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It's a gripping memoir and a history of the building in Berlin to which Kirsty Bell had fled after a divorce. It's an emotional ride of the undercurrents of all our lives that in the way of unercurrents keep shifting shape. It's fascinating both as an intensely personal and deep historical story.
Humane, thought provoking, and moving, this hybrid literary portrait of a place makes the case for radical close readings: of ourselves, our cities, and our histories.
The Undercurrents is a dazzling work of biography, memoir, and cultural criticism told from a precise vantage point: a stately nineteenth-century house on Berlin’s Landwehr Canal, a site at the center of great historical changes, but also smaller domestic ones. The view from this house offers a ringside seat onto the city’s theater of action. The building has stood on the banks of the canal since 1869, its feet in the West but looking…
A moving story of love, betrayal, and the enduring power of hope in the face of darkness.
German pianist Hedda Schlagel's world collapsed when her fiancé, Fritz, vanished after being sent to an enemy alien camp in the United States during the Great War. Fifteen years later, in 1932, Hedda…
Currently, my interests include consciousness, the core of why we live and experience joy. Consciousness expands to include the evolution of the universe, a broad enough topic to include the future (and past) of mankind, the ways in which time, evolution, and societies have shaped our minds through language and culture, and why we find ourselves in such peril today. These questions include ethical challenges. What are our responsibilities toward the earth and our fellow creatures? In what ways might today’s problems influence mankind’s future? How can we bend our vast, chaotic social landscape toward prosocial values and behaviors, which may be our only hope for survival?
Plants, too, have an umwelt, which makes this a companion to An Immense World.
Plants may not seem like a subject for ethics and philosophy, but the author makes a crucial case for humans changing their behavior toward them. They are neither mute nor static objects; they have senses. They feel things, solve complex problems, communicate with each other in various ways we would call ingenious.
At times, they communicate with animals. Their world is more alien to us than the animals’. I know someone who describes evolution as a story of planimals and aniplants. I initially thought this was a whacky idea, but consider the emerald green sea slug (Elysia chlorotica), a tiny animal that appropriates chloroplasts from algae and photosynthesizes food for the rest of its year-long life.
"teeming with fascinating and enlightening insights" Observer
A narrative investigation into the new science of plant intelligence and sentience, from National Association of Science Writers Award winner and Livingston Award finalist Zoe Schlanger.
Look at the green organism across the room or through the window: the potted plant, or the grass or a tree. Think how a life spent constantly growing yet rooted in a single spot comes with tremendous challenges. To meet them, plants have come up with some of the most creative methods for surviving of any living thing - us included. Many are so ingenious that they…
