This Land Is Our Land: The Struggle for a New Commonwealth
By: Jedediah Purdy
3.92
Format: 191 pages, Kindle Edition
From one of our finest writers and leading environmental thinkers, a powerful book about how the la…
Want to Read $ 9.99"Demokratische Politik kann sich nicht in Moraldebatten erschöpfen, lebensfähig ist sie immer nur als Projekt."-Jedediah Purdy, This Land Is Our Land: The Struggle for a New Commonwealth
"Demokratische Politik kann sich nicht in Moraldebatten erschöpfen, lebensfähig ist sie immer nur als Projekt."-Jedediah Purdy, This Land Is Our Land: The Struggle for a New Commonwealth
"Wir haben nicht bloß unser Land, wir haben unsere Welt verloren - und damit die Möglichkeit, an die Unschlud jener Welt zu glauben, die wir geschaffen haben, einer Welt, der wir nicht entkommen können, für die wir nur Verantwortung übernehmen können und deren Wiederherstellung wir versuchen müssen."-Jedediah Purdy, This Land Is Our Land: The Struggle for a New Commonwealth
"Wir haben nicht bloß unser Land, wir haben unsere Welt verloren - und damit die Möglichkeit, an die Unschlud jener Welt zu glauben, die wir geschaffen haben, einer Welt, der wir nicht entkommen können, für die wir nur Verantwortung übernehmen können und deren Wiederherstellung wir versuchen müssen."-Jedediah Purdy, This Land Is Our Land: The Struggle for a New Commonwealth
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1. Wintersmith (Discworld, #35; Tiffany Aching, #3)
By: Terry Pratchett
4.25
Format: 325 pages, Hardcover
Tiffany Aching is a trainee witch — now working for the seriously scary Miss Treason. But when Tiff… read more
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"...Roland de Chumsfanleigh (it wasn't his fault)."-Terry Pratchett, Wintersmith (Discworld, #35; Tiffany Aching, #3)
"Mrs. Earwig said the village women know what to do,"-Terry Pratchett, Wintersmith (Discworld, #35; Tiffany Aching, #3)
"Because no man wants to be a coward in front of a cheese."-Terry Pratchett, Wintersmith (Discworld, #35; Tiffany Aching, #3)
"Your own brain ought to have the decency to be on your side!"-Terry Pratchett, Wintersmith (Discworld, #35; Tiffany Aching, #3)
2. Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
By: Carmen Maria Machado
3.84
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders betwe… read more
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"I'm having a crisis of function."-Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
"None of us will make it to the end."-Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
"What I say: “Why did you leave her with me?"-Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
"Everything is soft, like a fresh oil painting."-Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
3. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
By: Dee Brown
4.25
Format: 509 pages, Paperback
Now a special 30th-anniversary edition in both hardcover and paperback, the classic bestselling his… read more
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"It is too often the case,"-Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
"We rarely know the full power of words, in print or spoken."-Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
"One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk.' - Tashunka Witko (Crazy Horse)"-Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
"To the Indians it seemed that these Europeans hated everything in nature - the living forests and their birds and beasts, the grassy grades, the water, the soil, the air itself."-Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
4. Upstream: Selected Essays
By: Mary Oliver
2.43
Format: None pages,
Comprising a selection of essays, Upstreamfinds beloved poet Mary Oliver reflecting on her astonish… read more
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5. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
By: Richard Rothstein
2.89
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein, a leading auth… read more
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- politics
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- law
6. Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment
By: George Leonard
3.98
Format: 269 pages, Paperback
"The pracitcal wisdom in George Leonard's book will have a great influence for many years to come."… read more
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7. Cold Mountain
By: Charles Frazier
3.98
Format: 350 pages,
Cold Mountainis a novel about a soldier's perilous journey back to his beloved near the Civil War's… read more
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8. Brown Girl Dreaming
By: Jacqueline Woodson
4.27
Format: 412 pages, Hardcover
Jacqueline Woodson, one of today's finest writers, tells the moving story of her childhood in mesme… read more
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9. The Elements of Style
By: E.B. White , William Strunk Jr.
