Životní prostředí

Zdraví naší planety ovlivňuje každý aspekt lidské existence, od jídla na našich talířích až po vzduch, který dýcháme, a nespočet druhů, se kterými sdílíme Zemi. Tyto důležité knihy zkoumají křehkou rovnováhu našeho přírodního světa a nabízejí praktickou moudrost pro udržitelnější život, ať už prostřednictvím vědomého stravování, snižování odpadu nebo pochopení dopadu lidstva na naše omezené zdroje.

Životní prostředí Shrnutí knih

A Half-Built Garden

od Ruthanna Emrys • 2022

Aliens land offering the stars, but a mother refuses to abandon the Earth she still tends.

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🔆 Solarpunk 👽 First Contact 🏡 Found Family 🌱 Ecological Restoration 👩‍👧 Parenting In Crisis

A Half-Built Garden

Aliens land offering the stars, but a mother refuses to abandon the Earth she still tends.

od Ruthanna Emrys 2022 352 stran

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2 000+ hodnocení

🔆 Solarpunk 👽 First Contact 🏡 Found Family 🌱 Ecological Restoration 👩‍👧 Parenting In Crisis

International Organizations

od Margaret P. Karns • 2004

How global cooperation actually works: the UN, regional bodies, and the NGOs bridging state limits.

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🏛️ Global Governance 🏢 International Organizations 🤝 Multilateralism 🇺🇳 United Nations 📚 IR Theory

International Organizations

How global cooperation actually works: the UN, regional bodies, and the NGOs bridging state limits.

od Margaret P. Karns 2004 603 stran

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🏛️ Global Governance 🏢 International Organizations 🤝 Multilateralism 🇺🇳 United Nations 📚 IR Theory

Eating Tomorrow

od Timothy A. Wise • 2019

Agribusiness starves farmers and the planet. Peasant-led farming is already fixing it.

3.78

🍽️ Food Politics 🏢 Agribusiness Critique 🌾 Food Sovereignty 🏞️ Land Grabbing 🌱 Agro-Ecology

Eating Tomorrow

Agribusiness starves farmers and the planet. Peasant-led farming is already fixing it.

od Timothy A. Wise 2019 335 stran

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78 hodnocení

🍽️ Food Politics 🏢 Agribusiness Critique 🌾 Food Sovereignty 🏞️ Land Grabbing 🌱 Agro-Ecology

The Spell of the Sensuous

od David Abram • 1996

The alphabet didn't just capture speech. It taught us the natural world had nothing to say.

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🌀 Phenomenology 🌍 Environmental Philosophy 🦊 Animism 👁️ Embodied Perception 🌿 Deep Ecology

The Spell of the Sensuous

The alphabet didn't just capture speech. It taught us the natural world had nothing to say.

od David Abram 1996 368 stran

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5 000+ hodnocení

🌀 Phenomenology 🌍 Environmental Philosophy 🦊 Animism 👁️ Embodied Perception 🌿 Deep Ecology

Restoration Agriculture

od Mark Shepard • 2013

Twice corn's calories at one-third the cost: building a farm that restores the land.

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🧑‍🌾 Regenerative Agriculture 🌳 Agroforestry 💧 Keyline Design 🐄 Holistic Grazing 🌱 Plant Breeding

Restoration Agriculture

Twice corn's calories at one-third the cost: building a farm that restores the land.

od Mark Shepard 2013 313 stran

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🧑‍🌾 Regenerative Agriculture 🌳 Agroforestry 💧 Keyline Design 🐄 Holistic Grazing 🌱 Plant Breeding

Planet on Fire

od Mathew Lawrence • 2021

Your carbon footprint is a distraction. The climate fight is about who owns the economy.

