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Climate Chaos
Written thoughtfully for a lay audience, this book by PSR Board member Cindy Parker and psychologist and former journalist Steve Shapiro describes in lay terms how climate change will affect our health if it continues unabated. Read more »
Evidence-Based Diagnosis
This book isn't about nuclear weapons or climate change, but it’s a great clinical epidemiology book that includes 60 fun problems and solutions. Thomas B. Newman, the first author, is a member of the PSR Board of Directors and is donating 100% of his royalties to PSR! Read more »
Abolishing Nuclear Weapons: A Debate
Published in February, 2009 by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Abolishing Nuclear Weapons: A Debate, is a comprehensive look at the challenges of nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation. Read more »
Hope for a Heated Planet
Author Bob Musil, former PSR executive director and now scholar-in-residence at American University, has written an insightful and informative account about the climate change issue and how it has finally emerged in the public’s mind as a major public health concern. Read more »
Contrary to the current popular myth, nuclear power is not a clean energy solution to global warming. Without huge loan guarantees and federal government subsidies, the nuclear industry would collapse entirely. Read more »
Prescription for Survival by Bernard Lown MD
Dr. Bernard Lown's new book, Prescription for Survival, examines the forces that created and drove the Cold War and still propel nuclear proliferation today. Read more »
Of the more than 80,000 synthetic chemicals in commercial use today, only a small fraction have been adequately examined for toxic effects in humans and other life forms. Read more »
Losing Control
Rogers’ version of peace studies is marvelously hard-headed and uses serious policy analysis and history to analyze why current attempts, led by the United States, to quell global violence, insecurity, and terrorism through over reliance on military power projection are not only likely to fail, they will make matters worse. Read more »
In the Name of Identity
This is a beautiful meditative essay on identity by Goncourt Prize-winning French novelist Amin Maalouf. Its main question is central to life after the attack on the World Trade Center. What about how we create identities in a globalized world would lead someone to purposely slaughter thousands of innocent human beings? Read more »
War Talk
This small, powerful book is a testament to collections of essays. You can read War Talk in one sitting and be reminded of the importance of language, of expression, of passion, of the written word, to political discourse. Read more »
When Smoke Ran Like Water
Devra Davis mixes passion, personality, and pollution studies in a compelling narrative that takes the non-scientific reader through an introduction to the highlights and history of environmental health. Read more »
Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers
Daniel Ellsberg’s Secrets should be required reading in this season of American omnipotence and preemptive war. Read more »
Fatal Deception: The Untold Story of Asbestos
W.R. Grace is responsible for mining asbestos in Libby, Montana while keeping secret from its workers, their families, and the town that they have known all along that people are dying from the dust that permeates the town. Read more »
Outgunned: Up Against the NRA
Co-author Daniel G. Abel, part of the Catano Litigation Group started by the colorful New Orleans attorney Wendell Gauthier, teamed up with Peter Brown, a journalist, to tell the story of how Gauthier, who had made fame and fortune tackling tobacco companies, decided to take on the gun industry as the next big cause. Read more »
Worlds Apart: Globalization and the Environment
This is a small, short book of essays based on speeches at Yale's School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. Read more »
War Hospital: A True Story of Surgery and Survival
This is an important, gripping book about doctors in wartime. Read more »
The Unconquerable World
This is Jonathan Schell's most ambitious book. It is an elegant, extended essay that argues essentially that modern war is obsolete. Read more »
Health and Community Design
Health and Community Design lays some of the essential groundwork for the growing field of health and the built environment. Read more »
Power Trip: U.S. Unilateralism and Global Strategy After September 11
This book is part of an encouraging, broader trend among American progressives to better present, market, and articulate their ideas and policies so that ordinary Americans might actually understand and appreciate them. Read more »
The Discovery of Global Warming
The Discovery of Global Warming should offer hope to humanity as well as persuasive proof to policy makers and pundits that climate change is real, is caused by humans, and deserves action. Read more »
Boiling Point
The cover of Ross Gelbspan’s new climate book, Boiling Point, has a quote from noted environmental writer Bill McKibben that implores: “Please read this book.” Read more »
Poisoned Profits
The title of their recent book, Poisoned Profits: the Toxic Assault on Our Children, makes clear that Philip and Alice Shabecoff have strong opinions about chemicals in our environment. Read more »
Field Notes from a Catastrophe
On the burgeoning shelf of cautionary but occasionally alarmist books warning about the consequences of dramatic climate change, Kolbert's calmly persuasive reporting stands out for its sobering clarity. Read more »
Americans at Risk
Dr. Redlener’s topic is “mega-disasters”: a flood like Katrina, a major earthquake in Seattle or San Francisco, a toxic chemical release during a tornado, or an attack by a nuclear terrorist. Read more »
Plan B 2.0
Lester Brown offers us a well-referenced and emotionally moving treatise on the decline of the global environment as well as a plan for dealing with the limits of the natural resources on earth. Read more »
Nuclear Terrorism
"One can puzzle with dismay that the industrialized nations are not leading the pack in the quest for nuclear abolition...Their long-range security is categorically undermined by the spread of nuclearism.... Read more »
The Omnivore’s Dilemma
Book Review: The Omnivore’s Dilemma: a Natural History of Four Meals Read more »
Bomb Scare
Bomb Scare is a "must read" for all Americans especially since we have forgotten the incredible power of nuclear weapons and their indiscriminant destruction with lasting radiation effects. Read more »
A Poisonous Affair
PSR Book Review: A Poisonous Affair: America, Iraq, and the Gassing of Halabja Read more »
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