Book Reviews

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April 1st, 2010 Ecology & Herbalism

Reckoning at Eagle Creek: The Secret Legacy of Coal in the Heartland

The only safe place for coal is in the ground. Despite the industry’s “clean coal” mantra, repeated now for more than a century, there is no way of mining coal, shipping it, burning it, or storing the leftover ash without harming people, land, waters, and atmosphere. As a writer and radio correspondent who has worked in Appalachia, Jeff Biggers knows well the public...

Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope

William Kamkwamba's parents couldn�t afford the $80 yearly tuition for their son's school. The boy sneaked into the classroom anyway, dodging administrators for a few weeks until they caught him. Still emaciated from the recent deadly famine that had killed friends and neighbors, he went back to work on his family's corn and tobacco farm in rural Malawi, Africa. With no hope of getting th...

Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities

Alright, yes, fine. I liked Harry Potter. But I would’ve liked those books much better if there’d been less battling of the forces of evil, and even more magically British coursework. I am always in search of top-notch real life scholarship on the Dark Arts, divination, and the care of magical creatures. So, I was stupidly happy when Wicked Plants: A Book of Botanical...

Book Reviews

Reckoning at Eagle Creek: The Secret Legacy of Coal in the Heartland

Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope

Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities

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