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🏛️ Environmental Politics 💰 Political Economy 🌿 Green New Deal 🔄 Just Transition ⚖️ Climate Justice

Planet on Fire

Your carbon footprint is a distraction. The climate fight is about who owns the economy.

od Mathew Lawrence 2021 289 stran

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173 hodnocení

🏛️ Environmental Politics 💰 Political Economy 🌿 Green New Deal 🔄 Just Transition ⚖️ Climate Justice

The Backyard Parables

od Margaret Roach • 2013

What dies in the garden teaches what survives in you. Three decades of digging both.

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🪴 Garden Memoir 🌿 Nature Writing 🍂 Seasonal Living 🧘 Mindful Practice 🐝 Ecological Gardening

The Backyard Parables

What dies in the garden teaches what survives in you. Three decades of digging both.

od Margaret Roach 2013 288 stran

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436 hodnocení

🪴 Garden Memoir 🌿 Nature Writing 🍂 Seasonal Living 🧘 Mindful Practice 🐝 Ecological Gardening

The Simple Beauty of the Unexpected

od Marcelo Gleiser • 2016

In a trout stream, a physicist discovers that the unknown is meaning's source, not its enemy.

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176

🧪 Natural Philosophy 🕊️ Science And Spirituality 🎣 Fly-Fishing ❓ Limits Of Knowledge 🌿 Mindfulness In Nature

The Simple Beauty of the Unexpected

In a trout stream, a physicist discovers that the unknown is meaning's source, not its enemy.

od Marcelo Gleiser 2016 192 stran

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176 hodnocení

🧪 Natural Philosophy 🕊️ Science And Spirituality 🎣 Fly-Fishing ❓ Limits Of Knowledge 🌿 Mindfulness In Nature

Beyond Money

od Anitra Nelson • 2022

Money is not a neutral tool. It is a growth engine incompatible with a living planet.

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🏛️ Postcapitalism 📉 Degrowth 🤝 Commoning 🪙 Money Critique 🗳️ Direct Democracy

Beyond Money

Money is not a neutral tool. It is a growth engine incompatible with a living planet.

od Anitra Nelson 2022 232 stran

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24 hodnocení

🏛️ Postcapitalism 📉 Degrowth 🤝 Commoning 🪙 Money Critique 🗳️ Direct Democracy

Diagnosis

od Jane M. Hightower • 2008

Your tuna sandwich contains a neurotoxin, and the government knew it long before your doctor did.

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🔬 Environmental Toxicology 🏛️ Public Health Policy 💼 Regulatory Capture 🍽️ Food Politics 🔍 Medical Detective Stories

Diagnosis

Your tuna sandwich contains a neurotoxin, and the government knew it long before your doctor did.

od Jane M. Hightower 2008 328 stran

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34 hodnocení

🔬 Environmental Toxicology 🏛️ Public Health Policy 💼 Regulatory Capture 🍽️ Food Politics 🔍 Medical Detective Stories

Domesticated

od Richard C. Francis • 2015

Selecting for tameness remakes body, brain, and behavior. The same force may have shaped us.

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🧬 Evolutionary Biology 🐄 Domestication Science 🏗️ Niche Construction 🧠 Self Domestication 🧪 Evo Devo

Domesticated

Selecting for tameness remakes body, brain, and behavior. The same force may have shaped us.

od Richard C. Francis 2015 498 stran

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🧬 Evolutionary Biology 🐄 Domestication Science 🏗️ Niche Construction 🧠 Self Domestication 🧪 Evo Devo

Six Modern Plagues and How We Are Causing Them

od Mark Jerome Walters • 2003

Epidemics do not strike randomly. They follow the roads we built and the forests we cut.

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🦠 Disease Ecology 🌍 Environmental Health 🐒 Zoonotic Diseases 💊 Antibiotic Resistance 🌿 Biodiversity Loss

Six Modern Plagues and How We Are Causing Them

Epidemics do not strike randomly. They follow the roads we built and the forests we cut.

od Mark Jerome Walters 2003 215 stran

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🦠 Disease Ecology 🌍 Environmental Health 🐒 Zoonotic Diseases 💊 Antibiotic Resistance 🌿 Biodiversity Loss

Blue Mars

od Kim Stanley Robinson • 1996

Mars is free. Aging founders race to write a constitution as Earth drowns and memory fades.

