Tales of Two Planets: Stories of Climate Change and Inequality in a Divided World
By: John Freeman
3.92
Format: 290 pages, Paperback
Building from his acclaimed anthology Tales of Two Americas, beloved writer and editor John Freeman…
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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
- 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. Exuvii
By: Simona Popescu
3.67
Format: 364 pages, Hardcover
Enigmaticul titlu al cartii spune, intr-un fel, totul: pentru ca ,,exuviile" sint pieile lepadate, … read more
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3. The Blue Fox
By: Victoria Cribb , Sjón
5.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE NORDIC LITERARY PRIZE AND NOMINATED FOR THE ICELANDIC LITERATURE PRIZE The year is 18… read more
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4. American War
By: Omar El Akkad
3.62
Format: 280 pages, Kindle Edition
An audacious and powerful debut novel: a second American Civil War, a devastating plague, and one f… read more
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5. About Grace
By: Anthony Doerr
3.63
Format: 56 pages,
Beautifully written and compelling, About Grace is the brilliant debut novel from Anthony Doerr. Gr… read more
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6. The Water Knife
By: Paolo Bacigalupi
3.28
Format: 5 pages, Hardcover
In the American Southwest, Nevada, Arizona, and California skirmish for dwindling shares of the Col… read more
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7. Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
By: Lea Ypi
4.28
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
For precocious 11-year-old Lea Ypi, Albania’s Soviet-style socialism held the promise of a preordai… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"In March, they said we were all victims. They accepted us. In August, they looked at us as if we were some kinds of menace, like we were about to eat their children."-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
"Todavía hoy asocio todos nuestros esfuerzos por enterarnos de lo que pasaba en el mundo exterior al nombre de Dajti, la apartada cordillera que rodeaba nuestra capital y dominaba su paisaje como si l…"-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
"In the past, one would have been arrested for wanting to leave. Now that nobody was stopping us from emigrating, we were no longer welcome on the other side. The only thing that had changed was the c…"-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
"[...]Many of those friends were self-declared socialists - Wester socialists, that is. They spoke about Rosa Luxemburg, Leon Trotsky, Salvador Allende or Ernesto 'Che' Guevara as secular saints. It o…"-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
8. White Holes
By: Carlo Rovelli
4.10
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A mesmerizing trip to the strange world of white holes from the bestselling author of Seven Brief L… read more
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- audiobook
- nonfiction
- nature
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9. 薬屋のひとりごと 1 [Kusuriya no Hitorigoto 1]
By: Nekokurage
4.43
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
宮中に名探偵誕生!? 「小説家になろう」発! ヒーロー文庫の大人気タイトル『薬屋のひとりごと』が、待望のコミカライズ! 中世の宮中で下働きをする少女・猫猫(マオマオ)。 花街で薬師をやっていた彼女が… read more
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10. 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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- nonfiction
- social justice
- climate change
- environment
- nature
- science
11. Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
By: Cal Flyn
4.20
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
Investigative journalist Cal Flyn's ISLANDS OF ABANDONMENT, an exploration of the world's most deso… read more
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- audiobook
- nature
- nonfiction
- climate change
- environment
- science
"But the unplanned nature preserves that have formed up in the buffer zones have come to serve as a focus for bilateral cooperation after hostilities are over."-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"Further back, cooling ponds strewn with rusted pipes were busy with teals and moorhens. An old concrete streetlight stood incongruously in the woods beyond: some ravaged Narnia. Jays catcalled overhe…"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"This is a corrupted world, yes - one long fallen from a state of grace - but it is a world too that knows how to live. It has a great capacity for repair, for recovery, for forgiveness - of a sort - …"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"And so for a hundred years a forest grew up across the land, tall and dark and impenetrable, whose undergrowth curled and snarled into a thicket of bramble and black thorn. This was a forbidden fores…"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
12. How to Build a Boat
By: Elaine Feeney
3.78
Format: 298 pages, Paperback
This is the story of a remarkable boy and his search for his mother, told with warmth, tenderness a… read more
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- audiobook
"To some, the world is filled with threats. To others, opportunities."-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat
"That's dedication and if life's taught me anything, we go to what we love, eventually - we mightn't find it straight away, but we get there."-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat
"...[W]hile language came readily to Tess when dealing with herself alone, having one-way conversations over all of her choices on her long walks in the woods, or on her way to school, now she no long…"-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat
"How can I miss someone I have never met? Jamie said. Grief was profoundly different for both humans. One felt an intense anger he had never recovered from, the other knew something was missing, a vac…"-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat
13. My Pen is the Wing of a Bird: New Fiction by Afghan Women
By: Lyse Doucet
4.26
Format: 253 pages, Paperback
"Powerful, profound and deeply moving, new fiction by Afghan women writers will expand your mind an… read more
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"Literature is resilience, a release."-Lyse Doucet, My Pen is the Wing of a Bird: New Fiction by Afghan Women
"Thank god, I said to myself, that the sun is not someone's property, otherwise I'd have to pay rent for that as well."-Lyse Doucet, My Pen is the Wing of a Bird: New Fiction by Afghan Women
14. Minor Detail
By: Adania Shibli
4.20
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn a… read more
