Total Garbage: How We Can Fix Our Waste and Heal Our World
By: Edward Humes
4.34
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
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1. The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes - and Why
By: Amanda Ripley
4.00
Format: 98 pages, Hardcover
It lurks in the corner of our imagination, almost beyond our ability to see it: the possibility tha… read more
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2. Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters
By: Brian Klaas
4.13
Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition
Want to know what chaos theory can teach us about human events? In the perspective-altering traditi… read more
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- science
- economics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
3. Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
By: Oliver Franklin-Wallis
4.44
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning investigative journalist takes a deep dive into the global waste crisis, exposing … read more
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- nature
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- nonfiction
- economics
- environment
- audiobook
"Cleaning up is expensive; arson is cheap."-Oliver Franklin-Wallis, Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
"As modern agriculture and supply chains have made food cheap, diverse, and plentiful, it can also sometimes feel that we have forgotten to value the food we do eat, or understand the environmental or…"-Oliver Franklin-Wallis, Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
"Nuclear waste is unlike other wastes. It is not only the danger…but the timescale. Trash inside a landfill might decay over decades, plastics over hundreds or thousands of years - the truth is we don…"-Oliver Franklin-Wallis, Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
4. Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory's Power to Hold on to What Matters
By: Charan Ranganath
3.95
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Memory is far more than a record of the past. In this groundbreaking tour of the mind and brain, on… read more
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- science
- nonfiction
- audiobook
5. The Everything War: Amazon’s Ruthless Quest to Own the World and Remake Corporate Power
By: Dana Mattioli
4.10
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From veteran Amazon reporter for The Wall Street Journal, and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in in… read more
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- economics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
6. The Algorithm: How AI Decides Who Gets Hired, Monitored, Promoted, and Fired and Why We Need to Fight Back Now
By: Hilke Schellmann
4.02
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Based on exclusive information from whistleblowers, internal documents, and real world test results… read more
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- science
- economics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
7. The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis
By: George Stephanopoulos
4.45
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
George Stephanopoulos, former senior advisor to President Clinton and for more than 20 years anchor… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
8. Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden
By: Camille T. Dungy
4.19
Format: 321 pages, Hardcover
A seminal work that expands how we talk about the natural world and the environment as National Boo… read more
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- audiobook
- nature
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- environment
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9. To Infinity and Beyond: A Journey of Cosmic Discovery
By: Neil deGrasse Tyson
4.33
Format: 319 pages, Hardcover
Linked to a special mini season of the award-winning StarTalk podcast, this enlightening illustrate… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
10. Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture
By: Kyle Chayka
3.68
Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition
A history and investigation of a world ruled by algorithms, which determine the shape of culture it… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
11. Selling the Dream: The Billion-Dollar Industry Bankrupting Americans
By: Jane Marie
3.78
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Peabody and Emmy Award–winning journalist Jane Marie expands on her popular podcast The Dream to ex… read more
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- economics
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- audiobook
12. Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present
By: Fareed Zakaria
4.23
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The CNN host and best-selling author explores the revolutions—past and present—that define the pola… read more
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- economics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
13. Beaverland: How One Weird Rodent Made America
By: Leila Philip
3.79
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times Editors' Choice NPR Science Friday Book Club Selection An intimate and revelato… read more
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- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
- science
14. Secondhand: Travels in the New Global Garage Sale
By: Adam Minter
3.93
Format: 300 pages, Hardcover
When you drop a box of unwanted items off at the local thrift store, where do they go? Probably acr… read more
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- audiobook
- nonfiction
- economics
- environment
- science
"Encouraging consumers to think more seriously about the financial, environmental, and personal costs of their consumption would be a major step in addressing the crisis of quality and the environment…"-Adam Minter, Secondhand: Travels in the New Global Garage Sale
15. The Infernal Machine: A True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern Detective
By: Steven Johnson
4.08
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A riveting account of the anarchists who terrorized the streets of New York—and the detective duo w… read more
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- science
- nonfiction
- audiobook
16. What's Eating Us: Women, Food, and the Epidemic of Body Anxiety
By: Cole Kazdin
4.00
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Blending personal narrative and investigative reporting, Emmy Award-winning journalist Cole Kazdin … read more
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- science
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"I loved a good bulimia joke and even sometimes initiated them, like after a dinner out with friends, "I'd better run home and throw this up." We all laughed; my girlfriends said similar things. But I…"-Cole Kazdin, What's Eating Us: Women, Food, and the Epidemic of Body Anxiety
17. Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI
By: Madhumita Murgia
4.10
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A riveting story of what it means to be human in a world changed by artificial intelligence, reveal… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
18. 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
19. How to Win Friends and Influence Fungi: Collected Quirks of Science, Tech, Engineering, and Math from Nerd Nite
By: Chris Balakrishnan
3.63
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
The co-founders of the global science organization Nerd Nite bring readers a collection of wacky, y… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
20. Before It's Gone: Stories from the Front Lines of Climate Change in Small-Town America
By: Jonathan Vigliotti
4.26
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In the vein of This Changes Everything and Saving Us , a character-driven and shocking up-close loo… read more
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- audiobook
- nature
- nonfiction
- environment
- science
21. Endangered Eating: America's Vanishing Foods
By: Sarah Lohman
4.10
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
American food traditions are in danger of being lost. How do we save them? Apples, a common New Eng… read more
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- audiobook
- nature
- nonfiction
- environment
- science
22. The Fall of Roe: The Rise of a New America
By: Elizabeth Dias
4.53
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
From two top New York Times journalists, the breathtaking untold story of the plan to overturn Roe … read more
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- audiobook
23. Holding It Together: How Women Became America's Safety Net
By: Jessica Calarco
4.23
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Other countries have social safety nets. The U.S. has women. Holding It Together chronicles the cau… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
24. Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves
By: Nicola Twilley
4.26
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An engaging and far-reaching exploration of refrigeration, tracing its evolution from scientific my… read more
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- nonfiction
- environment
- audiobook
25. The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family
By: Jesselyn Cook
4.45
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The riveting story of five families shattered by pernicious, pervasive conspiracy theories, and how… read more
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- audiobook
26. The Devil Behind the Badge: The Horrifying Twelve Days of the Border Patrol Serial Killer
By: Rick Jervis
3.86
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The shocking true-crime story of a Texas border patrol agent turned serial killer, the four sex wor… read more
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- audiobook
27. Total Garbage: How We Can Fix Our Waste and Heal Our World
By: Edward Humes
4.34
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An investigative narrative that dives into the waste embedded in our daily lives—and shows how indi… read more
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- science nature
- activism
- economics
- environment
- nature
- audiobook
28. Keeping the Faith: God, Democracy, and the Trial That Riveted a Nation
By: Brenda Wineapple
4.40
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
A magnificent history of the 1925 Scopes trial and how the teaching of evolution in public schools … read more
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- nonfiction
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29. The Weight of Nature: How a Changing Climate Changes Our Brains
By: Clayton Page Aldern
3.99
Format: None pages, Hardcover
For readers of Kolbert's Under a White Sky and Merlin Sheldrake’s Entangled Life , to all those who… read more
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- nature
- nonfiction
- environment
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30. Life and Death of the American Worker: The Immigrants Taking on America's Largest Meatpacking Company
By: Alice Driver
4.19
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award, an explosive exposé of the toxic labor pract… read more
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- audiobook
31. What If We Get It Right?: Visions of Climate Futures
By: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
4.44
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
Our climate future is not yet written. What if we act as if we love the future? Sometimes the b… read more
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- nonfiction
- activism
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