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The Weight of Nature: How a Changing Climate Changes Our Brains

Clayton Page Aldern - Dutton
Format: Hardcover

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 on our very brains constitute a public-health...
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This Ordinary Stardust: A Scientist's Path from Grief to Wonder

Alan Townsend PhD - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover

A compassionate, vulnerable, and transformative exploration of the nurturing and spiritual power of scientific wonder, as illuminated through the tragic dual cancer diagnoses of author Dr. Alan Townsend's wife and daughter. . A decade ago, Dr. Alan Townsend's family received two unthinkable,...
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Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

Robert M. Sapolsky - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the science and philosophy of decision-making to mount a devastating case against free will, an argument with profound consequences. Robert Sapolsky's Behave, his now classic account of why humans...
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Mind Magic: The Neuroscience of Manifestation and How It Changes Everything

James R. Doty MD - Avery
Format: Hardcover

A deep exploration of the neuroscience behind manifestation, with a six-part plan for realizing your dreams. For decades the practice of manifestation has been widely dismissed as self-involved, materialistic pseudoscience. But as neuroscientist and recognized compassion leader Dr. James...
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Amphibious Soul: Finding the Wild in a Tame World

Craig Foster - HarperOne
Format: Hardcover

"Amphibious Soul is an important book. . . . This book isn't about learning how to be wild but rather a guide to recognizing and reconnecting with the wild in and around us. It is a book that will inspire hope." - Jane Goodall A passionate love story about nature that inspires...
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Year of No Garbage: Recycling Lies, Plastic Problems, and One Woman's Trashy Journey to Zero Waste

Eve O. Schaub - Skyhorse
Format: Paperback

"Eve's brave and honest experiment reveals the shocking impact of the throwaway society we've become and at the same time showing small ways we can all do better." - Rebecca Prince-Ruiz, founder of Plastic Free July. Year of No Garbage is Super Size Me meets the environmental...
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Recycling For Dummies

Sarah Winkler - For Dummies
Format: Paperback

Learn the facts about recycling and discover the best way to make an impactRecycling is a simple action we can take that has an immediate positive effect. It keeps waste out of landfills, conserves natural resources, prevents pollution, and saves energy. Who wouldn't want to do this?...
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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...
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Wild Life: Finding My Purpose in an Untamed World

Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant - Get Lifted Books
Format: Hardcover

In this vulnerable and urgent memoir, Rae Wynn-Grant explores the ever-shifting relationship between humans, animals, and the earth through her personal journey to becoming a wildlife ecologist. . Growing up in the diverse and bustling California Bay Area, renowned wildlife ecologist Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant...
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The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth

Zoë Schlanger - Harper
Format: Hardcover

"A masterpiece of science writing." -Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of Braiding Sweetgrass"Mesmerizing, world-expanding, and achingly beautiful." -Ed Yong, author of An Immense World"A brilliant must-read. This book shook and changed me." -David George Haskell,...
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