Soil Science for Gardeners: Working with Nature to Build Soil Health
By: Robert Pavlis
4.06
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Build healthy soil and grow better plants Healthy soil means thriving plants. Yet untangling the…
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1. The One-Straw Revolution
By: Masanobu Fukuoka
4.34
Format: 181 pages, Paperback
Fukuoka demonstrates how the way we look at farming influences the way we look at health, the schoo… read more
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"Wajah alam merupakan sesuatu yang tidak dapat dikenal"-Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution
"Orang sekarang ini makan dengan pikiran mereka, tidak dengan tubuh mereka"-Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution
"Kebudayaan yang benar dilahirkan di alam, sederhana, rendah hati, dan murni"-Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution
"I wonder how it is that people's philosophies have come to spin faster than the changing seasons."-Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution
2. The Gene: An Intimate History
By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
4.22
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Emperor of All Maladies--a magnificent h… read more
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3. Why Time Flies: A Mostly Scientific Investigation
By: Alan Burdick
4.33
Format: 288 pages,
A brilliant, witty, and thought-provoking trip by The New Yorker's science and tech editor and Nati… read more
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4. Who Cooked the Last Supper?: The Women's History of the World
By: Rosalind Miles
3.68
Format: None pages,
Men dominate history because they write it. Women's vital part in the shaping of the world has been… read more
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5. The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
By: Tim Flannery , Peter Wohlleben , Jane Billinghurst , Suzanne Simard
4.07
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben shares his deep love of woods and forests and explains… read more
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"A tree’s most important means of staying connected to other trees is a “wood wide web"-Tim Flannery, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
"Trees could solve the problems if people trying to improve things would only allow them to takeover"-Tim Flannery, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
"So many questions remain unanswered. Perhaps we are poorer for having lost a possible explanation or richer for having gained a mystery. But aren't both possibilities equally intriguing?"-Tim Flannery, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
6. Bringing Nature Home: How Native Plants Sustain Wildlife in Our Gardens
By: Douglas W. Tallamy
4.06
Format: 205 pages, Hardcover
As development and subsequent habitat destruction accelerate, there are increasing pressures on wil… read more
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7. The Witches: Salem, 1692
By: Stacy Schiff
4.03
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Pulitzer Prize winner Stacy Schiff, author of the #1 bestseller Cleopatra, provides an electrifying… read more
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8. Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-scale Permaculture
By: Toby Hemenway
4.00
Format: None pages,
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9. Botany for Gardeners
By: Brian Capon
3.07
Format: None pages, Paperback
A bestseller since its debut in 1990, this indispensable and handy reference has now been expanded … read more
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10. It's OK to Be Angry About Capitalism
By: Bernie Sanders
4.09
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A progressive takedown of the uber-capitalist status quo that has enriched millionaires and billion… read more
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"The goal of any democratic, moral, and rational nation must be to create a society where people are healthy, happy and able to live long and productive lives. Not just the rich and the powerful, but …"-Bernie Sanders, It's OK to Be Angry About Capitalism
11. The Nature of Oaks: The Rich Ecology of Our Most Essential Native Trees
By: Douglas W. Tallamy
4.35
Format: 197 pages, Hardcover
“With our hearts and minds focused on the stewardship of the only planet we have, the best way to e… read more
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12. Nature's Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation That Starts in Your Yard
By: Douglas W. Tallamy
4.37
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Douglas W. Tallamy’s first book, Bringing Nature Home, sparked a national conversation about the li… read more
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13. Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
By: Suzanne Simard
4.22
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
From the world's leading forest ecologist who forever changed how people view trees and their conne… read more
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"Plants are attuned to one another's strengths and weaknesses, elegantly giving and taking to attain exquisite balance. There is grace in complexity, in actions cohering, in sum totals."-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
"Such a marvel, the tenacity of the buds to surge with life every spring, to greet the lengthening days and warming weather with exuberance, no matter what hardships were brought by winter."-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
