Place-Based Education: Connecting Classrooms & Communities (New Patriotism Series, 4)
By: David Sobel
4.00
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
In this fourth volume of the Nature Literacy Series, David Sobel presents a comprehensive review of…
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1. The Fourth Turning: An American Prophecy—What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America's Next Rendezvous with Destiny
By: Neil Howe , William Strauss
3.88
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
NATIONAL BESTSELLER. Discover the game-changing theory of the cycles of history and what past g… read more
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- nonfiction
2. Song of Solomon
By: Toni Morrison
4.14
Format: 338 pages, Paperback
Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain… read more
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"Her passions were narrow but deep."-Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
"He can't value you more than you value yourself."-Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
"If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it."-Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
"You got a life? Live it! Live the motherfuckin' life!"-Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
3. The Wild Iris
By: Louise Glück
4.18
Format: 65 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature From Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Louise Glück, a stunnin… read more
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- nature
"things that can't move learn to see"-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris
" No one's despair is like my despair-- "-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris
"I'm tired of you, chaos of the living world--"-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris
"What does the horse give you That I cannot give you?"-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris
4. The Wall
By: Shaun Whiteside , Marlen Haushofer
4.04
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
First published to acclaim in Germany, The Wall chronicles the life of the last surviving human on … read more
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"Even now I’m nothing but a thin skin covering a mountain of memories."-Shaun Whiteside, The Wall
"My only teacher is as ignorant and untrained as I am, for my only teacher is myself."-Shaun Whiteside, The Wall
"Never again shall I sit above the alpine roses in the midday sun, listening to the great silence."-Shaun Whiteside, The Wall
"External freedom has probably never existed, but neither have I ever known anyone who knew inner freedom."-Shaun Whiteside, The Wall
5. Curriculum 21: Essential Education for a Changing World (Professional Development)
By: Heidi Hayes Jacobs
3.69
Format: 254 pages, Paperback
"What year are you preparing your students for? 1973? 1995? Can you honestly say that your school's… read more
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- nonfiction
- teaching
- education
6. Between the World and Me
By: Ta-Nehisi Coates
4.40
Format: 152 pages, Hardcover
“This is your country, this is your world, this is your body, and you must find some way to live wi… read more
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- nonfiction
"Soft or hard, love was an act of heroism."-Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
"My work is to give you what I know of my own particular path while allowing you to walk your own."-Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
"I would not have you descend into your own dream. I would have you be a conscious citizen of this terrible and beautiful world."-Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
"You are growing into consciousness, and my wish for you is that you feel no need to constrict yourself to make other people comfortable."-Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
7. No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering
By: Thich Nhat Hanh
4.25
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
The secret to happiness is to acknowledge and transform suffering, not to run away from it. Here, T… read more
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- nonfiction
"Suffering has its beneficial aspects. It can be an excellent teacher."-Thich Nhat Hanh, No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering
"The most effective way to show compassion to another is to listen, rather than talk."-Thich Nhat Hanh, No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering
"If you can be aware that you have a living body, and notice when there's tension in your body, that's already an important insight."-Thich Nhat Hanh, No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering
"Without suffering, there's no happiness. So we shouldn't discriminate against the mud. We have to learn how to embrace and cradle our own suffering and the suffering of the world, with a lot of tende…"-Thich Nhat Hanh, No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering
8. The Absorbent Mind
By: Maria Montessori , John Chattin-McNichols
3.57
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
In response to the crisis in American education, more than five thousand public and private schools… read more
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- nonfiction
- parenting
- teaching
- education
9. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
By: Judy Blume
4.05
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
Margaret Simon, almost twelve, likes long hair, tuna fish, the smell of rain, and things that are p… read more
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10. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
By: Richard Rothstein
2.89
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein, a leading auth… read more
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- nonfiction
11. McGlue
By: Ottessa Moshfegh
3.67
Format: None pages,
Selected for the inaugural Fence Modern Prize in Prose by Rivka Galchen. Salem, Massachusetts, 1851… read more
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12. Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town
By: Jon Krakauer
3.89
Format: 197 pages, Hardcover
Missoula, Montana is a typical college town, home to a highly regarded state university whose belov… read more
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- nonfiction
13. And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks
By: William S. Burroughs , Jack Kerouac
4.06
Format: None pages,
On August 14, 1944, Lucien Carr, a friend of William S. Burroughs from St. Louis, stabbed a man nam… read more
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14. A History of the World in 6 Glasses
By: Tom Standage
4.40
Format: None pages, Paperback
Throughout human history, certain drinks have done much more than just quench thirst. As Tom Standa… read more
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- nonfiction
15. Scarborough
By: Catherine Hernandez
4.19
Format: 208 pages,
Scarborough is a low-income, culturally diverse neighborhood east of Toronto, the fourth largest ci… read more
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16. Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
By: Richard Louv
3.93
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
"I like to play indoors better 'cause that's where all the electrical outlets are," reports a fourt… read more
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- nature
- parenting
- teaching
- nonfiction
- education
- environment
"The woods were my Ritalin. Nature calmed me, focused me, and yet excited my senses."-Richard Louv, Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
"The logical extension of synthetic nature is the irrelevance of "true" nature--the certainty that it's not even worth looking at. (62)"-Richard Louv, Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
"An environment-based education movement--at all levels of education--will help students realize that school isn't supposed to be a polite form of incarceration, but a portal to the wider world."-Richard Louv, Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
