Books for Environmental Health Specialists
3. 
Slow Death by Rubber Duck: How the Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Life Affects Our Health
by:
Rick Smith
3.86 avg rating — 1,679 ratings 4. 
Did You Just Eat That?: Two Scientists Explore Double-Dipping, the Five-Second Rule, and other Food Myths in the Lab
by:
Paul Dawson
3.29 avg rating — 263 ratings 
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The Art of Fermentation: An in-Depth Exploration of Essential Concepts and Processes from Around the World 4.43 avg rating — 4,737 ratings
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Foundations of Flavor: The Noma Guide to Fermentation
by:
René Redzepi
4.56 avg rating — 2,252 ratings 
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Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
by:
David Quammen
4.42 avg rating — 20,026 ratings 10. 
Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food 4.40 avg rating — 38,315 ratings
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Soul Full of Coal Dust: A Fight for Breath and Justice in Appalachia
by:
Chris Hamby
4.31 avg rating — 753 ratings 12. 
The Science of Good Cooking: Master 50 Simple Concepts to Enjoy a Lifetime of Success in the Kitchen 4.44 avg rating — 3,162 ratings
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Inside the Outbreaks: The Elite Medical Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service
by:
Mark Pendergrast
3.70 avg rating — 497 ratings 12. 
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Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking
by:
Samin Nosrat
4.40 avg rating — 87,467 ratings 
16. 
Dirty Electricity: Electrification and the Diseases of Civilization
by:
Samuel Milham
4.01 avg rating — 191 ratings 19. 
Valuing Clean Air: The EPA and the Economics of Environmental Protection 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
by:
Michael Pollan
4.19 avg rating — 208,906 ratings 20. 
The Price of Thirst: Global Water Inequality and the Coming Chaos
by:
Karen Piper
3.83 avg rating — 156 ratings 22. 
The Poisoned City: Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy
by:
Anna Clark
4.15 avg rating — 2,842 ratings 23. 
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
by:
David Quammen
4.42 avg rating — 20,026 ratings 24. 
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
by:
Anthony Bourdain
4.18 avg rating — 359,954 ratings 24. 
The Fight for Coal Mine Health and Safety: A Documented History
by:
Ken Hechler
it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating 
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Koji Alchemy: Rediscovering the Magic of Mold-Based Fermentation
by:
Jeremy Umansky
4.55 avg rating — 207 ratings 27. 
Choked: Life and Breath in the Age of Air Pollution
by:
Beth Gardiner
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 223 ratings 29. 
On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
by:
Harold McGee
4.46 avg rating — 16,093 ratings 29. 
Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus
by:
David Quammen
4.20 avg rating — 2,001 ratings 31. 
The Life of Cheese: Crafting Food and Value in America (California Studies in Food and Culture Book 41)
by:
Heather Paxson
3.90 avg rating — 80 ratings 
32. 
Catching Breath: The Making and Unmaking of Tuberculosis
by:
Kathryn Lougheed
3.74 avg rating — 221 ratings 34. 
Tiffin: Memories and Recipes of Indian Vegetarian Food
by:
Rukmini Srinivas
4.15 avg rating — 377 ratings 35. 
Wookwan's Korean Temple Food: The Road to the Taste of Enlightenment
by:
Wookwan
4.30 avg rating — 67 ratings 
39. 
The Donut King: The Rags to Riches Story of a Poor Immigrant Who Changed the World
by:
Ted Ngoy
4.14 avg rating — 85 ratings 40. 
Poisoned: The True Story of the Deadly E. Coli Outbreak That Changed the Way Americans Eat
by:
Jeff Benedict
3.93 avg rating — 642 ratings 41. 
The Poison Squad: One Chemist's Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
by:
Deborah Blum
3.93 avg rating — 4,798 ratings 42. 
Rajneeshpuram: Inside the Cult of Bhagwan and Its Failed American Utopia
by:
Russell King
4.02 avg rating — 247 ratings 43. 
Science and Cooking: Physics Meets Food, From Homemade to Haute Cuisine 3.84 avg rating — 258 ratings
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Living Downstream: A Scientist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment 4.21 avg rating — 836 ratings
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Most Delicious Poison: The Story of Nature's Toxins―From Spices to Vices
by:
Noah Whiteman
3.73 avg rating — 771 ratings 49. 
Life at the Edge of Sight: A Photographic Exploration of the Microbial World
by:
Scott Chimileski
4.35 avg rating — 23 ratings 
51. 
If You See Them: Young, Unhoused, and Alone in America
by:
Vicki Sokolik
4.21 avg rating — 565 ratings 
55. 
