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The Jews of Summer: Summer Camp and Jewish Culture in Postwar America (Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture)

Sandra Fox - ‎Stanford University Press; 1st edition
Format: Paperback

In the decades directly following the Holocaust, American Jewish leaders anxiously debated how to preserve and produce what they considered authentic Jewish culture, fearful that growing affluence and suburbanization threatened the future of Jewish life. Many communal educators and rabbis...
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Why Animals Talk: The New Science of Animal Communication

Arik Kershenbaum - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

"Animal communication doesn't need to resemble human language to be full of meaning and nuance. Arik Kershenbaum delivers an expert overview of the astonishing discoveries made in the last few decades" - Frans de Waal. From leading zoologist Arik Kershenbaum, a delightful...
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The Land in Our Bones: Plantcestral Herbalism and Healing Cultures from Syria to the Sinai--Earth-based pathways to ancestral stewardship and belonging in diaspora

Layla K. Feghali - North Atlantic Books
Format: Paperback

A profound and searching exploration of the herbs and land-based medicines of Lebanon and Cana'an - a vital invitation to re-member our roots and deepen relationship with the lands where we live in diaspora. Tying cultural survival to earth-based knowledge, Lebanese ethnobotanist, sovereignty...
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A Sea Full of Turtles: The Search for Optimism in an Epoch of Extinction

Bill Streever - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover

An inspired and impassioned story of adventure that explores the richness of marine life and charts a path of resilience and hope. . Everyone alive today is witnessing a mass extinction event caused by the more than eight billion humans who share this planet. At times, it seems there is little...
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Radiant Raffia: 20 Inspiring Crochet Projects Made With Natural Yarn

Olga Panagopoulou - Herbert Press
Format: Paperback

Learn how to crochet 20 beautiful objects in raffia from bags, hats and belts to cushions, vases and table decorations. Get your hooks ready for a crochet book which brings the warmth of summer all year round. Patterns, charts and stunning photography are intertwined to create an inspiring...
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What the Wild Sea Can Be: The Future of the World's Ocean

Helen Scales - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover

The acclaimed marine biologist and author of The Brilliant Abyss examines the existential threats the world's ocean will face in the coming decades and offers cautious optimism for much of the abundant life within inNo matter where we live, "we are all ocean people," Helen...
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Living on Earth: Forests, Corals, Consciousness, and the Making of the World

Peter Godfrey-Smith - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

The bestselling author of Other Minds shows how we and our ancestors have reinvented our planet.. If the history of the Earth were compressed down to a year, our species would arise in the last thirty minutes or so of the final hour. But life itself is not such a late arrival: It has existed...
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The Western Horse: A Popular History of the Wild and Working Animal

Randi Samuelson-Brown - TwoDot
Format: Paperback

This book celebrates the history and culture of the western horse, its ability to capture the popular imagination, and the means by which it has come to symbolize the American West. Beginning in the 1500s, The Western Horse delves into the origins and variations of the western breeds, their...
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