The Seventeen Traditions
9 best books like The Seventeen Traditions (Ralph Nader): Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety, Medicus, Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media, Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey Into the Heart of America, I Can't Breathe: A Killing on Bay Street, The Last Suppers, Rivals! Frenemies Who Changed the World, To the Land of Long Lost Friends, The Areas of My Expertise
Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety
| Author | Eric Schlosser |
| ISBN | 1594202273 |
A myth-shattering exposé of America’s nuclear weapons
Famed investigative journalist Eric Schlosser digs deep to uncover secrets about the management of America’s nuclear arsenal. A groundbreaking account of accidents, near misses, extraordinary heroism, and technological...
| Author | Ruth Downie |
| ISBN | 1596912316 |
Gaius Petrius Ruso is a divorced and down-on his luck army doctor who has made the rash decision to seek his fortune in an inclement outpost of the Roman Empire, namely Britannia. His arrival in Deva (more commonly known as Chester, England) does little to improve his mood, and after a straight thirty...
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
| Author | Noam Chomsky |
| ISBN | 0375714499 |
An absolutely brilliant analysis of the ways in which individuals and organizations of the media are influenced to shape the social agendas of knowledge and, therefore, belief. Contrary to the popular conception of members of the press as hard-bitten realists doggedly pursuing unpopular truths,...
Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey Into the Heart of America
| Author | James M. Fallows |
| ISBN | 1101871849 |
A vivid, surprising portrait of the civic and economic reinvention taking place in America, town by town and generally out of view of the national media. A realistically positive and provocative view of the country between its coasts.
For the last five years, James and Deborah Fallows have...
I Can't Breathe: A Killing on Bay Street
| Author | Matt Taibbi |
| ISBN | 0812988841 |
A work of riveting literary journalism that explores the roots and repercussions of the infamous killing of Eric Garner by the New York City police—from the bestselling author of The Divide.
On July 17, 2014, a forty-three-year-old black man named Eric Garner died on a Staten Island sidewalk...
| Author | Mandy Mikulencak |
| ISBN | 1496710037 |
“A gorgeous novel that finds beauty in the most unlikely of places.” —Susan Wiggs, #1 New York Times bestselling author
Set in 1950s Louisiana, Mandy Mikulencak’s beautifully written and emotionally moving novel evokes both The Help and Dead Man Walking with the story of an unforgettable...
Rivals! Frenemies Who Changed the World
"Each volume of four 30-minute histories will dig into the petty name-calling and grumbling grudges that led to many of the world's greatest advancements, all delivered with a cheeky sense of humor."
Did you know that most of our dinosaur fossils were discovered because two grown men absolutely...
To the Land of Long Lost Friends
| Author | Alexander McCall Smith |
| ISBN | 1408711109 |
Mr J. L. B. Matekoni usually steers clear of Mma Ramotswe's cases, but on this occasion he is approached by a client of the garage who tells a tale of woe. This man has entrusted his brother to oversee the building of a house, yet the project is complete and now the brother won't leave. How is he to get him to...
The Areas of My Expertise
| Author | John Hodgman |
| ISBN | 1594482225 |
Hot on the heels of the #1 bestsellers The Onion's Our Dumb Century and Jon Stewart's America comes The Areas of My Expertise, the brilliant and uproarious #15 bestseller (i.e., a runaway phenomenon in its own right-no, seriously) - a lavish compendium of handy reference tables, fascinating trivia,...
