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Rachel Carson, Oct 22, '02, 400pp.
• We've added to the problems Carson saw, changed some, tried to fix a few, but the warning is still strong and necessary: The human race is endangering its only home. Amazon |
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| |  Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Jared Diamond, Dec. 2004, 592pp.
• Jared Diamond's Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. The follow-up to his Pulitzer Prize-winning Guns, Germs, and Steel examines storied examples of human economic and social collapse, and even extinction, including Easter Island, classical Mayan civilization and the Greenland Norse. He explores patterns of population growth, overfarming, overgrazing and overhunting, often abetted by drought, cold, rigid social mores and warfare. Amazon |
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| |  Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change From Hawaii to Iraq
Stephen Kinzer, 4/4/06, 400pp.
• Overthrow is the history of regime changes by the United States and its allies over the past 110 years,from the undermining of the Hawaiian monarchy in 1893, passing through Cuba (1898), the Philippines (1898), Iran (1953), Guatemala (1954) and ending with present-day Iraq. Often the long-term results proved disastrous — not just for America's reputation abroad but for American interests as well.
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| |  Divine Wind: The History And Science Of Hurricanes
Kerry Emanuel, October, 2005, 285pp.
• Divine Wind: The History And Science Of Hurricanes
Twenty miles across, with brilliant white walls that soar 10 miles into the sky covered by cascading ice crystals. That's the eye of a hurricane. Amazon |
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| |  Mountains Beyond Mountains: Healing the World: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer
Tracy Kidder, Sept. 2003, 336pp.
• Kidder: the story of Dr. Paul Farmer and his efficient and effective model of community-based health care Amazon |
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| |  Politics by Other Means: Politicians, Prosecutors, and the Press from Watergate to Whitewater, Third Edition
Benjamin Ginsberg and Martin Shefter, Jan. 2003, 266pp.
• Elections are almost an afterthought as congressional investigations, media revelations and special prosecutors form public opinion. Includes Bush/Gore Amazon |
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| |  The Geography of Thought : How Asians and Westerners Think Differently...and Why
Richard Nisbett, March 2003, 288pp.
• Nisbett: eminent psychologist explores effects of culture on thought Amazon |
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