16 Best nonfiction books like Saving Animals, Saving Ourselves: Why Animals Matter for Pandemics, Climate Change, and other Catastrophes by Jeff Sebo

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Saving Animals, Saving Ourselves: Why Animals Matter for Pandemics, Climate Change, and other Catastrophes

By: Jeff Sebo

4.04

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In 2020, COVID-19, the Australia bushfires, and other global threats served as vivid reminders that…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Saving Animals, Saving Ourselves: Why Animals Matter for Pandemics, Climate Change, and other Catastrophes by Jeff Sebo , here is a list of 16 books like this:

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1. The Society of the Spectacle

By: Donald Nicholson-Smith , Guy Debord

4.02

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative as Guy Debord's The … read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures."

-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle

"The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist."

-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle

"La réalité du temps a été remplacée par la publicité du temps."

-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle

"Spectacle is the sun that never sets over the empire of modern passivity"

-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle

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2. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

By: Hannah Arendt

4.20

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

Originally appearing as a series of articles in The New Yorker, Hannah Arendt’s authoritative and s… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it—the quality of temptation."

-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

"During the war, the lie most effective with the whole of the German people was the slogan of “the battle of destiny for the German people"

-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

"In the Third Reich evil lost its distinctive characteristic by which most people had until then recognized it. The Nazis redefined it as a civil norm."

-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

"It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent."

-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

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3. Pale Fire

By: Vladimir Nabokov

3.98

Format: 574 pages,

The urbane authority that Vladimir Nabokov brought to every word he ever wrote, and the ironic amus… read more

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4. Zoopolis: A Political Theory of Animal Rights

By: Will Kymlicka , None

3.87

Format: 309 pages, Hardcover

Zoopolis offers a new agenda for the theory and practice of animal rights. Most animal rights theor… read more

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5. The Way We Never Were: American Families & the Nostalgia Trap

By: Stephanie Coontz

3.80

Format: 281 pages,

The Way We Never Wereexamines two centuries of American family life and shatters a series of myths … read more

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6. Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

By: David Graeber

4.03

Format: 335 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling writer David Graeber, a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfi… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"Economies around the world have, increasingly, become vast engines for producing nonsense."

-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

"Bullshit jobs regularly induce feelings of hopelessness, depression, and self-loathing. They are forms of spiritual violence directed at the essence of what it means to be a human being."

-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

"What we are witnessing is the rise of those forms of popular culture that office workers can produce and consume during the scattered, furtive shards of time they have at their disposal in workplaces…"

-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

"A fact-finding commission is a way of telling the public that the government is doing something it is not. But a large corporations will behave exactly the same way, if, say, there are revealed to be…"

-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

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7. Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

By: Rory Stewart

4.36

Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition

A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabi… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Proper searching could stop drugs being carried through the gates. In the US and Sweden, where there was proper searching, I had discovered, the drug rates were far lower. But when I shared these sug…"

-Rory Stewart, Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

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8. 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
  • animals
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9. Nature's Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation That Starts in Your Yard

By: Douglas W. Tallamy

4.37

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Douglas W. Tallamy’s first book, Bringing Nature Home, sparked a national conversation about the li… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • animals
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10. Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere

By: Maria Bamford

3.77

Format: 287 pages, Hardcover

A brutally honest and hilariously frenetic memoir about show business, mental health, and the comfo… read more

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  • nonfiction
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11. Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet

By: Hannah Ritchie

4.29

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

‘Truly essential’ MARGARET ATWOOD Feeling anxious, powerless or confused about the future of our p… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong

12. An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

By: Ed Yong

4.47

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A grand tour through the hidden realms of animal senses that will transform the way you perceive th… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • animals
"It's ironic that we associate taste with connoisseurship, subtlety, and fine discrimination when it is among the coarsest of senses."

-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

"We are closer than ever to understanding what it is like to be another animal, but we have made it harder than ever for other animals to be."

