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• The Serviceberry

  Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World

  Kimmerer, Robin Wall,

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  As indigenous scientist and author of Braiding Sweetgrass Robin Wall Kimmerer harvests serviceberries alongside the birds, she considers the ethic of reciprocity that lies at the heart of the gift economy. How, she asks, can we learn from indigenous…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Bicycle Diaries

  Byrne, David, 1952-

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  A renowned musician and visual artist presents an idiosyncratic behind-the-handlebars view of the world's cities. Since the early 1980s, David Byrne has been riding a bike as his principal means of transportation in New York City. Two decades ago,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Backyard Bird Chronicles

  Tan, Amy,

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  Tracking the natural beauty that surrounds us, The Backyard Bird Chronicles maps the passage of time through daily entries, thoughtful questions, and beautiful original sketches. With boundless charm and wit, author Amy Tan charts her foray into…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Fuzz

  When Nature Breaks the Law

  Roach, Mary,

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  What’s to be done about a jaywalking moose? A bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous tree? Three hundred years ago, animals that broke the law would be assigned legal representation and put on trial. The answers are best found not in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Eight Bears

  Mythic Past and Imperiled Future

  Dickie, Gloria,

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  Bears have always held a central place in our collective memory, from Indigenous folklore and Greek mythology to nineteenth-century fairytales and the modern toy shop. But as humans and bears come into ever-closer contact, our relationship near a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• An Immense World

  How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

  Yong, Ed,

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  The Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal is enclosed within its own unique sensory bubble, perceiving but a tiny sliver of an immense world. This book welcomes…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Anthropocene Reviewed

  Essays on a Human-centered Planet

  Green, John, 1977-

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  The Anthropocene is the current geological age, in which human activity has profoundly shaped the planet and its biodiversity. In this remarkable symphony of essays adapted and expanded from his ground-breaking, critically acclaimed podcast, John…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Light Eaters

  How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth

  Schlanger, Zoë,

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  Award-winning environment and science reporter Zoë Schlanger delivers a groundbreaking work of popular science that probes the hidden world of the plant kingdom and reveals the astonishing capabilities of the green life all around us. It takes…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sharks Don't Sink

  Adventures of a Rogue Shark Scientist

  Graham, Jasmin,

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  You never forget your first shark. For Jasmin Graham, it was a little bonnethead, a type of hammerhead three feet long, gray with a white underbelly, rough-skinned, strongly muscled, and beautiful. Jasmin fell in with sharks, and with science.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Better Living Through Birding

  Notes From a Black Man in the Natural World

  Cooper, Christian,

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  Christian Cooper devotes every spring to gazing upon the migratory birds that stop to rest in Central Park, just a subway ride away from where he lives in New York City. While in the park one morning in May 2020, Cooper was engaged in the…Read moreRead more of this annotation