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Thinking In Systems

av Donella H. Meadows • 2008

One hidden delay makes your thermostat swing wildly and drives business cycles too.

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🧠 Systems Thinking 🕸️ Complexity Science 🧩 Mental Models 🌱 Resilience Thinking ⚖️ Bounded Rationality

Oppslukende

Thinking In Systems

One hidden delay makes your thermostat swing wildly and drives business cycles too.

av Donella H. Meadows 2008 218 sider

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22 000+ vurderinger

🧠 Systems Thinking 🕸️ Complexity Science 🧩 Mental Models 🌱 Resilience Thinking ⚖️ Bounded Rationality

Nature, Man and Woman

av Alan W. Watts • 1991

The wall between you and nature is a Western invention. It was never really there.

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🏛️ Comparative Spirituality ☯️ Nondual Thought 🏔️ Taoist Philosophy 🌏 East-West Synthesis 🦋 Ego Transcendence

Oppslukende

Nature, Man and Woman

The wall between you and nature is a Western invention. It was never really there.

av Alan W. Watts 1991 224 sider

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1 000+ vurderinger

🏛️ Comparative Spirituality ☯️ Nondual Thought 🏔️ Taoist Philosophy 🌏 East-West Synthesis 🦋 Ego Transcendence

Silent Spring

av Rachel Carson • 1962

A biologist traced one poison through water, soil, bird, and bone, and refused to stay silent.

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🌍 Environmental Activism ☣️ Chemical Pollution 🔗 Ecosystem Thinking 🧪 Toxicology 🏭 Corporate Accountability

Silent Spring

A biologist traced one poison through water, soil, bird, and bone, and refused to stay silent.

av Rachel Carson 1962 400 sider

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55 000+ vurderinger

🌍 Environmental Activism ☣️ Chemical Pollution 🔗 Ecosystem Thinking 🧪 Toxicology 🏭 Corporate Accountability

Staying with the Trouble

av Donna J. Haraway • 2016

There is no escape from collapse, only forging ties with critters, compost, and the dead.

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🐙 Multispecies Kinship 🌿 Ecological Entanglement ♀️ Feminist Theory 🐝 More-Than-Human Ethics 🔬 Science Studies

Staying with the Trouble

There is no escape from collapse, only forging ties with critters, compost, and the dead.

av Donna J. Haraway 2016 312 sider

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2 000+ vurderinger

🐙 Multispecies Kinship 🌿 Ecological Entanglement ♀️ Feminist Theory 🐝 More-Than-Human Ethics 🔬 Science Studies

The Soundscape

av R. Murray Schafer • 1977

Civilization buried earth's oldest music in noise. A map of the lost soundscape and how to hear it.

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🎧 Acoustic Ecology 📜 Aural History 👂 Auditory Perception 📢 Noise And Society 🌳 Environmental Sound

The Soundscape

Civilization buried earth's oldest music in noise. A map of the lost soundscape and how to hear it.

av R. Murray Schafer 1977 320 sider

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500+ vurderinger

🎧 Acoustic Ecology 📜 Aural History 👂 Auditory Perception 📢 Noise And Society 🌳 Environmental Sound

Emergent Strategy

av Adrienne Maree Brown • 2017

No one commands a flock or a forest. What that means for building social movements that endure.

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🏗️ Movement Building 🔄 Systems Thinking 🕊️ Transformative Justice ✊ Black Feminism 🔬 Complexity Theory

Emergent Strategy

No one commands a flock or a forest. What that means for building social movements that endure.

av Adrienne Maree Brown 2017 280 sider

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10 000+ vurderinger

🏗️ Movement Building 🔄 Systems Thinking 🕊️ Transformative Justice ✊ Black Feminism 🔬 Complexity Theory

The Secret Wisdom of Nature

av Peter Wohlleben • 2017

Why a wolf can reroute a river, and salmon feed the forest: nature's invisible connections.

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The Secret Wisdom of Nature

Why a wolf can reroute a river, and salmon feed the forest: nature's invisible connections.

av Peter Wohlleben 2017 272 sider

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7 000+ vurderinger

Braiding Sweetgrass

av Robin Wall Kimmerer • 2013

Two sciences braided: a Potawatomi botanist on why plants are teachers and earth is a gift.

