Blight: Fungi and the Coming Pandemic
By: Emily Monosson
3.87
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A prescient warning about the mysterious and deadly world of fungi―and how to avert further loss ac…
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1. Blight: Fungi and the Coming Pandemic
By: Emily Monosson
3.87
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A prescient warning about the mysterious and deadly world of fungi―and how to avert further loss ac… read more
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2. Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet
By: Ben Goldfarb
4.45
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times Notable Book of 2023 and Editors' Choice • A Science News Favorite Book of 2023 • … read more
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3. The Devil's Element: Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance
By: Dan Egan
4.23
Format: 228 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times best-selling author on the source of great bounty—and now great peril—all over t… read more
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4. 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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"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
5. Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
By: Cat Bohannon
4.32
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
THE REAL ORIGIN OF OUR SPECIES: a myth-busting, eye-opening landmark account of how humans evolved,… read more
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6. Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
By: Jonathan Kennedy
3.94
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An account of how the major transformations in history—from the rise of Homo sapiens to the birth o… read more
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"Pathogens thrive on inequality and injustice."-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
"Across the whole of the Americas, the introduction of infectious diseases from Europe resulted in a 90 percent fall in the population, from about 60.5 million in 1500 to 6 million a century later."-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
"There is one universally incorrect choice: do nothing. This didn't work when humans thought that plagues were a punishment sent by angry gods. Nor does a laissez-faire approach help stop disease when…"-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
7. Most Delicious Poison: The Story of Nature's Toxins―From Spices to Vices
By: Noah Whiteman
3.73
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An evolutionary biologist tells the story of nature’s toxins and why we are attracted—and addicted—… read more
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8. 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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9. Our Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are
By: Rebecca Boyle
3.95
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An intimate look at the Moon and its relationship to life on Earth--from the primordial soup to the… read more
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10. Random Acts of Medicine: The Hidden Forces That Sway Doctors, Impact Patients, and Shape Our Health
By: Anupam B. Jena
3.68
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Does timing, circumstance, or luck impact your health care? This groundbreaking book reveals the hi… read more
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- adult
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11. Allergic: Our Irritated Bodies in a Changing World
By: Theresa MacPhail
3.89
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
An eye-opening exploration of allergies, from their first medical description in 1819 to the cuttin… read more
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12. Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains
By: Bethany Brookshire
4.03
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
An engrossing and revealing study of why we deem certain animals “pests” and others not—from cats t… read more
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13. Attack from Within: How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America
By: Barbara McQuade
4.15
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
An urgent, comprehensive explanation of the ways disinformation is impacting democracy, and practic… read more
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- history
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14. Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines, and the Health of Nations
By: Simon Schama
3.65
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
Da millenni gli esseri umani e i virus coesistono e, suo malgrado, l'umanità più di una volta si è … read more
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15. Tyranny of the Gene: Personalized Medicine and Its Threat to Public Health
By: James Tabery
4.07
Format: 458 pages, Kindle Edition
A revelatory account of how power, politics, and greed have placed the unfulfilled promise of perso… read more
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16. The Good Virus: The Amazing Story and Forgotten Promise of the Phage
By: Tom Ireland
4.43
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
At every moment, within your body and all around you, trillions of microscopic combatants are fight… read more
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17. The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science: A Scientist's Warning
By: Peter J. Hotez
3.89
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
Dr. Peter Hotez discusses how an anti-vaccine movement became a dangerous political campaign promot… read more
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18. Say Anarcha
By: J.C. Hallman
3.81
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A compelling reckoning with the birth of women’s health that illuminates the sacrifices of a young … read more
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19. Under the Eye of Power: How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy
By: Colin Dickey
3.90
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From beloved cultural historian and acclaimed author of Ghostland comes a history of America's obse… read more
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20. Means of Control: How the Hidden Alliance of Tech and Government Is Creating a New American Surveillance State
By: Byron Tau
4.40
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping exposé of the U.S. government’s alliance with data brokers, tech companies, and advertis… read more
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"Dating back to 2019, Premise had a network of more than 1,000 gig workers in the country (Ukraine) that were being asked to do tasks that they believed were innocuous market research or corporate dat…"-Byron Tau, Means of Control: How the Hidden Alliance of Tech and Government Is Creating a New American Surveillance State
21. 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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