Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash

10 best books like Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash (Elizabeth Royte): Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism, The Secret Life of Lobsters: How Fishermen and Scientists Are Unraveling the Mysteries of Our Favorite Crustacean, The End of Nature, Phantastes, The Story of Stuff: How Our Obsession with Stuff is Trashing the Planet, Our Communities, and our Health—and a Vision for Change, Happy at Last: The Thinking Person's Guide to Finding Joy, The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War, A Mapmaker’s Dream: The Meditations of Fra Mauro, Cartographer to the Court of Venice, Filthy Rich, The Job: True Tales from the Life of a New York City Cop

Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism

Author	Temple Grandin
ISBN	0679772898

Temple Grandin, Ph.D., is a gifted animal scientist who has designed one third of all the livestock-handling facilities in the United States. She also lectures widely on autism—because Temple Grandin is autistic, a woman who thinks, feels, and experiences the world in ways that are incomprehensible...

The Secret Life of Lobsters: How Fishermen and Scientists Are Unraveling the Mysteries of Our Favorite Crustacean

Author	Trevor Corson
ISBN	0060555599

In this intimate portrait of an island lobstering community and aneccentric band of renegade biologists, journalist Trevor Corson escorts the reader onto the slippery decks of fishing boats, through danger-filled scuba dives, and deep into the churning currents of the Gulf of Maine to learn about...

The End of Nature

Author	Bill McKibben
ISBN	0812976088

Reissued on the tenth anniversary of its publication, this classic work on our environmental crisis features a new introduction by the author, reviewing both the progress and ground lost in the fight to save the earth.

This impassioned plea for radical and life-renewing change is today still...

Phantastes

Author

George MacDonald

C.S. Lewis said that upon reading this astonishing 19th-century fairy tale he "had crossed a great frontier," and numerous others both before and since have felt similarly.

In MacDonald's fairy tales, both those for children and (like this one) those for adults, the "fairy land" clearly...

The Story of Stuff: How Our Obsession with Stuff is Trashing the Planet, Our Communities, and our Health—and a Vision for Change

Author

Annie Leonard

We have a problem with Stuff. With just 5 percent of the world's population, we're consuming 30 percent of the world's resources and creating 30 percent of the world's waste. If everyone consumed at U.S. rates, we would need three to five planets! This alarming fact drove Annie Leonard to create the Internet...

Happy at Last: The Thinking Person's Guide to Finding Joy

Author	Richard O'Connor
ISBN	0312369069

From the bestselling author of Undoing Depression – a groundbreaking program to get happy and stay happy!

Do you want to live the happiest, most satisfying life possible? Does happiness feel like an elusive goal? According to the most recent developments in psychology and science, the...

The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War

Author	Joanne B. Freeman
ISBN	0374154775

The previously untold story of the violence in Congress that helped spark the Civil War

In The Field of Blood, Joanne Freeman recovers the long-lost story of physical violence on the floor of the U.S. Congress. Drawing on an extraordinary range of sources, Freeman shows that the Capitol was...

A Mapmaker’s Dream: The Meditations of Fra Mauro, Cartographer to the Court of Venice

Author	James Cowan
ISBN	0446673382

Very unusual read. And do NOT let the length fool you. This is not a short skip across the brain pond. It holds layers. Philosophers amongst you, as much as those who have minutia interest in the natural world, may appreciate these ponderings of Fra Mauro. He has made it his life's work to chart a picture...

Filthy Rich

Author

James Patterson

A shocking true crime tale of money, power, and sex from the world's most popular thriller writer.

Jeffrey Epstein rose from humble origins to the rarefied heights of New York City's financial elite. A college dropout with an instinct for numbers--and for people--Epstein amassed his wealth...

The Job: True Tales from the Life of a New York City Cop

Author	Steve Osborne
ISBN	0385539622

“HOW YA DOIN’?”

With these four syllables, delivered in an unmistakably authentic New York accent, Steve Osborne has riveted thousands of people at the legendary storytelling venue The Moth (and many tens of thousands more via YouTube) with his hilarious, profane, and touching tales...

Party of One: The Loners' Manifesto

Author	Anneli Rufus
ISBN	1569245134

An essential defense of the people the world loves to revile--the loners--yet without whom it would be lost


The Buddha. Rene Descartes. Emily Dickinson. Greta Garbo. Bobby Fischer. J. D. Salinger: Loners, all--along with as many as 25 percent of the world's population. Loners keep to...