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📜 Traditional Ecological Knowledge 🎁 Gift Economy 🌿 Nature Connection 🌱 Ecological Restoration 🌍 Environmental Philosophy

Braiding Sweetgrass

Two sciences braided: a Potawatomi botanist on why plants are teachers and earth is a gift.

av Robin Wall Kimmerer 2013 408 sider

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100 000+ vurderinger

📜 Traditional Ecological Knowledge 🎁 Gift Economy 🌿 Nature Connection 🌱 Ecological Restoration 🌍 Environmental Philosophy

Deep Simplicity

av John Gribbin • 2004

Simple rules, run long enough, build a universe. A physicist shows the working.

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🧩 Complexity Science 🦋 Chaos Theory ❄️ Fractal Geometry 🕸️ Network Theory 🔄 Self-Organization

Deep Simplicity

Simple rules, run long enough, build a universe. A physicist shows the working.

av John Gribbin 2004 279 sider

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1 000+ vurderinger

🧩 Complexity Science 🦋 Chaos Theory ❄️ Fractal Geometry 🕸️ Network Theory 🔄 Self-Organization

Sacred Nature

av Karen Armstrong • 2022

Our environmental crisis is a spiritual one, and the blueprint is older than scripture.

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🌍 Comparative Religion 🌿 Environmental Philosophy 🙏 Spiritual Ecology ✝️ Ecotheology 🔮 Perennial Philosophy

Sacred Nature

Our environmental crisis is a spiritual one, and the blueprint is older than scripture.

av Karen Armstrong 2022 205 sider

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1 000+ vurderinger

🌍 Comparative Religion 🌿 Environmental Philosophy 🙏 Spiritual Ecology ✝️ Ecotheology 🔮 Perennial Philosophy

Origins

av Lewis Dartnell • 2019

Tectonic shifts, ice ages, and ancient oceans didn't set the stage. They wrote human history.

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🌍 Big History 🧬 Human Evolution 🗺️ Geographic Determinism ❄️ Climate History ⛰️ Plate Tectonics

Origins

Tectonic shifts, ice ages, and ancient oceans didn't set the stage. They wrote human history.

av Lewis Dartnell 2019 352 sider

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4 000+ vurderinger

🌍 Big History 🧬 Human Evolution 🗺️ Geographic Determinism ❄️ Climate History ⛰️ Plate Tectonics

Less Is More

av Jason Hickel • 2020

Growth is wrecking the planet, and green growth is an illusion. The case for planned shrinkage.

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🍂 Degrowth Movement 🌍 Ecological Economics 📉 Beyond GDP 🛑 Green Growth Critique ⚖️ Climate Justice

Less Is More

Growth is wrecking the planet, and green growth is an illusion. The case for planned shrinkage.

av Jason Hickel 2020 336 sider

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9 000+ vurderinger

🍂 Degrowth Movement 🌍 Ecological Economics 📉 Beyond GDP 🛑 Green Growth Critique ⚖️ Climate Justice

Life Ascending

av Nick Lane • 2009

Evolution's hardest problems, from life's origin to death itself, all have a chemical answer.

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🧬 Evolutionary Biology 🔄 Evolutionary Transitions 🌋 Origin Of Life ⏳ Deep Time 🌿 Natural History

Life Ascending

Evolution's hardest problems, from life's origin to death itself, all have a chemical answer.

av Nick Lane 2009 352 sider

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5 000+ vurderinger

🧬 Evolutionary Biology 🔄 Evolutionary Transitions 🌋 Origin Of Life ⏳ Deep Time 🌿 Natural History

Dyrenes følelsesliv

av Marc Bekoff • 2007

Elephants mourn, dolphins laugh. Animal emotions are real, and the science demands a moral answer.

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🐒 Animal Behavior 🧠 Animal Cognition 🔬 Comparative Psychology 🐘 Animal Sentience 🐄 Animal Welfare

Dyrenes følelsesliv

Elephants mourn, dolphins laugh. Animal emotions are real, and the science demands a moral answer.

av Marc Bekoff 2007 256 sider

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1 000+ vurderinger

🐒 Animal Behavior 🧠 Animal Cognition 🔬 Comparative Psychology 🐘 Animal Sentience 🐄 Animal Welfare

1491

av Charles C. Mann • 2005

A hemisphere of cities, empires, and millions, emptied by smallpox before colonists arrived.

