6 must-read environment books like Extreme Cities: The Peril and Promise of Urban Life in the Age of Climate Change by Ashley Dawson

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Extreme Cities: The Peril and Promise of Urban Life in the Age of Climate Change

By: Ashley Dawson

3.75

Format: 378 pages, Kindle Edition

A cutting exploration of how cities drive climate change while being on the frontlines of the comin…

If you liked the environment plot in Extreme Cities: The Peril and Promise of Urban Life in the Age of Climate Change by Ashley Dawson , here is a list of 6 books like this:

1. Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization

By: Derrick Jensen

3.99

Format: None pages,

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2. Planet of Slums

By: Mike Davis

4.01

Format: 448 pages,

Se a imagem da metropole no seculo XX era a dos arranha-ceus e das oportunidades de emprego, Planet… read more

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3. Martyr!

By: Kaveh Akbar

4.24

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves… read more

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4. The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming

By: David Wallace-Wells

4.01

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • environment
  • science
"A state of half-ignorance and half-indifference is a much more pervasive climate sickness than true denial or true fatalism."

-David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming

"The last time the earth was four degrees warmer, as Peter Brannen has written, there was no ice at either pole and sea level was 260 feet higher."

-David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming

"The world has, at most, about three decades to completely decarbonize before truly devastating climate horrors begin. You can't halfway your way to a solution to a crisis this large."

-David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming

"Especially those who have imbibed several centuries of Western triumphalism tend to see the story of human civilization as an inevitable conquest of the earth, rather than the saga of an insecure cul…"

-David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming

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5. Gender Euphoria

By: Laura Kate Dale

4.11

Format: 229 pages, Kindle Edition

GENDER EUPHORIA: a powerful feeling of happiness experienced as a result of moving away from one’s … read more

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  • nonfiction
"My leg hair reminds me of wildflower meadows. My head hair is long pond grass. My armpit hair is a hawthorn bush. My pubic hair is wet moss and lichen on a rock."

-Laura Kate Dale, Gender Euphoria

"If you don’t mind keeping a secret, I can tell you that the reality is that people ask fewer questions about what’s going on in your pants if they’re distracted by what you’ve got drawn on your arms."

-Laura Kate Dale, Gender Euphoria

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6. The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket

By: Benjamin Lorr

3.95

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

This book is an investigation into the human lives at the heart of the American grocery store. What… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
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7. Lote

By: Shola von Reinhold

4.08

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Solitary Mathilda has long harbored a conflicted enchantment bordering on rapture with the "Bright … read more

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8. 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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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • environment
  • science
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9. 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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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • environment
  • science
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10. The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World

By: Max Fisher

4.29

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From a New York Times investigative reporter and Pulitzer Prize finalist, “an essential book for ou… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • science
"Remember that the number of seconds in your day never changes. The amount of social media content competing for those seconds, however, doubles every year or so, depending on how you measure it. Imag…"

-Max Fisher, The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World

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11. The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South

By: Radley Balko

4.03

Format: 391 pages, Hardcover

After two three-year-old girls were raped and murdered in rural Mississippi, law enforcement pursue… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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12. The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State

By: Nadia Murad

4.47

Format: 13 pages, Audio CD

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE In this intimate memoir of survival, a former captive of the Is… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
"I want to be the last girl in the world with a story like mine."

-Nadia Murad, The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State

"Every time I tell my story, I feel that I am taking some power away from the terrorists."

-Nadia Murad, The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State

"How is everything, Nadia," he said. "It's hot." I replied, smiling a little bit. "Never forget," Nasser said, teasing me. "It's very hot, Nasser, it's very hot."

-Nadia Murad, The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State

"Since leaving Kocho, I had begged for death, I had willed Salman to kill me or asked God to let me die or refused to eat or drink in the hopes I would fade away. I had thought many times that the man…"

-Nadia Murad, The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State

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13. How to Blow Up a Pipeline

By: Andreas Malm

3.96

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

The science on climate change has been clear for a very long time now. Yet despite decades of appea… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • environment
  • science
"The context for hope is radical uncertainty; anything could happen, and whether we act or not has everything to do with it."

