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Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do and What It Says About Us
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3.72 avg rating — 8,188 ratings
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The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
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3.86 avg rating — 6,911 ratings
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The Works: Anatomy of a City
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4.10 avg rating — 1,567 ratings
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The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters
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4.02 avg rating — 2,632 ratings
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Infrastructure: The Book of Everything for the Industrial Landscape
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4.47 avg rating — 381 ratings
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Salt: A World History
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3.75 avg rating — 76,578 ratings
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Uncommon Carriers
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3.97 avg rating — 2,396 ratings
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Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought It
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3.56 avg rating — 891 ratings
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Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate
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3.79 avg rating — 4,444 ratings
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The History of Money
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3.92 avg rating — 1,735 ratings
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Infrastructure: A Field Guide to the Industrial Landscape
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4.47 avg rating — 381 ratings
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Underground: A Human History of the Worlds Beneath Our Feet
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3.80 avg rating — 2,687 ratings
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Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash
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3.76 avg rating — 1,786 ratings
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The Seed Underground: A Growing Revolution to Save Food
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4.21 avg rating — 504 ratings
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Divided Highways: Building the Interstate Highways, Transforming American Life
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3.76 avg rating — 264 ratings
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Beneath the Metropolis: The Secret Lives of Cities
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3.71 avg rating — 75 ratings
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Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water
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4.28 avg rating — 11,888 ratings
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Caesar's Last Breath: Decoding the Secrets of the Air Around Us
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4.25 avg rating — 4,698 ratings
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Getting There: The Epic Struggle between Road and Rail in the American Century
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3.51 avg rating — 49 ratings
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Stories in Stone: Travels Through Urban Geology
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3.82 avg rating — 111 ratings
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The Race Underground: Boston, New York, and the Incredible Rivalry That Built America’s First Subway
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3.67 avg rating — 1,686 ratings
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Oil on the Brain: Adventures from the Pump to the Pipeline
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3.75 avg rating — 443 ratings
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
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4.06 avg rating — 239,636 ratings
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Onramps and Overpasses: A Cultural History of Interstate Travel
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3.55 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Paved A Way: Infrastructure, Policy and Racism in an American City
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3.98 avg rating — 59 ratings
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The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket
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3.94 avg rating — 15,080 ratings
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Whack Job: A History of Axe Murder
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3.46 avg rating — 1,052 ratings
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Secondhand: Travels in the New Global Garage Sale
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3.93 avg rating — 3,593 ratings
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London Under: The Secret History Beneath the Streets
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3.46 avg rating — 3,333 ratings
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Urban Smellscapes
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4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Junkyard Planet: Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade
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3.91 avg rating — 1,786 ratings
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On the Grid: A Plot of Land, an Average Neighborhood, and the Systems That Make Our World Work
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3.77 avg rating — 330 ratings
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Flushed: How the Plumber Saved Civilization
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3.61 avg rating — 410 ratings
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Underworld: Exploring the Secret World Beneath Your Feet
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4.08 avg rating — 65 ratings
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Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
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4.34 avg rating — 167,410 ratings
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Picking Up: On the Streets and Behind the Trucks with the Sanitation Workers of New York City
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 731 ratings
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Secrets Underground: North America's Buried Past
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3.95 avg rating — 42 ratings
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The Moneyless Man: A Year of Freeconomic Living
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3.83 avg rating — 2,575 ratings
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The Mole People: Life in the Tunnels Beneath New York City
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3.67 avg rating — 5,456 ratings
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Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man
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4.10 avg rating — 4,163 ratings
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Divorce Your Car! : Ending the Love Affair with the Automobile
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3.80 avg rating — 79 ratings
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Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America
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3.74 avg rating — 10,430 ratings
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Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply
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4.09 avg rating — 1,180 ratings
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Underground America: Narratives of Undocumented Lives
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4.29 avg rating — 364 ratings
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Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology
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3.62 avg rating — 2,568 ratings
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Transporting Atlanta: The Mode of Mobility Under Construction (SUNY series in Urban Public Policy)
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4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Plastic-Free: How I Kicked the Plastic Habit and How You Can Too
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,275 ratings
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Not a Drop to Drink: America's Water Crisis
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3.63 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Under the Affluence: Shaming the Poor, Praising the Rich and Sacrificing the Future of America
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4.09 avg rating — 304 ratings
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The Humanure Handbook: A Guide to Composting Human Manure
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4.41 avg rating — 1,048 ratings
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Down, Out, and Under Arrest: Policing and Everyday Life in Skid Row
