The Mother and Child by Norman Barnesby – 1873
Medical Chaos and Crime by Norman Barnesby, M.D. – 1910
The Science of Life by H.G. Wells – 1931
Merchants of Death: A Study of the International Armament Industry by H.C. Engelbrecht, PhD, and F.C. Hanighan – 1934
The Merchants of Grain by Dan Morgan – 1937
Germany’s Master Plan: The Story of Industrial Offensive by Joseph Borkin and Charles A Welsh – 1943
The Transfer Agreement: The Dramatic Story of The Pact Between the Third Reich & Jewish Palestine by Edwin Black – 1984
Facts and Fascism by George Seldes – 1943
On Photography by Susan Montag – 1973
The Sea Around Us by Rachel Carson – 1950
The Devil’s Chemists: 24 Conspirators of The International Farben Cartel Who Manufacture Wars by Josiah E. DuBois, Jr. – 1952
A Cancer Therapy: Results of Fifty Cases by Max Gerson, M.D. – 1958
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson – 1962
Chemical Carcinogenesis and Cancers by W.C. Hueper, M.D. (Chief Environmental Cancer Section National Cancer Institute) & W.D. Conway, PhD. (Former Senior Chemist ECS of NCI) – 1964
Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson – 2006
The Poisoner’s Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine by Deborah Blum – 2010
Chasing Molecules: Poisonous Products, Human Health and The Promise of Green Chemistry by Elizabeth Grossman – 2009
On a Farther Shore: The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson by William Souder – 2012
Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature by Linda Lear – 1997
In The Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and An American Family in Hitler’s Berlin by Erik Lawson – 2011
The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, The CIA, and The Rise of America’s Secret Government by David Talbot – 2015
The Pentagon’s Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America’s Top Secret Military Research Agency by Annie Jacobson – 2015
Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program That Brought Nazi Scientists to America by Annie Jacobson – 2014
The Science of Leonardo: Inside the Mind of The Great Genius of the Renaissance by Fritjof Capra – 2007
On The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin – 1859
The Art of Scientific Investigation by W.I.B. Beveridge – 1950
The Principles of Reasoning: An Introduction Into Logic and Scientific Method by Daniel Sommer Robinson – 1947
The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins – 1976
The Magic of Reality: How we know what’s really true by Richard Dawkins – 2011
Microcosmos: Four Billion Years of Microbial Evolution by Lynn Margulis and Dorian Sagan – 1986
The Dragon’s Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence by Carl Sagan – 2004
The Varieties of Scientific Experience by Carl Sagan – 2006
Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body by Neil Shubin – 2008
The Universe Within: Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and People by Neil Shubin – 2013
Why Evolution is True by Jerry A Coyne – 2009
Connectome: How The Brain’s Wiring Makes Us Who We Are by Sebastian Seung – 2012
The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in Nature by David George Haskell – 2012
The Unexpected Universe by Loren Eiseley – 1964
The Invisible Pyramid: A Naturalist analyses the Rocket Century by Loren Eiseley – 1970
In the Shadow of Man by Jane Goodall – 1971
On Human Nature by E.O. Wilson – 1978
Endless Forms Most Beautiful by Sean B. Carrol – 2005
The Second Jurassic Dinosaur Rush: Museums & Paleontology In America At the Turn of The Twentieth Century by Paul Brinkman – 2010
How We Do It: The Evolution and Future of Human Reproduction by Robert Martin – 2013
The Future of Life by Edward O. Wilson – 2002
The Social Conquest of Earth by Edward O. Wilson – 2012
Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel by Carl Safina – 2015
Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming by Naomi Orestes & Erik M. Conway – 2010
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert – 2014
The Epigenetics Revolution: How Modern Biology is Rewiring Our Understanding of Genetics, Disease, and Inheritance by Nessa Carey – 2012
Unnatural Selection: How We Are Changing Life, Gene by Gene by Emily Monsoon – 2015
Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens Our Future by Chris Mooney & Sheril Kirshenbaum – 2009
Our Stolen Future by Theo Holborn, Dianne Dumanoski, and John Peterson Myers – 1996
Living Downstream: An Ecologist Looks at Cancer and the Environment by Sandra Steingraber – 1997
Having Faith: An Ecologist’s Journey to Motherhood by Sandra Steingraber – 2001
Raising Elijah: Protecting Our Children in an Age of Environmental Crisis by Sandra Steingraber – 2011
The Systemic Insecticides: A Disaster in the Making by Dr. Henk Tennekes – 2010
DuPont: Behind the Nylon Curtain by Gerard Colby Zing – 1974
The Crime and Punishment of I.G. Farben: The Unholy Alliance Between Hitler and the Great Chemical Combine by Joseph Borkin – 1978
The Poisoning of Michigan by Joyce Egginton – 1980
Poisoned Profits: The Toxic Assault On Our Children by Philip Shabecoff and Alice Shabecoff – 2008