"Joni Mitchell had it right: "They paved paradise / and put up a parking lot." But perhaps, in the near future, we could add a line of hopeful epilogue to that song: then they tore down the parking lo…"-Richard Louv, Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
17. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
By: Robin Wall Kimmerer
4.04
Format: 226 pages, Hardcover
As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer as been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of sci… read more
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18. 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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- nature
- nonfiction
- environment
"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
19. Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
By: Katherine May
3.86
Format: 241 pages, Hardcover
An intimate, revelatory book exploring the ways we can care for and repair ourselves when life knoc… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
"The problem with “everything"-Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
"Much to my regret, I have yet to befriend a robin."-Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
"The only thing breaking me was pretending to be like everyone else."-Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
"You need to live a life that you can cope with, not the one that other people want."-Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
20. Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail
By: Andrea Lankford
3.76
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From a former law enforcement park ranger and investigator, this female-driven true crime adventure… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
"A solo woman is more likely to survive a perilous incident in the outdoors than a solo man. Yet, the average female hiker fears for her safety more than the average guy does. Ironically, this phenome…"-Andrea Lankford, Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail
21. The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative
By: Florence Williams
3.97
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
An intrepid investigation into nature’s restorative benefits by a prize-winning author. For cent… read more
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- nature
- nonfiction
- environment
22. The Removed
By: Brandon Hobson
3.39
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Steeped in Cherokee myths and history, a novel about a fractured family reckoning with the tragic d… read more
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"I saw the rain lifting from earth to sky."-Brandon Hobson, The Removed
"We are always restless, carrying the dreams of children and the elderly, the tired and sick, the poor, the wounded. The Removed."-Brandon Hobson, The Removed
23. The Open-Air Life: Discover the Nordic Art of Friluftsliv and Embrace Nature Every Day
By: Linda Åkeson McGurk
3.90
Format: 271 pages, Kindle Edition
A complete guide to Friluftsliv, the Nordic secret to unplugging and connecting more deeply with na… read more
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- nature
- nonfiction
- parenting
- environment
24. Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
By: Neil deGrasse Tyson
4.11
Format: 271 pages, Hardcover
Bringing his cosmic perspective to civilization on Earth, Neil deGrasse Tyson shines new light on t… read more
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- nonfiction
"On the whole, I don't fear death. Instead, I fear a life where I could have accomplished more."-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
"If you travel beyond the cave door, you may just discover things that help solve your cave problems."-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
"We are more likely to be swayed by a single person who testifies with passion than by a bar chart containing data compiled from thousands of people."-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
"While there, I came to resent labels of all kinds. What are they, if not intellectually lazy ways of asserting you know everything about a person you've never met?"-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
25. White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
By: Robin DiAngelo
4.17
Format: 7 pages, Audiobook
Referring to the defensive moves that white people make when challenged racially, white fragility i… read more
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- nonfiction
"I am often asked if I think the younger generation is less racist. No, I don't. In some ways, racism's adaptations over time are more sinister than concrete rules such as Jim Crow."-Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
"For those of us who work to raise the racial consciousness of whites, simply getting whites to acknowledge that our race gives us advantages is a major effort. The defensiveness, denial, and resistan…"-Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
"How can I say that if you are white, your opinions on racism are most likely ignorant, when I don't even know you? I can say so because nothing in mainstream US culture gives us the information we ne…"-Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
"Habitus maintains our social comfort and helps us regain it when those around us do not act in familiar and acceptable ways. .... Thus, white fragility is a state in which even a minimum amount of ra…"-Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
26. Split Tooth
By: Tanya Tagaq
3.91
Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition
From the internationally acclaimed Inuit throat singer who has dazzled and enthralled the world wit… read more
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"...whoever said only humans can have the universe living in them?"-Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth
"I've always loved girls, and our insufferable town sees this love as deviance."-Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth
"The partiers will just demand that I echo their toxicity. Nothing bores me more."-Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth
"the air is so clean you can smell the difference between smooth rock and jagged."-Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth
27. Homes: A Refugee Story
By: Abu Bakr al Rabeeah
4.28
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
In 2010, the al Rabeeah family left their home in Iraq in hope of a safer life. They moved to Homs,… read more
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- nonfiction
"We can make a home anywhere we go together."-Abu Bakr al Rabeeah, Homes: A Refugee Story
28. Place-Based Education: Connecting Classrooms & Communities (New Patriotism Series, 4)
By: David Sobel
4.00
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
In this fourth volume of the Nature Literacy Series, David Sobel presents a comprehensive review of… read more
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- nature
- parenting
- teaching
- nonfiction
- education
- environment
29. Mentoring Teachers: Navigating the Real-World Tensions
By: Ann Lieberman
3.40
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
A useful guide for teacher mentors as they face new and difficult challenges in their work New teac… read more
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- education
30. If You Only Knew: Letters From an Immigrant Teacher
By: Emily Francis
4.51
Format: 132 pages, ebook
Emily Francis’ If You Only Knew tells her story — from her childhood in Guatemala, where she worked… read more
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- nonfiction
31. Bringing School to Life: Place-Based Education Across the Curriculum
By: Sarah K. Anderson
4.39
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
Place-based education is on the rise. Tired of “teaching to the test,” educators are looking for au… read more
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