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🏛️ Political Science Fiction 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Generational Saga 🌍 Terraforming 🔴 Colonized Mars 🌊 Quiet Epic

Blue Mars

Mars is free. Aging founders race to write a constitution as Earth drowns and memory fades.

od Kim Stanley Robinson 1996 768 stran

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🏛️ Political Science Fiction 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Generational Saga 🌍 Terraforming 🔴 Colonized Mars 🌊 Quiet Epic

Sara Snow's Fresh Living

od Sara Snow • 2009

Toxins in your toothpaste, chemicals in your crib: a room-by-room detox for the whole house.

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🏡 Green Home 🧪 Non-Toxic Home 👶 Eco-Friendly Parenting 🌾 Modern Homesteading 🥗 Organic Eating

Sara Snow's Fresh Living

Toxins in your toothpaste, chemicals in your crib: a room-by-room detox for the whole house.

od Sara Snow 2009 250 stran

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130 hodnocení

🏡 Green Home 🧪 Non-Toxic Home 👶 Eco-Friendly Parenting 🌾 Modern Homesteading 🥗 Organic Eating

Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money

od Woody Tasch • 2008

Fast money erodes soil and community. The argument for investing at the speed of compost.

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🌱 Regenerative Agriculture 🏘️ Local Food Systems 💰 Sustainable Investing 🐌 Slow Food Movement ⏳ Patient Capital

Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money

Fast money erodes soil and community. The argument for investing at the speed of compost.

od Woody Tasch 2008 240 stran

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🌱 Regenerative Agriculture 🏘️ Local Food Systems 💰 Sustainable Investing 🐌 Slow Food Movement ⏳ Patient Capital

Plastic Purge

od Michael SanClements • 2014

A scientist's practical guide to purging plastic from your body, your food, and the ocean.

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436

🚮 Plastic Pollution 🩺 Environmental Health ♻️ Waste Reduction 🛒 Consumer Guide 📈 Incremental Change

Plastic Purge

A scientist's practical guide to purging plastic from your body, your food, and the ocean.

od Michael SanClements 2014 256 stran

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436 hodnocení

🚮 Plastic Pollution 🩺 Environmental Health ♻️ Waste Reduction 🛒 Consumer Guide 📈 Incremental Change

40 Chances

od Howard G. Buffett • 2013

Forty planting seasons. What a farmer learned about why food aid fails and what actually works.

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🌍 International Development 🌾 Sustainable Agriculture 🏞️ Soil Conservation 📜 Land Rights 🛒 Market-Based Aid

40 Chances

Forty planting seasons. What a farmer learned about why food aid fails and what actually works.

od Howard G. Buffett 2013 464 stran

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🌍 International Development 🌾 Sustainable Agriculture 🏞️ Soil Conservation 📜 Land Rights 🛒 Market-Based Aid

Science Under Siege

od Michael E. Mann • 2025

Five forces are dismantling science. A scientist who has faced them all draws the battle lines.

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345

🔬 Science Denialism 🌍 Climate Disinformation 🏛️ Institutional Capture 📢 Science Communication ⚔️ Disinformation Warfare

Science Under Siege

Five forces are dismantling science. A scientist who has faced them all draws the battle lines.

od Michael E. Mann 2025 368 stran

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345 hodnocení

🔬 Science Denialism 🌍 Climate Disinformation 🏛️ Institutional Capture 📢 Science Communication ⚔️ Disinformation Warfare

Dinosaurs

od David E. Fastovsky • 2009

The textbook that treats dinosaurs as animals, not monsters, and follows them into the sky.