"This Mother Tree was the central hub that the saplings and seedlings nested around, with threads of different fungal species, of different colors and weights, linking them, layer upon layer, in a str…"-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
"I was lucky to become one of the first in the new generation of women in the logging industry, but what I found was not what I had grown up to understand. Instead I discovered vast landscapes cleared…"-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
14. Growing a Revolution: Bringing Our Soil Back to Life
By: David R. Montgomery
4.36
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Finalist for the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award "A call to action that underscore… read more
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"In many ways, soil degradation set the long-wavelenght pattern of history, as wars, natural disasters, and climate shifts pulled the trigger on environmental guns loaded by soil loss and degradation."-David R. Montgomery, Growing a Revolution: Bringing Our Soil Back to Life
"People tend to assume that organic farming and sustainability go hand in hand. But that's not necessarily the case - and it hasn't been for most of history. While going organic has some big advantage…"-David R. Montgomery, Growing a Revolution: Bringing Our Soil Back to Life
15. Dirt to Soil: One Family's Journey Into Regenerative Agriculture
By: Gabe Brown
4.46
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Gabe Brown didn't set out to change the world when he first started working alongside his father-in… read more
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16. In Defense of Plants: An Exploration into the Wonder of Plants (Plant Guide, Horticulture, Trees)
By: Matt Candeias
4.17
Format: 279 pages, Hardcover
“Matt Candeias succeeds in evoking the wonder of plants with wit and wisdom.” ― James T. Costa , Ph… read more
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17. Wilding
By: Isabella Tree
4.46
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Forced to accept that intensive farming on the heavy clay of their land at Knepp in West Sussex was… read more
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"People have a famously soft spot for pigs. Intelligent, inquisitive, imperious, myopic, sociable, gluttonous, grunting, ungainly, it is easy to recognize ourselves in them."-Isabella Tree, Wilding
"The great concerns of our time – climate change, natural resources, food production, water control and conservation, and human health – all boil down to the condition of the soil."-Isabella Tree, Wilding
"Over the years modern farming has reduced soil to....‘dirt’ – a sterile medium in which plants struggle to grow without artificial fertilizers. It is a self-perpetuating cycle of destruction and chem…"-Isabella Tree, Wilding
"But the world of academia is a strange, sometimes counterproductive and often sluggish place. Where one may expect it to be open and responsive to new thinking, it can be oddly conservative and resis…"-Isabella Tree, Wilding
18. Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics: A 10% Happier How-To Book
By: Dan Harris
3.84
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
ABC News anchor Dan Harris used to think that meditation was for people who collect crystals, play … read more
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"Forget mindfulness. You just have to be a gorgeous lazy slacker."-Dan Harris, Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics: A 10% Happier How-To Book
"I have a friend, a fellow meditator, who jokes that when he considers the voice in his head, he feels like he's been kidnapped by the most boring person alive, who says the same baloney over and over…"-Dan Harris, Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics: A 10% Happier How-To Book
19. The Secret Wisdom of Nature: Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things ― Stories from Science and Observation
By: Peter Wohlleben
4.06
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The final book in The Mysteries of Nature trilogy by the New York Times bestselling author of The H… read more
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"The more we acknowledge that even the smallest disturbance can lead to unpredictable changes, the stronger the arguments for protecting larger areas of the environment."-Peter Wohlleben, The Secret Wisdom of Nature: Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things ― Stories from Science and Observation
"A whole generation of trees, including many that are deciduous, is standing by to form a solid foundation for the old-growth forest of the future, which means that bark beetles are more than just fun…"-Peter Wohlleben, The Secret Wisdom of Nature: Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things ― Stories from Science and Observation
20. Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)
By: Dean Spade
4.38
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
Mutual aid is the radical act of caring for each other while working to change the world. Around… read more
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"In the context of professionalized nonprofit organizations, groups are urged to be single-issue oriented, framing their message around "deserving" people within the population they serve, and using t…"-Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)
"When we feel bad, we often automatically decide that either we are bad or another person is bad. Both of these moves cause damage and distort the truth, which is that we are all navigating difficult …"-Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)
"Burnout is the combination of resentment, exhaustion, shame, and frustration that make us lose connection to pleasure and passion in the work, and instead encounter difficult feelings like avoidance,…"-Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)
