Quecreek Miners, Author, Jeff Goodell, As Told to, Jeff Goodell, Author . Hyperion $19.95 (192p) ISBN 978-1-4013-0055-5
The story of the nine Pennsylvania coal miners who were trapped underground for more than three days last July could have easily been sidetracked by aphorisms about America's post–September 11 can-do spirit and the like. But since this...
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Jeff Goodell, Author . Houghton Mifflin $25.95 (324p) ISBN 978-0-618-31940-4
After a generation out of the spotlight, coal has reasserted its centrality: the United States "burn[s] more than a billion tons" per year, and since 9/11 and the Iraq war, independence from foreign oil has become positively patriotic....
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Jeff Goodell, Author . Houghton Mifflin Harcourt $26 (262p) ISBN 978-0-618-99061-0
Goodell (Big Coal
) investigates the viability of geoengineering: ambitious, mostly unproven strategies to “deliberately engineer the earth's climate to counteract global warming.” Despite his promise to avoid the “wacky ideas
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Jeff Goodell, Author Dell Publishing Company $5.99 (328p) ISBN 978-0-440-22205-7
Goodell, a journalist who first wrote about Mitnick for Rolling Stone, here describes how computer hacker Kevin Mitnick was tracked down and finally caught with the help of computer security agent Tsutomu Shimomura. But this is not just a high-speed
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Jeff Goodell, Author Villard Books $24.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-679-45698-8
The Silicon Valley bubble burst early for Goodell, who tossed away a plum gig at the pre-IPO Apple Computer to hustle blackjack tables at Lake Tahoe, becoming ""the worst-dressed dealer in the state of Nevada."" Yet that missed opportunity has been...
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Jeff Goodell. Little, Brown, $38 (336p) ISBN 978-0-316-26024-4
Not long after Hurricane Sandy hit New York City in 2012, environmental reporter Goodell (How to Cool the Planet) was in Manhattan’s Lower East Side, where he “saw broken trees, abandoned cars, debris scattered everywhere,” and he began to realize...
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Jeff Goodell. Little, Brown, $29 (400p) ISBN 978-0-316-49757-2
Heatstroke, infectious disease, and attacks by starving polar bears are among the perils posed by rising temperatures, according to this startling report. Rolling Stone contributing editor Goodell (The Water Will Come) surveys how extreme heat is...
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