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Nature and Science August 2025 |
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Everyday Wild : An Illustrated Guide for Mindfulness in Nature
by Bo Hunter
"A colorful, charming, and immersive guide to exploring and treasuring the complex, miraculous natural world in your own backyard and beyond. Backyard Wonders is an illustrated celebration of the vast natural diversity of the world, one that you can findby simply stepping outside. This guide to backyard (or front stoop!) ecology encourages you to notice every sight, sound, and smell-get swept away by the rustle of falling leaves, the chirping of crickets, the smell of spring rain, and the sight of the stars above-as a way of understanding the wonders of our complex, beautiful planet. Backyard Wonders encourages mindful interaction with our surroundings and embracing the simple joys offered by the great outdoors while offering tidbits of scientifica information to inform and inspire all ages. Each section-teeming with gorgeous, intricate nature illustrations-is labeled with a mindfulness prompt like "Notice the Small Things," "Taste the Wild," or "Discover Patterns," encouraging curiosity about the interactions between bugs or the grandeur of a monarch butterfly's metamorphosis and migration. Learn about foraging, sacred geometry, moon phases, animal tracks, clouds, weather, and more. As you leaf through Backyard Wonders, you will find your understandingof nature's everyday feats expanding. Let wonder and curiosity bloom as you embark on this illustrated journey of the outdoors"
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Science! / : Science As You've Never Seen It Before
by Abigail Beall
"Provide young readers with an engaging introduction to core science topics, demonstrating how all the major scientific principles fit together and using awe-inspiring illustrations to reveal how biology, chemistry and physics is used every day in the world around us. Jam-packed with spectacular scientific facts, including graphics, facts, and data boxes, this science encyclopedia is sure to delight budding young scientists"
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Robots, Cyborgs, and AI
by Mari Bolte
With a quick glance, everything seems normal. But look closer. Can you tell the difference between people and AI, cyborgs, or robots? Every day, science steps closer to creating artificial life. But how close are we—really—to replacing half our bodies with robotic parts? Can we count on robots to work for us as helpers, assistants, and servers, or are we flirting with danger just imagining the possibilities? Would there be downsides to making machines more mindful? And are there any ethical conundrums that are created as a result? If only we could send a robot to the future to find out...
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Planet Aqua : Rethinking Our Home in the Universe
by Jeremy Rifkin
What would happen if we were to awaken one day and suddenly realize that the world we live in appeared eerily alien, as if we'd been teleported to some other distant world? That frightening prospect is now. Our planetary hydrosphere, which animates all of life on Earth, is rebelling in the wake of a global warming climate, spurring biblical spring floods, devastating summer droughts, heatwaves, and wildfires and powerful autumn hurricanes and typhoons, wreaking havoc on ecosystems and society.
For too long we have misjudged the very nature of our existence and to what we owe our lifeline. We have come to believe that we live on a land planet when the reality is that we live on a water planet, and now the Earth's hydrosphere is rewilding in the throes of a changing climate, taking our species and our fellow creatures into a mass extinction event as it searches for a new equilibrium.
Jeremy Rifkin calls on us to rethink our place in the universe and realize that we live on Planet Aqua. He takes us on a new journey into the future where we will need to reassess every aspect of the way we live - how we engage nature, govern society, conceptualize economic life, educate our children, and even orient ourselves in time and space. The next stage in the human journey is to rebrand our home Planet Aqua and learn how to readapt to the waters of life.
Underpinned by robust research, this major new work by one of the world's leading public intellectuals aims to redefine the very core of our existence on Planet Aqua.
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Amphibious soul : finding the wild in a tame world
by Craig Foster
One of the world's leading natural history filmmakers shows how we can reinvigorate our lives by developing a deep connection to the Earth, nurture our individual wildness and deepen our love for all living things. 200,000 first printing.
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The comfort of crows : a backyard year
by Margaret Renkl
The beloved New York Times opinion writer and best-selling author presents this stunning literary devotional that follows the creatures and plants in her backyard over the course of the year, tracing the passing of the seasons, personal and natural. Illustrations.
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