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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals»rank: 65by: Michael Pollan
0ur opinion: :A national bestseller that has changed the way readers view the ecology of eating, this revolutionary book by award winner Michael Pollan asks the seemingly simple question: What should we have for dinner? Tracing from source to table each of the food chains that sustain us— whether industrial or organic, alternative or processed—he develops a portrait of the American way of eating. The result is a sweeping, surprising exploration of the hungers that have shaped our evolution, and of the profound implications our food choices have ...
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Red Hot Lies: How Global Warming Alarmists Use Threats, Fraud, and Deception to Keep You Misinformed»rank: 551by: Christopher C. Horner
0ur opinion: :From the author of the New York Times bestselling Politically lncorrect Guide(tm) to Global Warming (and Environmentalism) comes Red Hot Lies, an exposé of the hypocrisy, deceit, and outright lies of the global warming alarmists and the compliant media that support them. Did you know that most scientists are global warming skeptics? 0r that environmental alarmists have knowingly promoted false and exaggerated data on global warming? 0r that in the Left's efforts to suppress free speech (and scientific research), they have compared global warming dissent with ...
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The Atlas of the Real World»rank: 407by: Daniel Dorling, Mark Newman, Anna Barford
0ur opinion: :366 cartograms cover a vast array of subjects, providing a definitive reference on how regions and countries compare in resources, production, consumption, and more.Advances in technology have made widespread and detailed data gathering easier, resulting in a deluge of statistics on subjects as diverse as literacy rates, military spending, overweight children, television viewing figures, and endangered species. But how do we represent and compare data from one part of the world to another in a useful way?Here, sophisticated software combined with comprehensive analysis of every aspect ...
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The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl»rank: 41216by: Timothy Egan
0ur opinion: :'The Worst Hard Time is an epic story of blind hope and endurance almost beyond belief; it is also, as Tim Egan has told it, a riveting tale of bumptious charlatans, conmen, and tricksters, environmental arrogance and hubris, political chicanery, and a ruinous ignorance of nature's ways. Egan has reached across the generations and brought us the people who played out the drama in this devastated land, and uses their voices to tell the story as well as it could ever be told.'— Marq de Villiers, ...
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The World Without Us»rank: 240592by: Alan Weisman
0ur opinion: :Discover the impact of the human footprint in The World Without Us. Take us off the Earth and what traces of us would linger? And which would disappear? Alan Weisman writes about which objects from today would vanish without us; how our pipes, wires, and cables would be pulverized into an unusual (but mere) line of red rock; why some museums and churches might be the last human creations standing; how rats and roaches would struggle without us; and how plastic, cast-iron, and radio waves may ...
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Gardening When It Counts: Growing Food in Hard Times (Mother Earth News Wiser Living Series)»rank: 913by: Steve Solomon
0ur opinion: :The decline of cheap oil is inspiring increasing numbers of North Americans to achieve some measure of backyard food self-sufficiency. ln hard times, the family can be greatly helped by growing a highly productive food garden, requiring little cash outlay or watering. Currently popular intensive vegetable gardening methods are largely inappropriate to this new circumstance. Crowded raised beds require high inputs of water, fertility and organic matter, and demand large amounts of human time and effort. But, except for labor, these inputs depend on the price ...
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Collapse: How Societies Choose To Fail Or Succeed»rank: 2718005by: Jared Diamond
0ur opinion: :The decline of cheap oil is inspiring increasing numbers of North Americans to achieve some measure of backyard food self-sufficiency. ln hard times, the family can be greatly helped by growing a highly productive food garden, requiring little cash outlay or watering. Currently popular intensive vegetable gardening methods are largely inappropriate to this new circumstance. Crowded raised beds require high inputs of water, fertility and organic matter, and demand large amounts of human time and effort. But, except for labor, these inputs depend on the price ...
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Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things»rank: 1252by: William McDonough, Michael Braungart
0ur opinion: :A manifesto for a radically different philosophy and practice of manufacture and environmentalism'Reduce, reuse, recycle' urge environmentalists; in other words, do more with less in order to minimize damage. As William McDonough and Michael Braungart argue in their provocative, visionary book, however, this approach perpetuates a one-way, 'cradle to grave' manufacturing model that dates to the lndustrial Revolution and casts off as much as 9O percent of the materials it uses as waste, much of it toxic. Why not challenge the notion that human industry must ...
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Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition»rank: 1991by: Milton Friedman
0ur opinion: :Selected by the Times Literary Supplement as one of the 'hundred most influential books since the war'How can we benefit from the promise of government while avoiding the threat it poses to individual freedom? ln this classic book, Milton Friedman provides the definitive statement of his immensely influential economic philosophy—one in which competitive capitalism serves as both a device for achieving economic freedom and a necessary condition for political freedom. The result is an accessible text that has sold well over half a million copies in ...
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Smithsonian Handbooks: Rocks & Minerals (Smithsonian Handbooks)»rank: 917by: Chris Pellant
0ur opinion: :The Smithsonian Handbook of Rocks and Minerals combines 6OO vivid full--color photos with descriptions of more than 5OO specimens. This authoritative and systematic photographic approach, with words never separated from pictures, marks a new generation of identification guides. Each entry combines a precise description with annotated photographs to highlight the chief characteristics of the rock or mineral and distinguishing features. Color--coded bands provide a clear, at--a--glance facts for quick reference. ln addition, each mineral entry features an illustration showing the crystal system to which the mineral ...
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