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A Smithsonian Magazine Top Ten Best Science Book of 2020 The MacArthur grant–winning “Erin Brockovich of Sewage” tells the riveting ...

The "Erin Brockovich of Sewage" tells the riveting story of the environmental justice movement that is firing up rural America, ...

From an award-winning science journalist, a “deeply researched, entertaining, and impassioned exploration of sanitation” (Nature) and the future of the ...

Travis Maddox, Eastern University's playboy, makes a bet with good girl Abby that if he loses, he will remain abstinent ...

Named a Best Book of 2019 by NPR “How might we mitigate losses caused by shortsightedness? Bina Venkataraman, a former climate ...

The true cost of what the global food industry throws away. With shortages, volatile prices and nearly one billion people ...

Pellow analyses how and why environmental inequalities are created. He explains how class and racial politics have influenced the waste ...

“Randy Shilts and Laurie Garrett told the story of the HIV/AIDS epidemic through the late 1980s and the early 1990...

The arrival of a "cousin" from mainland China, arranged by Mama Wong to serve ostensibly as a nanny, throws the ...

Waste is one of the planet’s last great resource frontiers. From furniture made from up-cycled wood to gold extracted ...

The ​inspiring people and grassroots​ ​organizations​ ​that are on​ ​the​ ​front​ ​lines​ ​of​ ​the​ ​battle​ ​to save the ​​planet As ...

Winner of the Political Geography Specialty Group's 2015 Julian Minghi Distinguished Book Award! With almost the entire world’s water basins ...

With a New Preface by the Author Through personal journeys and historical inquiry, this PEN Literary Award finalist explores how ...

A Most-Anticipated Book of the Year: Newsweek * Refinery29 “Moving and powerful.” —Chris Hedges, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author In 2012, ...

In this Second Edition of this radical social history of America from Columbus to the present, Howard Zinn includes substantial ...

The extraordinary #1 New York Times bestseller about the ability of books to feed the soul even in the darkest of ...

'My first serious blackout marked the line between sanity and insanity. Though I would have moments of lucidity over the ...

A “fascinating [and] downright entertaining” look at what we throw away—and where it all goes (Booklist, starred review). Out ...

When the images of desperate, hungry, thirsty, sick, mostly black people circulated in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, it became ...

"Jamie Margolin is among the powerful and inspiring youth activists leading a movement to demand urgent action on the climate ...

"In an alternate America, princesses Beatrice and Samantha Washington and the two girls wooing their brother, Prince Jefferson, become embroiled ...

From bestselling writer David Graeber—“a master of opening up thought and stimulating debate” (Slate)—a powerful argument against the ...

A New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Amazon Charts Bestseller! For fans of Hidden Figures, comes the ...

In September 2017, Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, completely upending the energy grid of the small island. The nearly year-long power ...

The New York Times bestseller and Read with Jenna TODAY SHOW Book Club pick telling the story of three generations ...

In Victorian London, filth was everywhere: horse traffic filled the streets with dung, household rubbish went uncollected, cesspools brimmed with "...

The critically acclaimed, award-winning, modern classic Speak is now a stunning graphic novel. "Speak up for yourself—we want to ...

We humans live by stories, says David Korten, and the stories that now govern our society set us on a ...

From the environmental activist, consumer advocate, and renowned crusader--a stirring call to action that gives us the tools we need ...

An eminent sociologist and bestselling author offers an inspiring blueprint for rebuilding a fractured society. "Comprehensive, entertaining, and compellingÉ"--Jon ...

In search of answers and action, the award-winning poet and essayist Lisa Wells brings us Believers, introducing trailblazers and outliers ...

A groundbreaking, urgent report from the front lines of "dirty work"—the work that society considers essential but morally compromised. ...

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • The dramatic story of the Flint water crisis, by a relentless physician who stood ...

A "powerful and indispensable" (Gerald Markowitz) look at the devastating consequences of environmental racism -- and what we can do ...

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Lawrence Wright, whose bestselling thriller 'The End of the October' all but predicted our current ...

When Joe Biden attempted to compliment Barack Obama by calling him “clean and articulate,” he unwittingly tapped into one of ...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER America’s top-rated cable news host offers his first book in over ten years: a look ...

This urgent book explores the roots of racism and its legacy in modern day, all while empowering young people with ...

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“[In Pimp], Iceberg Slim breaks down some of the coldest, capitalist concepts I’ve ever heard in my life.” —Dave ...