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Revolutionary Power: An Activist's Guide to the Energy Transition
Shalanda Baker - Island Press
Format: Paperback
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In September 2017, Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, completely upending the energy grid of the small island. The nearly year-long power outage that followed vividly shows how the new climate reality intersects with race and access to energy. The island is home to brown and black US citizens... |
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Sex on Earth: A Celebration of Animal Reproduction
Jules Howard - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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One thousand million years ago, a huge revolution occurred on Earth--sex happened for the first time. From that moment on, the world became ever more colorful and bizarre, ringing with elaborate songs and dances, epic battles, and rallying cries as the desires of males and females collided,... |
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The Library's Guide to Sexual and Reproductive Health Information
Barbara A. Alvarez - ALA Editions
Format: Paperback
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The need to find accurate information about sexual and reproductive health care, including abortion, has never felt more urgent. At the same time, mis- and disinformation proliferates as never before. Libraries are uniquely positioned community organizations that can cut through the miasma... |
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Happy Brain: Where Happiness Comes From, and Why
Dean Burnett - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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Neuroscientist Dean Burnett dives into the squishy science and bubbly feelings of what happiness means.The pursuit of happiness is one of the most common and enduring quests of human life. Its what drives us to get a job, fall in love, watch stand-up comedy, go to therapy, have questionable... |
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An Explorer's Notebook: Essays on Life, History, and Climate
Tim Flannery - Pgw
Format: Hardcover
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Best known today for The Weather Makers, his #1 international bestseller, Tim Flannery is one of the world's most influential scientists, a foremost expert on climate change credited with discovering more species than Charles Darwin. But Flannery didn't come to his knowledge overnight.... |
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The End of Plenty: The Race to Feed a Crowded World
Joel K. Bourne Jr - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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An award-winning environmental journalist introduces a new generation of farmers and scientists on the frontlines of the next green revolution.When the demographer Robert Malthus (1766-1834) famously outlined the brutal relationship between food and population, he never imagined the success... |
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Virtual Unreality: Just Because the Internet Told You, How Do You Know It’s True?
Charles Seife - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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The bestselling author of Proofiness and Zero explains how to separate fact from fantasy in the digital worldDigital information is a powerful tool that spreads unbelievably rapidly, infects all corners of society, and is all but impossible to controleven when that information is actually... |
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Papyrus: The Plant that Changed the World: From Ancient Egypt to Today's Water Wars
John Gaudet - Pegasus; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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At the center of the most vital human-plant relationship in history, Papyrus evokes the mysteries of the ancient world while holding the key to the world’s wetlands and atmospheric stability.From ancient Pharaohs to 21st Century water wars, papyrus is a unique plant that is still... |
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Giving the Finger: Risking It All To Fish The World's Deadliest Sea
Scott Campbell Jr. - Lyons Press
Format: Print book
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Part documentary, part reality-television, the story of the Deadliest Catch's Alaskan crab fishermen risking their lives in the Bering Sea to make a buck and feed their families has captivated the world. Giving the Finger follows the life of the spirited young captain who has emerged... |
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Atlas of a Lost World: Travels in Ice Age America
Craig Childs - Pantheon
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of Apocalyptic Planet comes a vivid travelogue through prehistory, tracing the arrival of the First People in North America at least twenty thousand years ago and the artifacts that tell of their lives and fates. This book upends our notions of where these people... |
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