-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

"Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal can only tap into a small fraction of realities fullness. Each is enclos…"

-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

"A striking pattern emerged on days with the most intense solar storms, grey whales were 4 times more likely to beach themselves. This correlation doesn't prove that whales have a compass but it stron…"

-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

Cover of Parfit: A Philosopher and His Mission to Save Morality by David Edmonds

13. Parfit: A Philosopher and His Mission to Save Morality

By: David Edmonds

4.26

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling coauthor of Wittgenstein’s Poker , an entertaining and illuminating biography … read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
Cover of Animal Liberation Now: The Definitive Classic Renewed by Peter Singer

14. Animal Liberation Now: The Definitive Classic Renewed

By: Peter Singer

4.55

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

"Peter Singer may be the most controversial philosopher alive; he is certainly among the most influ… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • animals
Cover of Writing for Busy Readers: Communicate More Effectively in the Real World by Todd Rogers

15. Writing for Busy Readers: Communicate More Effectively in the Real World

By: Todd Rogers

3.89

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Writing well is for school. Writing effectively is for life . Todd Rogers and Jessica Lasky-Fink o… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Unleashing Your Dog: A Field Guide to Giving Your Canine Companion the Best Life Possible by Marc Bekoff

16. Unleashing Your Dog: A Field Guide to Giving Your Canine Companion the Best Life Possible

By: Marc Bekoff

4.09

Format: None pages, ebook

The phrase "it's a dog's life" connotes happy-go-lucky days of pleasure and ease. But our canine co… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • animals
Cover of Saving Animals, Saving Ourselves: Why Animals Matter for Pandemics, Climate Change, and other Catastrophes by Jeff Sebo

17. Saving Animals, Saving Ourselves: Why Animals Matter for Pandemics, Climate Change, and other Catastrophes

By: Jeff Sebo

4.04

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In 2020, COVID-19, the Australia bushfires, and other global threats served as vivid reminders that… read more

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  • philosophy
  • activism
  • nonfiction
  • animals
Cover of American Covenant: National Parks, Their Promise, and Our Nation's Future by Michael A Soukup

18. American Covenant: National Parks, Their Promise, and Our Nation's Future

By: Michael A Soukup

3.37

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

An intimate and candid account of our national parks detailing their strengths, vulnerabilities, an… read more

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19. Meet the Neighbors: Animal Minds and Life in a More-than-Human World

By: Brandon Keim

4.05

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

What does the science of animal intelligence mean for how we understand and live with the wild crea… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • animals
Cover of Sentientist Politics: A Theory of Global Inter-Species Justice by Alasdair Cochrane

20. Sentientist Politics: A Theory of Global Inter-Species Justice

By: Alasdair Cochrane

4.50

Format: 174 pages, Hardcover

There is now widespread agreement that many non-human animals are sentient, and that this fact has … read more

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  • philosophy
Cover of Un paso adelante en defensa de los animales (Spanish Edition) by Oscar Horta

21. Un paso adelante en defensa de los animales (Spanish Edition)

By: Oscar Horta

4.26

Format: 234 pages, Paperback

Why should we care about animals? What can we do for them, and what can we stop doing against them?… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction

8 Top philosophy books like Saving Animals, Saving Ourselves: Why Animals Matter for Pandemics, Climate Change, and other Catastrophes by Jeff Sebo

Transform Your Habits

The Society of the Spectacle

Donald Nicholson-Smith , Guy Debord

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

Hannah Arendt

4.20

Transform Your Habits

Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

David Graeber

4.03

Transform Your Habits

Parfit: A Philosopher and His Mission to Save Morality

David Edmonds

4.26

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Transform Your Habits

The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year

Margaret Renkl

4.37

Transform Your Habits

Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet

Ben Goldfarb

4.45

Transform Your Habits

The Backyard Bird Chronicles

Amy Tan

4.14

Transform Your Habits

Nature's Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation That Starts in Your Yard

Douglas W. Tallamy

4.37

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