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Nature and Science April 2021
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| Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It by Ethan KrossWhat it's about: an experimental psychologist examines the science behind "the most important conversations of our lives: the ones we have with ourselves."
Read it for: the practical tips on how to harness the positive aspects of "chatter" while minimizing the adverse effects of negative self-talk on mental health. |
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| Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age by Annalee NewitzWhat it does: explores four so-called "lost" (abandoned) cities and analyzes their "common point of failure" (political instability plus environmental disaster) while exploring the origins of this enduring trope.
Includes: the Neolithic Anatolian settlement of Çatalhöyük; the Roman town of Pompeii; Angkor, the capital of the Khmer Empire; and Cahokia, North America's largest city prior to European invasion.
About the author: Annalee Newitz is a journalist and science fiction writer who co-hosts the podcast Our Opinions Are Correct with novelist Charlie Jane Anders. |
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Math without numbers
by Milo Beckman
What it's about: A math expert who started Harvard University at age 15 provides a fun tour of the joys of math in an illustrated guide that shows how math is really just pattern recognition that can unlock the secrets of the universe.
Why you might like it: "Readers with an abundance of curiosity and the time to puzzle over Beckman’s many examples, riddles, and questions, will make many fascinating discoveries." (PW Reviews)
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Life changing : how humans are altering life on Earth
by Helen Pilcher
What it's about: Explores the changing relationship between humans and the natural world, and reveals how, with evidence-based thinking, humans can help life change for the better.
Reviews say: "Combining her professional expertise in stem cell biology with an unlikely second career as a stand-up comic, Pilcher’s amusing yet grounded excursion into the essential ways humans, animals, plants, and microorganisms must coexist is both a rich and riotous popular science trove well worth contemplating." (Booklist)
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| The Loneliest Polar Bear: A True Story of Survival and Peril on the Edge of a Warming... by Kale WilliamsIntroducing: Nora, the first surviving polar bear cub at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium; and the "Nora Moms," a team of zoo employees that hand-raised the cub against steep odds after her mother abandoned her.
Media buzz: The Loneliest Polar Bear originated as a five-part multimedia story in The Oregonian.
You might also like: James Raffan's Ice Walker, which vividly depicts a polar bear family's struggle to survive in a world imperiled by climate change. |
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The human cosmos : civilization and the stars
by Jo Marchant
What it's about: Revealing how early cultures celebrated the mysteries of a night sky now hidden by today’s pollution and tech, the best-selling author invites readers to reconnect the human experience to the remarkable cosmic cycles that shaped it.
Is it for you? Yes! "Though tied together by astronomy, this thematic, engaging overview of our stars and skies has something for all readers of geography, exploration, religion, philosophy, and politics." (LJ Reviews)
Reviews say: "In a tour de force...Marchant argues that we need to experience the awe evoked by the unveiled night sky so that we, once again, feel profoundly connected to the cosmos and, more crucially, to earthly life, which is precious, vulnerable, and in our care." (Booklist)
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