Living Downstream: A Scientist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment
10 best books like Living Downstream: A Scientist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment (Sandra Steingraber): Promiscuity: An Evolutionary History of Sperm Competition, Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash, Biophilia, Blue Gold: The Fight to Stop the Corporate Theft of the World's Water, When Smoke Ran Like Water: Tales Of Environmental Deception And The Battle Against Pollution, Our Stolen Future: Are We Threatening Our Fertility, Intelligence and Survival? A Scientific Detective Story, Hope, Human and Wild: True Stories of Living Lightly on the Earth, Nature's Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas, Round River, Weighing In: Obesity, Food Justice, and the Limits of Capitalism
| Author | Tim Birkhead |
| ISBN | 0674006666 |
Males are promiscuous and ferociously competitive. Females--both human and of other species--are naturally monogamous. That at least is what the study of sexual behavior after Darwin assumed, perhaps because it was written by men. Only in recent years has this version of events been challenged....
A brilliant exploration into the soiled heart of the American trash can.
Into our trash cans go dead batteries, dirty diapers, bygone burritos, broken toys, tattered socks, eight-track cassettes, scratched CDs, banana peels … But where do these things go next? In a country that consumes...
| Author | Edward O. Wilson |
| ISBN | 0674074424 |
I will be so bold as to define biophilia as the innate tendency to focus on life and lifelike processes.
from the Prologue
E.O. Wilson, September 2009 (Wiki, Acghost)
Edward Osborne Wilson (born June 10, 1929) is an American biologist, researcher (sociobiology,...
| Author | Maude Barlow |
| ISBN | 1565848136 |
In this “chilling, in-depth examination of a rapidly emerging global crisis” (In These Times), Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke, two of the most active opponents to the privatization of water show how, contrary to received wisdom, water mainly flows uphill to the wealthy. Our most basic resource...
| Author | Devra Davis |
| ISBN | 0465015220 |
In When Smoke Ran Like Water, the world-renowned epidemiologist Devra Davis confronts the public triumphs and private failures of her lifelong battle against environmental pollution. She documents the shocking toll of a public-health disaster-300,000 deaths a year in the U.S. and Europe from...
| Author | Theo Colborn |
| ISBN | 0452274141 |
"A critically important book that forces us to ask new questions about the synthetic chemicals that we have spread across this earth."--former vice president Al Gore, author of An Inconvenient Truth
Our Stolen Future examines the ways that certain synthetic chemicals interfere with hormonal...
| Author | Bill McKibben |
| ISBN | 1571313001 |
Divided into three sections, Hope, Human and Wild profiles the efforts of three caring communities to preserve wilderness and reverse environmental devastation. They include the reforestation of McKibben’s home territory, New York’s Adirondack Mountains; solving traffic and pollution...
| Author | Donald Worster |
| ISBN | 0521468345 |
In a narrow sense, Nature's Economy could be considered a counterpart to Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. While Kuhn looks at evolution of scientific knowledge from the inside, looking for moments when accumulated evidence pushes scientists to a new paradigm, Worster looks at the...
| Author | Aldo Leopold |
| ISBN | 0195015630 |
To those who know the grace of Aldo Leopold's writing in A Sand County Almanac, this posthumous collection from his journals and essays will be a new delight. These daily journal entries on hunting, fishing and exploring, written in camp during his many field trips in lower California, New Mexico, Canada,...
| Author | Julie Guthman |
| ISBN | 0520266250 |
Weighing In takes on the "obesity epidemic," challenging many widely held assumptions about its causes and consequences. Julie Guthman examines fatness and its relationship to health outcomes to ask if our efforts to prevent "obesity" are sensible, efficacious, or ethical. She also focuses the...
Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth/Healing the Mind
| Author | Theodore Roszak |
| ISBN | 0871564068 |
This pathfinding collection has become a seminal text for the burgeoning ecopsychology movement, which has brought key new insights to environmentalism and revolutionized modern psychology. Its writers show how the health of the planet is inextricably linked to the psychological health of humanity,...
| Author | Richard White |
| ISBN | 0809015838 |
The Hill and Wang Critical Issues Series: concise, affordable works on pivotal topics in American history, society, and politics.
In this pioneering study, White explores the relationship between the natural history of the Columbia River and the human history of the Pacific Northwest...
| Author | William Cronon |
| ISBN | 0393315118 |
In a lead essay that powerfully states the broad argument of the book, William Cronon writes that the environmentalist goal of wilderness preservation is conceptually and politically wrongheaded. Among the ironies and entanglements resulting from this goal are the sale of nature in our malls through...
Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature
| Author | Linda Lear |
| ISBN | 0805034285 |
Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, published in 1962, did more than any other single publication to alert the world to the hazards of environmental poisoning and to inspire a powerful social movement that would alter the course of American history. This definitive, long-overdue biography shows how...
| Author | Kathleen Dean Moore |
| ISBN | 1571312765 |
In this warm, stimulating brew of personal stories, acclaimed author Kathleen Dean Moore uses the metaphor of an island to challenge the cynicism inherent in the Western worldview. A gifted storyteller with a sly sense of humor, Moore explores three separations brought to us by Enlightenment philosophers:...
| Author | Heather Rogers |
| ISBN | 1416572228 |
In Green Gone Wrong environmental writer Heather Rogers blasts through the marketing buzz of big corporations and asks a simple question: Do today's much-touted "green" products, carbon offsets, organic food, biofuels, and eco-friendly cars and homes really work? Implicit in efforts to go green...
| Author | McKay Jenkins |
| ISBN | 1400068037 |
What’s Gotten into Us? is a deep, remarkable, and empowering investigation into the threats—biological and environmental—that chemicals now present in our daily lives.
Do you know what chemicals are in your shampoo? How about your cosmetics? Do you know what’s in the plastic...
| Author | Rob Nixon |
| ISBN | 0674049306 |
The violence wrought by climate change, toxic drift, deforestation, oil spills, and the environmental aftermath of war takes place gradually and often invisibly. Using the innovative concept of slow violence to describe these threats, Rob Nixon focuses on the inattention we have paid to the attritional...
| Author | Erik Reece |
| ISBN | 1594482365 |
A new form of strip mining has caused a state of emergency for the Appalachian wilderness and the communities that depend on it-a crisis compounded by issues of government neglect, corporate hubris, and class conflict. In this powerful call to arms, Erik Reece chronicles the year he spent witnessing...
Author Barry Commoner is a biologist, ecologist, educator (a professor with a class of millions he's been called) is regarded as America's best informed & most articulated spokesman for the safegurding of earth's envionment.
The environmental crisis
The ecosphere
Nuclear fire...
Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products - Who's at Risk and What's at Stake for American Power
| Author | Mark Schapiro |
| ISBN | 1933392150 |
New evidence seems to arrive dailyfrom stories about tainted pet food to toxic toysof the dangerous consequences that lax environmental policies are having on the consumer products that we, and our children, use every day thanks to lobbying efforts by the U.S. chemical industry.Meanwhile, the European...
Soil Not Oil: Environmental Justice in an Age of Climate Crisis
| Author | Vandana Shiva |
| ISBN | 0896087824 |
With Soil Not Oil, Vandana Shiva connects the dots between industrial agriculture and climate change. Shiva shows that a world beyond dependence on fossil fuels and globalization is both possible and necessary.
Condemning industrial agriculture as a recipe for ecological and economic...