21. How to Talk to a Science Denier: Conversations with Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers, and Others Who Defy Reason
By: Lee McIntyre
3.86
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
Can we change the minds of science deniers? Encounters with flat earthers, anti-vaxxers, coronaviru… read more
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- science
"Nadie se autoidentifica como negacionista de la ciencia. A menudo se ven a sí mismos como más científicos que los científicos. Lo que uno de nosotros piense de ellos, muchos de ellos lo pensarán de n…"-Lee McIntyre, How to Talk to a Science Denier: Conversations with Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers, and Others Who Defy Reason
"Quizá sea tan difícil que un negacionista de la ciencia cambie de opinión a base de evidencia porque, en cierto sentido, la evidencia no es realmente lo que fundamenta sus creencias. Puede que el con…"-Lee McIntyre, How to Talk to a Science Denier: Conversations with Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers, and Others Who Defy Reason
"Aunque el contenido de los sistemas de creencias varíe, todo negacionismo de la ciencia parece fundamentarse en un reducido conjunto de errores del razonamiento humano. [...] 1)Evidencia basada en un…"-Lee McIntyre, How to Talk to a Science Denier: Conversations with Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers, and Others Who Defy Reason
"En su libro tremendamente útil How to Have Impossible Conversations, el filósofo Peter Boghossian y el matemático James Lindsay nos proporcionan un sorprendente consejo para tratar de convencer a alg…"-Lee McIntyre, How to Talk to a Science Denier: Conversations with Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers, and Others Who Defy Reason
22. What Your Food Ate: How to Heal Our Land and Reclaim Our Health
By: David R. Montgomery
4.26
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Are you really what you eat? David R. Montgomery and Anne Biklé take us far beyond the well-worn ad… read more
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23. The Heartbeat of Trees: Embracing Our Ancient Bond with Forests and Nature
By: Peter Wohlleben
3.74
Format: 258 pages, Hardcover
FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, THE HIDDEN LIFE OF TREES A powerful return to the… read more
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"The ancient tie that binds us to nature is not and never has been severed. We have just ignored it for a while."-Peter Wohlleben, The Heartbeat of Trees: Embracing Our Ancient Bond with Forests and Nature
24. Nobody Wants Your Sh*t: The Art of Decluttering Before You Die
By: Messie Condo
3.75
Format: 192 pages, ebook
Free yourself and your family from the f*cking clutter before you croak! Inspired by The Gentle A… read more
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- reference
25. The Edible Ecosystem Solution: Growing Biodiversity in Your Backyard and Beyond (Mother Earth News Wiser Living Series)
By: Zach Loeks
3.71
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Start a peaceful revolution by planting an edible ecosystem and sharing the experience with your ne… read more
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26. The Modern Homestead Garden: Growing Self-sufficiency in Any Size Backyard
By: Gary Pilarchik
4.09
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
With this accessible and indispensable gardening reference, discover how little land and effort it … read more
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27. Clean: The New Science of Skin
By: James Hamblin
3.91
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
The author of the popular Atlantic articles "You're Likely to Get the Coronavirus" and "I Quit Show… read more
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"Capitalism sells nothing so effectively as status."-James Hamblin, Clean: The New Science of Skin
"Self and other is less of a dichotomy than a continuum."-James Hamblin, Clean: The New Science of Skin
"As we change our worlds, we change our bodies. The old duality between environmental health and human health is obsolete."-James Hamblin, Clean: The New Science of Skin
"[E]ven our most personal decisions about caring for our bodies have long been influenced and manipulated by larger power structures."-James Hamblin, Clean: The New Science of Skin
28. Soil: The incredible story of what keeps the earth, and us, healthy
By: Matthew Evans
4.30
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Soil is the unlikely story of our most maligned resource as swashbuckling hero. A saga of bombs, ic… read more
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29. Soil Science for Gardeners: Working with Nature to Build Soil Health
By: Robert Pavlis
4.06
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Build healthy soil and grow better plants Healthy soil means thriving plants. Yet untangling the… read more
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30. Trees of Power: Ten Essential Arboreal Allies
By: Akiva Silver
4.57
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
The organic grower's guide to planting, propagation, culture, and ecology Trees are our allies in h… read more
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31. Growing Under Cover: Techniques for a More Productive, Weather-Resistant, Pest-Free Vegetable Garden
By: Niki Jabbour
4.34
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Whether cultivating tomatoes in northern Idaho or protecting leafy greens from a fast-moving hailst… read more
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