A nice list from the SF Chronicle:
- Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
- Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer by Novella Carpenter
- A Fiery Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon by Neil Sheehan
- Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City, by Greg Grandin
- Googled: The End of the World As We Know It by Ken Auletta
- The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins
- Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth by Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos H. Papadimitriou
- Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann
- Mannahatta: A Natural History of New York City by Eric W. Sanderson
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Leon Krier, from "The City Within the City".:
Here's a new church/state lawsuit (see actual complaint here), and one in which the Alliance Defense Fund is on the right side for a change.
Apparently, if the high-profile, exhaustively peer-reviewed journal Men's Health [/snark] is to be believed, Boston is the least boozy city in the countr
Check out this informative and inspiring video on why people choose vegan: http://veganvideo.org/
Also see Gary Yourofsky: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bagt5L9wXGo