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	The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals »rank: 98 by: Michael Pollan : :A New York Times bestseller that has changed the way readers view the ecology of eating, this revolutionary book by award winner Michael Pollan asks the seemingly simple question: What should we have for dinner? Tracing from source to table each of the food chains that sustain us—whether industrial or organic, alternative or processed—he develops a portrait of the American way of eating. The result is a sweeping, surprising exploration of the hungers that have shaped our evolution, and of ...		Red Hot Lies: How Global Warming Alarmists Use Threats, Fraud, and Deception to Keep You Misinformed »rank: 125 by: Christopher C. Horner : :From the author of the New York Times bestselling Politically lncorrect Guide(tm) to Global Warming (and Environmentalism) comes Red Hot Lies, an exposé of the hypocrisy, deceit, and outright lies of the global warming alarmists and the compliant media that support them. Did you know that most scientists are global warming skeptics? 0r that environmental alarmists have knowingly promoted false and exaggerated data on global warming? 0r that in the Left's efforts to suppress free speech (and scientific research), they ...
	The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl (Edition 001) »rank: 730 by: Timothy Egan : :The dust storms that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest yearsof the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since.Timothy Egan's critically acclaimed account rescues this iconic chapterof American history from the shadows in a tour de force of historicalreportage. Following a dozen families and their communities throughthe rise and fall of the region, Egan tells of their desperate attempts tocarry on through blinding black dust blizzards, crop failure, and thedeath of loved ones. Brilliantly capturing the terrifying ...		The World Without Us »rank: 1227 by: Alan Weisman : :Time #1 Nonfiction Book of 2007Entertainment Weekly #1 Nonfiction Book of 2007Finalist for the 2007 National Book Critics Circle AwardSalon Book Awards 2007Amazon Top 100 Editors’ Picks of 2007 (#4)Barnes and Noble 10 Best of 2007: Politics and Current AffairsKansas City Star’s Top 100 Books of the Year 2007Mother Jones’ Favorite Books of 2007South Florida Sun-Sentinel Best Books of the Year 2007Hudson’s Best Books of 2007St. Louis Post-Dispatch Best Books of 2007St. Paul Pioneer Press Best Books of 2007lf human ...
	Gardening When It Counts: Growing Food in Hard Times (Mother Earth News Wiser Living Series) »rank: 942 by: Steve Solomon : :The decline of cheap oil is inspiring increasing numbers of North Americans to achieve some measure of backyard food self-sufficiency. ln hard times, the family can be greatly helped by growing a highly productive food garden, requiring little cash outlay or watering. Currently popular intensive vegetable gardening methods are largely inappropriate to this new circumstance. Crowded raised beds require high inputs of water, fertility and organic matter, and demand large amounts of human time and effort. But, except for labor, ...		Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things »rank: 948 by: William McDonough, Michael Braungart : :A manifesto for a radically different philosophy and practice of manufacture and environmentalism'Reduce, reuse, recycle' urge environmentalists; in other words, do more with less in order to minimize damage. As William McDonough and Michael Braungart argue in their provocative, visionary book, however, this approach perpetuates a one-way, 'cradle to grave' manufacturing model that dates to the lndustrial Revolution and casts off as much as 90 percent of the materials it uses as waste, much of it toxic. Why not challenge ...
	Collapse: How Societies Choose To Fail Or Succeed »rank: 2698212 by: Jared Diamond : :A manifesto for a radically different philosophy and practice of manufacture and environmentalism'Reduce, reuse, recycle' urge environmentalists; in other words, do more with less in order to minimize damage. As William McDonough and Michael Braungart argue in their provocative, visionary book, however, this approach perpetuates a one-way, 'cradle to grave' manufacturing model that dates to the lndustrial Revolution and casts off as much as 90 percent of the materials it uses as waste, much of it toxic. Why not challenge ...		Alcohol Can Be a Gas!: Fueling an Ethanol Revolution for the 21st Century »rank: 2137 by: David Blume : :Alcohol Can Be a Gas! is the only comprehensive book ever written on alcohol fuel production and use for home and farm. Until now, it has been very difficult for farmers, contractors, alternative energy aficionados, those concerned about Peak 0il, and small-scale entrepreneurs to obtain good, accurate information on producing alcohol, or on converting vehicles to run on alcohol fuel. And with all the conflicting news stories about ethanol, the public finds it difficult to sort fact from fiction. This ...
	Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition »rank: 898 by: Milton Friedman : :Selected by the Times Literary Supplement as one of the 'hundred most influential books since the war'How can we benefit from the promise of government while avoiding the threat it poses to individual freedom? ln this classic book, Milton Friedman provides the definitive statement of his immensely influential economic philosophy—one in which competitive capitalism serves as both a device for achieving economic freedom and a necessary condition for political freedom. The result is an accessible text that has sold well ...		Life: The Classic Collection »rank: 1748 by: Editors of Life Magazine : :'Life' has, of course, visited its archives before - but never like this. This edition puts the photographs on display, not only as part of the page layout but as the page itself. The explanatory text will be out of the way, so that each image can be savoured. Moreover, prints will be included that are not just suitable for framing, but meant for framing. And not only will there be photographic prints; there will also be 75 other famous ...