Perilous Bounty: The Looming Collapse of American Farming and How We Can Prevent It
By: Tom Philpott
4.07
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
An unsettling journey into the United States' disaster-bound food system, and an exploration of pos…
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1. The One-Straw Revolution
By: Masanobu Fukuoka
4.34
Format: 181 pages, Paperback
Fukuoka demonstrates how the way we look at farming influences the way we look at health, the schoo… read more
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- environment
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"Wajah alam merupakan sesuatu yang tidak dapat dikenal"-Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution
"Orang sekarang ini makan dengan pikiran mereka, tidak dengan tubuh mereka"-Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution
"Kebudayaan yang benar dilahirkan di alam, sederhana, rendah hati, dan murni"-Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution
"I wonder how it is that people's philosophies have come to spin faster than the changing seasons."-Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution
2. The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time
By: John Kelly
4.25
Format: 151 pages, Paperback
La moria grandissimabegan its terrible journey across the European and Asian continents in 1347, le… read more
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3. The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee's, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table
By: Tracie McMillan
3.78
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
When award-winning (and working-class) journalist Tracie McMillan saw foodies swooning over $9 orga… read more
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4. Eating Animals
By: Jonathan Safran Foer
4.12
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
Brilliantly synthesizing philosophy, literature, science, memoir and his own detective work, Eating… read more
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5. The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
By: Michael Pollan
3.66
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Today, buffeted by one food fad after another, America is suffering from what can only be described… read more
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6. The Last Samurai
By: Helen DeWitt
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
Helen DeWitt's extraordinary debut, The Last Samurai, centers on the relationship between Sibylla, … read more
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7. The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
By: Robert A. Caro
3.25
Format: 40 pages, Paperback
One of the most acclaimed books of our time, winner of both the Pulitzer and the Francis Parkman pr… read more
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8. The Right Stuff
By: Tom Wolfe
4.08
Format: 432 pages,
Tom Wolfe began The Right Stuffat a time when it was unfashionable to contemplate American heroism.… read more
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9. 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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"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
10. If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
By: Vincent Bevins
4.28
Format: 337 pages, Hardcover
The story of the recent uprisings that sought to change the world - and what comes next From 20… read more
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- nonfiction
"In the history of revolutions, a couple of truisms had already emerged. One is that they are only successful when security forces defect or are defeated in violent conflict. Even if Moa Zedong was be…"-Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
11. Brutalities: A Love Story
By: Margo Steines
4.16
Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition
"Brutalities is electric with insight, riveted by its commitments—to love and bewilderment, to bear… read more
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"N, still new to me, coming inside and sitting down, me thinking that we would have sex and he would leave and it would be whatever, but instead we kissed a little bit and then started talking and I h…"-Margo Steines, Brutalities: A Love Story
12. The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration
By: Jake Bittle
4.28
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
“The Great Displacement is closely observed, compassionate, and far-sighted.” —Elizabeth Kolbert, P… read more
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- climate change
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13. Poverty, by America
By: Matthew Desmond
4.27
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in Ameri… read more
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"To live and strive in modern America is to participate in a series of morally fraught systems. If a family’s entire financial livelihood depends on the value of its home, it’s not hard to understand …"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"The rest of us, on the ·other hand-we members of the protected classes-have grown increasingly· dependent on our welfare programs. In 2020 the federal government spent more than $193 billion on homeo…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"In her book The Government-Citizen Disconnect, the political scientist Suzanne Mettler reports that 96 percent of American adults have relied on a major government program at some point in their live…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
14. Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
By: Henry Grabar
4.20
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
An entertaining, enlightening, and utterly original investigation into one of the most quietly infl… read more
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15. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
By: Barbara Kingsolver
4.05
Format: 383 pages, Kindle Edition
Author Barbara Kingsolver and her family abandoned the industrial-food pipeline to live a rural lif… read more
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"This story about good food begins in a quick-stop convenience market."-Barbara Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
"Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing."-Barbara Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
"When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that’s awfully hard not to poke."-Barbara Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
"Even feigning surprise, pretending it was unexpected and saying a ritual thanks, is surely wiser than just expecting everything so carelessly."-Barbara Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
16. The Secret Wisdom of Nature: Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things ― Stories from Science and Observation
By: Peter Wohlleben
4.06
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The final book in The Mysteries of Nature trilogy by the New York Times bestselling author of The H… read more
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- natural history
- nonfiction
- environment
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"The more we acknowledge that even the smallest disturbance can lead to unpredictable changes, the stronger the arguments for protecting larger areas of the environment."-Peter Wohlleben, The Secret Wisdom of Nature: Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things ― Stories from Science and Observation
"A whole generation of trees, including many that are deciduous, is standing by to form a solid foundation for the old-growth forest of the future, which means that bark beetles are more than just fun…"-Peter Wohlleben, The Secret Wisdom of Nature: Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things ― Stories from Science and Observation
17. The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet
By: Jeff Goodell
4.32
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The world is waking up to a new wildfires are now seasonal in California, the Northeast is getting… read more
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- climate change
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18. How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
By: Daniel Immerwahr
4.46
Format: 513 pages, Hardcover
A pathbreaking history of the United States' overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empir… read more
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"At various times, inhabitants of the U.S. Empire have been shot, shelled, starved, interned, dispossessed, tortured, and experimented on. What they haven't been, by and large, is seen."-Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
"Hoover’s greatest challenge was one of the least visible: the humble screw thread. Screws, nuts, and bolts are universal fasteners. They function in industrial societies, as one writer put it, like s…"-Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
19. Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet
By: George Monbiot
4.41
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
"This remarkable book, staring curiously down at the soil beneath our feet, points us convincingly … read more
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"Charity is what happens when government fails."-George Monbiot, Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet
"Obesity is a communicable disease. Its vectors are corporations."-George Monbiot, Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet
"Campaigners, chefs, and food writers rail against “intensive farming,"-George Monbiot, Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet
20. The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
By: Dan Egan
4.34
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
The Great Lakes―Erie, Huron, Michigan, Ontario, and Superior―hold 20 percent of the world’s supply … read more
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"A normal lake is knowable. A Great Lake can hold all the mysteries of an ocean, and then some."-Dan Egan, The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
"Sandy beaches still rim the lakes, but if Lake Michigan, for example, were drained it would now be possible to walk almost the entire 100 miles between Wisconsin and Michigan on a bed of trillions up…"-Dan Egan, The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
"A thing is right when it tends to promote the integrity, beauty and stability of the biotic community," famed Wisconsin naturalist Aldo Leopold wrote in 1949, which happened to be teh peak of the lam…"-Dan Egan, The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
"A single Seaway ship can hold up to six million gallons of vessel-steadying ballast water that gets discharged at a port in exchange for cargo. And that water, scientists would learn after it was too…"-Dan Egan, The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
21. Perilous Bounty: The Looming Collapse of American Farming and How We Can Prevent It
By: Tom Philpott
4.07
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
An unsettling journey into the United States' disaster-bound food system, and an exploration of pos… read more
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- politics
- natural history
- food
- nonfiction
- climate change
- economics
- environment
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