7 best-selling nonfiction books like Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations, Vol. 1 – Planet (Kinship, 1) by Gavin van Horn

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Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations, Vol. 1 – Planet (Kinship, 1)

By: Gavin van Horn

4.42

Format: 180 pages, Paperback

Volume 1 of the Kinship series revolves around the question of planetary relations What are the sou…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations, Vol. 1 – Planet (Kinship, 1) by Gavin van Horn , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. American Indian Myths and Legends

By: Richard Erdoes , Alfonso Ortiz

4.08

Format: 527 pages, Paperback

Alternate cover edition for ISBN: 0394740181, ISBN-13: 9780394740188. This magnificent collectio… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • indigenous
"Elderly Cheyenne warriors, weary of the misery and boredom of old age, made elaborate preparations to end their lives in battle. Yet accepting death was also an affirmation of life, for Crazy Horse a…"

-Richard Erdoes, American Indian Myths and Legends

"A tremendous thunderclap was heard, the loudest there has ever been ... The sun remained hidden behind dark clouds, and there was only twilight, gray and misty. Then the earth trembled, and there cam…"

-Richard Erdoes, American Indian Myths and Legends

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2. Emily of New Moon (Emily, #1)

By: L.M. Montgomery

4.12

Format: 339 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Emily Starr never knew what it was to be lonely—until her beloved father died. Now Emily's an orpha… read more

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"Never on painter's canvas lives The charm of his fancy's dream."

-L.M. Montgomery, Emily of New Moon (Emily, #1)

"The happiest countries, like the happiest women, have no history."

-L.M. Montgomery, Emily of New Moon (Emily, #1)

"Good-bye, and may you always see a happy face in your looking-glass!"

-L.M. Montgomery, Emily of New Moon (Emily, #1)

"If you've brains it's better than beauty - brains last, beauty doesn't."

-L.M. Montgomery, Emily of New Moon (Emily, #1)

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3. Yotsuba&!, Vol. 01 (Yotsuba&! #1)

By: Kiyohiko Azuma , Amy Forsyth , あずま きよひこ

3.50

Format: 142 pages, Paperback

Presents the story of the new kid in town - little Yotsuba, a green-haired and wide-eyed girl who d… read more

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4. Habibi

By: Craig Thompson

4.06

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From the internationally acclaimed author of Blankets ("A triumph for the genre."--Library Journal)… read more

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5. 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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6. 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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7. The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World

By: David Abram

4.03

Format: 512 pages,

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8. 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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9. 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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10. Taproot

By: Keezy Young

1.33

Format: 397 pages, Paperback

Blue is having a hard time moving on. He's in love with his best friend. He's also dead. Luckily, H… read more

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11. Long Life: Essays and Other Writings

By: Mary Oliver

3.35

Format: None pages, Paperback

'The gift of Oliver's poetry is that she communicates the beauty she finds in the world and makes i… read more

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12. 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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  • nature
  • ecology
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
"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

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13. The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet

By: Leah Thomas

4.15

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A primer on intersectional environmentalism aimed at educating the next generation of activists on … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
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14. Ideias Para Adiar o Fim do Mundo

By: Ailton Krenak

4.25

Format: 71 pages, Kindle Edition

Uma parábola sobre os tempos atuais, por um de nossos maiores pensadores indígenas. Ailton Krena… read more

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  • ecology
  • indigenous
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • environment
"Eu não percebo onde tem alguma coisa que não seja natureza. Tudo é natureza. O cosmos é natureza. Tudo em que eu consigo pensar é natureza."

-Ailton Krenak, Ideias Para Adiar o Fim do Mundo

"Os únicos núcleos que ainda consideram que precisam ficar agarrados nessa terra são aqueles que ficaram meio esquecidos pelas bordas do planeta, nas margens dos rios, nas beiras dos oceanos, na Áfric…"

-Ailton Krenak, Ideias Para Adiar o Fim do Mundo

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15. Nevada

By: Imogen Binnie

3.97

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

A beloved and blistering cult classic and finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fi… read more

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"James does what anybody would do when they see somebody they'd like to know: he ignores the shit out of her."

-Imogen Binnie, Nevada

"It's like I got drunk all the time not because I'm a total addict but because it was a coping mechanism to deal with being unhappy"

-Imogen Binnie, Nevada

"Oh, Williamsburg. There was a point when you seemed like a scary, tough neighborhood, but now it's obvious that the graffiti on your walls gets put there by art students."

-Imogen Binnie, Nevada

"Eventually you can't help but figure out that, while gender is a construct, so is a traffic light, and if you ignore either of them, you get hit by cars. Which, also, are constructs."

-Imogen Binnie, Nevada

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16. Squire

By: Nadia Shammas

4.06

Format: 305 pages, Paperback

Aiza has always dreamt of becoming a Knight. It's the highest military honor in the once-great Bayt… read more

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17. This Wound Is a World

By: Billy-Ray Belcourt

4.49

Format: 62 pages, Paperback

Part manifesto, part memoir, This Wound is a World is an invitation to “cut a hole in the sky to wo… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • indigenous
". . . if i am somehow, miraculously, bodied then/ my skin is a collage of meditations on love and shattered selves."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, This Wound Is a World

"when love looks into the rubble of heartbreak he sees his kookum standing there and he thinks about how she made old worlds feel livable again and about how those who died already never forget what i…"

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, This Wound Is a World

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18. The Future is Degrowth: A Guide to a World Beyond Capitalism

By: Matthias Schmelzer

3.88

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

We need to break free from the capitalist economy. Degrowth gives us the tools to bend its bars. Ec… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • ecology
  • environment
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19. Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072

By: M.E. O'Brien

4.15

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

By the middle of the twenty-first century, war, famine, economic collapse, and climate catastrophe … read more

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20. Playground

By: Richard Powers

4.35

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A magisterial new novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning and New York Times best-selling author of T… read more

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  • environment
  • nature
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21. Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations, Vol. 1 – Planet (Kinship, 1)

By: Gavin van Horn

4.42

Format: 180 pages, Paperback

Volume 1 of the Kinship series revolves around the question of planetary relations What are the sou… read more

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  • poetry
  • ecology
  • indigenous
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • essays
  • environment
  • nature
  • science

6 best-selling environment books like Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations, Vol. 1 – Planet (Kinship, 1) by Gavin van Horn

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Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest

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4.22

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The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet

Leah Thomas

4.15

Transform Your Habits

Ideias Para Adiar o Fim do Mundo

Ailton Krenak

4.25

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The Future is Degrowth: A Guide to a World Beyond Capitalism

Matthias Schmelzer

3.88

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4.12

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Joshua Whitehead

4.11

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Postcolonial Love Poem

Natalie Díaz

4.33

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Ada Limon

4.11

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