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The Disordered Mind: What Unusual Brains Tell Us About Ourselves (Hardcover)

By Eric R. Kandel

$24.00

ISBN: 9780374287863

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Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux - August 28th, 2018

 

Nobel Prize winning researcher and teacher Eric R. Kandel,  with profound empathy, essentially delivers a survey of current knowledge of the workings of the brain using the frame of brain disorders. Our understanding of the biology of the mind is changing rapidly and Kandel charts these advances in clear and very comprehensible language explaining how they are leading to new insights about human nature and consciousness itself.

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How to Be a Good Creature: A Memoir in Thirteen Animals (Hardcover)

By Sy Montgomery, Rebecca Green (Illustrator)

$20.00

ISBN: 9780544938328

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Published: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt - September 25th, 2018

 

Sy Montgomery, in her utterly charming new memoir, attempts to answer the question “What have animals taught me about life”. Her life’s work and passion has brought her into contact with creatures as varied as tarantulas and hyenas, emus and octopus, each in their own way a marvel and each with something to teach about how to make one’s way in this wondrous world

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Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter (Hardcover)

By Ben Goldfarb

$24.95

ISBN: 9781603587396

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Published: Chelsea Green Publishing Company - July 11th, 2018

 

The near eradication of the beaver in Europe and North America has had profound implications for the environment that are finally being recognized. Goldfarb reports on the alliance of scientists, environmentalists, ranchers, and concerned citizens organizing to restoring beaver populations in an effort to solve a host of environmental problems their absence exasperated. Read this book and you will look at our contemporary landscapes in an entirely new way and you may become a Beaver Believer too.

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Playing Changes: Jazz for the New Century (Hardcover)

By Nate Chinen

$27.95

ISBN: 9781101870341

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Published: Pantheon - August 14th, 2018

 

Chinen’s book is so very welcome as books about contemporary jazz are few and far between, but also because it’s terrific. Chinen puts into context each of the various directions players are taking improvisational music today with a studied thoughtfulness based upon careful listening and deep historical knowledge. The discographies bookmarking each chapter as well as his list of essential 21st century albums are good guideposts for anyone’s future listening.

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Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore (Hardcover)

By Elizabeth Rush

$26.00

ISBN: 9781571313676

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Published: Milkweed Editions - June 12th, 2018

 

Never mind what you’ve heard about the coming effects of climate change.  As Elizabeth Rush disturbingly documents, we are already seeing widespread effects of sea level rise. With great empathy and a lyrical voice she closely examines the response of various American coastal communities to the dramatic changes they struggle to face.

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Do Not Lick This Book (Hardcover)

By Idan Ben-Barak, Julian Frost (Illustrator)

$16.99

ISBN: 9781250175366

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Published: Roaring Brook Press - June 5th, 2018

 

Do not lick this book. You might hurt Min and her tiny friends. I bet she also doesn’t taste like strawberries. Ask your brother to lick it instead.

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The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World (Hardcover)

By Steve Brusatte

$29.99

ISBN: 9780062490421

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Published: William Morrow - April 24th, 2018

Brusatte takes us with him on his travels around the world fossil hunting with other equally dedicated and passionate paleontologists who together have been revising what we know  about the remarkable life on our planet millions of years ago.

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Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America (Hardcover)

By James Fallows, Deborah Fallows

$28.95

ISBN: 9781101871843

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Published: Pantheon - May 8th, 2018

 

It’s too easy these days to fall into despair about the direction of the country. The Fallows’ have been crisscrossing the country in their single-engine Cirrus  the past few years visiting and reporting on dozens of smaller towns and cities that are finding ways to renew their communities after facing severe economic and social dislocation.

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Juniper: The Happiest Fox (Hardcover)

By Jessika Coker

$16.95

ISBN: 9781452167602

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Published: Chronicle Books - March 27th, 2018

 

After you spend the 20 minutes it will take you to read this charming and heart-warming story, you won’t be able to resist spending hours at Juniper’s website watching adorably cute videos and learning about foxes (and why you would never want one as a pet). An added bonus of your purchase is that proceeds will help fund an animal sanctuary the author hopes to develop.

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Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming (Paperback)

By Paul Hawken (Editor), Tom Steyer (Foreword by)

$22.00

ISBN: 9780143130444

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Published: Penguin Books - April 18th, 2017

Drawdown is a refreshingly optimistic and welcome book that shows the current processes and technologies we can use in concert to not only slow but actually reduce greenhouse gases in the near future to solve the crisis of global climate change.

 

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