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193

🦕 Paleontology 🦴 Fossil Record 🦖 Dinosaur Biology ☄️ Mass Extinctions 🌿 Phylogeny

Dinosaurs

The textbook that treats dinosaurs as animals, not monsters, and follows them into the sky.

od David E. Fastovsky 2009 394 stran

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193 hodnocení

🦕 Paleontology 🦴 Fossil Record 🦖 Dinosaur Biology ☄️ Mass Extinctions 🌿 Phylogeny

The Great Acceleration

od Robert Colvile • 2016

Why everything from politics to dinner is getting faster, and why the middle ground is disappearing.

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📈 Social Acceleration 📱 Attention Economy 🌊 Information Overload ⏳ Short-Term Thinking 🧠 Behavioral Psychology

The Great Acceleration

Why everything from politics to dinner is getting faster, and why the middle ground is disappearing.

od Robert Colvile 2016 401 stran

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165 hodnocení

📈 Social Acceleration 📱 Attention Economy 🌊 Information Overload ⏳ Short-Term Thinking 🧠 Behavioral Psychology

Active Hope

od Joanna Macy • 2012

Despair for the world is a sign of sanity. A practice for turning that pain into action.

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🏔️ Deep Ecology 🌍 Climate Grief 🌿 Ecospirituality 💪 Activist Resilience 🧘 Engaged Buddhism

Active Hope

Despair for the world is a sign of sanity. A practice for turning that pain into action.

od Joanna Macy 2012 272 stran

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1 000+ hodnocení

🏔️ Deep Ecology 🌍 Climate Grief 🌿 Ecospirituality 💪 Activist Resilience 🧘 Engaged Buddhism

Gorgeously Green

od Sophie Uliano • 2008

From organic wine to toxin-free lipstick: the no-sacrifice guide to living green and loving it.

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🌿 Natural Beauty 👗 Sustainable Fashion 🌱 Eco Habits 🏠 Non-Toxic Home 🥑 Mindful Eating

Gorgeously Green

From organic wine to toxin-free lipstick: the no-sacrifice guide to living green and loving it.

od Sophie Uliano 2008 336 stran

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🌿 Natural Beauty 👗 Sustainable Fashion 🌱 Eco Habits 🏠 Non-Toxic Home 🥑 Mindful Eating

The Triumph of Doubt

od David Michaels • 2020

Tobacco wrote the manual for burying inconvenient science. Every other industry now uses it.

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222

🏭 Corporate Malfeasance 🩺 Public Health Policy 🤥 Science Denialism 📢 Disinformation Campaigns 🏛️ Regulatory Capture

The Triumph of Doubt

Tobacco wrote the manual for burying inconvenient science. Every other industry now uses it.

od David Michaels 2020 344 stran

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222 hodnocení

🏭 Corporate Malfeasance 🩺 Public Health Policy 🤥 Science Denialism 📢 Disinformation Campaigns 🏛️ Regulatory Capture

The Druidry Handbook

od John Michael Greer • 2006

A Druid's threefold path: seasonal ritual, daily meditation, and living like the land depends on it.

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🌳 Modern Druidry 🍃 Nature Spirituality 🌀 Celtic Spirituality ☀️ Seasonal Rituals 🌲 Tree Lore

The Druidry Handbook

A Druid's threefold path: seasonal ritual, daily meditation, and living like the land depends on it.

od John Michael Greer 2006 272 stran

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🌳 Modern Druidry 🍃 Nature Spirituality 🌀 Celtic Spirituality ☀️ Seasonal Rituals 🌲 Tree Lore

The Great Derangement

od Amitav Ghosh • 2016

Fiction cannot hold a cyclone. Politics cannot hold a planet. A novelist names the cultural refusal.

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🏛️ Climate Politics 📚 Environmental Humanities 🌏 Postcolonial Critique 🌍 Anthropocene Critique 🌿 Ecocriticism

The Great Derangement

Fiction cannot hold a cyclone. Politics cannot hold a planet. A novelist names the cultural refusal.

od Amitav Ghosh 2016 196 stran

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5 000+ hodnocení

🏛️ Climate Politics 📚 Environmental Humanities 🌏 Postcolonial Critique 🌍 Anthropocene Critique 🌿 Ecocriticism

Industrial Society and Its Future

od Ted Kaczynski • 2024

Modern comfort is a trap that erases human purpose. The only escape: abolishing technology.

