Environment

The surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives or operates. The natural world, as a whole or in a particular geographical area, especially as affected by human activity.

New Releases Tagged "Environment"

The Breath of the Gods: The History and Future of the Wind
Tigers Between Empires: The Improbable Return of Great Cats to the Forests of Russia and China
The Women of Wild Hill
The Hidden Seasons: A Calendar of Nature’s Clues
The Tear Collector
The House That Floated
Playground
Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers
Bewilderment
Dusk
Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
How to Blow Up a Pipeline
Two Degrees
Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature
Beasts of the Sea
The Bear
Turning to Birds: The Power and Beauty of Noticing
Helm
Diddly Squat: A Year on the Farm (Diddly Squat, #1)
The Music of Bees
Tooth and Claw (A Longmire Mystery, #0.5)
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootThe Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne FadimanMountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy KidderThe Hot Zone by Richard   PrestonThe Coming Plague by Laurie Garrett
Public Health
202 books — 121 voters
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara KingsolverThe Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael PollanThis Changes Everything by Naomi KleinSilent Spring by Rachel CarsonCradle to Cradle by William McDonough
Best Sustainability Nonfiction
401 books — 295 voters

The Lorax by Dr. SeussProdigal Summer by Barbara KingsolverThe Beast of Cretacea by Todd StrasserDouble Bind by Seb KirbyWatership Down by Richard  Adams
Eco-Fiction
344 books — 321 voters

Silent Spring
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
The Overstory
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
The World Without Us
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future

Slavoj Žižek
[T]his readiness to assume the guilt for the threats to our environment is deceptively reassuring: We like to be guilty since, if we are guilty, it all depends on us. We pull the strings of the catastrophe, so we can also save ourselves simply by changing our lives. What is really hard for us (at least in the West) to accept is that we are reduced to the role of a passive observer who sits and watches what our fate will be. To avoid this impotence, we engage in frantic, obsessive activities. We ...more
Slavoj Žižek

Kathryn Stockett
All my life I'd been told what to believe about politics, coloreds, being a girl. But with Constantine's thumb pressed in my hand, I realized I actually had a choice in what I could believe. ...more
Kathryn Stockett, The Help

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