false 64909 112191 031615461X 9780316154611 128 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171656085m/112191.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171656085s/112191.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/112191.Garbage_Land_On_the_Secret_Trail_of_Trash 3.81 422 64909 3.71 719 233 2005 2303301 1596913711 9781596913714 87 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2303301.Bottlemania_How_Water_Went_on_Sale_And_Why_We_Bought_It 3.52 232 Having already surpassed milk and beer, and second now only to soda, bottled water is on the verge of becoming the most popular beverage in the country. The brands have become so ubiquitous that we’re hardly conscious that Poland Spring and Evian were once real springs, bubbling in remote corners of Maine and France. Only now, with the water industry trading in the billions of dollars, have we begun to question what it is we’re drinking and why.
In this intelligent, eye-opening work of narrative journalism, Elizabeth Royte does for water what Eric Schlosser did for fast food: she finds the people, machines, economies, and cultural trends that bring it from nature to our supermarkets. Along the way, she investigates the questions we must inevitably answer. Who owns our water? What happens when a bottled-water company stakes a claim on your town’s source? Should we have to pay for water? Is the stuff coming from the tap completely safe? And if so, how many chemicals are dumped in to make it potable? What’s the environmental footprint of making, transporting, and disposing of all those plastic bottles?
A riveting chronicle of one of the greatest marketing coups of the twentieth century as well as a powerful environmental wake-up call, Bottlemania is essential reading for anyone who shells out two dollars to quench their daily thirst.</div></div>]]> 64909 3.71 719 233 2008 476218 0618257586 9780618257584 6 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175082011m/476218.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175082011s/476218.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/476218.The_Tapir_s_Morning_Bath_Solving_the_Mysteries_of_the_Tropical_Rain_Forest 3.93 42 is a behind-the-scenes account of life at a tropical research station that
"conveys the uncertainties, frustrations, and joys of [scientific] field
work" (Science). On Panama's Barro Colorado Island, Elizabeth Royte works
alongside the scientists -- counting seeds, sorting insects, collecting
monkey dung, radiotracking fruit bats -- as they struggle to parse the
intricate workings of the tropical rain forest. While showing the human
side of the scientists at work, Royte explores the tensions between the slow pace of basic research and the reality of a world that may not have time to wait for answers.]]> 64909 3.71 719 233 2001