Sick From Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction

7 best books like Sick From Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction (Jim Downs): Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster, The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator, Thick: And Other Essays, The Secret History of the American Empire: Economic Hit Men, Jackals & the Truth about Global Corruption, A Game as Old as Empire: The Secret World of Economic Hit Men and the Web of Global Corruption, The Case Against the Global Economy and for a Turn Toward the Local, What This Cruel War Was Over: Soldiers, Slavery, and the Civil War

Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster

Author	Adam Higginbotham
ISBN	1501134612

The definitive, dramatic untold story of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster, based on original reporting and new archival research.

April 25, 1986, in Chernobyl, was a turning point in world history. The disaster not only changed the world’s perception of nuclear power and the...

The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator

Author	Timothy C. Winegard
ISBN	0735235791

A pioneering and groundbreaking work of narrative nonfiction that offers a dramatic new perspective on the history of humankind, showing how through millennia, the mosquito has been the single most powerful force in determining humanity's fate

Why was gin and tonic the cocktail of choice...

Thick: And Other Essays

Author	Tressie McMillan Cottom
ISBN	1620974363

Smart, humorous, and strikingly original thoughts on race, beauty, money, and more—by one of today's most intrepid public intellectuals

Tressie McMillan Cottom, the writer, professor, and acclaimed author of Lower Ed, now brilliantly shifts gears from running regression analyses...

The Secret History of the American Empire: Economic Hit Men, Jackals & the Truth about Global Corruption

Author

John Perkins

A riveting exposé of international corruption—and what we can do about it, from the author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, which spent over a year on the New York Times bestseller list. In his stunning memoir, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, John Perkins detailed his former role as an “economic...

A Game as Old as Empire: The Secret World of Economic Hit Men and the Web of Global Corruption

Author	Steven Hiatt
ISBN	1576753956

This book is a compilation of essays written by former international bankers, development economists, foreign aid workers, and others. It's about offshore banking, bad loan schemes, "debt relief," tax evasion, incompetent World Bank projects. It's about the people who profit from these things,...

The Case Against the Global Economy and for a Turn Toward the Local

Author	Jerry Mander
ISBN	0871568659

A great political debate has emerged over the many unexpected and profound consequences of the rush toward the global economy. The world’s political and corporate leaders are restructuring the planet’s economy and political arrangements in ways that are affecting humans and the environment...

What This Cruel War Was Over: Soldiers, Slavery, and the Civil War

Author	Chandra Manning
ISBN	0307264823

A vivid, unprecedented account of why Union and Confederate soldiers identified slavery as the root of the war, how the conflict changed troops’ ideas about slavery, and what those changing ideas meant for the war and the nation.

Using soldiers’ letters, diaries, and regimental newspapers,...