Wasting Libby: The True Story of How the WR Grace Corporation Left a Montana Town to Die (and Got Away With It) by Andrea Peacock – 2008
The Fluoride Deception by Christopher Bryson (Forward by Dr. Theo Colborn) – 2004
Killing our Own: The Disaster of America’s Experience With Atomic Radiation by Harvey Wasserman and Norman Solomon – 1982
Voices From Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster by Svetlana Alexievich – 2005
Lake Effect: Two Sisters and a Town’s Toxic Legacy by Nancy Nichols – 2008
The GMO Deception: What You Need To Know About The Food, Corporations, and Government Agencies Putting Our Families And Our Environments At Risk by Sheldon Krimsky & Jeremy Gruber – 2014
Cowed: The Hidden Impact of 93 Million Cows on America’s Health, Economy, Politics, Culture, and Environment by Denis Hayes & Gail Boyer Hayes – 2015
What’s In Your Milk: An Expose of Industry and Government Cover-Up On The Dangers of The Genetically Engineered (rBGH) Milk You’re Drinking by Samuel Epstein MD – 2006
Breast Cancer Prevention Program by Samuel S. Epstein, M.D., and David Steinman – 1997
Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History by Florence Williams – 2012
National Cancer Institute and American Cancer Society: Criminal Indifference to Cancer Prevention and Conflicts of Interest by Samuel S. Epstein, M.D. – 2011
Mad Cow U.S.A.: Could the Nightmare Happen Here by Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber – 1997
Sweet Deception: Why Spenda, NutraSweet, and the FDA May Be Hazardous to Your Health by Dr. Joseph Marcela and Dr. Kendra Degen Pearsall – 2006
Tom’s River: A Story of Science and Salvation by Dan Fagin – 2013
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot – 2010
Deceit and Denial: The Deadly Politics of Industrial Pollution by Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner – 2002
Lead Wars: The Politics of Science and the Fate of America’s Children by Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner – 2013
The Autoimmune Epidemic: Bodies Gone Haywire in a World Out of Balance and the Cutting-Edge Science That Promises Hope by Donna Jackson Nakazawa – 2008
Great Lakes: Great Legacy? by Theo Colborn – 1990
Ecocide in the USSR: Health and Nature Under Siege by Murray & Alfred Friendly, JR. – 1992
The Hundred-Year Lie: How Food and Medicine are Destroying Your Health by Randall Fitzgerald – 2006
Poisoned Spring: The Secret History of Pollution and the EPA by E.G. Vallianatos
No Fear: A Whistleblower’s Triumph Over Corruption and Retaliation at the EPA by Marsha Colemn-Adebayo – 2011
Silent Shock: The Men Behind The Thalidomide Scandal and an Australian Family’s Long Road to Justice by Michael Magazanik – 2015
The Burn Pits: The Poisoning of America’s Soldiers by Joseph Hickman – 2016
The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What To Do About It by Marcia Angell, M.D. – 2004
Generation RX: How Prescription Drugs Are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies by Greg Critser – 2005
The Sober Truth:Debunking The Bad Science Behind 12-Step Programs and The Rehab Industry by Lance Dodes, MD, and Zachary Dodes – 2014
Amputated Lives: Coping with Chemical Sensitivity by Alison Johnson (Forward by L. Christine Oliver, MD, Harvard Medical School) – 2008
Unreasonable Risk: How to Avoid Cancer and Other Toxic Effects From Cosmetics and Personal Care Products – The Neways Story by Samuel S. Epstein, M.D. – 2005
Slow Death By a Rubber Duck by Bruce Lourie and Rick Smith
Fake Silk: The Lethal History of Viscose Rayon by Paul David Blanc – 2016
The Power of Myth: Joseph Campbell with Bill Moyers – 1988
The Decline and Fall of The Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon – 1963
A People’s History of The United States: 1492 – Present by Howard Zinn 1980
The True Believer: Thoughts on The Nature of Mass Movements by Eric Hoffer – 1951
Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power by Jon Meacham – 2012
The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris by David McCullough – 2011
The Great Transformation by Karl Polanyi – 1944
Listening to America: A Traveler Rediscovers His Country by Bill Moyers – 1971
Slave Patrols: Law and Violence in Virginia and The Carolinas by Sally E. Hadden – 2001
Century of Struggle: The Woman’s Rights Movement in the United States by Eleanor Flexner – 1959
In Her Own Right: The Life of Elizabeth Cady Stanton by Elisabeth Griffith – 1984
The Age of Acquiescence: The Life And Death of American Resistance to Organized Wealth and Power by Steve Fraser – 2015
The Great Agnostic: Robert Ingersoll and American Forethought by Susan Jacoby – 2013
Unequal Protection: The Rise of Corporate Dominance and the Theft of Human Rights by Thom Hartmann – 2002
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky – 1988
The Power Elite by C. Wright Mills – 1956
Profit Over People: Neoliberalism and Global Order by Noam Chomsky – 1999
Democracy Inc.: Managed Democracy and The Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism by Sheldon S. Wolin – 2008
Ghetto: The invention of a Place, The History of an Idea by Mitchell Duneier – 2016
