14 best-selling environment books like Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence by James Bridle

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Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence

By: James Bridle

4.17

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Artist, technologist, and philosopher James Bridle's Ways of Being is a brilliant, searching explor…

"What would it mean to build artificial intelligences and other machines that were more like octopuses, more like fungi, or more like forests?"

-James Bridle, Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence

"What would it mean to build artificial intelligences and other machines that were more like octopuses, more like fungi, or more like forests?"

-James Bridle, Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence

"We can’t read water in the same way as we can’t read data…Working with it makes us more aware of the distance between ourselves and the matter under consideration: it reminds us that we share this world rather than own it. Knowledge produced through the medium of the shifting surface of a bucket of water is made in cooperation with the world, rather than by conquering it."

-James Bridle, Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence

"We can’t read water in the same way as we can’t read data…Working with it makes us more aware of the distance between ourselves and the matter under consideration: it reminds us that we share this world rather than own it. Knowledge produced through the medium of the shifting surface of a bucket of water is made in cooperation with the world, rather than by conquering it."

-James Bridle, Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence

If you liked the environment plot in Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence by James Bridle , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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1. The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy

By: David Graeber

3.61

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Where does the desire for endless rules, regulations, and bureaucracy come from? How did we come to… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction

2. The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins

By: Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

4.58

Format: 226 pages, Hardcover

Matsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world--and a weed that grows in human-disturbed fore… read more

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3. Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

By: Merlin Sheldrake

4.35

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

There is a lifeform so strange and wondrous that it forces us to rethink how life works…Neither pla… read more

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  • science
  • ecology
  • biology
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • audiobook
"I have tried to find ways to enjoy the ambiguities that fungi present, but it's not always easy to be comfortable in the space created by open questions. Agoraphobia can set in. It's tempting to hide…"

-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

"Anthropomorphism is usually thought of as an illusion that arises like a blister in soft human minds: untrained, undisciplined, unhardened. There are good reasons for this: when we humanise the world…"

-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

"Fungi make worlds. They also unmake them. There are lots of ways to catch them in the act. When you cook mushroom soup, or just eat it. When you go out gathering mushrooms, or buy them. When you ferm…"

-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

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4. God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning

By: Meghan O'Gieblyn

4.27

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

A meditation on what it might mean to be human in an age of ever-accelerating technology. read more

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  • audiobook
  • science
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • technology
"As black-box technologies become more widespread, there have been no shortage of demands for increased transparency. In 2016 the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation included in its st…"

-Meghan O'Gieblyn, God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning

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5. Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

By: Robert M. Sapolsky

4.25

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the … read more

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  • science
  • biology
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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"I’m being diplomatic. Many readers will know of the “replication crisis"

-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

"Obviously, imposing these classifications on determinism, free will, and moral responsibility is wildly simplified. A key simplification is pretending that most people have clean “yes"

-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

"You cannot decide all the sensory stimuli in your environment, your hormone levels this morning, whether something traumatic happened to you in the past, the socioeconomic status of your parents, you…"

-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

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6. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

By: Naomi Klein

4.22

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • audiobook
"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

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7. The Maniac

By: Benjamín Labatut

4.34

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From one of contemporary literature’s most exciting new voices, a haunting story centered on the Hu… read more

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  • technology
  • philosophy
  • audiobook
"[...] si nuestra especie iba a sobrevivir el siglo XX, necesitábamos llenar el enorme vacío dejado por la huida de los dioses, y la única candidata viable para realizar esa extraña y esotérica transf…"

-Benjamín Labatut, The Maniac

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8. The Overstory

By: Richard Powers

4.12

Format: 502 pages, Paperback

The Overstory is a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning ev… read more

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  • environment
  • nature
  • audiobook
"Human history was the story of increasingly disoriented hunger."

-Richard Powers, The Overstory

"The confirmation of others: a sickness the entire race will die of."

-Richard Powers, The Overstory

"Civilized yards are all alike. Every wild yard is wild in its own way."

-Richard Powers, The Overstory

"Trees fall with spectacular crashes. Planting is silent and growth invisible."

