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The Ethnobotanical: A World Tour of Indigenous Plant Knowledge by Sarah Edwards Western science has 'discovered' and named innumerable plant species over the course of its colonial history. To many Indigenous peoples, however, plants have been recognized for centuries as sentient beings, imbued with spirit and agency to help humanity. Publishing in partnership with the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, The Ethnobotanical offers a unique and beautiful perspective on plants and their roles in the lives of peoples from across the planet.
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| Total Garbage: How We Can Fix Our Waste and Heal Our World by Edward HumesPulitzer Prize-winning journalist Edward Humes reveals the wasteful habits of modern life and offers numerous examples of communities pursuing more sustainable futures in this thought-provoking and ultimately hopeful book. Try this next: Oliver Franklin-Wallis' Wasteland. |
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Nomad Century: How Climate Migration will Reshape our World by Gaia VinceDrawing on a career of environmental reporting and over two years of travel to the front lines of climate migration across the globe, an award-winning science journalist, in this urgent call-to-action, discusses the underreported, seismic consequences of climate change and how it will reshape us all.
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| Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life by Jason RobertsScience writer Jason Roberts chronicles the efforts of rival 18th-century scientists Carl Linnaeus and George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon to classify living organisms in this "enthralling look at a pivotal period" (Publishers Weekly) in the history of science. |
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| The Backyard Bird Chronicles by Amy Tan; foreword by David Allen SibleyAcclaimed author Amy Tan presents her lovingly illustrated bird journal, which captures a parade of avian visitors to her northern California backyard. |
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The Plant Hunter: A Scientist's Quest for Nature's Next Medicines by Cassandra Leah QuaveWeaving together science, botany and an adventure-filled memoir to recount her own journey, a leading medical ethnobotanist, who studies plants to treat life-threatening illnesses, searches for natural compounds that could help save us from the antibiotic-resistant microbes that plague us all.
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