If the World Were a Village by David J. Smith
Smith cleverly distills the world into a hypothetical village of 100 to study the customs, languages, and circumstances of 7.6 billion people.
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Category: Recommended Reads
Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
Diamond draws from a wide breadth of knowledge to answer big questions about human history over the past 13,000 years.
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The Secret Life of Groceries by Benjamin Lorr
Lorr explains the dark miracle of the supermarket and sheds light on what it really takes to bring a product to grocery shelves nationwide.
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We are the Weather by Jonathan Safran Foer
Personal and deeply compelling, We Are The Weather challenges that the climate crisis is one of belief. If we believe, we can then act.
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The Golden Thread by Kassia St. Clair
The Golden Thread offers a fascinating journey through the evolution of textiles and their profound influence on human civilization.
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Fashionopolis: Young Readers Edition by Dana Thomas
Dana helps young readers understand fast fashion: its history, its human price, and the dirty truth of its effects on our environment.
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The Conscious Closet by Elizabeth L. Cline
Be a conscious clothing consumer with this practical guide, which promotes sustainable fashion, making it last, and the art of less is more.
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Worn: A People’s History of Clothing by Sofi Thanhauser
Worn shares how five materials (linen, cotton, silk, synthetics, and wool) and the clothes we wear shape and reflect human history.
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Fashionopolis by Dana Thomas
Fashionopolis is an eye-opening tour of fast fashion: its history, its human price, and the dirty truth of its effects on our environment.
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The Human Tide by Paul Morland
Morland shows through demography (the study of population) how periods of rapid population transition shaped the course of world history.
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The Human Planet by George Steinmetz
Steinmetz’s aerial photos capture our natural places, harvesting of the biosphere, our dwellings, and other human changes to our planet.
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Rebel Chef by Dominique Crenn
From France to the ups and downs of the culinary world in San Francisco, learn how Dominique Crenn became the creative chef she is today.
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