|
The Weight of Nature: How a Changing Climate Changes Our Brains
Clayton Page Aldern - Dutton
Format: Hardcover
|
|
A Next Big Idea Club Must-Read Book. A deeply reported, eye-opening book about climate change, our brains, and the weight of nature on us all.. The march of climate change is stunning and vicious, with rising seas, extreme weather, and oppressive heat blanketing the globe. But its effects... |
|
| |
|
|
 |
|
Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos
Dr. Lisa Kaltenegger - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
|
|
Riveting and timely, a look at the research that is transforming our understanding of the cosmos in the quest to discover whether we are alone.. For thousands of years, humans have wondered whether we're alone in the cosmos. Now, for the first time, we have the technology to investigate.... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
We Loved It All: A Memory of Life
Lydia Millet - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
|
|
Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2024 by the Washington Post, Oprah Daily, and Literary Hub. This lucent anti-memoir from celebrated novelist Lydia Millet explores the pain and joy of being a parent, child, and human at a moment when the richness of the planet's life is deeply threatened.Across... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Before It's Gone: Stories from the Front Lines of Climate Change in Small-Town America
Jonathan Vigliotti - Atria/One Signal Publishers
Format: Hardcover
|
|
In the vein of This Changes Everything and Saving Us, a character-driven and shocking up-close look at the way climate change is affecting America, right now, and a call to action to protect the people and places we stand to lose if nothing is done to preserve our planet.. Discussion of the climate... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Bamboo
Joyce Markovics - Norwood House Press
Format: Paperback
|
|
"Bamboo is one of nature's best friends. Why? It helps support a healthy environment. And, believe it or not, it also benefits people. For example, bamboo grows very fast. It helps stop erosion, fight climate change, and can be used to build many things. Bamboo is also food for pandas... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Space Oddities: The Mysterious Anomalies Challenging Our Understanding of the Universe
Harry Cliff - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
|
|
Experimental physicist at CERN and acclaimed science presenter Harry Cliff offers an eye-opening account of the inexplicable phenomena that science has only recently glimpsed, and that could transform our understanding of the fundamental nature of reality.. Something strange is going on in the cosmos.... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
On the Move: The Overheating Earth and the Uprooting of America
Abrahm Lustgarten - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
|
|
"On the Move explains how we got here and where we're headed. It's crucial guide to the world we are creating." -- Elizabeth Kolbert, author of Under a White Sky and The Sixth ExtinctionA vivid, journalistic account of how climate change will make American life as we know... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Before the Badge: How Academy Training Shapes Police Violence
Samantha J. Simon - NYU Press
Format: Hardcover
|
|
An inside look at how police officers are trained to perpetuate state violence. Michael Brown. Philando Castile. George Floyd. Breonna Taylor. As the names of those killed by the police became cemented into public memory, the American public took to the streets in unprecedented numbers... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling
Jason De León - Viking
Format: Hardcover
|
|
"A work of extraordinary reportage and compassion...[it] will shock you, move you, and leave you changed." - Matthew Desmond, Pulitzer Prize-winning and New York Times bestselling author of Evicted and Poverty, by America. "An enlightening, frightening, unforgettable read."... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Women Behind the Wheel: An Unexpected and Personal History of the Car
Nancy A. Nichols - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
|
|
From the adolescent thrill of getting a driver's license to the dreaded commutes of adulthood, from vintage muscle cars to electric vehicles, this groundbreaking book reveals the outsized impact the car has had - and will continue to have - on the lives of women.. Since their inception... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
