Ecology/Health

Our Daily Poison

From Pesticides to Packaging, How Chemicals Have Contaminated the Food Chain and Are Making Us Sick

Marie-Monique Robin

From the acclaimed author of The World According to Monsanto, a shocking account of the dangerous chemical compounds that have infiltrated our food chain

Fukushima

The Story of a Nuclear Disaster

The Union of Concerned Scientists, David Lochbaum, Edwin Lyman, Susan Q. Stranahan

The edge-of-your-seat story of the meltdown of the Fukushima nuclear power plant by nuclear scientists and a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist— published to coincide with the third anniversary

Betting on Famine

Why the World Still Goes Hungry

Jean Ziegler

From a leading global expert, how the world’s shift from growing food to growing fuel has led to a new epidemic of starvation—and worldwide food insecurity

Any Way You Slice It

The Past, Present, and Future of Rationing

Stan Cox

A compelling explanation of a much-maligned concept in an era of ecological crises and growing inequality, from the author of the highly acclaimed Losing Our Cool

Foodopoly

The Battle Over the Future of Food and Farming in America

Wenonah Hauter

An exposé of how agribusiness and food corporations are undermining a healthy food system—and how voting with your fork will not solve the problem

Loving This Planet

Leading Thinkers Talk About How to Make a Better World

Helen Caldicott

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL More than two dozen internationally recognized advocates discuss the state of the planet in candid conversations with leading antinuclear activist Dr. Helen Caldicott

Fatal Invention

How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century

Dorothy Roberts

NOW IN PAPERBACK: Hailed as "essential reading" by Danny Glover and "a triumph!" by Harriet Washington, a groundbreaking critique of an emerging racial science, by the award-winning author of Killing the Black Body

Swallow

Foreign Bodies, Their Ingestion, Inspiration, and the Curious Doctor Who Extracted Them

Mary Cappello

Now in paperback: A revelatory, poetic exploration of swallowing—and of a strange collection of objects preserved by a single-minded medical pioneer

Losing Our Cool

Uncomfortable Truths About Our Air-Conditioned World (and Finding New Ways to Get Through the Summer)

Stan Cox

Now In Paperback: A freewheeling and groundbreaking investigation into how our growing reliance on air conditioning has transformed the planet—and its continuing consequences for us all

The World According to Monsanto

Pollution, Corruption, and the Control of Our Food Supply

Marie-Monique Robin

NOW IN PAPERBACK: An explosive exposé of the disturbing practices of the world's most influential agricultural biotechnology corporation, by an award-winning journalist

Gristle

From Factory Farms to Food Safety (Thinking Twice About the Meat We Eat)

Edited by Moby and Miyun Park

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL - For omnivores and vegans alike, a hard-hitting and eye-opening guide to the meat you eat, by the world’s most famous vegan

10 Excellent Reasons for National Health Care

Edited by Mary O’Brien and Martha Livingston

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL As the number of uninsured American reaches epic numbers, here’s a concise and convincing guide that explains why national health care is the only  approach that makes sense

Bitter Chocolate

The Dark Side of the World's Most Seductive Sweet

Carol Off

A shocking exposé of the little-known corruption and exploitation found at the heart of the multibillion-dollar cocoa industry – “Blood Diamonds” for chocolate

Blue Covenant

The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water

Maude Barlow

NOW IN PAPERBACK From the internationally acclaimed environmentalist, an “engaging, eye-opening account” (The Indypendent) of the global movement for water justice, in the tradition of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring

A Buffalo in the House

The True Story of a Man, an Animal, and the American West

R.D. Rosen

Marley and Me meets All creatures great and small, as an ailing but lovable orphan buffalo joins a Santa Fe household

The End of the Line

How Overfishing Is Changing the World and What We Eat

Charles Clover

Picking up where Cod left off, an “invaluable” (Financial Times) look at the global crisis of overfishing

The Body Hunters

Testing New Drugs on the World's Poorest Patients

Sonia Shah

NOW IN PAPERBACK An eye-opening look at big pharma’s unethical and exploitative drug trials in the global South—the true story behind The Constant Gardener

I Die, But My Memory Lives On

The World AIDS Crisis and the Memory Book Project

Henning Mankell

Internationally bestselling mystery author Henning Mankell explores the new African tradition of memory books, written by parents dying of AIDS for their children

Gone Tomorrow

The Hidden Life of Garbage

Heather Rogers

NOW IN PAPERBACK A sobering exploration of our high-octane trash output that was named an editor’s choice by the New York Times and a nonfiction choice by The Guardian

The Monster at Our Door

The Global Threat of Avian Flu

Mike Davis

From the acclaimed writer The Nation calls the "master of disaster prose," a terrifying forecast of a new global threat

Diet for a Dead Planet

Big Business and the Coming Food Crisis

Christopher D. Cook

NOW IN PAPERBACK A timely indictment of industrial agriculture's threat to the future of food, health, and the environment

The Conquest of Bread

150 Years of Agribusiness in California

Richard A. Walker

A sweeping analysis of California's agrarian history from 1850 to the present

With God on Their Side

George W. Bush and the Christian Right

Esther Kaplan

NOW IN PAPERBACK The book Amy Goodman hailed as "classic muckraking at its best"

The Water Atlas

A Unique Visual Analysis of the World's Most Critical Resource

Robin Clarke, Jannet King

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL A comprehensive charting of the global water industry

Hooked

Five Addicts Challenge Our Misguided Drug Rehab System

Lonny Shavelson

NOW IN PAPERBACK “A landmark work on what the American Medical Association has identified as our nation’s most widespread public health problem” (San Francisco Chronicle)

The Health of Nations

Why Inequality Is Harmful to Your Health

Ichiro Kawachi, Bruce P. Kennedy

NOW IN PAPERBACK A celebrated analysis of inequality's impact on human health

A Life in Medicine

A Literary Anthology

Edited by Robert Coles and Randy Testa

Fallout

The Environmental Consequences of the World Trade Center Collapse

Juan González

What public officials failed to say about post–9/11 New York air

Blue Gold

The Fight to Stop the Corporate Theft of the World’s Water

Maude Barlow, Tony Clarke

The internationally acclaimed story of the corporate takeover of our most basic resource and the inevitable global water crisis

The Biodiversity Crisis

Losing What Counts

Edited by Michael J. Novacek

The fastest mass extinction of species in Earth’s history, intriguingly explored in an illustrated companion to the American Museum of Natural History’s permanent exhibit

Epidemic!

The World of Infectious Disease

Edited by Rob DeSalle


Universal Health Care

What the United States Can Learn from the Canadian Experience

Pat Armstrong, Hugh Armstrong

A powerful argument for a new health-care system.

McLibel

Burger Culture on Trial

John Vidal

Two environmentalists take on a multinational, multibillion-dollar-a-year corporation.

The Skull Measurer's Mistake

And Other Portraits of Men and Women Who Spoke Out Against Racism

Sven Lindqvist

Enlightening stories of courageous eighteenth- and nineteenth- century men and women who defied the racial prejudices of their communities.

Dear Bruno

Alice Trillin

Greening International Law

Edited by Philippe Sands

A look at new international laws designed to control the environment.

Failed Transitions

The Eastern European Economy and Enviroment Since the Fall of Communism

Roger Manser

An examination of the economic and enviromental consequences of the overthrow of communism.
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