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4.31 avg rating — 182 ratings
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Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
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4.14 avg rating — 12,150 ratings
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The Culture of Flushing: A Social and Legal History of Sewage
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3.83 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Mountaintop Mining in Appalachia: Understanding Stakeholders and Change in Environmental Conflict
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet
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4.43 avg rating — 3,697 ratings
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The Evolution Underground: Burrows, Bunkers, and the Marvelous Subterranean World Beneath our Feet
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4.15 avg rating — 146 ratings
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Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
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4.45 avg rating — 2,563 ratings
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Silence: A Social History of One of the Least Understood Elements of Our Lives
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3.31 avg rating — 242 ratings
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Hidden America: From Coal Miners to Cowboys, an Extraordinary Exploration of the Unseen People Who Make This Country Work
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3.83 avg rating — 1,472 ratings
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Tales From The Underground: A Natural History Of Subterranean Life
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4.06 avg rating — 174 ratings
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The Joy of Tax
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3.69 avg rating — 263 ratings
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Built: The Hidden Stories Behind our Structures
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4.13 avg rating — 1,356 ratings
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The Road Taken: The History and Future of America's Infrastructure
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3.44 avg rating — 525 ratings
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The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure
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3.97 avg rating — 804 ratings
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Waste
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3.86 avg rating — 120 ratings
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Disposing of Modernity: The Archaeology of Garbage and Consumerism During Chicago's 1893 World's Fair
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3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage
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3.88 avg rating — 484 ratings
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Rubbish!: The Archaeology of Garbage
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3.97 avg rating — 487 ratings
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Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World
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3.79 avg rating — 3,114 ratings
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Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership
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4.27 avg rating — 1,291 ratings
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How Money Became Dangerous: The Inside Story of Our Turbulent Relationship with Modern Finance
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3.99 avg rating — 259 ratings
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COMMON AS AIR
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3.91 avg rating — 320 ratings
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The Slave Ship: A Human History
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4.12 avg rating — 2,202 ratings
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Twice the Work of Free Labor: The Political Economy of Convict Labor in the New South (Haymarket Series)
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3.83 avg rating — 35 ratings
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The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future
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3.86 avg rating — 4,651 ratings
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The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations
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4.17 avg rating — 5,789 ratings
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Energy: A Human History
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3.75 avg rating — 1,909 ratings
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Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America's Energy Future
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3.99 avg rating — 458 ratings
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The Routes of Man: How Roads Are Changing the World and the Way We Live Today
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3.80 avg rating — 657 ratings
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Railroads and the American People
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3.42 avg rating — 38 ratings
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The Big Roads: The Untold Story of the Engineers, Visionaries, and Trailblazers Who Created the American Superhighways
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3.90 avg rating — 1,899 ratings
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The Iron Road: An Illustrated History of the Railroad
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4.13 avg rating — 152 ratings
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The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-line Pioneers
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3.96 avg rating — 3,591 ratings
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Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life
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3.97 avg rating — 5,297 ratings
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Carnegie Libraries Across America: A Public Legacy
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3.91 avg rating — 47 ratings
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Thirsty City: Politics, Greed, and the Making of Atlanta's Water Crisis
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4.45 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Drying Up: The Fresh Water Crisis in Florida
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4.29 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Unquenchable: America's Water Crisis and What To Do About It
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3.81 avg rating — 380 ratings
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Where the Water Goes: Life and Death Along the Colorado River
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3.93 avg rating — 3,356 ratings
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The Poisoned City: Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy
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4.15 avg rating — 2,910 ratings
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Blue Revolution: Unmaking America's Water Crisis
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4.10 avg rating — 159 ratings
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The Great Lakes Water Wars
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3.96 avg rating — 345 ratings
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Peachtree Creek: A Natural and Unnatural History of Atlanta's Watershed
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4.44 avg rating — 34 ratings
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The Big Thirst: The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water
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3.94 avg rating — 2,001 ratings
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Elixir: A History of Water and Humankind
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3.40 avg rating — 262 ratings
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The Ripple Effect: The Fate of Freshwater in the Twenty-First Century
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3.94 avg rating — 421 ratings
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Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization
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3.87 avg rating — 658 ratings
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And Soon I Heard a Roaring Wind: A Natural History of Moving Air
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3.68 avg rating — 177 ratings
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Treading on Thin Air: Atmospheric Physics, Forensic Meteorology, and Climate Change - How The Weather Shapes Our Everyday Lives
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2.98 avg rating — 48 ratings
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Building Soil: A Down-to-Earth Approach: Natural Solutions for Better Gardens & Yards
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4.10 avg rating — 143 ratings
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