Edward Humes
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The Forever Witness: How Genetic Genealogy Solved a Cold Case Double Murder
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2022
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Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash
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2012
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Monkey Girl: Evolution, Education, Religion, and the Battle for America's Soul
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2007
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No Matter How Loud I Shout: A Year in the Life of Juvenile Court
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1996
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Mississippi Mud: Southern Justice and the Dixie Mafia
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Door to Door: The Magnificent, Maddening, Mysterious World of Transportation
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Burned: A Story of a Murder and the Crime that Wasn't
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2019
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School Of Dreams: Making the Grade at a Top American High School
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2004
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Baby ER: The Heroic Doctors and Nurses Who Perform Medicine's Tiniest Miracles
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Total Garbage: How We Can Fix Our Waste and Heal Our World
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“Americans make more trash than anyone else on the planet, throwing away about 7.1 pounds per person per day, 365 days a year. Across a lifetime that rate means, on average, we are each on track to generate 102 tons of trash. Each of our bodies may occupy only one cemetery plot when we’re done with this world, but a single person’s 102-ton trash legacy will require the equivalent of 1,100 graves. Much of that refuse will outlast any grave marker, pharaoh’s pyramid or modern skyscraper: One of the few relics of our civilization guaranteed to be recognizable twenty thousand years from now is the potato chip bag.”
― Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash
― Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash
“we are waiting and waiting and doing nothing, until it is too late, and they commit crimes so serious that all society wants to do is punish instead of rehabilitate.”
― No Matter How Loud I Shout: A Year in the Life of Juvenile Court
― No Matter How Loud I Shout: A Year in the Life of Juvenile Court
“Officially, he was no longer a victim, he was a criminal”
― No Matter How Loud I Shout: A Year in the Life of Juvenile Court
― No Matter How Loud I Shout: A Year in the Life of Juvenile Court
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