The Meat Paradox: Eating, Empathy, and the Future of Meat
By: Rob Percival
3.73
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From a vital new voice in food ethics comes a smart, nuanced investigation into the current meat de…
Want to Read $ 11.99"It is sometimes said: meat made us human. This is incorrect. Metaphor made us human."-Rob Percival, The Meat Paradox: Eating, Empathy, and the Future of Meat
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1. La sociedad de la transparencia
By: Byung-Chul Han
3.92
Format: 290 pages,
Ningun otro lema domina hoy el discurso publico tanto como la transparencia. Segun Han, quien la re… read more
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- nonfiction
2. Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe
By: Bill Bryson
3.24
Format: 202 pages, Paperback
Bill Bryson's first travel book, The Lost Continent, was unanimously acclaimed as one of the funnie… read more
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- nonfiction
3. On Anarchism
By: Noam Chomsky , Barry Pateman
4.42
Format: 718 pages, Paperback
We all know what Noam Chomsky is against. His scathing analysis of everything that's wrong with our… read more
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- nonfiction
4. God's Philosophers: How the Medieval World Laid the Foundations of Modern Science
By: James Hannam
3.67
Format: 364 pages, Hardcover
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- nonfiction
- science
5. 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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6. Burmese Days
By: George Orwell
3.97
Format: 68 pages, Hardcover
Set in the days of the Empire, with the British ruling in Burma, this book describes corruption and… read more
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7. Animal Liberation
By: Peter Singer
3.80
Format: 220 pages,
The Book That Started A Revolution Since its original publication in 1975, this groundbreaking work… read more
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8. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
By: Timothy Snyder
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
An historian of fascism offers a guide for surviving and resisting America's turn towards authorita… read more
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9. The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
By: Jon Ronson
4.19
Format: 45 pages,
They say one out of every hundred people is a psychopath. You probably passed on on the street toda… read more
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10. Goodbye to Berlin
By: Christopher Isherwood
3.95
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
Here, meine Damen und Herren, is Chrisopther Isherwood's brilliant farewell to a city which was not… read more
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11. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
By: Naomi Klein
4.22
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more
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- nonfiction
"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
12. Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding
By: Daniel E. Lieberman
4.18
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
If exercise is healthy (so good for you!), why do many people dislike or avoid it? These engaging s… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
"Eating sensibly and exercising don't guarantee long life and good health; they just decrease the risk of getting sick."-Daniel E. Lieberman, Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding
"The mantra of this book is that nothing about the biology of exercise makes sense except in the light of evolution, and nothing about exercise as a behavior makes sense except in the light of anthrop…"-Daniel E. Lieberman, Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding
"We evolved to be physically active as we age, and in turn being active helps us age well. Further, the longer we stay active, the greater the benefit, and it is almost never too late to benefit from …"-Daniel E. Lieberman, Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding
"For generation after generation, our ancestors young and old woke up each morning thankful to be alive and with no choice but to spend several hous walking, digging, and doing other physical activiti…"-Daniel E. Lieberman, Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding
13. 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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- nonfiction
- 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
14. Black Butterflies
By: Priscilla Morris
4.25
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
Sarajevo, spring 1992. Each night, nationalist gangs erect barricades, splitting the diverse city i… read more
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15. Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food
By: Chris van Tulleken
4.43
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A manifesto to change how you eat and how you think about the human body. It’s not you, it’s the… read more
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- food
- nonfiction
- science
16. Ravenous: How to get ourselves and our planet into shape
By: Henry Dimbleby
4.39
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
You may not be aware of this - not consciously, at least - but you do not control what you eat. Eve… read more
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- food
- nonfiction
- environment
- science
17. Life Time
By: Russell Foster
3.96
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
** THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER **GIVE THEM THE GIFT OF A GOOD NIGHT'S SLEEP WITH THIS GUIDE TO THE … read more
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- nonfiction
- science
"What makes a good scientist is the speed at which preconceptions are abandoned in the face of new knowledge"-Russell Foster, Life Time
"In the 4th century BC, Plato argued that we are able to see because light emitted from the eye and that this light seizes objects with it's rays. This was the "extramission" theory of vision, and as …"-Russell Foster, Life Time
18. Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails
By: Yanis Varoufakis
4.13
Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition
In Talking to My Daughter About the Economy, activist Yanis Varoufakis, Greece’s former finance min… read more
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- nonfiction
"The Matrix is a reflection of our times, or at least our anxieties. It reveals our fear of a mechanization so complete, of a commodification of our bodies and enslavement of our minds so successful, …"-Yanis Varoufakis, Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails
"...a cynical person is someone who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing. Our societies tend to make us all cynics. And no one is more cynical than the economist who sees exchange va…"-Yanis Varoufakis, Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails
"Bürokrasi, Ordu ve Ruhban Sınıfı Borç, para, inanç ve devlet el ele yürür. Borç olmadan tarımsal fazlalığı yönetmenin kolay yolu yoktur. Borcun ortaya çıkışıyla paranın yıldızı parlamaya başladı. Anc…"-Yanis Varoufakis, Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails
"Like any ecosystem, a modern economy cannot survive without recycling. Just as animals and plants are continually recycling the oxygen and carbon dioxide that the other provides, so too must workers …"-Yanis Varoufakis, Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails
19. Food for Life: The New Science of Eating Well
By: Tim Spector
4.27
Format: 528 pages, Paperback
