| Super Volcanoes: What They Reveal about Earth and the Worlds Beyond by Robin George AndrewsWhat it's about: A science journalist with a doctorate in volcanology explains volcanic processes while taking readers on a vividly descriptive tour of notable eruptions on Earth and elsewhere in the solar system.
You might also like: Natalie Starkey's Fire and Ice: The Volcanoes of the Solar System.
Did you know? In 2017, researchers attempted to determine how many volcano-related fatalities have occurred in the past 500 years and came up with a final tally of 278,368. |
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| Atlas of the Invisible: Maps & Graphics That Will Change How You See the World by James CheshireWhat it is: a thought-provoking and engaging atlas offering "an ode to the unseen, to a world of information that cannot be conveyed through text or numbers alone."
What's inside: colorful, eye-opening maps and infographics that chart everything from airplane turbulence and melting glaciers to happiness levels and use of bike share programs. |
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| Underwater Wild: My Octopus Teacher's Extraordinary World by Craig Foster and Ross FrylinckWelcome to: the Great African Sea Forest, a vast kelp forest located off the coast of Cape Town, South Africa, whose depths filmmaker Craig Foster and diver Ross Frylink spent years exploring and documenting.
Don't miss: the many gorgeous photographs of this mysterious underwater world.
About the authors: Craig Foster is the filmmaker behind the Academy Award-winning documentary My Octopus Teacher; Ross Frylinck is a photographer and free-diver who started the Wavescape Ocean Festival. |
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| The Last Winter: The Scientists, Adventurers, Journeymen, and Mavericks Trying to Save... by Porter FoxContains: an immersive blend of travel writing, history, and climate science, and sobering reflections on the end of winter as we know it.
Featuring: a sprawling cast of "scientists, ranchers, adventurers, vagabonds, time travelers, hunters, and guides" who live and work in the coldest and most inhospitable places on Earth.
Further reading: Bjorn Vassnes' Kingdom of Frost; Dahr Jamail's The End of Ice. |
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| The Complete Guide to Absolutely Everything: Adventures in Math and Science by Adam Rutherford and Hannah FryWhat it's about: a geneticist and a mathematician explain everyday things, both big (what is time?) and small (do our dogs really love us?).
About the authors: Adam Rutherford (A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived) and Hannah Fry (Hello World) are the cohosts of the BBC Radio show The Curious Cases of Rutherford & Fry.
Includes: entertaining sidebars and conversational footnotes full of fascinating trivia. |
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| The Everybody Ensemble: Donkeys, Essays, and Other Pandemoniums by Amy LeachWhat it is: an exuberant, wide-ranging miscellany of essays, poems, and other short pieces by Whiting Award-winning writer Amy Leach.
For fans of: Aimee Nezhukumatathil's World of Wonders, Annie Dillard's Teaching a Stone to Talk.
Want a taste? "But however current you feel, remember that everyone is as contemporary as everyone else, and as temporary." |
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| A Bigger Picture: My Fight to Bring a New African Voice to the Climate Crisis by Vanessa NakateIntroducing: Ugandan activist Vanessa Nakate, one of the founders of the Rise Up Climate Movement.
The moment of truth: Getting cropped out of a photo taken at the World Economic Forum in Davos proved to be a turning point for Nakate, one of the few Black, non-European attendees.
The takeaway: Africans and other denizens of the Global South (who are disproportionally impacted by climate change) deserve to play a bigger role in shaping climate policy, which is currently dominated by white Western voices. |
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