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🏛️ Pre-Columbian History 🗿 Indigenous Civilizations 📖 Revisionist History 🌍 Columbian Exchange 🌿 Indigenous Knowledge

1491

A hemisphere of cities, empires, and millions, emptied by smallpox before colonists arrived.

av Charles C. Mann 2005 563 sider

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96 000+ vurderinger

🏛️ Pre-Columbian History 🗿 Indigenous Civilizations 📖 Revisionist History 🌍 Columbian Exchange 🌿 Indigenous Knowledge

Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation

av Olivia Judson • 2002

An animal advice column: promiscuous bees, murderous ducks, and the rotifers who ditched sex.

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🧬 Evolutionary Biology 🦚 Sexual Selection 🐒 Animal Behavior 🧪 Sperm Competition 🦜 Female Promiscuity

Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation

An animal advice column: promiscuous bees, murderous ducks, and the rotifers who ditched sex.

av Olivia Judson 2002 308 sider

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3 000+ vurderinger

🧬 Evolutionary Biology 🦚 Sexual Selection 🐒 Animal Behavior 🧪 Sperm Competition 🦜 Female Promiscuity

The Hidden Life of Trees

av Peter Wohlleben • 2015

A forester reveals trees are social, caring parents that communicate through an underground network.

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🌳 Forest Ecology 🌿 Plant Communication 🍄 Fungal Symbiosis 🧠 Plant Intelligence 🌲 Old-Growth Forests

The Hidden Life of Trees

A forester reveals trees are social, caring parents that communicate through an underground network.

av Peter Wohlleben 2015 272 sider

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89 000+ vurderinger

🌳 Forest Ecology 🌿 Plant Communication 🍄 Fungal Symbiosis 🧠 Plant Intelligence 🌲 Old-Growth Forests

Wild Mind

av Bill Plotkin • 2013

The psyche has four compass points. Most people barely use two and wonder why they feel incomplete.

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🍃 Ecopsychology 🔮 Jungian Psychology 🌑 Shadow Work 🗺️ Individuation 🕳️ Depth Psychology

Wild Mind

The psyche has four compass points. Most people barely use two and wonder why they feel incomplete.

av Bill Plotkin 2013 320 sider

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500+ vurderinger

🍃 Ecopsychology 🔮 Jungian Psychology 🌑 Shadow Work 🗺️ Individuation 🕳️ Depth Psychology

The Songs of Trees

av David George Haskell • 2017

Forests are societies. Underground networks let trees communicate, trade, and compete.

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1 000+

🌲 Forest Ecology 📝 Natural History Essays 🌳 Tree Communication 🏙️ Urban Ecology 🧠 Plant Intelligence

The Songs of Trees

Forests are societies. Underground networks let trees communicate, trade, and compete.

av David George Haskell 2017 304 sider

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1 000+ vurderinger

🌲 Forest Ecology 📝 Natural History Essays 🌳 Tree Communication 🏙️ Urban Ecology 🧠 Plant Intelligence

Collapse

av Jared Diamond • 2004

Civilizations don't just run out of resources. They fail to decide.

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🌿 Environmental History 🏚️ Societal Collapse 🌍 Environmental Determinism ⛏️ Resource Depletion 🐑 Tragedy Of The Commons

Collapse

Civilizations don't just run out of resources. They fail to decide.

av Jared Diamond 2004 608 sider

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75 000+ vurderinger

🌿 Environmental History 🏚️ Societal Collapse 🌍 Environmental Determinism ⛏️ Resource Depletion 🐑 Tragedy Of The Commons

Not the End of the World

av Hannah Ritchie • 2024

The environmental doom story is wrong. The data is turning, and the fixes are within reach.

