
By: Katharine Hayhoe
4.31
Format: 318 pages, Kindle Edition
United Nations Champion of the Earth, climate scientist, and evangelical Christian Katharine Hayhoe… read more
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- sustainability
- nonfiction
- social justice
- climate change
- environment
- nature
- audiobook
9. Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom
By: Derecka Purnell
4.44
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
For more than a century, activists in the United States have tried to reform the police. From commu… read more
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- nonfiction
- social justice
"The systems responsible for our oppression cannot be the same systems responsible for our liberation."-Derecka Purnell, Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom
"Campus police and street police are different strands of the same supremacy that plague our resistance."-Derecka Purnell, Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom
10. Blood: The Science, Medicine, and Mythology of Menstruation
By: Jen Gunter
4.25
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
Dr. Jen Gunter fights myths and fear-mongering with real science, inclusive facts, and shame-free a… read more
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- science
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Reproducing a human is a massive biological effort. Energy-wise, it's on par with the limits of the most extreme sports, for example, running 5,000 km (3,000 miles) over 120 days or cycling the Tour …"-Jen Gunter, Blood: The Science, Medicine, and Mythology of Menstruation
"When it comes to painful periods, there is an epidemic of undertreatment. Women's pain is undertreated in general, as compared to men's, but painful periods have historically been seen as a "woman th…"-Jen Gunter, Blood: The Science, Medicine, and Mythology of Menstruation
"Unfortunately, instead of a world where those who bear the physical burdens of reproduction—whether they reproduce or not—have equal footing, we have the opposite. The Ancient Greeks, the originators…"-Jen Gunter, Blood: The Science, Medicine, and Mythology of Menstruation
11. Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility
By: Rebecca Solnit
3.98
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
An energizing case for hope about the climate comes from Rebecca Solnit, called the voice of the re… read more
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- sustainability
- nonfiction
- social justice
- climate change
- environment
- nature
- science
"To hope is to accept despair as an emotion but not as an analysis. To recognize that what is unlikely is possible, just as what is likely is not inevitable. To understand that difficult is not the sa…"-Rebecca Solnit, Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility
"What gives me hope is that human history is full of examples of people across the ages who have risen to face the great challenges of their time and have succeeded. Victory is not the arrival in some…"-Rebecca Solnit, Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility
"These are among the many foundation stones of this new world we have built, and the work continues. I know all this seemed impossible a decade ago, when it felt as if everything was falling apart and…"-Rebecca Solnit, Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility
12. Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire
By: Alice Wong
4.30
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
The much-anticipated follow up to the groundbreaking anthology Disability Visibility: another revol… read more
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- nonfiction
- social justice
- mental health
13. The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet
By: Michael E. Mann
3.95
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A renowned climate scientist shows how fossil fuel companies have waged a thirty-year campaign to d… read more
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- science
- sustainability
- nonfiction
- climate change
- environment
- nature
- audiobook
14. Coexistence: Stories
By: Billy-Ray Belcourt
4.39
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Superbly rendered portraits of modern indigeneity from the acclaimed author of A Minor Chorus. A gr… read more
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"I wrote about the future because I wanted to invent it. I wrote about the present so that it wouldn't obliterate me."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, Coexistence: Stories
"It's October, and the shorter days have made us hungrier, depriving us of light and forcing us to look for it in other people."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, Coexistence: Stories
"That's what love is -- someone else's spirit moving through you. When someone moves through you they leave behind a small trace of human life. It's how we know we're still alive."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, Coexistence: Stories
15. The North-West Is Our Mother: The Story of Louis Riel's People, the Métis Nation
By: Jean Teillet
4.36
Format: 576 pages, ebook
There is a missing chapter in the narrative of Indigenous Peoples in Canada—the story of the Métis … read more
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- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
16. Generation Dread: Finding Purpose in an Age of Climate Crisis
By: Britt Wray
3.96
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
An impassioned generational perspective on how to stay sane amid climate disruption. Climate and… read more
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- psychology
- mental health
- sustainability
- nonfiction
- social justice
- climate change
- environment
- nature
- audiobook
17. A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet
By: Sarah Jaquette Ray
4.11
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
A youth movement is reenergizing global environmental activism. The “climate generation”—late mille… read more
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- mental health
- sustainability
- nonfiction
- climate change
- environment
- nature
- science
18. I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
By: Andrew Boyd
4.20
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
An existential manual for tragic optimists, can-do pessimists, and compassionate doomers With gl… read more
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- nonfiction
- social justice
- climate change
- environment
- nature
- audiobook
19. But What Will People Say?: Navigating Mental Health, Identity, Love, and Family Between Cultures
By: Sahaj Kaur Kohli
4.58
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A deeply personal, paradigm-shifting book from therapist, writer, and founder of @browngirltherapy … read more
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- mental health
- nonfiction
- psychology
- audiobook
20. How to Be a Climate Optimist: Blueprints for a Better World
By: Chris Turner
3.77
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE SHAUGHNESSY COHEN PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING From the National Business Book Award … read more
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- nature
- nonfiction
- climate change
- environment
- science
21. All We Want: Building the Life We Cannot Buy
By: Michael Harris
3.58
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
Our lives are defined by a story of endless growth and consumption. Now a climate crisis demands th… read more
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- nonfiction
- environment
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