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- audiobook
"Man, not the tank, shall prevail."-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Não há como descartar a probabilidade de uma conexão entre os dois fatos, ou alguma ligação oculta entre eles, por analogia às relações que os seres humanos encontram entre as plantas, por exemplo, q…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Desde que tive ciência da minha incapacidade consumada de me mover de acordo com os limites, resolvi, finalmente, permanecer dentro dos limites da minha casa, tanto quanto possível. Agora, uma vez qu…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Toch zijn er mensen die in die logica − dus dat je je concentreert op de meest futiele details zoals stof op een bureau of vliegenpoepjes op een schilderij − de enige manier zien om de waarheid te do…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
15. The Intelligence Trap: Why Smart People Make Dumb Mistakes
By: David Robson
4.02
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Smart people are not only just as prone to making mistakes as everyone else, they may be even more … read more
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- nonfiction
- science
"❞ إذا نَشَأْتَ بين أشخاص لا يثقون بالعلماء، فقد تكتسب ميلًا لتجاهل الأدلة التجريبية والوثوق بالنظريات غير المُثبَتة ❝"-David Robson, The Intelligence Trap: Why Smart People Make Dumb Mistakes
"في أي مهنة، يوجد الكثير من الأفراد منخفضي معدل الذكاء الذين يتفوقون على أشخاص ذوي معدل أعلى بكثير، كما يوجد أشخاص أكثر ذكاءً لا يحسنون استغلال مقدرتهم العقلية، ما يؤكد أن سمات مثل الإبداع والحكم المهن…"-David Robson, The Intelligence Trap: Why Smart People Make Dumb Mistakes
"Intelligent and educated people are less likely to learn from their mistakes, for instance, or take advice from others. And when they do err, they are better able to build elaborate arguments to just…"-David Robson, The Intelligence Trap: Why Smart People Make Dumb Mistakes
"❞ رغم أن عقودًا من الأبحاث النفسية وثَّقت ميل البشر إلى اللا عقلانية، فلم يبدأ العلماء إلا مؤخرًا نسبيًّا في قياس مدى اختلاف اللا عقلانية بين الأفراد، ودراسة ما إذا كان ذلك التباين يرتبط بمقاييس الذكاء. وت…"-David Robson, The Intelligence Trap: Why Smart People Make Dumb Mistakes
16. Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence
By: Kristen R. Ghodsee
4.01
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A spirited, deeply researched exploration of why capitalism is bad for women and how, when done rig… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
"If done properly, socialism leads to economic independence, better labor conditions, better work/family balance, and, yes, even better sex."-Kristen R. Ghodsee, Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence
"The state of being female is complicated by other categories such as class, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, religious belief, and so on."-Kristen R. Ghodsee, Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence
"You are not a commodity. Your depression and anxiety are not just chemical imbalances in your brain but reasonable responses to a system that thrives on your dehumanization."-Kristen R. Ghodsee, Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence
17. Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto
By: Kōhei Saitō
3.91
Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition
"[A] well-reasoned and eye-opening treatise . . . [Kohei Saito makes] a provocative and visionary p… read more
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- nonfiction
- environment
- audiobook
18. Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land
By: Taylor Brorby
4.05
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
“I am a child of the American West, a landscape so rich and wide that my culture trembles with terr… read more
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- environment
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"I wanted to be that open with others. Be able to express myself without fear. Spare emotions fester in a landscape where the only way capitalism has made sense of the American West is to fence it in.…"-Taylor Brorby, Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land
"The American West is the playground for the country's obsession with exploitation and destruction, with most extractive economies near Native American reservations. There are increased rates of birth…"-Taylor Brorby, Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land
"The prairie I grew up on teaches you to notice, to pay attention. The yolk of the sun as it slides across the dome of the sky streaking the world orange and indigo. The swish of grass in afternoon br…"-Taylor Brorby, Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land
"My grip loosened on the wheel. Or was it, the world? It was such a small, passing moment. Which is where many of our monumental shifts happen. It is not the grand stage, but the quiet kitchen, the si…"-Taylor Brorby, Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land
19. The Ardent Swarm
By: Yamen Manai
4.10
Format: 174 pages, Kindle Edition
From an award-winning Tunisian author comes a stirring allegory about a country in the aftermath of… read more
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- audiobook
"A God that could still console him for the cruelty of man through the gentleness of his bees."-Yamen Manai, The Ardent Swarm
"Most of them hadn’t even chosen their spouses, and now they were meant to choose who would govern them."-Yamen Manai, The Ardent Swarm
20. The Thirty Names of Night
By: Zeyn Joukhadar
4.04
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
Five years after a suspicious fire killed his ornithologist mother, a closeted Syrian American tran… read more
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"I bow my head under her hands. “I couldn’t do it anymore, Teta."-Zeyn Joukhadar, The Thirty Names of Night
"Faith isn’t a gift you can give. It’s something we find for ourselves."-Zeyn Joukhadar, The Thirty Names of Night
"Maybe it's true that we become what we love most, that we exalt the nameless by losing ourselves in it."-Zeyn Joukhadar, The Thirty Names of Night
"To the night, I am a body without a past or a future, a pillar that bends light. The night doesn't know my name."-Zeyn Joukhadar, The Thirty Names of Night
21. Tales of Two Planets: Stories of Climate Change and Inequality in a Divided World
By: John Freeman
3.92
Format: 290 pages, Paperback
Building from his acclaimed anthology Tales of Two Americas, beloved writer and editor John Freeman… read more
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- essays
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- environment
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