transtwill's Reviews (554)

The Protest Psychosis by Jonathan M. Metzl

The Protest Psychosis

Jonathan M. Metzl

4.25
informative fast-paced
Making a Real Killing: Rocky Flats and the Nuclear West by Len Ackland

Making a Real Killing: Rocky Flats and the Nuclear West

Len Ackland

4.0
informative medium-paced
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

Robin Wall Kimmerer

4.0
informative reflective slow-paced
Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan’s Disaster Zone by Richard Lloyd Parry

Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan’s Disaster Zone

Richard Lloyd Parry

4.25
dark informative sad medium-paced
The Plutonium Files: America's Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War by Eileen Welsome

The Plutonium Files: America's Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War

Eileen Welsome

4.0
challenging informative medium-paced
There Is No Such Thing as a Natural Disaster: Race, Class, and Hurricane Katrina by Chester Hartman

There Is No Such Thing as a Natural Disaster: Race, Class, and Hurricane Katrina

Chester Hartman

4.5
informative medium-paced
The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner by Daniel Ellsberg

The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner

Daniel Ellsberg

4.25
informative reflective tense medium-paced
The Demon Under the Microscope: From Battlefield Hospitals to Nazi Labs, One Doctor's Heroic Search for the World's First Miracle Drug by Thomas Hager

The Demon Under the Microscope: From Battlefield Hospitals to Nazi Labs, One Doctor's Heroic Search for the World's First Miracle Drug

Thomas Hager

4.25
challenging informative medium-paced
Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine by Jim Downs

Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine

Jim Downs

4.5
challenging dark informative fast-paced
Restricted Data: The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States by Alex Wellerstein

Restricted Data: The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States

Alex Wellerstein

3.25
challenging dark informative tense medium-paced
while the author tackles the topic decently, why in a book published in 2021 are “bipolar” and “schizophrenic” still being used as adjectives? the latter doesn’t even make any sense, i had to google wtf was supposed to be meant by it. both words could easily have been replaced with capricious, which is both clearer in meaning and not a medical diagnosis.