-Richard Powers, The Overstory

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9. Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

By: Thomas Halliday

4.13

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

A stirring, eye-opening journey into deep time, from the Ice Age to the first appearance of microb… read more

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  • nature
  • science
  • biology
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • audiobook
"In their own sweepstake fashion, hippopotamuses will reach Malta, Sicily and Crete over the water, and become dwarfed to tiny forms. In many islands, dwarf elephants will roam. With a single, large n…"

-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

"To talk of the first humans is to hammer a signpost into an ancient river saying 'no humans beyond this point', no matter the ever flowing stream around it's base. There is nothing essential to human…"

-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

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10. An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

By: Ed Yong

4.47

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A grand tour through the hidden realms of animal senses that will transform the way you perceive th… read more

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  • science
  • biology
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • audiobook
"It's ironic that we associate taste with connoisseurship, subtlety, and fine discrimination when it is among the coarsest of senses."

-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

"We are closer than ever to understanding what it is like to be another animal, but we have made it harder than ever for other animals to be."

-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

"Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal can only tap into a small fraction of realities fullness. Each is enclos…"

-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

"A striking pattern emerged on days with the most intense solar storms, grey whales were 4 times more likely to beach themselves. This correlation doesn't prove that whales have a compass but it stron…"

-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

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11. The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth

By: Zoë Schlanger

4.37

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning environment and science reporter Zoë Schlanger delivers a groundbreaking work of popu… read more

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  • science
  • ecology
  • biology
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • audiobook
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12. The Creative Act: A Way of Being

By: Rick Rubin

4.04

Format: 406 pages, Hardcover

From the legendary music producer, a master at helping people connect with the wellsprings of their… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • audiobook
"Find the sustainable rituals that best support your work."

-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being

"In terms of priority, inspiration comes first. You come next. The audience comes last."

-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being

"When it comes to the creative process, patience is accepting that the majority of the work we do is out of our control."

-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being

"Turning something from an idea into a reality can make it seem smaller. It changes from unearthly to earthly. The imagination has no limits. The physical world does. The work exists in both."

-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being

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13. How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

By: Jenny Odell

3.68

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

When the technologies we use every day collapse our experiences into 24/7 availability, platforms f… read more

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  • audiobook
  • psychology
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  • nonfiction
  • technology
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14. Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics

By: Troy Vettese

3.88

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In this thrilling and capacious book, Troy Vettese and Drew Pendergrass challenge the inertia of ca… read more

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  • nature
  • ecology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
"The aim for socialism is not Soviet-style Stakhanovite toil, but rien faire comme une bête."

-Troy Vettese, Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics

"Nothing scares neoliberals more than radical science allied with social movements, but until such a union arises, they have little to fear."

-Troy Vettese, Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics

"Despite our knowledge of what needs to be done, carbon emissions increase and mass extinctions continue relentlessly. Capital is at the helm, blindly steering the ship of fools towards ecological dis…"

-Troy Vettese, Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics

"Environmentalists think that their political moderation will be rewarded by the powerful, who will allow them to play a small role in shaping the future. Yet the elite and their neoliberal brain trus…"

-Troy Vettese, Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics

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15. The Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works

By: Helen Czerski

4.23

Format: 446 pages, Hardcover

A scientist’s exploration of the "ocean engine"―the physics behind the ocean’s systems―and why it m… read more

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  • science
  • ecology
  • biology
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • audiobook
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16. Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence

By: Kate Crawford

3.99

Format: 288 pages, ebook

The hidden costs of artificial intelligence, from natural resources and labor to privacy, equality,… read more

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  • technology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
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17. In a Flight of Starlings

By: Giorgio Parisi

3.44

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

In this enchanting little book, celebrated physicist Giorgio Parisi guides us through his unorthodo… read more

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  • science
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • nature
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"In the sciences and in poetry, there is hardly a trace in the finished product of the arduous work that the creative process has demanded, or of the doubts and hesitations that have been overcome in …"

-Giorgio Parisi, In a Flight of Starlings

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18. Who's Afraid of Gender?

By: Judith Butler

4.02

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From a global icon, a bold, essential account of how a fear of gender is fueling reactionary politi… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Imagine if you were Jewish and someone tells you that you are not. Imagine if you are lesbian and someone laughs in your face and says you are confused since you are really heterosexual. Imagine if y…"

-Judith Butler, Who's Afraid of Gender?

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19. Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World

By: Tyson Yunkaporta

4.36

Format: 256 pages, ebook

This remarkable book is about everything from echidnas to evolution, cosmology to cooking, sex and … read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • audiobook
"The war between good and evil is in reality an imposition of stupidity and simplicity over wisdom and complexity."

