Edward Humes: 14 books
Eco Barons
The Dreamers, Schemers, and Millionaires Who Are Saving Our Planet
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
“Well written and compelling, Eco Barons gives the reader a first glimpse of the activists, philanthropists and gadflies who may well turn out to be the J.D. Rockefellers and Rachel Carsons of our time.”
—Cleveland Plain Dealer
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Pulitzer Prize-winner Edward Humes offers readers...
Door to Door
The Magnificent, Maddening, Mysterious World of Transportation
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of Garbology explores the hidden and costly wonders of our buy-it-now, get-it-today world of transportation, revealing the surprising truths, mounting challenges, and logistical magic behind every trip we take and every click we make.
Transportation...
Garbology
Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
A Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist takes readers on a surprising tour of the world of garbage.
Take a journey inside the secret world of our biggest export, our most prodigious product, and our greatest legacy: our trash. It’s the biggest thing we make: The average American is on track...
No Matter How Loud I Shout
A Year in the Life of Juvenile Court
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
Now updated with a new introduction and afterword, this award-winning examination of the nation’s largest juvenile criminal justice system in Los Angeles by a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist is “an important book with a message of great urgency, especially to all concerned with the future...
Mean Justice
A Town's Terror, A Prosecutor's Power, A Betrayal of Innocence
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
This national bestseller from the Pulitzer Prize-winner catapults readers to the dark side of the justice system with the powerful true story of one man's battle to prove his innocence.
Besieged by murder, rape, and the vilest conspiracies, the all-American town of Bakersfield, California,...
by Edward Humes
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author: “The story of L.A.’s dirtiest cop . . . A riveting glimpse of the dark side of human behavior” (Flint Journal).
Bill Leasure was among the least ambitious officers ever to wear the badge for the Los Angeles Police Department. He was content to...
Force of Nature
The Unlikely Story of Wal-Mart's Green Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
What happens when a renowned river guide teams up with the CEO of one of the largest and least Earth-friendly corporations in the world? When it's former Wal-Mart CEO H. Lee Scott and white-water expert turned sustainability consultant Jib Ellison, the result is nothing less than a green business...
Buried Secrets
A True Story of Serial Murder
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2014
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist comes what Publishers Weekly called the “definitive study” of the grisly mass killings in Matamoros, Mexico.
In the 1980’s, Adolfo Constanzo, devotee of Santería and powerful cult leader opened shop in Mexico City as a fortune-teller. He soon...
Monkey Girl
Evolution, Education, Religion, and the Battle for America's Soul
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
What should we teach our children about where we come from?
Is evolution a lie or good science?
Is it incompatible with faith?
Have scientists really detected evidence of a creator in nature?
From bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edward Humes comes a dramatic story of faith, science,...
School of Dreams
Making the Grade at a Top American High School
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
What is the price of an education at a top public high school?
Whitney High delivers everything we ask of a school: a love of learning, a sense of mission, and SAT scores to die for. But there are unintended consequences to attending the school of our dreams, as author Edward Humes found during...
A Man and his Mountain
The Everyman who Created Kendall-Jackson and Became America's Greatest Wine Entrepreneur
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
The story of self-made billionaire Jess Jackson, who put Chardonnay on America's tables as he built the KendallJackson wine empire from a few mountainous acres of grapes, and raced the Horse of the Year three years in a row, is a remarkable tale of romance, risk, and reinvention-perhaps the greatest...
Over Here
How the G.I. Bill Transformed the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2014
Extraordinary stories of ordinary men and women whose lives were changed forever by landmark legislation—and how they went on to change the country.
Inspiring war stories are familiar. But what about after-the-war stories? From a Pulitzer Prize–winning author, Over Here is the Greatest Generation’s...
Burned
A Story of Murder and the Crime That Wasn't
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
Now in paperback. Was a monstrous killer brought to justice or an innocent mother condemned?
On an April night in 1989, Jo Ann Parks survived a house fire that claimed the lives of her three small children. Though the fire at first seemed a tragic accident, investigators soon reported finding...
by Edward Humes
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
NOW UPDATED WITH EXPLOSIVE COURTROOM DETAILS. . . .
The riveting true-crime account of the heartbreaking murder that shook a Southern city to its corrupt foundation
BILOXI, MISSISSIPPI: After the fatal shooting of one of the city’s most prominent couples—Vincent Sherry was a circuit...