Salmon Wars: The Dark Underbelly of Our Favorite Fish
by:
Douglas Frantz
3.80 avg rating — 405 ratings 56. 
Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds: Ebola and the Ravages of History
by:
Paul Farmer
4.04 avg rating — 1,199 ratings 
58. 
The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History 3.91 avg rating — 6,647 ratings
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Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic
by:
Sam Quinones
4.23 avg rating — 31,642 ratings 60. 
Pain Killer: A Wonder Drug's Trail of Addiction and Death
by:
Barry Meier
4.02 avg rating — 2,774 ratings 61. 
The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America
by:
Monica Potts
3.88 avg rating — 7,051 ratings 62. 
The Butcher, the Embezzler, and the Fall Guy: A Family Memoir of Scandal and Greed in the Meat Industry 4.02 avg rating — 83 ratings
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Crisis in the Red Zone: The Story of the Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in History, and of the Outbreaks to Come
by:
Richard Preston
4.42 avg rating — 7,446 ratings 65. 
The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human 4.29 avg rating — 14,169 ratings
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Replenish: The Virtuous Cycle of Water and Prosperity
by:
Sandra Postel
4.08 avg rating — 80 ratings 67. 
The Scalpel and the Silver Bear: The First Navajo Woman Surgeon Combines Western Medicine and Traditional Healing 4.02 avg rating — 1,319 ratings
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Under the Big Tree: Extraordinary Stories from the Movement to End Neglected Tropical Diseases
by:
Ellen Agler
4.32 avg rating — 60 ratings 70. 
The Miraculous Fever-Tree: Malaria, Medicine and the Cure that Changed the World
by:
Fiammetta Rocco
3.84 avg rating — 284 ratings 71. 
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
by:
John M. Barry
3.98 avg rating — 42,022 ratings 72. 
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
by:
Randy Shilts
4.39 avg rating — 28,863 ratings 73. 
The Woman with a Worm in Her Head: And Other True Stories of Infectious Disease
by:
Pamela Nagami
4.05 avg rating — 3,191 ratings 74. 
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
by:
Steven Johnson
3.89 avg rating — 55,259 ratings 75. 
When Winter Came: A country doctor's journey to fight the flu pandemic of 1918 3.77 avg rating — 108 ratings
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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
by:
Kate Moore
4.16 avg rating — 176,434 ratings 77. 
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
by:
Ed Yong
4.18 avg rating — 30,339 ratings 
80. 
The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis
by:
Maria Smilios
4.24 avg rating — 3,041 ratings 81. 
Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
by:
Jonathan Kennedy
3.93 avg rating — 9,950 ratings 82. 
The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years
by:
Sonia Shah
3.90 avg rating — 1,490 ratings 83. 
An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793
by:
Jim Murphy
3.83 avg rating — 4,661 ratings 84. 
House on Fire: The Fight to Eradicate Smallpox (California/Milbank Books on Health and the Public) (Volume 21)
by:
William H. Foege
4.18 avg rating — 421 ratings 85. 
Missing Microbes: How the Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling Our Modern Plagues
by:
Martin J. Blaser
4.16 avg rating — 3,749 ratings 86. 
The Science of Influence: How to Get Anyone to Say "Yes" in 8 Minutes or Less!
by:
Kevin Hogan
3.67 avg rating — 743 ratings 87. 
Neuroselling: How to Get Anyone to Say Yes to whatever Offer You Make Using Sales Psychology
by:
Mark Eric
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 88. 
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
by:
Malcolm Gladwell
3.96 avg rating — 614,749 ratings 89. 
The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914
by:
David McCullough
4.22 avg rating — 22,143 ratings 
92. 
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
by:
Anne Fadiman
4.20 avg rating — 87,607 ratings 93. 
Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago
by:
Eric Klinenberg
3.91 avg rating — 1,231 ratings 94. 
Paradise: One Town's Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire
by:
Lizzie Johnson
4.33 avg rating — 2,607 ratings 95. 
The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels, and the Business of AIDS
by:
Elizabeth Pisani
4.13 avg rating — 3,100 ratings 96. 
Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health
by:
Laurie Garrett
4.13 avg rating — 1,345 ratings 97. 
When Smoke Ran Like Water :: Tales of Environmental deception &_the battle Against Pollution
by:
Devrs Dsvis
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 98. 
The Blue Death: Disease, Disaster, and the Water We Drink
by:
Robert D. Morris
3.87 avg rating — 315 ratings 99. 
Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
by:
Robert D. Putnam
3.85 avg rating — 8,663 ratings 