A Field Philosopher's Guide to Fracking
How One Texas Town Stood Up to Big Oil and Gas
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From the front lines of the fracking debate, a "field philosopher" explores one of our most divisive technologies.
When philosophy professor Adam Briggle moved to Denton, Texas, he had never heard of fracking. Only five years later, he would successfully lead a citizens' initiative to ban hydraulic fracturing in Denton - the first Texas town to challenge the oil and gas industry. On his journey to learn about fracking and its effects, he leaped from the ivory tower into the fray.
In beautifully narrated chapters, Briggle brings us to town hall debates and neighborhood meetings where citizens wrestle with issues few fully understand. Is fracking safe? How does it affect the local economy? Why are bakeries prohibited in neighborhoods while gas wells are permitted next to playgrounds? In his quest for answers, Briggle meets people like Cathy McMullen. Her neighbors' cows asphyxiated after drinking fracking fluids, and her orchard was razed to make way for a pipeline. Cathy did not consent to drilling, but those who profited lived far out of harm's way.
Briggle's first instinct was to think about fracking - deeply. Drawing on philosophers from Socrates to Kant, but also on conversations with engineers, legislators, and industry representatives, he developed a simple theory to evaluate fracking: We should give those at risk of harm a stake in the decisions we make, and we should monitor for and correct any problems that arise. Finding this regulatory process short-circuited, with government and industry alike turning a blind eye to symptoms like earthquakes and nosebleeds, Briggle decided to take action.
Though our field philosopher is initially out of his element - joining fierce activists like "Texas Sharon", once called the "worst enemy" of the oil and gas industry - his story culminates in an underdog victory for Denton, now nationally recognized as a beacon for citizens' rights at the epicenter of the fracking revolution.
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In Strangers in Their Own Land, the renowned sociologist Arlie Hochschild embarks on a thought-provoking journey from her liberal hometown of Berkeley, California, deep into Louisiana bayou country - a stronghold of the conservative right. As she gets to know people who strongly oppose many of the ideas she famously champions, Hochschild nevertheless finds common ground and quickly warms to the people she meets.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Performance undercuts thesis
- De married, one tall dog, one smelly dog en 01-02-17
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Shortest Way Home
- One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future
- De: Pete Buttigieg
- Narrado por: Pete Buttigieg
- Duración: 9 h y 57 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 5,118
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Once described by The Washington Post as "the most interesting mayor you've never heard of", Pete Buttigieg, the 36-year-old Democratic mayor of South Bend, Indiana, has improbably emerged as one of the nation's most visionary politicians. First elected in 2011, Buttigieg left a successful business career to move back to his hometown, previously tagged by Newsweek as a "dying city", and transformed it into a shining model of urban reinvention.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Reveals a Person Wise & Experienced & Literate
- De dbbks3 en 03-17-19
De: Pete Buttigieg
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The Boom
- How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World
- De: Russell Gold
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 11 h y 28 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 249
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 208
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Russell Gold, a brilliant and dogged investigative reporter at The Wall Street Journal, has spent more than a decade reporting on one of the biggest stories of our time: the spectacular, world-changing rise of "fracking". Recognized as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and a recipient of the Gerald Loeb Award for his work, Gold has traveled along the pipelines and into the hubs of this country’s energy infrastructure; he has visited frack sites from Texas to North Dakota; and he has conducted thousands of interviews with engineers and wildcatters, CEOs and roughnecks, environmentalists and politicians.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Somehow the author manages to stay balanced
- De Emily C en 05-28-14
De: Russell Gold
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Idiot America
- How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free
- De: Charles P. Pierce
- Narrado por: Bronson Pinchot
- Duración: 9 h y 45 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 667
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 596
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 597
The culture wars are over and the idiots have won. This is a veteran journalist’s caustically funny, righteously angry lament about the glorification of ignorance in the United States. The three Great Premises of Idiot America: · Any theory is valid if it sells books, soaks up ratings, or otherwise moves units; anything can be true if someone says it loudly enough; "fact" is that which enough people believe. And "truth" is determined by how fervently they believe it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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You Get What You Paid For
- De Vargas en 09-19-11
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The Big Truck That Went By
- How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster
- De: Jonathan M. Katz
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis, Jonathan M. Katz
- Duración: 12 h y 53 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 205
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 183