-Tyson Yunkaporta, Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World

"Guilt is like any other energy: you can't accumulate it or keep it because it makes you sick and disrupts the system you live in - you have to let it go. Face the truth, make amends and let it go."

-Tyson Yunkaporta, Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World

"Engaging with them (malignant narcissists) alone is futile - never wrestle a pig, as the old saying goes; you both end up covered in shit, and the pig likes it. The fundamental rules of human interac…"

-Tyson Yunkaporta, Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World

"Understanding your own culture and the ways it interacts with others, particularly the power dynamics of it, is far more appreciated. My reading of Germane Greer when I was a young lad was a lot more…"

-Tyson Yunkaporta, Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World

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20. Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence

By: James Bridle

4.17

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Artist, technologist, and philosopher James Bridle's Ways of Being is a brilliant, searching explor… read more

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  • biology
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • environment
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"What would it mean to build artificial intelligences and other machines that were more like octopuses, more like fungi, or more like forests?"

-James Bridle, Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence

"We can’t read water in the same way as we can’t read data…Working with it makes us more aware of the distance between ourselves and the matter under consideration: it reminds us that we share this wo…"

-James Bridle, Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence

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21. The Experience Machine

By: Andy Clark

3.93

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A grand new vision of cognitive science that explains how our minds build our worldsFor as long as … read more

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  • audiobook
  • psychology
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  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of Notes on Complexity: A Scientific Theory of Connection, Consciousness, and Being by Neil Theise

22. Notes on Complexity: A Scientific Theory of Connection, Consciousness, and Being

By: Neil Theise

4.02

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

An electrifying introduction to complexity theory, the science of how complex systems behave—from c… read more

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23. Justice for Animals: Our Collective Responsibility

By: Martha C. Nussbaum

3.81

Format: 382 pages, Kindle Edition

A “brilliant” (Chicago Review of Books), “elegantly written, and compelling” (National Review) new … read more

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  • nature
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  • environment
  • audiobook
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24. Capital Is Dead. Is This Something Worse?

By: McKenzie Wark

3.50

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

It’s not capitalism, it’s not neoliberalism—what if it’s something worse?In this radical and vision… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • technology
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25. The Sounds of Life: How Digital Technology Is Bringing Us Closer to the Worlds of Animals and Plants

By: Karen Bakker

4.26

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

An amazing journey into the hidden realm of nature’s sounds The natural world teems with remarkabl… read more

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  • biology
  • nonfiction
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"Scientists still do not have a comprehensive understanding of plant signaling mechanisms, although they do know that perception of a sound vibration can cause changes in plant hormones, gene expressi…"

-Karen Bakker, The Sounds of Life: How Digital Technology Is Bringing Us Closer to the Worlds of Animals and Plants

"the unfolding waves of sound are like an underwater orchestra or the endless improvisation of a jazz band. On the Great Barrier Reef, the humpback whales sing the soprano melody. Fish supply the chor…"

-Karen Bakker, The Sounds of Life: How Digital Technology Is Bringing Us Closer to the Worlds of Animals and Plants

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26. Right Story, Wrong Story

By: Tyson Yunkaporta

4.21

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Sand Talk, Tyson Yunkaporta’s bestselling debut, cast an Indigenous lens on contemporary society. I… read more

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  • nature
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27. Planta Sapiens: The New Science of Plant Intelligence

By: Paco Calvo

3.41

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An astonishing window into the inner world of plants, and the cutting-edge science in plant intelli… read more

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28. A Perfect Cemetery

By: Federico Falco

3.83

Format: 125 pages, Kindle Edition

In the middle of a blizzard a widow is looking out at the ruin of her late-husband’s garden, when s… read more

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29. Dispersals: On Plants, Borders, and Belonging

By: Jessica J. Lee

4.19

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A prize-winning memoirist and nature writer turns to the lives of plants entangled in our human wor… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
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30. How to Be Animal: A New History of What It Means to Be Human

By: Melanie Challenger

3.67

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

A wide-ranging take on why humans have a troubled relationship with being an animal, and why we nee… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
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31. What It Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World

By: Prentis Hemphill

4.54

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From one of the most prominent voices in the trauma conversation comes a groundbreaking new way to … read more

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