When Smoke Ran Like Water: Tales Of Environmental Deception And The Battle Against Pollution
6 best books like When Smoke Ran Like Water: Tales Of Environmental Deception And The Battle Against Pollution (Devra Davis): The Other Americans, Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things, Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger, Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life, What the Eyes Don't See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City, Hotbox: Inside Catering, the Food World's Riskiest Business
From the Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The Moor’s Account, here is a timely and powerful new novel about the suspicious death of a Moroccan immigrant–at once a family saga, a murder mystery, and a love story, informed by the treacherous fault lines of American culture.
Late one...
Author | William McDonough |
ISBN | 0865475873 |
"Reduce, reuse, recycle," urge environmentalists; in other words, do more with less in order to minimize damage. But as architect William McDonough and chemist Michael Braungart point out in this provocative, visionary book, such an approach only perpetuates the one-way, "cradle to grave" manufacturing...
Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger
Author | Rebecca Traister |
ISBN | 1501181807 |
From Rebecca Traister, the New York Times bestselling author of All the Single Ladies comes a vital, incisive exploration into the transformative power of female anger and its ability to transcend into a political movement.
In the year 2018, it seems as if women’s anger has suddenly erupted...
Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life
Author | Louise Aronson |
ISBN | 1620405466 |
As revelatory as Atul Gawande's Being Mortal, physician and award-winning author Louise Aronson's Elderhood is an essential, empathetic look at a vital but often disparaged stage of life.
For more than 5,000 years, "old" has been defined as beginning between the ages of 60 and 70. That means...
What the Eyes Don't See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City
Author | Mona Hanna-Attisha |
ISBN | 0399590854 |
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK - The dramatic story of the Flint water crisis, by a relentless physician who stood up to power.
"Stirring . . . [a] blueprint for all those who believe . . . that 'the world . . . should be full of people raising their voices.'"--The New York Times
"Revealing,...
Hotbox: Inside Catering, the Food World's Riskiest Business
Author | Matt Lee |
ISBN | 1627792619 |
Matt Lee and Ted Lee take on the competitive, wild world of high-end catering, exposing the secrets of a food business few home cooks or restaurant chefs ever experience.
Hotbox reveals the real-life drama behind cavernous event spaces and soaring white tents, where cooking conditions have...