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203

📜 Anarcho-Primitivism ⚙️ Critique Of Technology 🌍 Radical Environmentalism 🧬 Technological Determinism 🕹️ Behavioral Control

Industrial Society and Its Future

Modern comfort is a trap that erases human purpose. The only escape: abolishing technology.

od Ted Kaczynski 2024 151 stran

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203 hodnocení

📜 Anarcho-Primitivism ⚙️ Critique Of Technology 🌍 Radical Environmentalism 🧬 Technological Determinism 🕹️ Behavioral Control

How to Talk to a Science Denier

od Lee McIntyre • 2021

Science denial isn't an information problem. It's an identity trap, and more facts spring it.

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🔬 Science Denial 🗣️ Science Communication 🛡️ Identity-Protective Cognition 🗳️ Post-Truth Politics 👁️ Conspiracy Theories

How to Talk to a Science Denier

Science denial isn't an information problem. It's an identity trap, and more facts spring it.

od Lee McIntyre 2021 264 stran

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1 000+ hodnocení

🔬 Science Denial 🗣️ Science Communication 🛡️ Identity-Protective Cognition 🗳️ Post-Truth Politics 👁️ Conspiracy Theories

The New World Economy

od Randy Charles Epping • 2020

One disruption anywhere now hits everywhere. A map of the new global economy for beginners.

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152

🌐 Global Economics 📚 Economic Literacy 💻 Digital Economy 🤖 Technological Disruption ⚖️ Economic Inequality

The New World Economy

One disruption anywhere now hits everywhere. A map of the new global economy for beginners.

od Randy Charles Epping 2020 351 stran

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152 hodnocení

🌐 Global Economics 📚 Economic Literacy 💻 Digital Economy 🤖 Technological Disruption ⚖️ Economic Inequality

Food Sanity

od David Ross Friedman • 2018

Milk, red meat, and Paleo: three food claims a doctor dismantles, and what to eat instead.

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118

🥬 Plant-Based Nutrition 🧩 Dietary Myths 🏭 Food Industry Critique ⚖️ Weight Loss Myths 🌱 Whole Food Plant-Based

Food Sanity

Milk, red meat, and Paleo: three food claims a doctor dismantles, and what to eat instead.

od David Ross Friedman 2018 352 stran

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118 hodnocení

🥬 Plant-Based Nutrition 🧩 Dietary Myths 🏭 Food Industry Critique ⚖️ Weight Loss Myths 🌱 Whole Food Plant-Based

We Will Be Jaguars

od Nemonte Nenquimo • 2024

Abused by missionaries, guided by a jaguar vision, she built the alliance that beat Big Oil.

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🪶 Indigenous Resistance 🛢️ Extractive Industries 🌳 Amazon Conservation 🧠 Ancestral Wisdom ⚖️ Land Rights

We Will Be Jaguars

Abused by missionaries, guided by a jaguar vision, she built the alliance that beat Big Oil.

od Nemonte Nenquimo 2024 368 stran

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11 000+ hodnocení

🪶 Indigenous Resistance 🛢️ Extractive Industries 🌳 Amazon Conservation 🧠 Ancestral Wisdom ⚖️ Land Rights

Deadliest Enemy

od Michael T. Osterholm • 2017

Microbes evolve in 20 minutes; humans take 25 years. That gap is our deadliest vulnerability.

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🦠 Infectious Disease 🌍 Global Health Policy 🚨 Pandemic Preparedness 💊 Antimicrobial Resistance 💉 Vaccine Development

Deadliest Enemy

Microbes evolve in 20 minutes; humans take 25 years. That gap is our deadliest vulnerability.

od Michael T. Osterholm 2017 352 stran

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🦠 Infectious Disease 🌍 Global Health Policy 🚨 Pandemic Preparedness 💊 Antimicrobial Resistance 💉 Vaccine Development

On Looking

od Alexandra Horowitz • 2013

The same city block holds eleven unseen worlds. A walk with those who can see them.

