The book is the interwoven story of a scientist's lifetime research and personal life. Suzanne Simard, who started her work in a logging company, describes her original research as a forrest scientist, who discovers trees as connected life-forms, growing in unison with each other as well as as with fungi and connected by mycorrhizal (mycelic and root) networks forming a symbiotic association between plants and fungi. Trees can comunicate complex messages and they are closely working together. Her findings are highly contested as the Canadian logging industry favors apparently simple solutions of clear-cutting and cash-crop woods. The book manages to marvellously bring her as a scientist into the context of her work and shows how her life and personal relationships are also tied into the forrests she is researching.
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • From the world's leading forest ecologist who forever changed how people view trees and their connections to one another and to other living things in the forest—a moving, deeply personal journey of discovery
“Finding the Mother Tree reminds us that the world is a web of stories, connecting us to one another. [The book] carries the stories of trees, fungi, soil and bears--and of a human being listening in on the conversation. The interplay of personal narrative, scientific insights and the amazing revelations about the life of the forest make a compelling story.”—Robin Wall…
Alison Bechdel has always been there for her fans. Growing up queer in the 1980s? Not so fun, unless it is in a cartoon. Her "Dykes To Watch Out For" have given resilience to communities all over the rainbow world and Secret to Superhuman Strength is what we need for an outlook to successful - or maybe not so successful - ageing. Getting old has so far seldomly been discussed for queer people, there are few role models and even fewer prescriptions. This is a good one! The drawings are beautiful as always. This is my favorite of Bechdel's memoirs.
The Best Graphic Book of 2021 by Publishers Weekly | A New York Times Best Graphic Novel of 2021 | A New York Times Notable Book | An Autostraddle Best Queer Book of the Year | A Boston Globe Best Book of the Year | A St. Louis Post Dispatch Best Book of the Year | NPR, 12 Books NPR Staffers Loved | Shelf Awareness Best Books of 2021
From the author of Fun Home, a profoundly affecting graphic memoir of Bechdel's lifelong love affair with exercise, set against a hilarious chronicle of fitness fads in our times
The book is amazing, it swipes you off your feet and takes you across the ice into an expanse where anthropocentrism makes no sense, and where Ikea can become a site for ritual. Relationships between people and objects are rivaled by those amongst people and non-human others. The innovative writing style functions as another level, where text can't go. Try it out!
The new novel from the author of As We Have Always Done, a poetic world-building journey into the power of Anishinaabe life and traditions amid colonialism
In fierce prose and poetic fragments, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson's Noopiming braids together humor, piercing detail, and a deep, abiding commitment to Anishinaabe life to tell stories of resistance, love, and joy.
Mashkawaji (they/them) lies frozen in the ice, remembering the sharpness of unmuted feeling from long ago, finding freedom and solace in isolated suspension. They introduce the seven characters: Akiwenzii, the old man who represents the narrator's will; Ninaatig, the maple tree who represents…
I studied economics and found it incredibly boring, exclusive, and confusing at the same time. Eventually, I discovered feminist economics and realized that economics is loaded with crazy mathematical jargon aiming to hide exploitation processes such as unpaid work in the household, precarious production especially in former colonies of the “Global South”, as well as environmental destruction. I found that utopian and sci-fi novels are not only fun to read but may also carry antidotes to reshape traditional economic thinking. Check out my TEDx talk where I can tell you more about all this.
