Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash
By: Elizabeth Royte
4.30
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
A brilliant exploration into the soiled heart of the American trash can. Into our trash cans go dea…
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1. Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
By: Neil Shubin
4.03
Format: 229 pages, Hardcover
Why do we look the way we do? What does the human hand have in common with the wing of a fly? Are b… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- nature
- science
"We were not designed rationally, but are products of a convoluted history."-Neil Shubin, Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
"Look at the first arch in a human and a shark, and you find a very similar state of affairs: jaws."-Neil Shubin, Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
"In a perfectly designed world —one with no history— we would not have to suffer everything from hemorrhoids to cancer."-Neil Shubin, Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
"Many of the molecules that microbes use to cause us misery are primitive versions of the molecules that make our own bodies possible."-Neil Shubin, Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
2. Meaty
By: Samantha Irby , None
3.54
Format: 230 pages, Paperback
The debut essay collection by Chicago writer and performer, Samantha Irby, creator of bitchesgottae… read more
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- nonfiction
3. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
By: Jared Diamond
3.93
Format: 608 pages, Paperback
Brilliant, illuminating, and immensely absorbing, Collapse is destined to take its place as one of … read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- sociology
- environment
- science
"...neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency."-Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
"History as well as life itself is complicated -- neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency."-Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
"[T]he values to which people cling most stubbornly under inappropriate conditions are those values that were previously the source of their greatest triumphs."-Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
"The Anasazi did manage to construct in stone the largest and tallest buildings erected in North America until the Chicago steel girder skyscrapers of the 1880s."-Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
4. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
By: Eric Schlosser
4.20
Format: 406 pages, Paperback
A groundbreaking work of investigation and cultural history that may change the way America thinks … read more
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- history
- sociology
- science
5. Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash
By: Edward Humes
3.44
Format: 347 pages, Hardcover
A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist takes readers on a surprising tour of America's biggest export,… read more
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- history
- sustainability
- nonfiction
- sociology
- environment
- science
6. Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash
By: Elizabeth Royte
4.30
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
A brilliant exploration into the soiled heart of the American trash can. Into our trash cans go dea… read more
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- nature
- history
- sustainability
- nonfiction
- sociology
- environment
- science
7. 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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- sustainability
- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
- science
"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
8. Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science
By: Erika Engelhaupt
4.09
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Science reporter Erika Engelhaupt investigates the gross, strange, and morbid absurdities of our bo… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- nature
- science
"This kind of scientific boldness is something the world could use more of. All too often, we’re hemmed in by our fears and our sense of propriety. Some subjects simply aren’t discussed, or aren’t tak…"-Erika Engelhaupt, Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science
9. Gator Country: Deception, Danger, and Alligators in the Everglades
By: Rebecca Renner
3.81
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
David Grann meets Susan Orlean in this page-turning true story of an underground operation into the… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
- science
10. Diagnosis: Solving the Most Baffling Medical Mysteries
By: Lisa Sanders
4.01
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
As a Yale School of Medicine physician, the New York Times bestselling author of Every Patient Tell… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
11. Move: How the New Science of Body Movement Can Set Your Mind Free
By: Caroline Williams
4.02
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
*Shortlisted for Sunday Times Book of the Year * *A Greater Good Science Center Best Book of 2022* … read more
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- nonfiction
- science
"The brain evolved not for us to think but to allow us to move – away from danger and towards rewards."-Caroline Williams, Move: How the New Science of Body Movement Can Set Your Mind Free
12. Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
By: Christian Cooper
4.25
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Central Park birder Christian Cooper takes us beyond the viral video th… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
"Nor did I know back then that McCartney had written the song as an ode to Black women ("bird" being British slang for a pretty girl) at the pivotal moment of the civil rights struggle. That would onl…"-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
"Writing a memoir is akin to taking off one's clothes in public, and as I learned years ago in the amateur strip contest as Darren and the go-go boys cheered me on, success at such an endeavor can onl…"-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
"Beginning around 1910, The Great Migration saw some 6 million black people surge Northward, out of the states of the former Confederacy, spurred by the same thing that lies behind the yearly migratio…"-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
"What makes birding such a phenomenon? Why not "mammaling" or insecting? Certainly those pursuits have their adherents, as the thousands who visit Africa on safari or who catalog butterflies can attes…"-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
13. One Way Back: A Memoir
By: Christine Blasey Ford
4.30
Format: 298 pages, Hardcover
On September 27, 2018, Christine Blasey Ford testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee which … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
14. The Cold Vanish: Seeking the Missing in North America's Wildlands
By: Jon Billman
3.69
Format: 349 pages, Hardcover
The critically acclaimed author and journalist Jon Billman's fascinating, in-depth look at people w… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- nature
15. The Day the World Stops Shopping: How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves
By: J.B. MacKinnon
4.20
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Consuming less is our best strategy for saving the planet—but can we do it? In this thoughtful and … read more
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- sustainability
- nonfiction
- sociology
- environment
- science
"We can't stop shopping, we must stop shopping. It isn't only that consumption is distorting the climate, felling the forests, cluttering out lives, filling our heads with a throwaway mindset, even st…"-J.B. MacKinnon, The Day the World Stops Shopping: How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves
16. The Unseen Body: A Doctor's Journey Through the Hidden Wonders of Human Anatomy
By: Jonathan Reisman
3.99
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In this fascinating journey through the human body and across the globe, Dr. Reisman weaves togethe… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
17. Cursed Objects: Strange but True Stories of the World's Most Infamous Items
By: J.W. Ocker
3.70
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
An illustrated compendium that reveals the true stories behind the most infamous, creepy, and bizar… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
18. Cloistered: My Years as a Nun
By: Catherine Coldstream
3.71
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing memoir of twelve years as a contemplative nun in a silent monastery. Cloistered t… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
19. Mr. Fernley and the Lady (Fernley Family #2)
By: Angela E. Johnson
4.01
Format: 222 pages, Kindle Edition
When love arrives on a racing horse, who knew it would require one thousand white lilies? Mr. Ar… read more
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20. Clean: The New Science of Skin
By: James Hamblin
3.91
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
The author of the popular Atlantic articles "You're Likely to Get the Coronavirus" and "I Quit Show… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- science
"Capitalism sells nothing so effectively as status."-James Hamblin, Clean: The New Science of Skin
"Self and other is less of a dichotomy than a continuum."-James Hamblin, Clean: The New Science of Skin
"As we change our worlds, we change our bodies. The old duality between environmental health and human health is obsolete."-James Hamblin, Clean: The New Science of Skin
"[E]ven our most personal decisions about caring for our bodies have long been influenced and manipulated by larger power structures."-James Hamblin, Clean: The New Science of Skin