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👁️ Sensory Perception 🌿 Nature Writing 🔍 Everyday Observation 🏙️ Urban Ecology 🎯 Selective Attention

On Looking

The same city block holds eleven unseen worlds. A walk with those who can see them.

od Alexandra Horowitz 2013 308 stran

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5 000+ hodnocení

👁️ Sensory Perception 🌿 Nature Writing 🔍 Everyday Observation 🏙️ Urban Ecology 🎯 Selective Attention

Humus

od Gaspard Kœnig • 2023

Two students bond over earthworms and pledge to save dying soil, but the world has other plans.

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🌿 Eco-Literary Fiction 👥 Dual Protagonists 🤝 Male Friendship 🔥 Radicalization Arc 🏚️ Failed Utopia

Humus

Two students bond over earthworms and pledge to save dying soil, but the world has other plans.

od Gaspard Kœnig 2023 384 stran

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🌿 Eco-Literary Fiction 👥 Dual Protagonists 🤝 Male Friendship 🔥 Radicalization Arc 🏚️ Failed Utopia

Renewable Energy

od Bruce Usher • 2019

The energy transition was stalled by storage. The solution is already in millions of garages.

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302

☀️ Renewable Energy 🔄 Energy Transition 📉 Technology Cost Curves 🌍 Climate Economics 📜 Energy Policy

Renewable Energy

The energy transition was stalled by storage. The solution is already in millions of garages.

od Bruce Usher 2019 224 stran

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302 hodnocení

☀️ Renewable Energy 🔄 Energy Transition 📉 Technology Cost Curves 🌍 Climate Economics 📜 Energy Policy

Creating a Forest Garden

od Martin Crawford • 2010

A garden that works like a forest: seven edible layers, self-building soil, zero tillage.

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433

🌳 Forest Gardening 🔄 Permaculture 🌱 Perennial Food Systems 🧩 Polyculture Design 🪱 Soil Ecology

Creating a Forest Garden

A garden that works like a forest: seven edible layers, self-building soil, zero tillage.

od Martin Crawford 2010 384 stran

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433 hodnocení

🌳 Forest Gardening 🔄 Permaculture 🌱 Perennial Food Systems 🧩 Polyculture Design 🪱 Soil Ecology

Life After Cars

od Sarah Goodyear • 2025

The cost of car dependency is hidden in plain sight. What happens when we build for people instead?

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🚗 Auto Culture 🏙️ Livable Cities 🚲 Tactical Urbanism 🅿️ Parking Reform 🚸 Traffic Safety

Life After Cars

The cost of car dependency is hidden in plain sight. What happens when we build for people instead?

od Sarah Goodyear 2025 300 stran

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1 000+ hodnocení

🚗 Auto Culture 🏙️ Livable Cities 🚲 Tactical Urbanism 🅿️ Parking Reform 🚸 Traffic Safety

Escape from Rome

od Walter Scheidel • 2019

China kept rebuilding its empire. Europe never rebuilt Rome. That difference changed everything.

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🏛️ Comparative History 🌍 Macro History 🏗️ State Formation 🏚️ Imperial Collapse 🗺️ Geographic Determinism

Escape from Rome

China kept rebuilding its empire. Europe never rebuilt Rome. That difference changed everything.

od Walter Scheidel 2019 670 stran

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482 hodnocení

🏛️ Comparative History 🌍 Macro History 🏗️ State Formation 🏚️ Imperial Collapse 🗺️ Geographic Determinism

The Fight in the Fields

od Susan Ferriss • 1997

How a migrant farmworker built a movement so large that 40,000 people marched at his funeral.