On January 12, 2010, the deadliest earthquake in the history of the Western Hemisphere struck the nation least prepared to handle one. Jonathan M. Katz, the only full-time American news correspondent in Haiti, was inside his house when it buckled along with hundreds of thousands of others. In this visceral first-hand account, Katz takes readers inside the terror of that day, the devastation visited on ordinary Haitians, and through the monumental--yet misbegotten--rescue effort that followed.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This story angered and cheered inside me
- De rifenbc en 03-01-19
De: Jonathan M. Katz
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Sellout
- How Washington Gave Away America's Technological Soul, and One Man's Fight to Bring It Home
- De: Victoria Bruce
- Narrado por: Tom Parks
- Duración: 10 h y 44 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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American technological prowess used to be unrivaled. But because of globalization, and with the blessing of the US government, once proprietary materials, components, and technologies are increasingly commercialized outside the United States. Nowhere is this more dangerous than in China's monopoly of rare earth elements - materials that are essential for nearly all modern consumer goods, gadgets, and weapons systems.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Uncovering unsung heroes of modern America
- De Ben DeNardo en 08-24-17
De: Victoria Bruce
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Strange Stones
- De: Peter Hessler
- Narrado por: George Backman
- Duración: 13 h y 38 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 159
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 138
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 141
Full of unforgettable figures and an unrelenting spirit of adventure, Strange Stones is a far-ranging, thought-provoking collection of Peter Hessler’s best reportage - a dazzling display of the powerful storytelling, shrewd cultural insight, and warm sense of humor that are the trademarks of his work. Over the last decade, as a staff writer for The New Yorker and the author of three books, Peter Hessler has lived in Asia and the United States, writing as both native and knowledgeable outsider in these two very different regions.
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4 out of 5 stars
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funny, entertaining
- De Katherine en 08-02-13
De: Peter Hessler
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Paradise Falls
- The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe
- De: Keith O'Brien
- Narrado por: Eileen Stevens
- Duración: 13 h y 5 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 104
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Lois Gibbs, Luella Kenny, and other mothers loved their neighborhood on the east side of Niagara Falls. It had an elementary school, a playground, and rows of affordable homes. In the spring of 1977, pungent odors began to seep into these little houses, and it didn’t take long for worried mothers to identify the curious scent. It was the sickly-sweet smell of chemicals.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Incredible work of everyday people
- De J. C. Edens en 11-20-24
De: Keith O'Brien
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Windfall
- The Booming Business of Global Warming
- De: McKenzie Funk
- Narrado por: Sean Runnette
- Duración: 10 h y 40 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 70
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 59
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 59
Global warming's physical impacts can be separated into three broad categories: melt, drought, and deluge. Funk travels to two dozen countries to profile entrepreneurial people who see a potential windfall in each of these forces. The melt is a boon for newly arable, mineral rich regions of the Arctic, such as Greenland - and for the man-made snow trade. Drought creates opportunities for private firefighters working for insurance companies as well as for fund managers backing south Sudanese warlords who control local farmland.
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4 out of 5 stars
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unintended windfalls mixed with obvious perils
- De Andy en 02-09-14
De: McKenzie Funk
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The Big Necessity
- The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters
- De: Rose George
- Narrado por: Karen Cass
- Duración: 10 h y 32 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 53
We prefer not to talk about it, but we should. Disease spread by waste kills more people worldwide every year than any other single cause of death. Even in America, nearly two million people have no access to an indoor toilet. Yet the subject remains unmentionable. Moving from the underground sewers of Paris, London, and New York (an infrastructure disaster waiting to happen) to an Indian slum where ten toilets are shared by 60,000 people, The Big Necessity breaks the silence, revealing everything that matters about how people do - and don't - deal with their own waste.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Utterly fascinating
- De Clayton en 03-31-19
De: Rose George
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The Unwinding
- An Inner History of the New America
- De: George Packer
- Narrado por: Robert Fass
- Duración: 18 h y 4 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 931
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 804
In The Unwinding, George Packer, author of The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq, tells the story of the United States over the past three decades in an utterly original way, with his characteristically sharp eye for detail and gift for weaving together complex narratives. The Unwinding portrays a superpower in danger of coming apart at the seams, its elites no longer elite, its institutions no longer working, its ordinary people left to improvise their own schemes for success and salvation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Can't understand the low ratings!