4.18
Format: 105 pages, Hardcover
This style manual offers practical advice on improving writing skills. Throughout, the emphasis is … read more
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"He owned"-E.B. White, The Elements of Style
"To achieve style, begin by affecting none."-E.B. White, The Elements of Style
"Writers will often find themselves steering by stars that are disturbingly in motion."-E.B. White, The Elements of Style
"When a sentence is made stronger, it usually becomes shorter. Thus, brevity is a by-product of vigor."-E.B. White, The Elements of Style
10. The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You
By: Elaine N. Aron
3.85
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
Do you have a keen imagination and vivid dreams? Is time alone each day as essential to you as food… read more
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"In the first twenty years we are given our curriculum. In the next twenty we study it."-Elaine N. Aron, The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You
"Being highly sensitive does not at all rule out being, in your own way, a tenacious survivor."-Elaine N. Aron, The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You
"But psychology is not perfect. It can only reflect the biases of the culture from which it comes."-Elaine N. Aron, The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You
"With sensitive children, physical blows or traumas aren't required to make them afraid of the dark."-Elaine N. Aron, The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You
11. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
By: Naomi Klein
4.52
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In this groundbreaking alternative history of the most dominant ideology of our time, Milton Friedm… read more
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12. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
By: Robin Wall Kimmerer
4.04
Format: 226 pages, Hardcover
As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer as been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of sci… read more
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13. An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
By: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
4.37
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The first history of the United States told from the perspective of indigenous peoples Today in… read more
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"Of a thousand Red Stick and allied insurgents, eight hundred were killed. [Andrew] Jackson lost forty-nine men."-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
"Once elected president, Jackson lost no time in initiating the removal of all Indigenous farmers and the destruction of all their towns in the South."-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
"[Theodore] Roosevelt referred to [Emilio] Aguinaldo as a "renegade Pawnee" and observed that Filipinos did not have the right to govern their country just because they happened to occupy it."-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
"The global Indigenous cause reached a major milestone in 2007 when the UN General Assembly passed the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Only four members of the assembly voted in oppos…"-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
14. About Grace
By: Anthony Doerr
3.63
Format: 56 pages,
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15. Silent Spring
By: Edward O. Wilson , Rachel Carson , Linda Lear
4.14
Format: None pages, Paperback
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16. The Control of Nature
By: John McPhee
4.80
Format: 360 pages,
While John McPhee was working on his previous book, Rising from the Plains, he happened to walk by … read more
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17. 10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works
By: Dan Harris
3.99
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
After having a nationally televised panic attack on Good Morning America, Dan Harris knew he had to… read more
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18. The Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker
By: Katherine J. Cramer
4.42
Format: None pages, Paperback
Since the election of Scott Walker, Wisconsin has been seen as ground zero for debates about the ap… read more
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19. Old God's Time
By: Sebastian Barry
3.85
Format: 261 pages, Hardcover
From the two-time Booker Prize finalist author, a dazzlingly written novel exploring love, memory, … read more
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"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-se immòbil, feliç i inútil"-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time
"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-de immòbil, feliç i inútil"-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time
"No one minds life as long as they are not trying to leave it. Nor death, as long as they are not dying."-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time
20. Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
By: Amanda Montell
4.29
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The word "bitch" conjures many images for many people but is most often meant to describe an unplea… read more
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- history
"Language pedantry is snobbery and snobbery is prejudice,"-Amanda Montell, Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
"One of the burdens of being a woman is the imperative to be nice."-Amanda Montell, Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
"Hitler wasn’t any less fascist because he could write a coherent sentence."-Amanda Montell, Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
"Anytime language reform happens, it has to happen in the context of social change,"-Amanda Montell, Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