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🌍 Environmental Optimism 💡 Climate Solutions 🎯 Effective Environmentalism 🌾 Agricultural Innovation ⚡ Renewable Energy

Not the End of the World

The environmental doom story is wrong. The data is turning, and the fixes are within reach.

av Hannah Ritchie 2024 311 sider

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7 000+ vurderinger

🌍 Environmental Optimism 💡 Climate Solutions 🎯 Effective Environmentalism 🌾 Agricultural Innovation ⚡ Renewable Energy

How the World Really Works

av Vaclav Smil • 2022

Both doomers and utopians skip the same thing: modern civilization's staggering material scale.

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⚡ Energy Systems 🏭 Industrial Ecology 🌾 Global Food Systems 📊 Quantitative Reasoning ⚖️ Risk Perception

How the World Really Works

Both doomers and utopians skip the same thing: modern civilization's staggering material scale.

av Vaclav Smil 2022 336 sider

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14 000+ vurderinger

⚡ Energy Systems 🏭 Industrial Ecology 🌾 Global Food Systems 📊 Quantitative Reasoning ⚖️ Risk Perception

The Extended Phenotype

av Richard Dawkins • 1982

Genes don't stop at skin: a beaver dam is a genetic tool, like the teeth.

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🧬 Evolutionary Biology 🎯 Gene-Level Selection 🔍 Adaptationism 🧠 Cultural Evolution 🦊 Animal Behavior

The Extended Phenotype

Genes don't stop at skin: a beaver dam is a genetic tool, like the teeth.

av Richard Dawkins 1982 336 sider

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9 000+ vurderinger

🧬 Evolutionary Biology 🎯 Gene-Level Selection 🔍 Adaptationism 🧠 Cultural Evolution 🦊 Animal Behavior

1493

av Charles C. Mann • 2011

Potatoes east, mosquitoes west: the biological upheaval set off by 1492 that still runs the world.

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🌿 Environmental History 🦟 Disease And Empire 🌽 Agricultural Revolution 🦠 Ecological Exchange 🧬 Big History

1493

Potatoes east, mosquitoes west: the biological upheaval set off by 1492 that still runs the world.

av Charles C. Mann 2011 836 sider

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21 000+ vurderinger

🌿 Environmental History 🦟 Disease And Empire 🌽 Agricultural Revolution 🦠 Ecological Exchange 🧬 Big History

Against the Grain

av James C. Scott • 2017

Every early state ran on a cereal grain. The rest of the story is coercion, plague, and collapse.

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🏛️ Early State Formation 🌾 Agrarian Societies ⛓️ Unfree Labor 💔 State Fragility 🦠 Disease And Civilization

Against the Grain

Every early state ran on a cereal grain. The rest of the story is coercion, plague, and collapse.

av James C. Scott 2017 312 sider

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4 000+ vurderinger

🏛️ Early State Formation 🌾 Agrarian Societies ⛓️ Unfree Labor 💔 State Fragility 🦠 Disease And Civilization

Who Really Feeds the World? The Failures of Agribusiness and the Promise of Agroecology

av Vandana Shiva • 2015

Agribusiness didn't end hunger. Small farms, producing 70% of food on 30% of land, feed us.

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🌱 Agroecology ✊ Food Sovereignty 🏭 Industrial Agriculture 🪱 Living Soil 🌾 Seed Sovereignty

Who Really Feeds the World? The Failures of Agribusiness and the Promise of Agroecology

Agribusiness didn't end hunger. Small farms, producing 70% of food on 30% of land, feed us.

av Vandana Shiva 2015 192 sider

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436 vurderinger

🌱 Agroecology ✊ Food Sovereignty 🏭 Industrial Agriculture 🪱 Living Soil 🌾 Seed Sovereignty

Seeing Like a State

av James C. Scott • 1998

Why grand state plans fail: the same simplifications that make society governable make it fragile.

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🏛️ Political Theory 🏗️ State Planning 🌱 Local Knowledge 🚧 Development Critique 🌿 Ecological Thinking

Seeing Like a State

Why grand state plans fail: the same simplifications that make society governable make it fragile.

av James C. Scott 1998 464 sider

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6 000+ vurderinger

🏛️ Political Theory 🏗️ State Planning 🌱 Local Knowledge 🚧 Development Critique 🌿 Ecological Thinking

Flodens år

av Margaret Atwood • 2009

A plague destroys civilization. Two women survive alone, living by the eco-cult's rules.