Getting to Know The General: The Story of An Involvement by Graham Greene – 1984
Confessions of An Economic Hitman by John Perkins – 2004
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein – 2007
Nixon land: The Rise of President and the Fracturing of America by Rick Perlstein – 2000
The Trial of Henry Kissinger by Christopher Hitchens – 2001
Kissinger’s Shadow: The Long Reach of America’s Most Controversial Statesman by Greg Grandin – 2015
How We Fight: Crusades, Quagmires and the American Way of War by Dominic Tierney – 2010
The American Way of War: Guided Missiles, Misguided Men, and A Republic In Peril by Eugene Jarecki – 2008
Private Empire: ExxonMobil And American Power by Steve Coli – 2012
The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan by Rick Perlstein – 2014
Hot Money and The Politics of Debt: What links the Mafia, the Vatican, the Moonies, the CIA, Cocaine Barons, Banks.. and You? by R.T. Naylor – 1987
The Best Way to Rob A Bank Is To Own One: How Corporate Executives and Politicians Looted the S&L Industry by William Black – 2005
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economic Explores The Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner – 2005
Crime and Punishment in America: Why the Solutions to America’s Most Stubborn Social Crisis Have Not Worked and What Will by Elliott Currie – 1998
The Defender: How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America by Ethan Michaeli – 2016
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander – 2010
Staley: The Fight For A New American Labor Movement by Steven K. Ashby and C.J. Hawking – 2009
Retirement Heist: How Companies Plunder and Profit From the Nest Eggs of American Workers by Ellen Schultz – 2011
Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and Global Crisis of American Capitalism by Kevin Phillips – 2008
No One Left To Lie To: The Triangulations of William Jefferson Clinton by Christopher Hitchens – 1999
Worse Than Watergate: The Secret Presidency of George W. Bush by John W. Dean – 2005
Inside the Wire: A Military Intelligence Soldier’s Eyewitness Account of Life at Guantanamo by Erik Saar and Viveca Novak – 2005
Against All Enemies: Inside America’s War on Terror by Richard A Clarke – 2004
Laws of Fear: Beyond the Precautionary Principle by Cass R. Sunstein 2005 (It’s an important read because this set the gutting of safety regulations during Obama years)
The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War On Terror Turned Into A War On American Ideals by Jane Mayer – 2008
Broken Government: How Republican Rule Destroyed the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Branches by John W. Dean – 2007
Blackwater: The Rise of The World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army by Jeremy Scahill – 2007
The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule by Thomas Frank – 2008
Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield by Jeremy Scahill – 2013
The Party is Over: How Republicans Went Crazy, Democrats Became Useless, and The Middle Class Got Shafted by Mike Lofgren – 2012
Simpler: The Future of Government by Cass R. Sunstein – 2013 (Should be titled Wrecking Crew re-packaged and concealed by the neoliberal Democratic Party)
This Town: Two Parties and a Funeral—Plus Plenty of Parking—in America’s Gilded Capital by Mark Leibovich – 2013
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of The Radical Right by Jane Mayer – 2016
Pity The Billionaire: The Hard-Times Swindle and the Unlikely Comeback of the Right by Thomas Frank – 2012
Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and The Triumph of Spectacle by Chris Hedges – 2009
Patience and Fortitude: Power, Real Estate, and The Fight To Save a Public Library by Scott Sherman – 2015
Conspiracy Theories and Other Dangerous Ideas by Cass Sunstein – 2014 (Legal framework to call any journalism that does not fit the Government official releases conspiracy/fake news)
Spooked: How the CIA Manipulates The Media and Hoodwinks Hollywood by Nicholas Schou – 2016
Listen Liberal or What Ever Happened to The Party of The People? by Thomas Frank – 2016
World Order by Henry Kissinger – 2014
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs The Climate by Naomi Klein – 2014
Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Picketty – 2014
An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments With Truth by M.K. Gandhi – 1927
Life and Times of Frederick Douglas Written By Himself – 1882
Resistance by Barry Lopez – 2004
Resistance Against Empire by Derrick Jensen – 2010
Wages of Rebellion: The Moral Imperative to Revolt by Chris Hedges – 2015
Endgame by Derrick Jensen – 2006 (You’ll have to let him know that I still recommend his books despite his unfriending me on FB for providing evidence that his excerpt on his new book was not grounded in scientific reality. Derrick Jensen is not scientifically literate and it should be pointed out that he has a massive blind spot. Scientific literacy should be a requirement for all citizens but this book is composed of enlightening interviews so I will continue recommending it.)
