Books like We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast
12 books with a reading profile close to We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast by Jonathan Safran Foer. Outward-looking and clear-cut; an easy read.
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Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation
Also outward-looking · practical, analytical
In "Cooked," Michael Pollan examines the physical and cultural evolution of food through the lens of the four classical elements: fire, water, air, and earth.
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Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
by Atul Gawande
Also clear-cut · practical, analytical
Atul Gawande examines the specific behaviors that allow medical professionals to bridge the gap between mediocre and superior performance.
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The Third Plate
by Dan Barber
Also outward-looking · practical, analytical
Chef Dan Barber argues that the current farm-to-table movement is insufficient because it forces the environment to produce specific, popular ingredients rather than eating what the soil requires to stay healthy.
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
by Mary Roach
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · analytical, narrative
Mary Roach examines the practical applications of human remains in scientific research and historical experimentation.
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American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · analytical, narrative
Maureen Callahan recounts the investigation into Israel Keyes, a predator who functioned outside the typical behavioral patterns identified by the FBI.
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In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · practical, analytical
In Michael Pollan’s analysis of the Western diet, he identifies the rise of nutritionism—the ideology that views food merely as a collection of nutrients rather than a whole substance.
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Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
Also clear-cut · analytical, narrative
Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn argue that the systematic subordination of women is the central moral challenge of the modern era.
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The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and Murder
Also clear-cut · analytical, narrative
Charles Graeber documents the sixteen-year career of Charles Cullen, a prolific serial killer who utilized his position as a registered nurse to administer lethal injections of medications like digoxin and insulin to pa…
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Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic
by Sam Quinones
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · analytical, narrative
Sam Quinones tracks the simultaneous rise of prescription painkillers and black tar heroin in the United States.
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Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
Also clear-cut · practical, narrative
Christopher McDougall begins with a simple question about his own chronic foot pain and ends up in Mexico’s Copper Canyons searching for the Tarahumara Indians.
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Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions
by John Grisham
Also clear-cut · analytical, narrative
John Grisham and Jim McCloskey chronicle ten specific legal cases where the American justice system failed, leading to the imprisonment of innocent individuals.
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Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper - Case Closed
Also outward-looking · analytical, narrative
In this true crime investigation, Patricia Cornwell applies modern forensic techniques to the 1888 Whitechapel murders.
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