From the bestselling author of Spoon-Fed and The Diet Myth , a comprehensive guide to the new scien… read more
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- food
- nonfiction
- science
20. 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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- food
- nonfiction
- environment
- science
"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
21. This is Vegan Propaganda (and Other Lies the Meat Industry Tells You)
By: Ed Winters
4.64
Format: 320 pages, ebook
Every time we eat, we have the power to radically transform the world we live in. Our choices ca… read more
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- animals
- food
- nonfiction
- vegan
- environment
- science
"Why do dairy farmers deserve public support but oat farmers who produce oat milk don't?"-Ed Winters, This is Vegan Propaganda (and Other Lies the Meat Industry Tells You)
"We have destroyed millions of years of evolution in the blink of an eye, quite literally bulldozing our way around this finite planet."-Ed Winters, This is Vegan Propaganda (and Other Lies the Meat Industry Tells You)
"It is ironic that we believe that empathy and complex emotions only really exist in humans but we then fail to empathize with the animals who suffer at our hands."-Ed Winters, This is Vegan Propaganda (and Other Lies the Meat Industry Tells You)
"Furthermore, it seems back to front to worry about the extinction of animals who have been selectively bred and don't exist naturally to begin with when our current system of animal agriculture is th…"-Ed Winters, This is Vegan Propaganda (and Other Lies the Meat Industry Tells You)
22. Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
By: Jason Hickel
4.51
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
The world has finally awoken to the reality of climate breakdown and ecological collapse. Now we mu… read more
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- nonfiction
- environment
- science
"Individuality is an illusion. Life on this planet is an interwoven mesh of relational becoming."-Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
"We will find ourselves plunging into ecological collapse well before we run into the limits to growth."-Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
"It is politically easier to rev up GDP and hope some of it trickles down to the poor than it is to distribute existing income more fairly."-Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
"Atmospheric carbon concentration should not breach 350ppm if the climate is to remain stable (we crossed that boundary in 1990, and hit 415ppm in 2020)."-Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
23. Chums: How A Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over The UK
By: Simon Kuper
3.98
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Boris Johnson, Michael Gove, David Cameron, George Osborne, Theresa May, Dominic Cummings, Daniel H… read more
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- nonfiction
24. We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast
By: Jonathan Safran Foer
3.69
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Some people reject the fact, overwhelmingly supported by scientists, that our planet is warming bec… read more
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- food
- nonfiction
- environment
- science
"Sadness and joy aren't opposites of each other. They are each the opposite of indifference."-Jonathan Safran Foer, We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast
"The important measurement is not the distance from unattainable perfection, but from unforgivable inaction."-Jonathan Safran Foer, We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast
"It is dangerous to pretend that we know more than we do. But it is even more dangerous to pretend that we know less."-Jonathan Safran Foer, We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast
"In the meantime, while I think-while you think, while we think-our actions and inactions create and destroy the world."-Jonathan Safran Foer, We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast
25. How to Argue With a Meat Eater (And Win Every Time)
By: Ed Winters
4.65
Format: 313 pages, Kindle Edition
How to Argue With a Meat Eater (and Win Every Time) is an essential companions for all vegans helpi… read more
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- nonfiction
- vegan
- science
"Exploring the arguments against something can often increase our conviction that we are right."-Ed Winters, How to Argue With a Meat Eater (And Win Every Time)
"The truth is, animal products are tasty. However taste does not provide a moral justification for what we do to animals, so vegans go vegan because they recognise that life is more important than tas…"-Ed Winters, How to Argue With a Meat Eater (And Win Every Time)
"Making positive choices in our lives is not about believing ourselves to be the sole person who can change something in its entirety, but instead recognising that we have a responsibility to play our…"-Ed Winters, How to Argue With a Meat Eater (And Win Every Time)
26. Rooted: Stories of Life, Land and a Farming Revolution
By: Sarah Langford
4.41
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
When Sarah Langford left her city life behind she found herself unexpectedly back in the world of f… read more
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- food
- nonfiction
- environment
27. Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism
By: George Monbiot
4.44
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
A sharp, fiercely argued takedown of neoliberalism that not only defines this slippery concept but … read more
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- nonfiction
- environment
28. Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics
By: Adam Rutherford
4.11
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
How did an obscure academic idea pave the way to the Holocaust within just fifty years? Control is … read more
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- nonfiction
- science
"However, if your understanding of a science extends only to the point where your political preconceptions are supported, then you are an ideologue, not a scientist."-Adam Rutherford, Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics
"The press loves a heretic, especially one who can set fire to things and then walk away to look for the next pile of kindling. It is more problematic when the arsonist is in the heart of government, …"-Adam Rutherford, Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics
29. The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet
By: Michael E. Mann
3.95
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A renowned climate scientist shows how fossil fuel companies have waged a thirty-year campaign to d… read more
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- nonfiction
- environment
- science
30. Rewilding: The Radical New Science of Ecological Recovery
By: Paul Jepson
4.10
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Nature conservation in the 21st century has taken a radical new turn. Instead of conserving particu… read more
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- environment
- science
31. The Meat Paradox: Eating, Empathy, and the Future of Meat
By: Rob Percival
3.73
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From a vital new voice in food ethics comes a smart, nuanced investigation into the current meat de… read more
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- animals
- food
- nonfiction
- vegan
- environment
- science
"It is sometimes said: meat made us human. This is incorrect. Metaphor made us human."-Rob Percival, The Meat Paradox: Eating, Empathy, and the Future of Meat
