Katrina: A History, 1915-2015
By: Andy Horowitz
4.26
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
The definitive history of Katrina: an epic of citymaking, revealing how engineers and oil executive…
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1. A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
By: Rebecca Solnit
3.95
Format: 353 pages, Hardcover
A startling investigation of what people do in disasters and why it matters Why is it that in the a… read more
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- politics
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- nonfiction
- environment
"Disaster shocks us out of slumber, but only skillful efforts keeps us awake."-Rebecca Solnit, A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
"Utopia itself is rarely more than an ideal or an ephemeral pattern on which to shape the real possibilities before us."-Rebecca Solnit, A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
"Tobin James Mueller: 'No one is turned away, my one rule. I never say no. That's one of the reasons it became a utopia."-Rebecca Solnit, A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
"It's tempting to ask why if you fed your neighbors during the time of the earthquake and fire, you didn't do so before or after."-Rebecca Solnit, A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
2. Nine Lives: Death and Life in New Orleans
By: Dan Baum
4.09
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The hidden history of a haunted and beloved city told through the intersecting lives of nine remark… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
3. What Stands in a Storm: Three Days in the Worst Superstorm to Hit the South's Tornado Alley
By: Rick Bragg , Kim Cross
3.78
Format: 584 pages, Hardcover
Immersive reporting and dramatic storytelling set you right in the middle of the horrific superstor… read more
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4. Nervous Conditions
By: Tsitsi Dangarembga
4.54
Format: 253 pages,
A modern classic in the African literary canon and voted in the Top Ten Africa's 100 Best Books of … read more
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5. Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
By: Edmund Conway
4.52
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil, and lithium. These fundamental materials have created empires, razed… read more
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"You can get anything you want from anywhere in the world at a bargain price, but don't [whatever you do] expect to understand how it was made or how it got to you."-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
"Brothers and sisters,’ said the man. ‘I want to tell you this. The greatest thing on earth is to have the love of God in your heart, and the next greatest thing is to have electricity in your house.’…"-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
"To say that concrete is everywhere is hardly an exaggeration. Despite the fact that we only began mass producing this mixture of sand, aggregates and cement just over a century ago, there are now mor…"-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
"A few years ago some geologists sifted through the data [and] estimated that the amount of sand, soil and rock we humans mine and quarry and dredge each year is some 24 times greater than the amount …"-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
6. Katrina: A History, 1915-2015
By: Andy Horowitz
4.26
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
The definitive history of Katrina: an epic of citymaking, revealing how engineers and oil executive… read more
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- american history
- history
- americana
- politics
- urban studies
- nonfiction
- climate change
- environment
- science
7. There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History
By: Rory Carroll
4.38
Format: 397 pages, Hardcover
Killing Thatcher is the gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margar… read more
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- history
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- audiobook
8. Black Birds in the Sky: The Story and Legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
By: Brandy Colbert
4.25
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A searing new work of nonfiction from award-winning author Brandy Colbert about the history and leg… read more
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- history
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- audiobook
9. How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
By: Daniel Immerwahr
4.46
Format: 513 pages, Hardcover
A pathbreaking history of the United States' overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empir… read more
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- history
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- audiobook
"At various times, inhabitants of the U.S. Empire have been shot, shelled, starved, interned, dispossessed, tortured, and experimented on. What they haven't been, by and large, is seen."-Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
"Hoover’s greatest challenge was one of the least visible: the humble screw thread. Screws, nuts, and bolts are universal fasteners. They function in industrial societies, as one writer put it, like s…"-Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
10. Cuba: An American History
By: Ada Ferrer
4.45
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
Winner of The L. A. Times Book Prize (2021) in History “Full of…lively insights and lucid prose” (… read more
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- history
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- audiobook
11. 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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- american history
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"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
12. Fire in Paradise: An American Tragedy
By: Alastair Gee
4.01
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The harrowing story of the most destructive American wildfire in a century. There is no preceden… read more
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- history
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- environment
- audiobook
13. A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's Hurricanes
By: Eric Jay Dolin
4.06
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
With A Furious Sky, best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin tells the history of America itself through … read more
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- american history
- history
- nonfiction
- climate change
- environment
- science
14. Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs
By: Camilla Townsend
4.10
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In November 1519, Hernando Cortés walked along a causeway leading to the capital of the Aztec kingd… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Letters and diaries sometimes bring us close to grand moments or touching scenes in the history of Euro-Americans, but harkening back to the thoughts and feelings of the less powerful, we meet only s…"-Camilla Townsend, Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs
15. His Majesty's Airship: The Life and Tragic Death of the World's Largest Flying Machine
By: S.C. Gwynne
4.02
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From historian and bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Empire of the Summer Moon come… read more
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16. Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership (Justice, Power, and Politics)
By: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
4.27
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
By the late 1960s and early 1970s, reeling from a wave of urban uprisings, politicians finally work… read more
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- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
17. A World More Concrete: Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South Florida (Historical Studies of Urban America)
By: Nathan Daniel Beau Connolly
4.29
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
Many people characterize urban renewal projects and the power of eminent domain as two of the most … read more
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- history
- politics
- urban studies
- nonfiction
18. Ten Innings at Wrigley: The Wildest Ballgame Ever, with Baseball on the Brink
By: Kevin Cook
3.95
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The dramatic story of a legendary 1979 slugfest between the Chicago Cubs and the Philadelphia Phill… read more
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19. America On Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s
By: Elizabeth Hinton
4.22
Format: 396 pages, Hardcover
What began in spring 2020 as local protests in response to the killing of George Floyd by Minneapol… read more
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- audiobook
20. Pandemic 1918: The Story of the Deadliest Influenza in History
By: Catharine Arnold
3.79
Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition
In the dying months of World War I, Spanish flu suddenly overwhelmed the world, killing between 50 … read more
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21. The Bulldozer in the Countryside: Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of American Environmentalism (Studies in Environment and History)
By: Adam Rome
3.71
Format: 332 pages, Paperback
The Bulldozer in the Countryside is the first scholarly history of efforts to reduce the environmen… read more
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