America and the Pill: A History of Promise, Peril, and Liberation
5 best books like America and the Pill: A History of Promise, Peril, and Liberation (Elaine Tyler May): Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America, The Choices We Made: Twenty-Five Women and Men Speak Out About Abortion, Upstairs at the White House: My Life with the First Ladies, Chernobyl 01:23:40: The Incredible True Story of the World's Worst Nuclear Disaster, The Angry Chef: Bad Science and the Truth about Healthy Eating
Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America
| Author | Jill Leovy |
| ISBN | 0385529988 |
On a warm spring evening in South Los Angeles, a young man was shot and killed on a sidewalk minutes away from his home, one of hundreds of young men slain in LA every year. His assailant ran down the street, jumped into an SUV, and vanished, hoping to join the vast majority of killers in American cities who...
The Choices We Made: Twenty-Five Women and Men Speak Out About Abortion
| Author | Angela Bonavoglia |
| ISBN | 1568581882 |
Every day in America, abortion providers and the women who need them are in danger. First published ten years ago, this collection of 25 powerful stories from contributors both famous and ordinary, privileged and poor, provides often harrowing insights into what happens when women are denied the...
Upstairs at the White House: My Life with the First Ladies
A fascinating behind-the-scenes look at life on Pennsylvania Avenue with America’s first families, by the man who spent nearly three decades in their midst
J. B. West, chief usher of the White House, directed the operations and maintenance of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue—and coordinated...
Chernobyl 01:23:40: The Incredible True Story of the World's Worst Nuclear Disaster
| Author | Andrew Leatherbarrow |
| ISBN | 0993597505 |
At 01:23:40 on April 26th 1986, Alexander Akimov pressed the emergency shutdown button at Chernobyl’s fourth nuclear reactor. It was an act that forced the permanent evacuation of a city, killed thousands and crippled the Soviet Union. The event spawned decades of conflicting, exaggerated and...
The Angry Chef: Bad Science and the Truth about Healthy Eating
| Author | Anthony Warner |
| ISBN | 1786072165 |
"The popular understanding of nutrition is clouded by superstitions, primitive intuitions, conspiracy theories, and old wives' tales. This irreverent and intelligent expose brings sanity and good sense to one of life's great pleasures." ―Steven Pinker, author of Angels of Our Better Nature
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