School: The Story of American Public Education with James D. Anderson, Larry Cuban, Carl F. Kaestle, and Diane Ravitch – 2001
The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice are Undermining Education by Diane Ravich – 2010
Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs To Know by E.D. Hirsch, JR. – 1987
Einstein Never Used Flashcards: How Our Children Really Learn—And Why They Need To Play More And Memorize Less by Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, PH.D., And Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, PH.D., with Diane Eyer, PH.D.
Reign Of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America’s Public School by Diane Ravitch – 2013
Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder by Richard Louv – 2005
The Nature Principle: Human Restoration and The End of Nature-Deficit Disorder by Richard Louv – 2011
With Bitter Herbs They Shall Eat It: Chemical Ecology and the Origins of Human Diet and Medicine by Timothy Johns – 1990
The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s-Eye View of The World by Michael Pollan – 2001
The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan – 2006
In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto by Michael Pollan – 2008
How to Grow More Vegetables (and fruits, nuts, berries, grains, and other crops) Than You Ever Thought Possible On Less Land Than You Can Imagine: A Primer on The Life-giving Grow Intensive Method of Sustainable Horticulture by John Jeavons (Forward by Alice Waters) – 1974
Chasing Molecules: Poisonous Products, Human Health and the Promise of Green Chemistry by Elizabeth Grossman – 2009
Ecofriendly House Plants: 50 Indoor Plants That Purify the Air in Homes and Offices by B.C. Wolverton – 1996
Toxin Toxout: Getting Harmful Chemicals Out of Our Bodies and Our World by Bruce Lourie and Rick Smith – 2013
Anticancer: A New Way of Life by David Servan-Schreiber, MD, PhD – 2007
Brain Maker: The Power of Gut Microbes to Heal and Protect Your Brain—For Life by David Perlmutter, MD with Kristin Loberg – 2015
The Engine 2 Diet: The Texas Firefighter’s 28-Day Save-Your-Life Plan that Lowers Cholesterol and Burns Away the Pounds by Rip Esselstyn – 2009
A Fierce Green Fire: The American Environmental Movement by Phillip Shabecoff – 1993
The Sustainable Revolution: Portrait of a Paradigm Shift by Andres R. Edwards – 2005
The Revolution Where You Live: Stories From A 12,000-Mile Journey Through New America by Sarah van Geldner – 2017
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Here is a list of books I’ve read and links. I frequently utilize http://www.bookfinder.com to find out-of-print books. It’s also a great way to support smaller businesses. Click on the book title and it will take you to the book website for additional information.
*Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
*Our Stolen Future by Theo Colburn, Dianne Dumanoski, & John Peterson Myers
*Poisoned For Profit – The Toxic Assault on Our Children by Philip Shabecoff & Alice Shabecoff
The Lake Effect by Nancy Nichols
Slow Death by Rubber Duck by Rick Smith & Bruce Lourie
*Toxin Toxout by Rick Smith & Bruce Lourie
The Hundred-Year Lie – How Food and Medicine are Destroying Your Health by Randall Fitzgerald
The Politics of Cancer Revisited by Samuel S. Epstein
The Poisoner’s Handbook by Deborah Blum
Unreasonable Risk by Samuel S. Epstein M.D.
Cancer Wars: How Politics Shapes What We Know about Cancer by R.N. Proctor
Anticancer – A New Way of Life by David Servan-Schreiber, MD, PhD
Healing the Gerson Way by Charlotte Gerson, Beata Bishop, Joanne Shwed, and Robert Stone
A Cancer Therapy: The Results of Fifty Cases by Max Gerson, M.D.
Hard to Swallow: The Truth about Food Additives by Doris Sarjeant & Karen Evans
Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills by Russell L. Blaylock M.D.
Hormone Deception by D. Lindsey Berkson
Amputated Lives – Coping with Chemical Sensitivity by Alison Johnson
The Poisoning of Michigan by Joyce Egginton
*Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin
DuPont: Behind the Nylon Curtain by Gerald Colby Zilg
*Unequal Protection – The Rise of Corporate Dominance and Theft of Human Rights by Thom Hartmann
The Silent War 