21. How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
By: Sabrina Imbler
4.12
Format: 263 pages, Hardcover
A queer, mixed race writer working in a largely white, male field, science and conservation journal… read more
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"But when I think about ponds infested with gallon-big goldfish, I feel a kind of triumph. I see something that no one expected to live not just alive but impossibly flourishing, and no longer alone. …"-Sabrina Imbler, How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
22. Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis
By: Annie Proulx
3.65
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A lifelong acolyte of the natural world, Annie Proulx brings her witness and research to the subjec… read more
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- history
- environment
- nature
23. The Removed
By: Brandon Hobson
3.39
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Steeped in Cherokee myths and history, a novel about a fractured family reckoning with the tragic d… read more
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"I saw the rain lifting from earth to sky."-Brandon Hobson, The Removed
"We are always restless, carrying the dreams of children and the elderly, the tired and sick, the poor, the wounded. The Removed."-Brandon Hobson, The Removed
24. The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet
By: Leah Thomas
4.15
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A primer on intersectional environmentalism aimed at educating the next generation of activists on … read more
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25. 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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- environment
- nature
26. The Book of Delights: Essays
By: Ross Gay
4.16
Format: 274 pages, Hardcover
Ross Gay’s The Book of Delights is a genre-defying book of essays—some as short as a paragraph; som… read more
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"The more stuff you love the happier you will be."-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays
"...which is simply called sharing what we love, what we find beautiful, which is an ethics."-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays
"Is sorrow the true wild? And if it is—and if we join them—your wild to mine—what’s that? For joining, too, is a kind of annihilation. What if we joined our sorrows, I’m saying. I’m saying: What if th…"-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays
"...in witnessing someone's being touched, we are also witnessing someone's being moved, the absence of which in ourselves is a sorrow, and a sacrifice. And witnessing the absence of movement in ourse…"-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays
27. Borrowed Time
By: John Nolte
4.18
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Joshua Mason is an everyday man cursed with immortality. Joshua Mason has been alive for thousands… read more
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28. Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
By: Lulu Miller
4.16
Format: 225 pages, Hardcover
A wondrous debut from an extraordinary new voice in nonfiction, Why Fish Don’t Exist is a dark and … read more
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- history
- nature
"There is grandeur in this view,"-Lulu Miller, Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
"In every organism at which you gaze, there is complexity you will never comprehend."-Lulu Miller, Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
"We are specks, flickering in and out of existence, with no significance to the cosmos."-Lulu Miller, Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
"When people have this feeling of personal inefficiency, compulsive collecting helps them in feeling better."-Lulu Miller, Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
29. Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America
By: Kathleen Belew
4.22
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
"Belew's book helps explain how we got to today's alt right."―Terry Gross, Fresh Air The white p… read more
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"The story of white power as a social movement exposes something broader about the enduring impact of state violence in America. It reveals one catastrophic ricochet of the Vietnam War, in the form of…"-Kathleen Belew, Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America
30. Thinking 101: How to Reason Better to Live Better
By: Woo-Kyoung Ahn
3.82
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Psychologist Woo-kyoung Ahn devised a course at Yale University to help students examine the biases… read more
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"When we keep trying to find answers to questions that are probably unanswerable, we may start to feel worse and worse."-Woo-Kyoung Ahn, Thinking 101: How to Reason Better to Live Better
"Why did we create a society that not only forces most people to work to live but also makes even the most privileged feel like they have to work desperately hard all the time? We created a mythology …"-Woo-Kyoung Ahn, Thinking 101: How to Reason Better to Live Better
31. This Land Is Our Land: The Struggle for a New Commonwealth
By: Jedediah Purdy
3.92
Format: 191 pages, Kindle Edition
From one of our finest writers and leading environmental thinkers, a powerful book about how the la… read more
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- environment
- nature
"Demokratische Politik kann sich nicht in Moraldebatten erschöpfen, lebensfähig ist sie immer nur als Projekt."-Jedediah Purdy, This Land Is Our Land: The Struggle for a New Commonwealth
"Wir haben nicht bloß unser Land, wir haben unsere Welt verloren - und damit die Möglichkeit, an die Unschlud jener Welt zu glauben, die wir geschaffen haben, einer Welt, der wir nicht entkommen könne…"-Jedediah Purdy, This Land Is Our Land: The Struggle for a New Commonwealth