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🌿 Eco-Spiritual Commune 🏢 Corporate Dystopia 🧬 Biopunk Fiction 🦠 Post-Pandemic Survival 💪 Female Survivalist

Flodens år

A plague destroys civilization. Two women survive alone, living by the eco-cult's rules.

av Margaret Atwood 2009 431 sider

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100 000+ vurderinger

🌿 Eco-Spiritual Commune 🏢 Corporate Dystopia 🧬 Biopunk Fiction 🦠 Post-Pandemic Survival 💪 Female Survivalist

How Forests Think

av Eduardo Kohn • 2013

Thought lives in forests, jaguars, and signs. Anthropology has never known how to listen.

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🌴 Amazonian Ethnography 🕸️ Multispecies Ethnography 🧬 Biosemiotics 🌍 More-Than-Human ✨ Animism

How Forests Think

Thought lives in forests, jaguars, and signs. Anthropology has never known how to listen.

av Eduardo Kohn 2013 267 sider

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1 000+ vurderinger

🌴 Amazonian Ethnography 🕸️ Multispecies Ethnography 🧬 Biosemiotics 🌍 More-Than-Human ✨ Animism

Cradle to Cradle

av Michael Braungart • 2002

Waste is a design flaw. The blueprint for a world where everything feeds the next cycle.

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♻️ Circular Economy 🌿 Sustainable Design 🏭 Industrial Ecology 🌱 Regenerative Design 🧬 Biomimicry

Cradle to Cradle

Waste is a design flaw. The blueprint for a world where everything feeds the next cycle.

av Michael Braungart 2002 208 sider

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12 000+ vurderinger

♻️ Circular Economy 🌿 Sustainable Design 🏭 Industrial Ecology 🌱 Regenerative Design 🧬 Biomimicry

A Primate's Memoir

av Robert M. Sapolsky • 2001

A young scientist joins a baboon troop expecting gorillas and finds violence, humor, and himself.

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🦍 Primatology 🐘 Wildlife Conservation 🔬 Science Memoir 😂 Humorous Science 🌍 Cross-Cultural Memoir

A Primate's Memoir

A young scientist joins a baboon troop expecting gorillas and finds violence, humor, and himself.

av Robert M. Sapolsky 2001 304 sider

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8 000+ vurderinger

🦍 Primatology 🐘 Wildlife Conservation 🔬 Science Memoir 😂 Humorous Science 🌍 Cross-Cultural Memoir

An Immense World

av Ed Yong • 2022

Your world is one sliver of reality. A tour through the sensory universes other animals inhabit.

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🐾 Animal Senses 🔬 Sensory Biology 👁️ Animal Perception 🧪 Popular Science 🦊 Animal Behavior

An Immense World

Your world is one sliver of reality. A tour through the sensory universes other animals inhabit.

av Ed Yong 2022 464 sider

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36 000+ vurderinger

🐾 Animal Senses 🔬 Sensory Biology 👁️ Animal Perception 🧪 Popular Science 🦊 Animal Behavior

The World Without Us

av Alan Weisman • 2007

What happens to every city, every nuclear plant, and every plastic bag the moment humans disappear.

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🕰️ Deep Time 🌿 Rewilding 🧴 Plastic Pollution ☢️ Nuclear Legacy 🏚️ Infrastructure Decay

The World Without Us

What happens to every city, every nuclear plant, and every plastic bag the moment humans disappear.

av Alan Weisman 2007 324 sider

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43 000+ vurderinger

🕰️ Deep Time 🌿 Rewilding 🧴 Plastic Pollution ☢️ Nuclear Legacy 🏚️ Infrastructure Decay

The Light Eaters

av Zoë Schlanger • 2024

How plants communicate, remember, and make decisions without a brain, and why it matters.

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🌿 Plant Intelligence 🌱 Plant Communication 👁️ Plant Senses 🤝 Symbiosis ⚖️ Plant Personhood

The Light Eaters

How plants communicate, remember, and make decisions without a brain, and why it matters.

av Zoë Schlanger 2024 304 sider

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10 000+ vurderinger

🌿 Plant Intelligence 🌱 Plant Communication 👁️ Plant Senses 🤝 Symbiosis ⚖️ Plant Personhood

Slow Down

av Kōhei Saitō • 2020

Capitalism cannot go green. Marx's late notebooks show he understood why, and what must replace it.

