Off the Grid: Inside the Movement for More Space, Less Government, and True Independence in Mo Dern America

5 best books like Off the Grid: Inside the Movement for More Space, Less Government, and True Independence in Mo Dern America (Nick Rosen): Silent Spring, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion, The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology, How Proust Can Change Your Life, Tyrannosaur Canyon

Silent Spring

Author	Rachel Carson
ISBN	0618249060

Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring was first published in three serialized excerpts in the New Yorker in June of 1962. The book appeared in September of that year and the outcry that followed its publication forced the banning of DDT and spurred revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land,...

Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

Author	Jia Tolentino
ISBN	0525510540

Trick Mirror is an enlightening, unforgettable trip through the river of self-delusion that surges just beneath the surface of our lives. This is a book about the incentives that shape us, and about how hard it is to see ourselves clearly in a culture that revolves around the self. In each essay, Jia writes...

The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology

Author	Robert Wright
ISBN	0679763996

Are men literally born to cheat? Does monogamy actually serve women's interests? These are among the questions that have made The Moral Animal one of the most provocative science books in recent years. Wright unveils the genetic strategies behind everything from our sexual preferences to our office...

How Proust Can Change Your Life

Author	Alain de Botton
ISBN	0679779159

Words Are Your Homeland

One of the most important deficiencies in the philosophy of science (and business, which prides itself as a practical science) is the idea of efficiency of inquiry in scientific method - how to get an answer to a question at hand with the least possible effort. Efficiency...

Tyrannosaur Canyon

Author	Douglas Preston
ISBN	0765349655

A stunning new archaeological thriller by the New York Times bestselling co-author of Brimstone and Relic.

A moon rock missing for thirty years...
Five buckets of blood-soaked sand found in a New Mexico canyon...
A scientist with ambition enough to kill...
A monk who will redeem...