The World in a Grain: The Story of Sand and How It Transformed Civilization
10 best books like The World in a Grain: The Story of Sand and How It Transformed Civilization (Vince Beiser): Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States, Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter, Liquid Rules: The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives, The Years That Matter Most: How College Makes or Breaks Us, Energy: A Human History, The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life, Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?, In Search of the Canary Tree: The Story of a Scientist, a Cypress, and a Changing World, The Revolutionary Genius of Plants: A New Understanding of Plant Intelligence and Behavior
Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom
| Author | Katherine Eban |
| ISBN | 0062338803 |
From an award-winning journalist, an explosive narrative investigation of the generic drug boom that reveals fraud and life-threatening dangers on a global scale—The Jungle for pharmaceuticals
Many have hailed the widespread use of generic drugs...
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
| Author | Daniel Immerwahr |
| ISBN | 0374172145 |
We are familiar with maps that outline all fifty states. And we are also familiar with the idea that the United States is an "empire," exercising power around the world. But what about the actual...
| Author | Ben Goldfarb |
In Eager, environmental journalist Ben Goldfarb reveals that our modern idea of what a healthy landscape looks like and how it functions is wrong, distorted by the fur trade that once trapped out millions of beavers from North...
Liquid Rules: The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives
| Author | Mark Miodownik |
Da revolucionária caneta de László Biro, ao querosene de Abraham Gesner, das estradas que se reparam automaticamente, passando pelo café, pelo chá ou pela água, Miodownik usa a sua enorme capacidade de divulgador...
The Years That Matter Most: How College Makes or Breaks Us
| Author | Paul Tough |
| ISBN | 0544944488 |
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
The best-selling author of How Children Succeed returns with a powerful, mind-changing inquiry into higher education in...
Energy: A Human History
| Author | Richard Rhodes |
| ISBN | 1501105353 |
People have lived and died, businesses have prospered and failed, and nations have risen to world...
The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life
| Author | David Quammen |
| ISBN | 1476776628 |
In the mid-1970s, scientists began using DNA sequences...
Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?
| Author | Bill McKibben |
| ISBN | 1250178266 |
Bill McKibben’s groundbreaking book The End of Nature -- issued in dozens of languages and long regarded...
| Author | Lauren E. Oakes |
Several years ago, ecologist Lauren E. Oakes set out from California for Alaska's old-growth forests to hunt for a dying tree: the yellow-cedar. With climate change as the culprit, the...
| Author | Stefano Mancuso |
| ISBN | 1501187856 |
| Author | Thor Hanson |
| ISBN | 0465052614 |
Bees are like oxygen: ubiquitous, essential, and, for the most part, unseen. While we might overlook them, they lie at the heart of relationships...
Plight of the Living Dead: What Real-Life Zombies Reveal about Our World--And Ourselves
| Author | Matt Simon |
| ISBN | 0143131419 |
Zombieism isn't just the stuff of movies and TV shows like The Walking Dead. It's real, and it's happening in the world around us, from wasps and worms to dogs and moose--and...
Lifespan: Why We Age—and Why We Don't Have To
| Author | David A. Sinclair |
| ISBN | 1501191977 |
In this groundbreaking book, Dr. David Sinclair, leading world authority on genetics and longevity, reveals a bold...
An Elegant Defense: The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System: A Tale in Four Lives
| Author | Matt Richtel |
Influenza: The Hundred-Year Hunt to Cure the Deadliest Disease in History
| Author | Jeremy Brown |
| ISBN | 1501181246 |