 | Infrastructure: A Field Guide to the Industrial Landscape by Brian Hayes
Buy new: $23.10 / Used from: $15.64 This is very satisfying. I read the hardcover version, which is big like a coffee table book. Photos are great. I read it cover to cover. Never look at an electrical substation the same way again.
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 | The Control of Nature by John McPhee
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $3.09 Holding back the Mississippi river, stopping a lava flow with firehoses, rerouting mudslides.
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 | Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $10.98 This is the one we talked about. Why are they starving while we are testing relativity with gravity probe sattelites?
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 | The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World by A. J. Jacobs
Buy used from: $3.81 This was funny.
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 | Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of How the Wildest Man in Congress and a Rogue CIA Agent Changed the History of Our Times by George Crile
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $0.01 Don't know if you saw the movie, but this story is just unbelievable.
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 | Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science by Atul Gawande
Buy used from: $3.75 Hendren liked this also.
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 | Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown
Buy new: $11.52 / Used from: $1.50 Everyone should read this.
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