-Andreas Malm, How to Blow Up a Pipeline

"I once asked Bill McKibben, after an energising speech to a capacity crowd, when – given that the situation is as urgent as he portrayed it and we all know it is – we escalate. He was visibly ill at …"

-Andreas Malm, How to Blow Up a Pipeline

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14. Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism

By: Harsha Walia

4.59

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

In Border and Rule, one of North America's foremost thinkers and immigrant rights organizers delive… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
"Empires crumble, capitalism is not inevitable, gender is not biology, whiteness is not immutable, prisons are not inescapable, and borders are not natural law."

-Harsha Walia, Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism

"Right-wing nationalism is a bourgeois nationalism, and in our struggles against capitalist austerity we must emphasize that our enemy arrives in a limousine, and not on a boat."

-Harsha Walia, Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism

"Ensuring labor protections and citizenship status is the most ethical and effective counter to the far right's anti-migrant racism. Otherwise, attacks on migrant workers -- buttressed by ubiquitous a…"

-Harsha Walia, Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism

"Territorial diffusion relies on biometric surveillance and disciplinary practices within the state, as well as imperial outsourcing. Put another way, the border is elastic, and the magical line can e…"

-Harsha Walia, Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism

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15. Coming Home

By: Brittney Griner

4.43

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the nine-time women’s basketball icon and two-time Olympic gold medalist—a raw, revelatory acc… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
"When your world is violently upended, you don't just mourn your immediate losses. You also grieve a future that no longer feels possible, the peace that might've been."

-Brittney Griner, Coming Home

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16. The Undying

By: Anne Boyer

4.16

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A week after her forty-first birthday, the acclaimed poet Anne Boyer was diagnosed with highly aggr… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
"Amnesia is vice-president to pain and the mother of philosophy."

-Anne Boyer, The Undying

"You will understand, I hope, that because of all of this, every pink ribbon looks like the flag of a conqueror stuck in a woman's grave."

-Anne Boyer, The Undying

"As soon as a patient lies down on the exam table, she has laid down her life on a bed of narrowed answers, but the questions are never sufficiently clear."

-Anne Boyer, The Undying

"A person who complains about any aspect of breast cancer treatment in public is often drowned out by a chorus of people, many of whom have never had cancer, accusing her of ingratitude, saying she is…"

-Anne Boyer, The Undying

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17. Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor

By: Virginia Eubanks

4.01

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

A powerful investigative look at data-based discrimination—and how technology affects civil and hum… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072 by M.E. O'Brien

18. Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072

By: M.E. O'Brien

4.15

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

By the middle of the twenty-first century, war, famine, economic collapse, and climate catastrophe … read more

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  • politics
Cover of This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman by Ilhan Omar

19. This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman

By: Ilhan Omar

4.26

Format: 288 pages, ebook

Ilhan Omar was eight years old when war broke out in Somalia. The youngest of seven children, her … read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
"I grew up knowing that hard things only get harder when you don’t have real conversations about them."

-Ilhan Omar, This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman

"The more we listen to and learn from those with different backgrounds and present circumstances from our own, the more we can find connections to our own lived experience."

-Ilhan Omar, This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman

"As a refugee who fled civil war as a child, I am still trying to figure out where I fit in - which is perhaps why the most important note I found sticking to the wall outside my office had only three…"

-Ilhan Omar, This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman

"As we continue to perfect our union, citizens, neighbors, coworkers, and family must keep expanding our circles of self-interest to learn and relearn the fundamental truth that we are all connected. …"

-Ilhan Omar, This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman

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20. Extreme Cities: The Peril and Promise of Urban Life in the Age of Climate Change

By: Ashley Dawson

3.75

Format: 378 pages, Kindle Edition

A cutting exploration of how cities drive climate change while being on the frontlines of the comin… read more

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  • architecture
  • politics
  • urban studies
  • urban planning
  • nonfiction
  • urbanism
  • cities
  • climate change
  • environment
  • science
Cover of Planet on Fire: A Manifesto for the Age of Environmental Breakdown by Mathew Lawrence

21. Planet on Fire: A Manifesto for the Age of Environmental Breakdown

By: Mathew Lawrence

3.69

Format: None pages, ebook

A radical manifesto for how to deal with environmental breakdown In the age of environmental break… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • environment
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14 best-selling politics books like Extreme Cities: The Peril and Promise of Urban Life in the Age of Climate Change by Ashley Dawson

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David Wallace-Wells

4.01

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Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World

John Vaillant

4.35

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The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet

Jeff Goodell

4.32

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The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World

Max Fisher

4.29

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Larry Mitchell , Ned Asta

4.50

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3.87

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Selby Wynn Schwartz

3.51

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