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🔻 Degrowth 🌍 Ecological Economics 📕 Marxist Ecology 🔄 Post-Capitalism ✊ Anti-Capitalism

Slow Down

Capitalism cannot go green. Marx's late notebooks show he understood why, and what must replace it.

av Kōhei Saitō 2020 273 sider

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2 000+ vurderinger

🔻 Degrowth 🌍 Ecological Economics 📕 Marxist Ecology 🔄 Post-Capitalism ✊ Anti-Capitalism

Walden or, Life in the Woods

av Henry David Thoreau • 1854

He built a cabin for $28 and lived there two years to measure what life requires.

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🏛️ Transcendentalism 🌲 Nature Writing 🏡 Simple Living 🧘 Solitude 🎯 Deliberate Living

Walden or, Life in the Woods

He built a cabin for $28 and lived there two years to measure what life requires.

av Henry David Thoreau 1854 352 sider

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200 000+ vurderinger

🏛️ Transcendentalism 🌲 Nature Writing 🏡 Simple Living 🧘 Solitude 🎯 Deliberate Living

The Vegetable Gardener's Guide to Permaculture

av Christopher Shein • 2013

Your garden as a forest: the permaculture design that feeds you while it rebuilds itself.

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493

🌎 Permaculture Design 🌳 Food Forests 🪱 Soil Building 🌱 Seed Saving 🏡 Garden Design

The Vegetable Gardener's Guide to Permaculture

Your garden as a forest: the permaculture design that feeds you while it rebuilds itself.

av Christopher Shein 2013 272 sider

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493 vurderinger

🌎 Permaculture Design 🌳 Food Forests 🪱 Soil Building 🌱 Seed Saving 🏡 Garden Design

Food of the Gods

av Terence McKenna • 1992

A single psychoactive mushroom may have sparked language, religion, and human consciousness itself.

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12 000+

🧬 Human Evolution 🌿 Ethnobotany 🌀 Altered States 🍄 Psychedelic Studies ✨ Entheogens

Food of the Gods

A single psychoactive mushroom may have sparked language, religion, and human consciousness itself.

av Terence McKenna 1992 311 sider

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12 000+ vurderinger

🧬 Human Evolution 🌿 Ethnobotany 🌀 Altered States 🍄 Psychedelic Studies ✨ Entheogens

The Gut-Immune Connection

av Emeran Mayer • 2021

Chronic disease spiked because we stopped feeding our gut microbes. The repair starts with soil.

3.84

468

🦠 Gut Microbiome 🧠 Nutritional Psychiatry 🥗 Plant-Based Nutrition ⏱️ Time-Restricted Eating 🌱 Soil Health

The Gut-Immune Connection

Chronic disease spiked because we stopped feeding our gut microbes. The repair starts with soil.

av Emeran Mayer 2021 320 sider

3.84

468 vurderinger

🦠 Gut Microbiome 🧠 Nutritional Psychiatry 🥗 Plant-Based Nutrition ⏱️ Time-Restricted Eating 🌱 Soil Health

The Climate Book

av Greta Thunberg • 2022

Since 1991, we've emitted more CO2 than in all prior history; cures exist, the politics don't.

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3 000+

⚖️ Climate Justice ⚡ Energy Transition ✊ Climate Activism 🌿 Indigenous Knowledge 🚫 Climate Denialism

The Climate Book

Since 1991, we've emitted more CO2 than in all prior history; cures exist, the politics don't.

av Greta Thunberg 2022 464 sider

4.41

3 000+ vurderinger

⚖️ Climate Justice ⚡ Energy Transition ✊ Climate Activism 🌿 Indigenous Knowledge 🚫 Climate Denialism

God Is Red

av Vine Deloria Jr. • 1972

Indigenous peoples root religion in land; Christians in time, and the planet pays the price.

