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A Field Philosopher's Guide to Fracking: How One Texas Town Stood Up to Big Oil and Gas
Adam Briggle · Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pages: 336
Format: Print book |
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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... |
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Skeletons: The Extraordinary Form & Function of Bones
Andrew Kirk · Wellfleet Press
Pages: 256
Format: Print book |
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Everything you need to know about the framework of the body - our bones!Bone is one of the most extraordinary materials in the natural world-flexible, strong, and available in a number of types and densities. Yet we can only absorb quite how amazing it is when we look at the range of different... |
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Seven Skeletons: The Evolution of the World's Most Famous Human Fossils
Lydia V Pyne · Viking
Pages: 288
Format: Print book |
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An irresistible journey of discovery, science, history, and myth making, told through the lives and afterlives of seven famous human ancestorsOver the last century, the search for human ancestors has spanned four continents and resulted in the discovery of hundreds of fossils. While most... |
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The Shepherd's Life: Modern Dispatches from an Ancient Landscape
James Rebanks · Flatiron Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover |
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The New York Times bestseller and International Phenomenon"It's bloody marvelous." - Helen Macdonald, New York Times bestselling author of H IS FOR HAWK"Captivating... A book about continuity and roots and a sense of belonging in an age that's increasingly about mobility... |
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Upstream: Selected Essays
Mary Oliver · Penguin Books
Pages: 192
Format: Print book |
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"In the beginning I was so young and such a stranger to myself I hardly existed. I had to go out into the world and see it and hear it and react to it, before I knew at all who I was, what I was, what I wanted to be." So begins Upstream, a collection of essays in which beloved... |
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Being a Beast: Adventures Across the Species Divide
Charles Foster · Metropolitan Books
Pages: 256
Format: Print book |
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A passionate naturalist explores what it's really like to be an animal -- by living like themHow can we ever be sure that we really know the other? To test the limits of our ability to inhabit lives that are not our own, Charles Foster set out to know the ultimate other: the non-humans,... |
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Being a Dog: Following the Dog Into a World of Smell
Alexandra Horowitz · Scribner
Pages: 336
Format: Print book |
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Alexandra Horowitz, the author of the lively, highly informative New York Times bestselling blockbuster Inside of a Dog, explains how dogs perceive the world through their most spectacular organ - the nose - and how we humans can put our under-used sense of smell to work in surprising ways.To... |
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The man who made things out of trees
Rob Penn · W.W. Norton & Company
Pages: 240
Format: Print book |
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The story of how one man cut down a single tree to see how many things could be made from it. Out of all the trees in the world, the ash is the most closely bound up with who we are. From tool handles to arrows, wheels and bowls to furniture and baseball bats, humans have made more and varied... |
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How the World Breaks Life in Catastrophe's Path, from the Caribbean to Siberia
· New Press
Pages: 384
Format: Print book |
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We ve always lived on a dangerous planet, but its disasters aren t what they used to be. "How the World Breaks" gives us a breathtaking new view of crisis and recovery on the unstable landscapes of the Earth s hazard zones. Father and son authors Stan and Paul Cox take us to the explosive... |
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