Is it a memoir? Is it a book about marine biology? It's both! Sabrina Imbler ropes you in with their writing and then you realise you learned some cool animal facts along the way.
A fascinating tour of creatures from the surface to the deepest ocean floor: this "miraculous, transcendental book" invites us to envision wilder, grander, and more abundant possibilities for the way we live (Ed Yong, author of An Immense World).
A queer, mixed race writer working in a largely white, male field, science and conservation journalist Sabrina Imbler has always been drawn to the mystery of life in the sea, and particularly to creatures living in hostile or remote environments. Each essay in their debut collection profiles one such creature, including:
·the mother octopus who starves herself while watching over her…
When I told a friend I was reading this, she said "John Green from The Fault in Our Stars?" Yes, that one, but this is not a YA novel! (Although it does feature a young protagonist in the form of Henry, an ever optimistic teenager with tuberculosis.) It's a serious but still witty look at the state of tuberculosis in a world that really should have eradicated it ages ago.
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John Green, acclaimed author and passionate advocate for global healthcare reform, tells a deeply human story illuminating the fight against the world's deadliest infectious disease. Signed edition
“The real magic of Green's writing is the deeply considerate, human touch that goes into every word.” –The Associated Press
″Told with the intelligence, wit, and tragedy that have become hallmarks of the author's work.... This is the story of us.” –Slate
I love cities and I already knew that they can make a difference in climate action. After all, local governments can get things done more quickly than entire countries, and big cities often set the tone for the rest of a country. But I still didn't know many of the cool examples that are in this book.
If our planet is going to survive the climate crisis, we need to act rapidly.
Taking cues from progressive cities around the world, including Los Angeles, New York, Toronto, Oslo, Shenzhen, and Sydney, this book is a summons to every city to make small but significant changes that can drastically reduce our carbon footprint. We cannot wait for national governments to agree on how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and manage the average temperature rise to within 1.5 degrees. In Solved, David Miller argues that cities are taking action on climate change because they can - and because they must.…
Twenty-four short essays take an approachable and humorous look at the connection between hot springs and genetics, the psychology behind your study playlist, hiking trail geology and much more. Reading this book will make you look at the world in a different way and is bound to have you say, "hey, there's science in this!"