4.00

🏭 Labor History 🌎 Chicano History 🌾 Agricultural Labor ✊ Grassroots Organizing ☮️ Nonviolent Resistance

The Fight in the Fields

How a migrant farmworker built a movement so large that 40,000 people marched at his funeral.

od Susan Ferriss 1997 352 stran

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99 hodnocení

🏭 Labor History 🌎 Chicano History 🌾 Agricultural Labor ✊ Grassroots Organizing ☮️ Nonviolent Resistance

The Secret Life of the Universe

od Nathalie A. Cabrol • 2024

Five thousand exoplanets and a silent cosmos: the search for life is a mirror of Earth's fragility.

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🛸 Astrobiology 🚀 Space Exploration 🧬 Origin Of Life 🪐 Exoplanets 🌎 Planetary Habitability

The Secret Life of the Universe

Five thousand exoplanets and a silent cosmos: the search for life is a mirror of Earth's fragility.

od Nathalie A. Cabrol 2024 320 stran

4.03

500+ hodnocení

🛸 Astrobiology 🚀 Space Exploration 🧬 Origin Of Life 🪐 Exoplanets 🌎 Planetary Habitability

Becoming Animal

od David Abram • 2010

Literacy silenced the land; reconnection runs through the body, the birds, and the air.

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🌍 Environmental Philosophy 🪨 Animism 🌀 Phenomenology 🐺 More-Than-Human World 🌲 Deep Ecology

Becoming Animal

Literacy silenced the land; reconnection runs through the body, the birds, and the air.

od David Abram 2010 336 stran

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1 000+ hodnocení

🌍 Environmental Philosophy 🪨 Animism 🌀 Phenomenology 🐺 More-Than-Human World 🌲 Deep Ecology

The Cheese Trap

od Neal D. Barnard • 1992

Cheese hides an opiate-like trap that fattens and sickens; here's how to escape.

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🧀 Dairy-Free Diets 🥬 Plant-Based Nutrition 🧠 Food Addiction 🐄 Factory Farming 🏛️ Food Politics

The Cheese Trap

Cheese hides an opiate-like trap that fattens and sickens; here's how to escape.

od Neal D. Barnard 1992 320 stran

4.14

1 000+ hodnocení

🧀 Dairy-Free Diets 🥬 Plant-Based Nutrition 🧠 Food Addiction 🐄 Factory Farming 🏛️ Food Politics

Fungi

od Lynne Boddy • 2024

Fungi wire forests together, gave us penicillin, and recycle the dead. 90% remain unknown.

4.23

🧫 Mycology 📖 Natural History 🔬 Hidden Kingdoms 🤝 Symbiosis ♻️ Decomposers

Fungi

Fungi wire forests together, gave us penicillin, and recycle the dead. 90% remain unknown.

od Lynne Boddy 2024 557 stran

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69 hodnocení

🧫 Mycology 📖 Natural History 🔬 Hidden Kingdoms 🤝 Symbiosis ♻️ Decomposers

After 1177 B.C.

od Eric H. Cline • 2024

Not every civilization collapsed in 1177 B.C. Egypt barely coped; Phoenicia and Cyprus thrived.

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🌊 Ancient Mediterranean 💥 Societal Collapse 🔄 Resilience Theory 🌡️ Climate And Civilization ⛏️ Archaeological History

After 1177 B.C.

Not every civilization collapsed in 1177 B.C. Egypt barely coped; Phoenicia and Cyprus thrived.

od Eric H. Cline 2024 352 stran

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🌊 Ancient Mediterranean 💥 Societal Collapse 🔄 Resilience Theory 🌡️ Climate And Civilization ⛏️ Archaeological History

Empathy

od Roman Krznaric

We are not selfish by nature: the science of empathy and a program for social change.

