Flight Ways: Life and Loss at the Edge of Extinction (Critical Perspectives on Animals: Theory, Culture, Science, and Law)
By: Thom van Dooren
4.51
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A leading figure in the emerging field of extinction studies, Thom van Dooren puts philosophy into …
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1. Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
By: Anne Carson , Stesichorus
4.27
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
The award-winning poet Anne Carson reinvents a genre in Autobiography of Red, a stunning work that … read more
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"Under the seams runs the pain."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
"There is no person without a world."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
"Don't want to be free want to be with you."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
"Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
2. Roadside Picnic
By: Theodore Sturgeon , Arkady Strugatsky , Boris Strugatsky , Antonina W. Bouis , None
4.14
Format: 145 pages, Paperback
Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of those young rebels who are compelled, in spite of extreme danger,… read more
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"Keep your head high,"-Theodore Sturgeon, Roadside Picnic
"Los halagos son el bálsamo de los complejos."-Theodore Sturgeon, Roadside Picnic
"You need money so you don’t have to think about money."-Theodore Sturgeon, Roadside Picnic
"Щастие за всички даром и нека никой да не бъде пренебрегнат!"-Theodore Sturgeon, Roadside Picnic
3. Notes of a Native Son
By: James Baldwin
4.08
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A new edition published on the twenty-fifth anniversary of Baldwin's death, including a new introdu… read more
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4. Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things
By: Jane Bennett
3.83
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
In Vibrant Matterthe political theorist Jane Bennett, renowned for her work on nature, ethics, and … read more
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5. A Breath of Life
By: Clarice Lispector , Benjamin Moser , Johnny Lorenz
3.83
Format: None pages, Paperback
A mystical dialogue between a male author (a thinly disguised Clarice Lispector) and his/her creati… read more
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- philosophy
6. How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human
By: Eduardo Kohn
4.71
Format: 595 pages, Paperback
Can forests think? Do dogs dream? In this astonishing book, Eduardo Kohn challenges the very founda… read more
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7. Twelve Moons
By: Mary Oliver
4.26
Format: None pages, Paperback
In her fourth volume of poetry, Twelve Moons, Pulitzer Prize-winning Mary Oliver continues to explo… read more
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8. 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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9. Surfacing
By: Margaret Atwood
4.03
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Part detective novel, part psychological thriller, Surfacingis the story of a talented woman artist… read more
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10. 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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11. Flammable: Environmental Suffering in an Argentine Shantytown
By: Javier Auyero , None
3.44
Format: 406 pages, Paperback
Surrounded by one of the largest petrochemical compounds in Argentina, a highly polluted river that… read more
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12. Wanderlust: A History of Walking
By: Rebecca Solnit
4.24
Format: 376 pages, Paperback
This volume provides a history of walking, exploring the relationship between thinking and walking … read more
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13. Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene
By: Donna J. Haraway
3.89
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In the midst of spiraling ecological devastation, multispecies feminist theorist Donna J. Haraway o… read more
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14. Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor
By: None
3.55
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The violence wrought by climate change, toxic drift, deforestation, oil spills, and the environment… read more
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15. Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
By: Robin Wall Kimmerer
3.87
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
In this series of linked personal essays, Robin Wall Kimmerer leads general readers and scientists … read more
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16. 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
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"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
17. Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction
By: Michelle Nijhuis
4.10
Format: 342 pages, Hardcover
A vibrant history of the modern conservation movement—told through the lives and ideas of the peopl… read more
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18. Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals (Emergent Strategy, 2)
By: Alexis Pauline Gumbs
4.47
Format: 174 pages, Paperback
Undrowned is a book-length meditation for social movements and our whole species based on the subve… read more
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- nonfiction
- environment
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"Could we communicate more like manatees, who stay in communication in all kinds of emergencies, place their bodies in a way that protects children, touch each other to remember and know?"-Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals (Emergent Strategy, 2)
"I respect you as so much bigger than my own understanding. And me too. I don't have to be available to be eligible for breath. I don't have to be measurable in a market of memes. I don't have to be v…"-Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals (Emergent Strategy, 2)
19. Night of the Living Rez
By: Morgan Talty
3.91
Format: 285 pages, Paperback
How do the living come back to life? Set in a Native community in Maine, Night of the Living Re… read more
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"There is that terrible memory, surely, but so too are there sweet ones, the tiny memories with the tiny details that are milder in climax, no doubt, but equally powerful..."-Morgan Talty, Night of the Living Rez
20. Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime
By: Bruno Latour
3.77
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
The present ecological mutation has organized the whole political landscape for the last thirty yea… read more
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- climate change
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"Man macht sich gar nicht klar genug, dass die gesamte Politik der Gegenwart auf das Problem der Klimaleugnung fokussiert ist."-Bruno Latour, Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime
21. Pollution Is Colonialism
By: Max Liboiron
4.50
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
In Pollution is Colonialism Max Liboiron presents a framework for understanding scientific research… read more
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22. Overheating: An Anthropology of Accelerated Change
By: Thomas Hylland Eriksen
3.70
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
We live in a time of global crisis—or, more appropriately, overlapping, interlocking global proble… read more
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23. Une écologie décoloniale - Penser l'écologie depuis le monde caribéen
By: Malcom Ferdinand
4.55
Format: 436 pages, Kindle Edition
Une colère rouge recouvre le ciel. Les vagues s'agitent, l'eau monte, les forêts tombent et les cor… read more
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24. Flight Ways: Life and Loss at the Edge of Extinction (Critical Perspectives on Animals: Theory, Culture, Science, and Law)
By: Thom van Dooren
4.51
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A leading figure in the emerging field of extinction studies, Thom van Dooren puts philosophy into … read more
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25. Matters of Care: Speculative Ethics in More than Human Worlds (Posthumanities Book 41)
By: María Puig de la Bellacasa
4.03
Format: 278 pages, Kindle Edition
To care can feel good, or it can feel bad. It can do good, it can oppress. But what is care? A mora… read more
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26. Wilted: Pathogens, Chemicals, and the Fragile Future of the Strawberry Industry
By: Julie Guthman
3.58
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
Strawberries are big business in California. They are the sixth‑highest‑grossing crop in the state,… read more
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27. Mining Capitalism: The Relationship Between Corporations and Their Critics
By: Stuart Kirsch
3.89
Format: 328 pages, ebook
Corporations are among the most powerful institutions of our time, but they are also responsible fo… read more
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28. Imagining Extinction: The Cultural Meanings of Endangered Species
By: Ursula K. Heise
4.06
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
We are currently facing the sixth mass extinction of species in the history of life on Earth, biolo… read more
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29. Rebuild by Design: New Approaches to Climate Change
By: Henk Ovink
3.78
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Rebuild by Design was developed for the Presidential Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force, a respo… read more
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30. Mourning Nature: Hope at the Heart of Ecological Loss and Grief
By: Ashlee Cunsolo
4.30
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
We are facing unprecedented environmental challenges, including global climate change, large-scale … read more
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31. Queer Ecologies: Sex, Nature, Politics, Desire
By: Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands
4.17
Format: 410 pages, Paperback
Treating such issues as animal sex, species politics, environmental justice, lesbian space and "gay… read more
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