- De Janet Pittman Henley en 05-27-13
De: George Packer
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God, Guns, Grits, and Gravy
- De: Mike Huckabee
- Narrado por: Mike Huckabee
- Duración: 8 h y 2 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 177
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 154
In Mike Huckabee's new book God, Guns, Grits and Gravy, he asks the question, "Have I been taken to a different planet than the one on which I grew up?" The New York Times best-selling author explores today's American culture, drawing from his travels as a presidential candidate to present average, small-town people and families, and their optimistic resilience in the face of hard times.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Review
- De Dorothy Ella en 02-13-15
De: Mike Huckabee
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The Big Roads
- The Untold Story of the Engineers, Visionaries, and Trailblazers Who Created the American Superhighways
- De: Earl Swift
- Narrado por: Rob Shapiro
- Duración: 12 h y 30 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 172
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 155
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 153
From author Earl Swift comes the surprising history of the U.S. interstate system, a fascinating route through the dreams, discoveries, and protests that shaped these mighty roads.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Lessons from The Big Roads
- De Joshua Kim en 05-06-12
De: Earl Swift
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The Chain
- Farm, Factory, and the Fate of Our Food
- De: Ted Genoways
- Narrado por: Michael Kramer
- Duración: 8 h y 29 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Interviewing scores of line workers, union leaders, hog farmers, and local politicians and activists, Genoways reveals an industry pushed to its breaking point. Along the way, he exposes alarming new trends: sick or permanently disabled workers, abused animals, water and soil pollution, and mounting conflict between small towns and immigrant labor.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Tour, de Force
- De Barbara Richards en 02-18-25
De: Ted Genoways
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Everything All at Once
- How to Unleash Your Inner Nerd, Tap into Radical Curiosity and Solve Any Problem
- De: Bill Nye
- Narrado por: Bill Nye
- Duración: 12 h y 34 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,513
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,392
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,384
Everything All at Once is an exciting, inspiring call to unleash the power of the nerd mindset that exists within us all. Nye believes we'll never be able to tackle our society's biggest, most complex problems if we don't even know how to solve the small ones. Step by step, he shows his listeners the key tools behind his everything-all-at-once approach: radical curiosity, a deep desire for a better future, and a willingness to take the actions needed to make it a reality.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Bill Nye is awesome, but skip this one
- De Evan en 08-15-17
De: Bill Nye
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Age of Ambition
- Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China
- De: Evan Osnos
- Narrado por: Evan Osnos, George Backman
- Duración: 16 h y 41 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,483
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,277
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,272
As the Beijing correspondent for The New Yorker, Evan Osnos was on the ground in China for years, witness to profound political, economic, and cultural upheaval. In Age of Ambition, he describes the greatest collision taking place in that country: the clash between the rise of the individual and the Communist Party’s struggle to retain control.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Come back when you have a warrant!
- De Neuron en 11-06-15
De: Evan Osnos
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Dave Barry Hits Below the Beltway
- De: Dave Barry
- Narrado por: Dick Hill
- Duración: 4 h y 47 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 60
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Understanding the urgent need for a deeply thoughtful, balanced book to explain our national political process, Dave Barry has not even come close. Though he himself has covered many campaigns, run for president several times, and run for cover at the rainy inauguration of George W. Bush (the man will spare nothing for his art), Barry has instead outdone himself.
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2 out of 5 stars
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I Love everything Dave Barry, BUT...
- De As my Wimsey takes me en 03-04-13
De: Dave Barry
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Boom, Bust, Exodus
- The Rust Belt, the Maquilas, and a Tale of Two Cities
- De: Chad Broughton
- Narrado por: Stephen McLaughlin
- Duración: 15 h y 34 m
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In 2002, the town of Galesburg, a slowly declining Rustbelt city of 33,000 in western Illinois, learned that it would soon lose its largest factory, a Maytag refrigerator plant that had anchored Galesburg's social and economic life for decades. Workers at the plant earned $15.14 an hour, had good insurance, and were assured a solid retirement. In 2004, the plant was relocated to Reynosa, Mexico, where workers sometimes spent 13-hour days assembling refrigerators for $1.10 an hour.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Story I thought I Knew
- De Meek84 en 07-08-18
De: Chad Broughton
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Fantastic Book!
The story is just one of many in a country gone backwards as we see the continued practice of profit over people. This gives hope to those of us who are just beginning our fight! Thank you from Southwestern Pennsylvania
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