🧠 Empathy Cultivation ⚖️ Moral Psychology 🪞 Mirror Neurons 👟 Perspective Taking 👂 Active Listening

Empathy

We are not selfish by nature: the science of empathy and a program for social change.

od Roman Krznaric

🧠 Empathy Cultivation ⚖️ Moral Psychology 🪞 Mirror Neurons 👟 Perspective Taking 👂 Active Listening

Coyote America

od Dan Flores • 2016

America's century-long war on coyotes failed so completely they now roam downtown Chicago.

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🐺 Animal Histories 🧬 Evolutionary Adaptation 🏙️ Urban Ecology ⚡ Human-Wildlife Conflict 🎭 Trickster Mythology

Coyote America

America's century-long war on coyotes failed so completely they now roam downtown Chicago.

od Dan Flores 2016 271 stran

4.08

7 000+ hodnocení

🐺 Animal Histories 🧬 Evolutionary Adaptation 🏙️ Urban Ecology ⚡ Human-Wildlife Conflict 🎭 Trickster Mythology

Nature's Metropolis

od William Cronon • 1991

The grain and hogs flowing through Chicago didn't just feed the nation, they rewired the continent.

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🌿 Environmental History 🗺️ Economic Geography 🏙️ Urban Systems 📦 Commodity History 🏭 Industrial Food

Nature's Metropolis

The grain and hogs flowing through Chicago didn't just feed the nation, they rewired the continent.

od William Cronon 1991 592 stran

4.26

3 000+ hodnocení

🌿 Environmental History 🗺️ Economic Geography 🏙️ Urban Systems 📦 Commodity History 🏭 Industrial Food

The Consequences of Modernity

od Anthony Giddens • 1988

Modernity is not ending. It is a runaway machine gaining speed, and no one is steering.

3.79

500+

🏛️ Modernity Theory ⏳ Late Modernity ⚠️ Risk Society 🌐 Globalization Studies 🤝 Trust And Modernity

The Consequences of Modernity

Modernity is not ending. It is a runaway machine gaining speed, and no one is steering.

od Anthony Giddens 1988 200 stran

3.79

500+ hodnocení

🏛️ Modernity Theory ⏳ Late Modernity ⚠️ Risk Society 🌐 Globalization Studies 🤝 Trust And Modernity

All New Square Foot Gardening

od Mel Bartholomew • 1981

A grid-based method that uses 80% less space and 90% less water, and yields more food.

4.16

8 000+

🏡 Small Space Gardening 🪴 Raised Bed Gardening 🥕 Vegetable Gardening 📐 Intensive Planting 🌿 Vertical Gardening

All New Square Foot Gardening

A grid-based method that uses 80% less space and 90% less water, and yields more food.

od Mel Bartholomew 1981 272 stran

4.16

8 000+ hodnocení

🏡 Small Space Gardening 🪴 Raised Bed Gardening 🥕 Vegetable Gardening 📐 Intensive Planting 🌿 Vertical Gardening

Vanishing Treasures

od Katherine Rundell • 2024

Swifts that never land, sharks that outlive empires. What we're losing, and the hope we owe.

4.15

4 000+

🦏 Endangered Species 📖 Natural History 🧠 Animal Intelligence 🤝 Human-Animal Bond 🌍 Climate Crisis

Vanishing Treasures

Swifts that never land, sharks that outlive empires. What we're losing, and the hope we owe.

od Katherine Rundell 2024 224 stran

4.15

4 000+ hodnocení

🦏 Endangered Species 📖 Natural History 🧠 Animal Intelligence 🤝 Human-Animal Bond 🌍 Climate Crisis

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

od Annie Dillard • 1974

A year beside one creek reveals a world where grace and violence are the same water.

4.08

30 000+

🍃 Nature Writing 👁️ Ways Of Seeing 🌿 American Transcendentalism ⛪ Natural Theology 🧘 Meditative Essay

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

A year beside one creek reveals a world where grace and violence are the same water.

od Annie Dillard 1974 288 stran

4.08

30 000+ hodnocení

🍃 Nature Writing 👁️ Ways Of Seeing 🌿 American Transcendentalism ⛪ Natural Theology 🧘 Meditative Essay

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