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2 000+

📖 Indigenous Theology 🏞️ Sacred Geography ✊ Decolonial Religion 🌍 Ecotheology 🌐 Worldview Clash

God Is Red

Indigenous peoples root religion in land; Christians in time, and the planet pays the price.

av Vine Deloria Jr. 1972 325 sider

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2 000+ vurderinger

📖 Indigenous Theology 🏞️ Sacred Geography ✊ Decolonial Religion 🌍 Ecotheology 🌐 Worldview Clash

Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?

av Frans de Waal • 2016

We tested animal minds as defective humans. Once we redesigned the tests, they stopped failing.

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🧠 Animal Cognition ❌ Human Exceptionalism 🧬 Evolutionary Biology 🤝 Social Intelligence 🌿 Behavioral Ecology

Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?

We tested animal minds as defective humans. Once we redesigned the tests, they stopped failing.

av Frans de Waal 2016 340 sider

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16 000+ vurderinger

🧠 Animal Cognition ❌ Human Exceptionalism 🧬 Evolutionary Biology 🤝 Social Intelligence 🌿 Behavioral Ecology

The Ghost Map

av Steven Johnson • 2006

London, 1854: a doctor maps the cholera dead while a reverend hunts the outbreak's first victim.

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🦠 Epidemiology 🏥 Public Health 🗺️ Disease Mapping 🎩 Victorian London 🚰 Sanitation Reform

The Ghost Map

London, 1854: a doctor maps the cholera dead while a reverend hunts the outbreak's first victim.

av Steven Johnson 2006 320 sider

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56 000+ vurderinger

🦠 Epidemiology 🏥 Public Health 🗺️ Disease Mapping 🎩 Victorian London 🚰 Sanitation Reform

Soil Not Oil

av Vandana Shiva • 2008

Biofuels starve people, carbon markets fake progress, the real climate solution is under your feet.

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🏭 Industrial Agriculture ⚖️ Environmental Justice 🌾 Food Sovereignty 🌱 Organic Farming 🌿 Seed Saving

Soil Not Oil

Biofuels starve people, carbon markets fake progress, the real climate solution is under your feet.

av Vandana Shiva 2008 144 sider

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500+ vurderinger

🏭 Industrial Agriculture ⚖️ Environmental Justice 🌾 Food Sovereignty 🌱 Organic Farming 🌿 Seed Saving

Tom Brown's Science and Art of Tracking

av Tom Brown Jr. • 1999

Read an animal's hunger and fear from soil, then discover how tracking becomes a spiritual practice.

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335

🐾 Animal Tracking 🏕️ Wilderness Skills 👣 Track Interpretation 👁️ Nature Awareness 🪶 Indigenous Wisdom

Tom Brown's Science and Art of Tracking

Read an animal's hunger and fear from soil, then discover how tracking becomes a spiritual practice.

av Tom Brown Jr. 1999 240 sider

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335 vurderinger

🐾 Animal Tracking 🏕️ Wilderness Skills 👣 Track Interpretation 👁️ Nature Awareness 🪶 Indigenous Wisdom

Climbing Mount Improbable

av Richard Dawkins • 1996

Eyes evolved from scratch forty times. Each time the path was a staircase, not a leap.

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👁️ Convergent Evolution 🪜 Gradual Adaptation 🐝 Coevolution 🔬 Embryonic Development 🧬 Gene-Centered Evolution

Climbing Mount Improbable

Eyes evolved from scratch forty times. Each time the path was a staircase, not a leap.

av Richard Dawkins 1996 308 sider

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10 000+ vurderinger

👁️ Convergent Evolution 🪜 Gradual Adaptation 🐝 Coevolution 🔬 Embryonic Development 🧬 Gene-Centered Evolution

Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches

av Marvin Harris • 1974

Cow worship, pork bans, witch hunts: each solved a practical problem no one admitted existed.

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5 000+

🍖 Food Taboos 🌿 Cultural Ecology 💰 Economic Anthropology 🕯️ Ritual And Sacrifice ⚔️ Origins Of War

Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches

Cow worship, pork bans, witch hunts: each solved a practical problem no one admitted existed.

av Marvin Harris 1974 288 sider

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5 000+ vurderinger

🍖 Food Taboos 🌿 Cultural Ecology 💰 Economic Anthropology 🕯️ Ritual And Sacrifice ⚔️ Origins Of War

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