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Nature and Science October 2026 |
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Beyond Darwin: How Epigenetics, Quantum Science, and Cooperation Shape Humanity's Future
by Bruce H. Lipton
For over a century, Charles Darwin's concept of 'survival of the fittest,' or life as competition, has shaped the fate of civilization. Renowned cell biologist Bruce H. Lipton, bestselling author of The Biology of Belief, presents a paradigm-shifting synthesis built on three key fields unknown to Darwin: epigenetics, quantum physics, and fractal geometry.
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Noticing: Intimate Encounters with the Natural World
by Richard Louv
The internationally bestselling author of Last Child in the Woods seeks a deeper personal connection to nature during this time of ecoanxiety and upheaval by exploring his own backyard. Long beloved for his insightful, inspiring nature writing, Richard Louv returns with his most personal book yet. Noticing is about discovering who you are by exploring the natural world. Louv shows how, by tapping into the thirty or more human senses we have, readers can develop skills--sensory, scientific, artistic, and spiritual--to see and experience the otherworlds of nature.
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After Shock: Learning to Reinhabit My Body After Illness
by Rana Awdish
In this powerful follow-up to her bestselling memoir In Shock, a doctor asks: What does it truly mean to heal? In the aftermath of her own critical illness, physician and writer Dr. Rana Awdish finds herself oddly estranged her from her own body. Medicine has conditioned her to view sick bodies as broken objects, not as sites of meaning, mystery, and quiet wisdom. So, when her own body warns her that she'll be dead in five years, she's unsure whether to trust it enough to follow where it leads. Allowing for this kind of innate, bodily wisdom would require her to dismantle and reconfigure her entire belief system.
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| I Eat the Stars: How to Live Fully and Beautifully in a Collapsing World by Sarah WilsonIn Australian journalist Sarah Wilson’s meditation on living through an era of environmental and societal collapse, the author consults with her podcast guests -- mainly scientists, philosophers, and spiritualists -- in an attempt to grasp an idea “more useful” than hope. Wilson prefers truth (grim as it seems), enlivened by interpersonal and spiritual connectedness, and a life lived with purpose and love. Readers will find her “philosophical grappling with hard questions” (Kirkus Reviews) to be a balm for fraught times. |
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| Waste Wars: The Wild Afterlife of Your Trash by Alexander ClappA journalist based in Greece travels far and wide to uncover the filthy secrets of the garbage business. Alexander Clapp’s exposé reveals the eco-conscious “recycling” programs of wealthy northern hemisphere nations to be something a bit shadier: e-waste, plastics, and other disposables are often exported to countries in the Global South, where toxic waste poisons ecosystems and local labor is exploited. |
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| Trash Talk: An Eye-Opening Exploration of Our Planet's Dirtiest Problem by Iris GottliebWriter and illustrator Iris Gottlieb shares their fascination with trash by examining our relationship with it throughout history. Today, the trash industry is designed to keep our waste isolated from wealthier segments of society, so that many people never have to give it much thought. Gottlieb contrasts this with pre-industrial civilizations, in which people lived in proximity to waste sites and repaired many of the items that we dispose of today. Packed with the author’s illustrations, Trash Talk will have readers looking at trash in an entirely new way. |
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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. In the follow-up to his 2012 book Garbology, Humes gives detailed breakdowns of multiple categories of waste and suggestions for converting our economy into a circular model that recycles more of what it produces. |
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| Year of No Garbage: Recycling Lies, Plastic Problems, and One Woman's Trashy Journey... by Eve O. SchaubMemoirist Eve O. Schaub (Year of No Clutter) provides a detailed account of her family’s attempt to produce nothing that will end up in a landfill for an entire year. The fact that the year coincided with the COVID-19 pandemic added complicated wrinkles, like the necessity of medical waste. Schaub’s candid and occasionally funny book offers useful tips for reducing (if not eliminating) household waste alongside thoughtful explorations of consumerism and civic responsibility. |
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Trash!: A Garbageman's Story
by Simon Pare-Poupart
A Montreal garbageman's sharp and funny memoir/exposé, in which he attempts to convince people to 'stop imagining that your garbage magically disappears'. This fascinating account of twenty years in waste management paints a vivid portrait of the heroic labor, anarchic spirit, and violent conditions of the people who keep our cities clean.
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